What Francesco spoke about.

17 Sep

2026

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An EU health workforce crisis plan: sustainability of healthcare systems and employment and working conditions in the healthcare sector (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the crisis in our health systems is not just about numbers: It is made up of doctors, nurses and health workers who live under pressure in emergency rooms, who suffer attacks, who live in territories where it is increasingly difficult to find a family doctor. In my Tuscany, the region from which I came, during my last term in the Regional Council, …

7 Jul

2026

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Presentation of the Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in the debate that is taking place in recent months on the role that Europe should play in the development of artificial intelligence, between those who would like a Europe in pursuit of the United States and China and those who instead dream of a Europe capable of enhancing its excellence thanks to artificial intelligence, Commissioner, we do not underestimate …

16 Jun

2026

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Achieving digital sovereignty and resilience for Europe, in light of recent developments affecting access to advanced AI technologies (debate)

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16 Jun

2026

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Achieving digital sovereignty and resilience for Europe, in light of recent developments affecting access to advanced AI technologies (debate)

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19 May

2026

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Opportunities and challenges presented by a comprehensive artificial intelligence strategy for EU trade (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, artificial intelligence is an opportunity and this is, of course, also true for the trade sector. The risk, however, is concrete: becoming more and more a digital colony dependent on someone else, on platforms, on clouds, on hardware, on models developed far from Europe. So, building a completely European supply chain, from infrastructure to artifi…

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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12 Mar

2026

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Prevention and treatment of obesity (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, obesity today is a disease recognised by the WHO. It is not a matter of style, it is not a choice of life but, above all, it is not a fault. In Europe, one in six people is affected by obesity. Yet, some institutions still struggle to recognize obesity as a disease. Not just a disease: is a chronicity multiplier: more than 200 diseases, 75% of cardi…

11 Feb

2026

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

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11 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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21 Jan

2026

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Presentation of the Digital Networks Act (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, we are setting ourselves an ambitious goal and that is already good news, I would say. We want to harmonise rules, boost competitiveness and make the European Union attractive for investment. We want to strengthen the single market for connectivity, overcoming spectrum fragmentation, thus offering businesses a single European market and not 27 different markets. We w…

16 Dec

2025

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Digitalisation, artificial intelligence and algorithmic management in the workplace – shaping the future of work

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16 Dec

2025

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Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products (A10-0254/2025 - Gabriel Mato) (vote)

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26 Nov

2025

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Implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (debate)

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25 Nov

2025

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Digital Package (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today the Commission is presenting us with a package that promises simplification and competitiveness. These are goals that we conservatives have been asking for for years, so we are very happy, but companies do not need new promises, they need Europe to stop stifling them under mountains of obligations, deadlines, compliance obligations that change from year to…

21 Oct

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2026 (debate)

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Mr President, President von der Leyen, ladies and gentlemen, listening to your words today on unfair competition, on the defence of European independence and productivity, it is clear that you, beyond the role that requires you not to say it openly, are well aware of the damage that five years of Green Deal They have caused European businesses and farmers. That's why today we are making a simple r…

8 Oct

2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, 92% of European data is hosted on servers owned outside the EU, as is 80% of European spending on software and services in the EU. cloud It ends up in the coffers of non-European companies. These are not just numbers. This is strategic vulnerability. It means that our economy, our security, our democracy depend on infrastructure that we do not control today. …

10 Sep

2025

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Taxation of large digital platforms in the light of international developments (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we can all say that we agree that we must regulate the digital economy and its taxation. Allow me, however, to point out that, at the same time, the issue of Base Erosion and Profit Shifting, i.e. the phenomenon whereby large multinationals exploit the tax disparities of individual national states in order to be able to shift their profits where taxation is more…

7 Jul

2025

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Product safety and regulatory compliance in e-commerce and non-EU imports (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, every day, thanks to online shopping, 12 million parcels enter Europe containing goods with a value of less than EUR 150. Nine times out of ten, these packages come from China. These consignments are not subject to duties and are checked on a sample basis, which shows that, in any case, 80 % of the goods checked do not meet the European quality regulations. And …

16 Jun

2025

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Strengthening rural areas in the EU through cohesion policy (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, when we talk about cohesion policies, we rightly think of reviving the internal areas and defending European diversity. But allow me to reflect. Who will repopulate these areas? Who will make you grow up and study your children? Who will invest their capital if there is no digital connection? Today it is central to the development of life in Eur…

6 May

2025

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A unified EU response to unjustified US trade measures and global trade opportunities for the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that the debate on trade relations between Europe and the United States must now take place on two different levels. The first, on which I think and hope we all agree, is that the European Union must give a unequivocal response to the demands that come from the other side of the Atlantic. The second is that this answer cannot be just the …

3 Apr

2025

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European Action Plan on Rare Diseases (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, over the last twenty years more than EUR 3 billion has been invested in research into rare diseases in Europe but, nevertheless, 95 % of them still do not have a specific cure. Italy, the country I come from, is the first country in Europe and the second in the world to take care of patients through the national health system but, without the help …

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, safeguarding and creating new jobs is one of the European Union's priorities to date; A socially fair and just transition towards climate neutrality will make the Green Deal a success for all Europeans. These phrases are taken from the European Pillar of Rights Action Plan, adopted by the Commission in 2021. Can we say something went wrong? We can say that fanat…

13 Mar

2025

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Action Plan for Affordable Energy (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is impossible not to agree with an action plan aimed at curbing energy poverty and curbing price increases. The doubts, if anything, come to us on the ways we want to put in place to achieve these objectives: In the next 25 years, EU energy consumption will double and national electricity grids will need to be extended by at least 70%. And by what economic me…

12 Mar

2025

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Union of Skills: striving for more and better opportunities to study, train or work in the EU and to bring our talents back home (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, 'search the internet', 'give me the WiFi password', 'turn it over by email': How many times in a week do we repeat these phrases? Well, we must think that for a percentage ranging between 42 and 56% of the citizens of the European Union, we would be speaking Arabic. They wouldn't understand what we're saying. If we talk about ensuring concrete opportunities f…

12 Mar

2025

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European Semester (joint debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the report stresses the importance of supporting depopulated rural areas by investing in services and opportunities. He talks about demographic challenges, ageing and work. Now I give you a news, which news is not: If, alongside every euro invested in the repopulation and enhancement of depopulated inland areas, there is not another euro to invest in digital inf…