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Jun

2026

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Preparation of the European Council (joint debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there is no point in turning around. The next Council will be yet another failure, like all those who preceded it. Failure on Peace: zero diplomacy, weapons and endless war in Ukraine. Failure on the economy: skyrocketing energy prices, zero investment and no support plan for households and businesses. In the new multipolar world, Europe should dialogue with everyone, be a pivot between East and West. And instead we treat China and the BRICS countries as enemies to please the US, which seeks confrontation to stop their decline. But let's face reality. Trump has humiliated you on tariffs, forcing you to replace Russian gas with US LNG, which costs more and is more impactful to the environment. They're pushing us into recession. Treating Beijing as a strategic rival, while literally genuflecting before Israel's genocidal government, is political suicide. Europe does not need enemies, nor does it need to replace old masters with new masters. European citizens need a ruling class that serves their interests. Exactly what you don't do and aren't doing.

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Jun

2026

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Russia’s unacceptable provocative actions and drone incursions into Romania, the Baltic states and Finland (debate)

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May

2026

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Recent proposals to fight poverty in the EU (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we welcome the launch of the European strategy against poverty, because it is a necessary act. They finally open their eyes to reality. Because of your neoliberal policies, cuts in social spending and the warmongering choices of the von der Leyen Commission, poverty bites more and more citizens and workers. Let me give the example of Italy, where Istat numbers are lapidary: more than 5.7 million people live in absolute poverty, almost 10% of the population, with one in seven children deprived of the future. There are 2.6 million workers who, despite having a contract, are considered poor. In the face of this catastrophe, the antisocial response of the Italian government of Giorgia Meloni was to dismantle welfare and citizenship income. Lack of funds? That's not true, because there's money. It is unacceptable that, while cutting the welfare state, you give billions to the lords of arms and war industries. I want to remember that poverty does not arise from the scarcity of wealth, but from its confiscation. The need for many is the speculative fortune of a few. Europe must now decide which side to stand on.

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May

2026

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Political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, today we are talking about Cuba and with the usual, masterful hypocrisy of this Parliament, we are able to talk about human rights without mentioning the elephant in the room: The U.S. embargo has been in place for 66 years. What you hide under the carpet is what all this means: lack of energy and basic necessities to the detriment of the most fragile: pregnant women, elderly, disabled, children and especially cancer patients. What does Europe do? While Trump talks about the Monroe 2.0 doctrine, this debate only serves to cover up yet another neocolonial action. And don't tell us that the problem is human rights, because you should explain to us why you don't break the association agreement with Israel or intervene to defend the Flotilla activists. Europe should protect the cooperation agreement with Cuba to put an end to the illegal economic blockade that has strangled the island for too long. As an Italian, I will never forget the Cuban brigades who came to support our health care, brought to its knees by years of your liberal policies, during the difficult months of the pandemic or even today, in Calabria, where without the contribution of Cuban doctors the right to health could not be guaranteed. Cuba exports doctors and solidarity, you arms and wars. I want to conclude this speech by quoting one of the greatest journalists in Italian history, Gianni Minà, who wrote: "The economic blockade against Cuba is not a mere trade sanction, it is an act of war in peacetime. The longest and most ruthless war in modern history, a systematic attempt to take an entire people by hunger and disease, guilty only of not having wanted to bend to the master on duty.

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Apr

2026

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Composition of committees and delegations

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I refer to the Rules of Procedure, Rule 202, because we consider the interpretation of Rule 188 to be incorrect. Yesterday, two of our amendments to the resolution on Ukraine were declared inadmissible because they were deemed out of context. Perhaps the real problem is that our amendments mentioned Israel and the link between the two issues from the point of view of international law. Then make it clear that Israel can no longer be named in this House! Where can we table an amendment on Israel? Explain it to us, because in recent years we have voted over twenty resolutions on Ukraine and you know how many on Israel? Zero! Yet something seems to be happening in Gaza, Lebanon and the last shameful arrests of the Flotilla. Only one person is responsible: Israel and you are hiding it!

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Situation in Lebanon: implementation of the ceasefire, support peace efforts and humanitarian access (debate)

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2026

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Ensuring accountability and justice in response to Russia’s continued attacks against the civilian population in Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today we are talking about responsibility and justice. But I ask myself, honestly, with what courage this Parliament speaks of justice: Twenty packages of sanctions on Russia and head literally under the sand when the United States of America brings death and destruction to the Near East. Or while Donald Trump's magic circle makes money speculating on Polymarket over the price of oil and instead Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza? Not a word, not even a penalty, of course. For an – illusory – military victory, you have renounced all mediation. For four years we have been waiting for a real European peace initiative and instead send weapons and use Ukrainians as slaughter meat to hide a failure. Now you have promised Zelensky 90 billion to support the war machine and a state that has big corruption problems and is also going bankrupt. But you do not know where to find the resources since, thanks to foreign policy choices, Europe is on the verge of recession. Meanwhile, in Italy and Europe the bills and fuel continue to increase, while here we talk about war and sanctions. In short, by doing so you will be a bigger disaster for European citizens.

