What Francesco spoke about.

11

Feb

2025

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US AI chip export restrictions: a challenge to European AI development and economic resilience (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, 'Americans will need the phone, we won't. We have a lot of messengers': This was Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office in 1876. Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, after 150 years, I do not think anyone wants to run for the new William Preece. Does anyone want to go down in history by saying that the Americans and the Chinese will need…

22

Jan

2025

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Links between organised crime and smuggling of migrants in light of the recent UN reports (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, three numbers would suffice to explain the link between crime and illegal immigration: 360 000 illegal crossings of European borders per year; 90% of these crossings are managed by organised crime; 6 billion dollars a year in the coffers of the mafias. Yet there are still those who think that fighting illegal immigration means denying a young wo…

18

Dec

2024

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Promoting social dialogue and collective bargaining and the right to strike in the EU (debate)

Mr President, Madam Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission wants to promote the right to strike and social dialogue in the 26 countries of the Union. I wasn't wrong: I said 26, because in Italy we have other problems. In Italy we have Landini and the CGIL. In Italy we have the CGIL that pretends not to see when the government gives 6.5 billion to Stellantis and, three months later, S…

27

Nov

2024

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Promoting a favourable framework for venture capital financing and safe foreign direct investments in the EU (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, foreign direct investment can be an opportunity for growth and innovation for those who receive it. But when dealing with this topic, however, at least a couple of distinctions are needed. The first one: the strategic nature of the investment sector: We must avoid the risk of controls in areas that are crucial to the life of each individual nation. The second…

22

Oct

2024

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Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as a member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, I would like to share with you today the pleasure and pride of speaking - as an Italian - on a subject such as employment policies and of being able to present to you the results achieved by Italy over the last two years. Today we are calling on the European Union to promote employment. In Italy, the…

21

Oct

2024

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A stronger Europe for safer products to better protect consumers and tackle unfair competition: boosting EU oversight in e-commerce and imports (debate)

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today the European Union is suffering a real attack by certain foreign nations on non-compliant, very low-quality products, often even dangerous for the final consumer. An attack that exploits two flaws in our defense system: the first, the possibility for certain online platforms to easily circumvent the rules; and secondly, the fact that Europe has in rec…

9

Oct

2024

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Strengthening the security of Europe’s external borders: need for a comprehensive approach and enhanced Frontex support (debate)

Mr Ceccardi, you spoke today legitimately of the defence of borders and I wanted to ask you about immigration. I wanted to ask you how you combine this position with what the Tuscany Region has decided instead, the region from which you and I come, with the choice to refuse to build a residence center in the Tuscany Region, continuing to say that the model of widespread reception, the one that bro…