7
Oct
2026
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Sandro Ruotolo
MEP · Italy
Plenary speeches · European Parliament
Plenary speeches · EU Parliament
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Speeches updated
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All Contributions
36
Since July 1, 2024
Time at the Floor
0.9h
≈ 52 min
Average speech length
1:28 min
≈ 1.5 min
· Rank 263/694
Activity
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Lukas Sieper | GermanyDE | Renew Europe (Renew) | 392 |
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Sebastian Tynkkynen | FinlandFI | European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) | 354 |
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Juan Fernando López Aguilar | SpainES | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) | 326 |
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João Oliveira | PortugalPT | The Left in the European Parliament (GUE/NGL) | 221 |
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Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis | LithuaniaLT | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) | 209 |
6
Oct
2026
Effective measures to protect and empower children in the digital world (debate)
Madam President, Madam Vice-President Virkkunen, I heard your speech. It is a revolution that is taking place in these Chambers of the European Parliament and I think it is important to emphasise this. By now we have understood that the responsibility cannot fall on the parents. It is the platforms that must change their attitude, their architecture, the very way in which they build the digital sp…
17
Sep
2026
Impact of social media and the online environment on young people (A10-0220/2026 - Sandro Ruotolo) (vote)
Madam President, first of all I would like to thank the shadow rapporteurs and all those who have worked on this report. In recent months an awareness has matured among us: We are faced with a momentous issue concerning the relationship between young people and the digital world. There is the issue of addiction, compulsivity, damage to health and we must intervene immediately. President von der Le…
16
Sep
2026
State of the Union (debate)
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Kids Act: The answer must be European. The responsibility lies with the platforms: It is not for children and families. We don't just talk about what kids do with their kids anymore. social, but of what I social They do it to the boys. And we heard from you a concrete proposal: no social media under the age of 13, supervised access up to 15 and, above all…
15
Sep
2026
The recent hybrid attacks and instrumentalisation of migrants in Ceuta and the need for a coordinated response to protect EU’s external borders (debate)
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in Ceuta we have seen what happens when Europe forgets to be a community: Spain is facing an unprecedented emergency. Was there a direction? We think so: There was a hybrid attack in Ceuta. There are many who want a divided Europe. We are seeing it here in this House: In the face of such a crisis, solidarity should have been triggered immediately. Instead, walls…
15
Sep
2026
Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield (debate)
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we need rules, vigilance and a shield to combat disinformation, hybrid attacks and interference. The defence of democracy is the defence of Europe. With the advent of digital platforms, billions of people are excluded from the flow of information based on decisions by a small group of technocrats. Who decides what we see, what we read, what goes viral? An alg…
17
Jun
2026
Protecting children’s safety and mental health from the risks posed by social media – our duty to act now (debate)
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, millions of young people are growing up today in digital environments controlled by a few private actors. Too often they are environments where cyberbullying, hate speech, solicitation find space. Just yesterday the prefect of my city, Naples, sounded the alarm, because social media influences younger boys who seek legitimacy in criminal groups.…
20
May
2026
Recruitment of children by organised crime (debate)
Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, on a mission to the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam, we discovered the figure of "extractors", minors recruited by organised crime to recover cocaine in containers from South America. And I immediately thought of my city, Naples, where more and more young people become victims and executioners of armed wars. Europe is not Eldorado. Today, childre…
11
Mar
2026
Situation of the rule of law in Greece, following the Court decision on Predator spyware (debate)
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Athens ruling is an important legal victory. We stand by the victims of espionage: Journalist Koukakis and PASOK leader, who will bring his battle before the European Court of Human Rights. National security cannot become a free zone with respect to the rule of law: politicians, activists, journalists. But you know that there are at least 37 E…
11
Mar
2026
Rise of political violence, notably by far-left organisations (debate)
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I must say that I share the Commissioner's words. Of course, what happened after here is a different story altogether. I want to say immediately that the killing in France of the right-wing exponent, Quentin Deranque, is a very serious fact that must be condemned without ambiguity. In a democracy, political violence is never acceptable and those resp…
10
Feb
2026
Presentation of the action plan against cyberbullying (debate)
20
Jan
2026
Situation in Venezuela following the extraction of Maduro and the need to ensure a peaceful democratic transition (debate)
Madam President, Madam Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen, what has happened in Venezuela is a violation of international law: unilateral military intervention and the arrest of the incumbent president. Maduro is certainly not a democrat and his regime has been responsible for serious violations of civil rights and repression of the opposition, but none of this can justify military action. Not o…