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Mar

2026

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EU enlargement strategy (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, for you, enlargement has become the geopolitical tool with which the EU dictates the foreign policy of its eastern neighbours and is doing so by applying the usual double standards. This strategy has proved to be a failure and the cases of Georgia and Moldova are proof of this. Now we risk opening the doors to states that have not achieved good democratic standards, such as Ukraine, Georgia and others, often real oligarchies, for the sole purpose of supporting NATO expansion. There is a serious deficiency in the report: nothing is said about the fact that, after 2007, the conditions of families and workers in countries such as Italy have drastically worsened, crushed between dumping wage and unfair competition in key sectors. There is also a real risk that further openings will lead, as confirmed by the Commission's 9th Cohesion Report, to a cut in cohesion funds: vital resources for the Italian noon, for example; These are essential resources to bridge the territorial gaps that the European Union had promised to eliminate and which it has allowed to grow over the years. President, for you enlargement means military bases to be imposed and dumping Salary to be exploited. And this strategy sees us as deeply critical.

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Feb

2026

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State violence in Minneapolis and the rule of law in the United States (topical debate)

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Jan

2026

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Situation in Venezuela following the extraction of Maduro and the need to ensure a peaceful democratic transition (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, after February 2022, words of outrage and condemnation were used in this Parliament for Russia’s violation of international law, ambassadors were withdrawn, theatre performances were blocked, Russian sportsmen were prevented from participating in the Olympics, resolutions and sanctions were voted on. Where have the champions of international law gone today? They all lost their voices and indignation after January 3, when Trump kidnapped Maduro and killed more than 100 civilians and military, in unquestionable violation of international law. Venezuela is your tomb of colonialist rhetoric and double standards: No condemnation, no sanction, no resolution, no ambassador withdrawn, if Washington's master violates international law. The real fault was that of having managed oil from a sovereign country, as Trump himself said, which today overwhelms it with Monroe doctrine. But that time is over. As Bolívar said in 1815: The veil was torn and we saw the light. It is up to the Venezuelan people - and only the Venezuelan people - to decide the future of Venezuela, certainly not to self-proclaimed presidents supported by the United States or Sakharov prizes nominated at the table by Brussels.

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Dec

2025

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 18-19 December 2025, in particular the need to support Ukraine, transatlantic relations and the EU’s strategic autonomy (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the United States and Russia are talking about a possible peace plan, Ukraine is opening negotiations and here we are voting on three resolutions: military mobility, European rearmament, ban on Russian gas. Tell him you want to continue the war. You are far from reality because you have decided that you have already won the war and that you will use Russian assets for reconstruction. You talk about strategic autonomy, but you buy liquid gas from the United States, which costs three times as much. What hypocrisy. I have to give you some bad news, though: not only has the war been lost, but they have not even invited you to the negotiating table. The emblem of this schizophrenia is the Meloni government: One day he runs to Trump's court, the other is a champion of war until the last Ukrainian. With the favor of darkness, at the next European Council you are about to approve a new war loan to Ukraine of €215 billion. Italy will have to guarantee for 25 billion – more than one financial – that Ukraine will never be able to repay. Meloni is not telling the truth to the Italians and you to the Europeans and the Ukrainians, who will find themselves in debt for the next few years. This umpteenth waste of money is your last hope to lengthen the war and avoid admitting political defeat.

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Nov

2025

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EU position on the proposed plan and EU engagement towards a just and lasting peace for Ukraine (debate)

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Nov

2025

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EU’s diplomatic strategy and geopolitical cooperation in the Arctic (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that we are facing a contradiction because, if we rightly condemn the militarisation of the Arctic by China and Russia, then we cannot propose further Western militarisation, because then it becomes a reality.escalation. I believe that we would need a more dialogic approach, negotiations on regimes of mutual military transparency and no more weapons. We continue to incentivize NATO expansion as if it hasn't done enough damage already, while ignoring each other's concerns about the security of countries bordering the Arctic. Sino-Russian cooperation, among other things, is also the consequence of exclusionary and sanctioning policies. If we want to avoid opposing blocs, multilateral diplomacy is the only recipe for preventing conflict, not militarization. The Arctic is a vital area for the European Union, absolutely, as is the Mediterranean for the countries of the southern shore of Europe, and should be an opportunity for cooperation and collaboration; It could open up new trade, new routes. Turning it into a terrain of geopolitical confrontation, after the Ukrainian disaster, would be the further tombstone on the future of Europe.

