What Lara spoke about.

6 Oct

2026

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Pilot project on European Schools Alliances and its contribution to citizenship education, democratic competences and European values (debate)

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Madam President, today a young European lives in an increasingly connected world and, at the same time, can reach fifteen without fully possessing the fundamental skills to understand it. One in three struggles with mathematics, one in four with reading. This is the real challenge to face. European School Alliances can be part of the answer if they serve a concrete purpose: Circulate what works. A…

6 Oct

2026

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Affordable Housing Act (debate)

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Mr President, in the face of the housing crisis, the choice should be clear: We need to build more houses, not impose who can use what already exists and who cannot. Because Europe needs houses today. The European Commission itself estimates that more than 2 million more are needed each year until 2035. Yet, we are discussing restrictions on ownership and short-term rentals, which represent only 1…

18 Jun

2026

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Joint Declaration on ‘Culture for Europe - Europe for Culture’ (debate)

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20 May

2026

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Recruitment of children by organised crime (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the recruitment of children by criminal organisations is no longer a marginal phenomenon, it is a well-established and constantly evolving strategy. This is demonstrated by what happened today in Florence, where a 15-year-old Tunisian was arrested on charges of international terrorism after online contacts with Daesh-related circles. This is the confirmation …

29 Apr

2026

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The need for targeted criminal provisions and platforms’ responsibility to effectively address cyberbullying and online harassment (debate)

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11 Mar

2026

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Child sexual abuse online: protect children, not perpetrators (topical debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, every day online, thousands of children are subjected to violence that never ends. Abuse images are shared, exchanged, archived, resold. Every visualization is a new wound, every downloads It is a new violence. We are not talking about technology: We are talking about children, real children, with names, faces, lives destroyed. And all too often our deb…

10 Mar

2026

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Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, imagine, after years of work, mortgages and sacrifices, a family buys its first home and someone occupies it abusively. Some in this House call it a housing emergency solution. I call it an attack on legality and property rights. Home is not a political experiment and property rights are not optional. Europe is experiencing an unprecedented crisis. Since 2010…

12 Feb

2026

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Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (debate)

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11 Feb

2026

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International Day of Education, fighting inequalities in access to education (debate)

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10 Feb

2026

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Presentation of the action plan against cyberbullying (debate)

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21 Jan

2026

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Online piracy of sports and other live events: urgent need to address unsolved issues (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, online piracy of live sports events is a serious scourge of the digital economy, a real-time theft that strikes at the moment of greatest value. In Europe, tens of millions of people watch illegally streaming sports events every year. In the last year alone, reports of live piracy have increased by 140%, but less than one in ten is blocked in real …

20 Jan

2026

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Tackling AI deepfakes and sexual exploitation on social media by making full use of the EU’s digital rules (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we must not be alarmed only by the deepfake, but also the speed with which they spread and the way they affect the most vulnerable. In recent years, the content deepfake Shared social media has grown exponentially, reaching millions each year. But what is most disturbing is the impact on minors. According to Commission data, 98% of this content is sexual. Our…

16 Dec

2025

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Presentation of the European Affordable Housing Plan (continuation of debate)

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25 Nov

2025

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Protection of minors online (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the protection of minors online is a responsibility that we cannot postpone: In Italy alone, online crimes against children increased by 99% in the first six months of 2024. Ensuring the safe use of platforms means determining who can access them through effective age verification mechanisms, while leaving this competence to the Member States, while respectin…

12 Nov

2025

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Gender Equality Strategy 2025 (debate)

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I thought your question was out of place, so I don't want to answer it. Thank you very much.

12 Nov

2025

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Gender Equality Strategy 2025 (debate)

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I believe that motherhood for a woman is a right, but above all a gift. I am 56 years old, I have been a widow for twelve years and I have not been able to have children due to illness. So, what she says I find it out of place, in the sense that every woman, if she chooses to become a mother, is a mother, and if she has problems to become a mother and needs assistance, she must be supported to ens…

12 Nov

2025

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Gender Equality Strategy 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this report is presented as a document on gender equality, but in reality it ignores the real needs of women and mothers. Behind the language of rights lies the classic European ideological agenda, which replaces concrete solutions with abstract slogans, forgetting those who work every day, raise their children and face the challenges of life. The numbers spe…

23 Oct

2025

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Audiovisual Media Services Directive obligations in the transatlantic dialogue (debate)

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(IT) Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Audiovisual Media Services Directive is a fundamental instrument for protecting European cultural diversity and ensuring fair competition in a media sector increasingly dominated by large companies. player foreigners. Without this protection, we risk losing control over our cultural policies and seeing European productions marginalised. The data spea…

6 Oct

2025

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Role of EU policies in shaping the European Sport Model (debate)

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(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner Micallef, the European Union has limited competence in sport and, precisely for this reason, every time we discuss it, we need an extraordinary commitment. The opportunities to underline its value are few, but valuable, and I want to acknowledge to all political groups the sensitivity shown on a strategic issue. The European sports model is bas…

9 Sep

2025

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Cohesion policy (joint debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, tomorrow we shall be voting in plenary on the mid-term reform of cohesion policy, which Vice-President Fitto strongly advocated, and to which I sincerely applaud the attention given to the issue of thehousing and for the ability to update cohesion policy to current challenges. The housing crisis is now a very serious phenomenon: almost 9% of households in Eur…

17 Jun

2025

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Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast) (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, there are silences that cry out: Those of millions of children trapped in images that never fade, replicated endlessly. It's not just a crime right away, it's a life-long sentence. The directive we are debating is a necessary step because we live in a world where digital technologies, if not governed, become ruthless instruments of abuse. Today the threat has…

2 Apr

2025

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Topical debate (Rule 169) - Social Europe: making life affordable, protecting jobs, wages and health for all

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, last April, in La Hulpe, the declaration on the future of the European Pillar of Social Rights was signed, with the explicit aim of creating social and economic progress, ensuring equal opportunities for all and quality jobs, and reducing poverty and inequalities. It is curious to see how these issues, which must be central to the EU agenda, a year later have be…

11 Mar

2025

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Roadmap for Women`s Rights (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, today we are debating women's rights and I would like to focus on the episodes of unprecedented gravity that took place last weekend in Italy, where, including in my Bergamo, the dummies of the President of the Council, Giorgia Meloni, the first female prime minister in the history of the Italian Republic, were set on fire. This act cannot be justified: It is…

21 Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the DSA was born with the ambition of safeguarding democracy from the dangers of the digital world: disinformation, hate speech and online manipulative campaigns. However, the promises of this law are clashing with the difficulties of its application on the ground. Freedom of expression risks being sacrificed in the name of increasingly invasive regulation, w…

19 Dec

2024

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Need to update the European strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we can do more, we must do more. People with disabilities face invisible and concrete barriers that exclude them from employment opportunities: Architectural barriers, prejudices, stereotypes and the lack of adequate support are just some of the elements that limit the access of disabled people to the world of work. Work is one of the experiences that gives v…