18
Dec
2025
European Democracy Shield – very large online platform algorithms, foreign interference and the spread of disinformation (debate)
15
Dec
2025
Murder of Mehdi Kessaci - urgent need for ambitious European action against drug trafficking (debate)
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, we are raising your alarm: It's out of control, he said, in Europe. Mehdi died in Marseille, the city where, fifty years ago, with the Marseilles clan, the European drug economy was born. A transversal revenge. Enters from Latin America, enters our ports, cocaine and, once in Europe, boys, often minors, are recruited as criminal labor: We must prev…
25
Nov
2025
Protection of minors online (debate)
Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it must be parents, not algorithms, who raise our children. President von der Leyen is right, but the reality is that today 97% of young people use the internet every day and one in four is addicted to smartphones. Think that between 11 and 14 years old you exceed 9 hours a day online and, between 8 and 10, 6 hours: In these hours there are cybe…
25
Nov
2025
Communication on the Democracy Shield (debate)
Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is a pity that there was no mission to Italy on the rule of law, a pity indeed! We would have realized the democratic recession. The European shield for democracy wants to protect us from manipulation and interference of information, but this manipulation no longer comes only from the usual actors that we are accustomed to mention, namely Russia…
23
Oct
2025
Audiovisual Media Services Directive obligations in the transatlantic dialogue (debate)
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, today we are not just debating a directive: We are defending cultural diversity, legislative sovereignty and European democracy from a frontal attack. The Trump administration has chosen to designate the Audiovisual Services Directive as a "commercial barrier" and threatens to hit European productions with a 100% tax. It is a hostile gesture, not only towards…
22
Oct
2025
Allegations of espionage by the Hungarian government within the EU institutions (debate)
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, if I have understood correctly, this is the debate on the Europe of spies, which is not the title of an action film but concerns this Commission closely, very closely. Agents of the Hungarian secret services allegedly pretended to be permanent representation officials, infiltrated into the institutions between 2015 and 2017, just when Olivér Várhelyi, now Eur…
21
Oct
2025
Criminal intimidation against investigative journalists in the EU: the attempted attack on Sigfrido Ranucci (debate)
Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I thank the Commissioner for her important words and - I must say - I am very sorry for the intervention of the representative of the People's Party, including the Italian one. Italy, according to Oxygen for Information, is unfortunately the first country in Europe for threatened journalists: 516 in 2024 alone, more than 7500 since 2006. In the fir…
20
Oct
2025
The decision to impose a fine on Google: defending press and media freedom in the EU (debate)
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, freedom of the press is not an algorithm: It is democracy and the search for truth. The fine imposed on Google is a fair and necessary signal, because Google has abused its power, monopolizing digital advertising and stifling competition. When a single actor controls data, news, advertising and revenue, there is no longer freedom of information: There is a monop…
20
Oct
2025
Order of business
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the situation in Italy is getting worse and worse. There are now 29 journalists who, for their work, are forced to live under the protection of the State, because they are threatened with death by organized crime. The attack on Sigfrido Ranucci, journalist and presenter of Report, RAI’s in-depth journalistic broadcast, is a very serious fact that takes Italy …
10
Sep
2025
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, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today President von der Leyen said that disinformation is dividing our societies, eroding democracy, and then we can say that an effective democratic shield must be based on two pillars. The first is freedom of the press: Independent information and protection of sources is the only antidote to disinformation. Journalists are being spied on with…
9
Sep
2025
Wave of violence and continuous use of force against protesters in Serbia (debate)
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I thank the Commissioner for her speech and for her words. I would like to develop a small, as it were, paragraph of his speech, which is fundamental in my opinion because where there is no freedom of the press there is no democracy, and therefore we must ask ourselves the question of Serbia's accession to Europe. In Serbia, being a journalist means being exp…
8
Jul
2025
State of play of implementation of the European Media Freedom Act in the Member States (debate)
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you, Mr Verheyen, for your words of truth. In a month, on August 8, the Media Freedom Act. There are many countries that have not yet "registered" their regulations. In Cyprus, for example, the draft law makes it easier to spy on journalists; It is better not to talk about Slovakia. in Malta it is not even known which ministry deals with it; in Orbán’s Hun…
18
Jun
2025
Safeguarding the rule of law in Spain, ensuring an independent and autonomous prosecutor's office to fight crime and corruption (debate)
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, talking about the Spanish Government today seems more like an instrumental move by the People's Party than a real concern for the rule of law in Spain. The People's Party has tried in every way to delegitimize the socialist government: fake news and disinformation. So, I take this opportunity to thank President Pedro Sánchez. In the face of serious news, he did …