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Nov

2025

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Communication on the Democracy Shield (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I wonder what is the point of talking about the shield of democracy, of freedom of expression, if then this majority and these institutions do exactly the opposite of what is claimed. In the commission, which was supposed to be temporary and which you are turning into a "permanent ministry of truth," you talk to us about external interference and cybersecurity without ever mentioning, for example, the Zionist state of Israel. Israel, for example, which in my own country – but in many other Member States – actually manages cybersecurity after 8 March 2023, when the criminal Netanyahu was visiting Rome. You talk to us about fighting disinformation, but you forget who circulated them. fake news on the Nord Stream attacked, for example, or on President von der Leyen's plane. To circulate them were those media that you judge free, and that are often financed to fight disinformation. And we could continue for hours but I want to dwell on a recent episode, which lays bare your double standards: the majority of Parliament blocked the mission on the monitoring of the rule of law and freedom of the press, proposed by the LIBE Committee in my country, Italy, only because it would have damaged the image of the Meloni government. Is that your idea of democracy? What is your shield then? I believe that this huge system of control, filtering, censorship that you are creating has only one goal: to use the fight against disinformation with the annulment of any possible alternative critical vision, and this, gentlemen, is called authoritarianism.

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Oct

2025

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Ending all energy imports from Russia to the EU and closing loopholes through third countries (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, you are condemning families and businesses to pay the costs of war. Thanks to your nefarious policies, the average price of gas bills will increase by around EUR 300 per household per year. We have tried in every way to make you think: Europe was not ready to eliminate Russian gas overnight, which Ukraine has not done either. We asked for a gradual change. The European climate plan speaks of 2050 for the elimination of all fossil fuels from non-EU countries, not only from Russia therefore. Today we are talking about 2027: It's madness. These measures do not stop the war: It is propaganda, because you want to encourage the purchase of shale gas the United States, which costs three times as much and is as climate-changing as coal. Here, I have two bills from a family of pensioners in my region, Campania, one from 2021 and one from 2025. The cost of gas has increased by 150% in four years – more than double! Meanwhile, pensions and wages are stuck at the stake. Here, the time of lies is over and the citizens have understood that you are leading Europe to crash into a wall.

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Oct

2025

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Situation in Belarus, five years after the fraudulent presidential elections (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today we are talking about Belarus and I want to start by saying that Lukashenko is the furthest expression from my idea of politics. But it also gives me the opportunity to reiterate the distortions of this Parliament, because today's resolution, for example, says that this Parliament does not recognise the Belarusian presidency as legitimate. And this is not the only case: This is happening with Venezuela, with Cuba, with Georgia, and I could go on for a long time. It happens everywhere there are governments that are not aligned with Brussels' foreign policy. You rightly talk about defending human rights: But you often hide behind this defense, because I don't think you take the same approach when it comes to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel, where the lives of Palestinians are worth less than those of your pets. You are condemning Europe to irrelevance in the face of history. Do you think that any of the 7 billion human beings living outside the bubble of the West are interested in what the European Parliament recognises or does not recognise? Do you think these things can really improve the lives of Belarusians, Venezuelans, Georgians? What credibility do your accusations have if they are based on double standards and geopolitical calculations? The only way for all of us is to face reality: working for a multipolar world of dialogue, cooperation and peace.

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Oct

2025

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Polarisation and increased repression in Serbia, one year after the Novi Sad tragedy (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, a year has passed since the terrible accident at Novi Sad station and my thoughts go out to the victims and their families who, together with hundreds of thousands of Serbs, have taken to the streets to cry out for justice to be done and for those who have done wrong to pay. This tragedy has also shown us that Serbian society is alive, that its best part, the one on which hopes for the future of the country are poured, is capable of taking action and asking for real change against corruption. The massive demonstrations that have brought hundreds of thousands of people to the streets are a sign of hope. We have a duty to stand by the students and the Serbian people, but we also have an obligation to respect their self-determination. Protests in countries not aligned with the European Union's foreign policy have often been occasions in this House to put pressure on public opinion to change from above what was not right in Brussels or Washington. Even on the protests in Serbia I see that someone would like to use the same disastrous method seen in Maidan, which helped bring war to Europe's doorstep. In the student demonstrations there were no European Union flags. The Serbian people have not lost their memory, they have not forgotten the NATO bombings of '99 and the colonial attitude of many European countries, including mine, Italy, which have made the Balkans a powder keg where crime and corruption often reign and, in some cases, democracy is just a slogan. We are very careful not to throw gasoline on the fire: The Balkans are a pressure cooker ready to burst. History, you know, always repeats itself twice. We have already seen the tragedy and I would not like to witness the farce.

