What Letizia spoke about.

6 Oct

2026

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Question Time (Commission) – Implementation of the Methane Regulation

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Commissioner, winter is approaching and Europe is not ready. By February 2027, we risk having already exhausted our gas reserves. In addition to the crisis in the Middle East and geopolitical instability, there is a regulatory obstacle: the Methane Regulation. The new requirements for importers risk exacerbating the crisis. This is 17% of our fuel supply. This means less industrial capacity, less …

8 Jul

2026

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Harnessing the potential of a competitive and sustainable EU Bioeconomy Strategy for EU strategic autonomy (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, millions of tonnes of food end up in the trash every day in our homes, canteens, supermarkets and farms. In those materials there is already a part of the future of Europe: What we discard today can become clean energy, natural fertilizers, new compostable materials, new businesses, new jobs. Bioeconomy is a major industrial policy, not just an env…

8 Jul

2026

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EU’s response and preparedness to protect people against recurring heatwaves and upcoming wildfires (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this summer, millions of Europeans are still experiencing suffocating days. Older people who can't get out of the house, children who have to give up games in parks, families evacuated by fires, firefighters who risk their lives. This is no longer an emergency, it is a reality. Europe must continue to fight climate change with mitigation, relyin…

25 Mar

2026

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Implementation of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (UWWTD) and risks to the security of supply of medicines (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, during the pandemic we have seen that our health systems are vulnerable: a disruption in supply chains is enough to leave thousands of patients without treatment. And the Waste Water Directive risks exacerbating this fragility. We are talking about additional costs that can reach up to 40 million euros per company per year, with potenti…

11 Feb

2026

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Urgent actions to revive EU competitiveness, deepen the EU Single Market and reduce the cost of living - from the Draghi report to reality (debate)

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16 Dec

2025

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Presentation of the automotive package (debate)

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22 Oct

2025

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UN Climate Change Conference 2025 in Belém, Brazil (COP30) (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today we must face a difficult reality: For every tonne of emissions cut in the European Union in 2024, the world adds ten. This tells us one clear thing: Europe must lead, but it cannot be the only driver of the transition. We want collective commitment, solidarity, reciprocity, as the Commissioner has pointed out. COP30 must become a real leve…

22 May

2025

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Choose Europe for Science (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, science is one of the most powerful tools we have to improve the lives of our citizens. It is thanks to the studies, research, expertise and excellence of our continent that today we can count on innovative cancer therapies or vaccines that have defeated polio and the COVID-19 pandemic. Artificial intelligence is opening new frontiers: It boosts…

3 Apr

2025

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Establishment of a European Day of the Righteous (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Schindler, Irena Sendler, Giorgio Perlasca are just some of the women and men who are recognised as just among nations, people who, through their heroic actions, have risked their lives to save human beings from the Nazi genocide of the Shoah. To these names are added the Nobel laureates Mandela for the fight against apartheid; Mohammadi for the ba…

3 Apr

2025

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European Action Plan on Rare Diseases (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, rare diseases affect 8% of the European population, 36 million people; around 7 000 different types of diseases, most of them chronic, disabling or life-threatening, affecting patients’ health and quality of life; up to 95% of these diseases do not have specific treatments and the available therapies have exorbitant costs. The Union has proposed in…

2 Apr

2025

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European Steel and Metals Action Plan (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, EUR 25 billion is the value of the steel products that Europe exports every year; competitiveness is now at risk, because our producers will be the only ones to bear the cost of carbon, while competitors from third countries will remain exempt. 100 million tonnes of steel capacity: This is the amount of European steel that will remain exposed to…

11 Mar

2025

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Clean Industrial Deal (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the health of our industry is crucial to ensuring a strong Europe at global level. With 32 million direct workers and 65% of research activities, industry generates innovation and employment. But over the past 30 years, the share of industry in GDP has fallen by more than five points. Industries such as theautomotive, chemistry, steel and others…

16 Dec

2024

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A European Innovation Act: lowering the cost of innovating in Europe (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, a universal, inclusive and universally accessible higher education system, with university costs between 50 and 90 % lower than in Anglo-Saxon universities; two million researchers compared to 1.5 million in the US in 2022; international programmes and cultural mobility, such as Erasmus: this is the framework of European educational values that is …

23 Oct

2024

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Tackling the steel crisis: boosting competitive and sustainable European steel and maintaining quality jobs (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, world steel production is increasing by 500 million tonnes, but European production is decreasing by 6%. Low-cost steel from China and Indonesia puts at risk revenues of 130 billion euros and 300,000 jobs. Climate targets are also at risk: We have not reduced our emissions, we have relocated them. We therefore need urgent measures to reduce the …

17 Sep

2024

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The future of European competitiveness (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank Mario Draghi for the in-depth report he has presented. In the last legislature, the European Union adopted around 13 000 pieces of legislation, often without a prior cost-benefit analysis. European manufacturing supports energy prices up to five times higher than in the United States. The growth gap with the US has increased from 15% to …