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Oct

2025

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United response to recent Russian violations of the EU Member States’ airspace and critical infrastructure (debate)

(IT) Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, a few days ago we discovered that former Chancellor Merkel is also a dangerous putinian, because she publicly claimed that Poland and Estonia prevented dialogue with Russia before the 2022 invasion, confirming what we have in fact always maintained, namely that the European Union is hostage to a perilous and dying leadership, which is pushing us all to World War III just to cover up its inadequacy. Executive class - your President - amplified by mainstream media which often spread Fake news, like Russia, with the sole intention of generating fear and panic among the population, to pass political proposals that have no consensus among voters, such as the ReArmEU. We have gone from the Russian invasion of Lisbon, scheduled for 2029, to the drones that now fly free through the skies of half of Europe. Yet the Russian attack on Nord Stream was actually Ukrainian. The September 13 Russian drone attack on Poland was denied by the Polish and NATO authorities themselves, and even the sabotage of your plane was actually a hoax. As they say in Italy, to think badly one often guesses, and here it really seems that someone is looking forward to the birth of the accident, to take us all to war and send thousands of young people to the massacre in the name of the interests of bankers and lobbyists. But send your children to war, if you care so much. European citizens no longer believe in warmongering policies, and certainly not because Putin says so, but because they are tired of lies, of austerity, of having to give up health care, transport and decent wages in exchange for missiles and jets. I know that for you who have a colonialist and supremacist approach it is difficult, but the peoples of Europe need peace and to build a multipolar world and certainly not war.

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Oct

2025

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The EU’s role in supporting the recent peace efforts for Gaza and a two-state solution (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, 'we want to help Palestine. Palestine is shaking our consciences. These are the words of an elderly protester I met in Rome during the impressive procession on Saturday. One million people took to the streets that I would like to thank one by one, as I thank the 400 activists of the flotilla, including some of my colleagues, and everyone here in Europe is demonstrating and striking in support of the Palestinian people, while you continue to be accomplices of the terrorist state of Israel, remaining silent, continuing to maintain commercial and military relations with the international criminal Netanyahu and now supporting the Trump plan for Gaza. A plan that seems to be written by a notable of the late nineteenth century, where we return to the colonies and mandates, without even mentioning the right of the Palestinians to decide on their land and their future, once again considered human beings of series B. Unlike you, those who take to the streets and those who express their dissent are saving the honor of the West. One day all of you will be asked to account for where we were and what we did at the time of the genocide in Gaza. And you will always be remembered as the accomplices of genocide. Free Palestine!

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Sep

2025

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Need for a strong European Democracy Shield to enhance democracy, protect the EU from foreign interference and hybrid threats, and protect electoral processes in the EU (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, a serious and profound debate on what are the threats to democracy and what is the state of democracy should be done seriously in the European Parliament, I believe. Not just to defend against external threats. In this regard, we could ask for a masterclass to our U.S. allies, who have a long history of trying to influence countries that are not too democratic in line with their foreign policy. What really worries me, however, is the state of health of the degree of democracy in our countries, which I see does not concern this majority at all: It is enough to open a smartphone, every day, to see images of arrests and violence against the hundreds of thousands of peaceful protesters protesting against the ongoing genocide in Gaza. In Berlin, Rome and Paris, we are witnessing the proliferation of restrictive measures and repressive laws that increasingly limit the right to protest in different European countries. Just as I am concerned about the censorship of the voices of dissent that deal with the ongoing genocide in Gaza, against the Palestinians. Or banning everything that represents Russian culture...

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Jul

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Georgia (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, 8 October, 13 November, 17 December, 21 January, 18 June, 8 July: From October to today, you have made us discuss six times about Georgia and all the problems that it has and that we know in large part, but to us it seems so much that we speak because Tbilisi does not want to open a new war front in the Caucasus. I guess there's someone here who doesn't sleep at night thinking about Georgia, but I have a solution for you, so there won't be a seventh. Try to close your eyes for a moment. Now imagine that Georgia is in the Middle East. Imagine that this country is killing hundreds of journalists. Imagine thousands of citizens being put in jail without trial. Imagine that his government supports ethnic cleansing and apartheid. Imagine ministers clamoring for the goal of exterminating an entire people. Imagine that that government kills over 100,000 people, most of them women and children. Imagine they shoot desperate children queuing up for some bread. Here, now you can sleep peacefully and without any disturbance, since for nine months we have been voting resolutions on Georgia and zero on the genocide in Palestine. I have only one word for you: Shame on you!

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Jul

2025

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Preparation for the 2025 EU–China Summit - Tackling China's critical raw materials export restrictions

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, yesterday, President von der Leyen said in this House that the aim of relations with China is to protect the interests of the countries of the European Union. European citizens have been waiting for six years for them to really start defending their interests, instead of thinking of those of the United States or multinationals like Pfizer and Rheinmetall. Trade between the EU and China is worth around €720 billion a year. Exports to the People's Republic have grown by 50% this year and the growth potential is huge. However, when talking about China or other countries that are not aligned with US interests, conflictual language is always used, simplifying reality in terms of friends and enemies. Why should supporting the trade war initiated by Trump mean defending the interests of European citizens? How can one ignore the importance of BRICS markets, for example, for European companies? Or, above all, the fundamental role that China can play as a mediator in the conflicts in which you have dragged us, as in Ukraine, but also in the Middle East? Then, for once, let us have a jolt of dignity, let us recognise that the world is changing and becoming increasingly multipolar, let us really protect the interests of the European Union and work for cooperation and diplomacy, not for the interests of a world destined to disappear together with those who are representing it.

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Jun

2025

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Media freedom in Georgia, particularly the case of Mzia Amaglobeli

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are here to vote on yet another resolution on Georgia. I want to say that freedom of the press is important, it is an essential value and that it is right to demand the release of Amaglobeli. But I find it unbearable to use human rights and democratic rhetoric for mere geopolitical purposes and to attack countries that have chosen a foreign policy other than what Washington, von der Leyen, Merz or Macron likes. I would like to talk about all the journalists who are in prison for their work. In Gaza, more than 200 have been killed since 7 October and 34 are in Israeli prisons. I think of Shireen Abu Akleh, an American-Palestinian journalist who was deliberately killed by the army while doing his work in Jenin. These names, however, do not have the dignity to be considered here. Express your outrage at Georgia, while you are silent with Israel attacking Iranian TV live worldwide. Some of you even dare to say that he's doing the dirty work for us. But what would be the dirty work to do? Killing thousands of innocent women and girls, starving them to death? I invite you to speak singularly, because millions of people in Europe are protesting in every way against the ongoing genocide in Gaza and we will not be complicit in your dirty genocide intent.

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Jun

2025

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Upcoming NATO summit on 24-26 June 2025 (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, NATO has evolved from a defensive alliance into a war machine over the years, and we Europeans are also to blame. The European Union has uncritically followed the lines of foreign policy dictated by the United States, both in Ukraine and by supporting the war criminal Netanyahu. And what are the results? Loss of credibility and total irrelevance. Von der Leyen told us that the plan ReArmEu It would have been the foundation stone for strategic independence, but it is exactly the opposite. It paved the way for member states to increase military spending by up to 5% of GDP, as dictated by Washington. Billions of euros that we should take away from the health care, pensions and salaries of our citizens. But to defend ourselves from whom? How can one still have the courage to accuse other countries of being threats to global security when NATO, over the years, has left a trail of blood and terror in every corner of the globe, when today it supports the terrorist state of Israel in the genocide against the Palestinians and says nothing about the aggression against Lebanon, the occupation of southern Syria and, ultimately, the unjustifiable aggression against Iran? Today, Europe should put the interests of its citizens at the centre, put a role of peace and cooperation at the centre and stop being vassals of those who sow terror and war projects.

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Jun

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, once again we have to acknowledge the inadequacy of the political representatives of the European Union. You announced the 18th package of sanctions on Russia as you silently watch Israel tear apart all that remains of international law. Humanitarian agencies estimate more than 120,000 dead in Gaza, the largest ethnic cleansing operation since the end of World War II to date. And we are here to discuss whether to suspend or revise the Association Agreement between the European Union and Israel. What would have happened if one of the countries considered enemies of the West had committed a quarter of the crimes committed by Israel or had kidnapped a Member of the European Parliament, as happened with Rima Hassan? Where are the aggressor and the aggressor when Israel attacks a sovereign country like Iran? Where is the right to defend yourself in all these years? Where are democracy and humanity when the Zionist occupation army uses hunger as a weapon of war? Suspending, other than reviewing, the agreement with Israel would perhaps be the last outburst of dignity of a Parliament that has lost all credibility, crushed by hypocritical double standards. Whatever you do, know that history will never absolve you.