What Sandro spoke about.

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Jun

2026

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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.…

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May

2026

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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…

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Mar

2026

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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…

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Mar

2026

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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

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Presentation of the action plan against cyberbullying (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, 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

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European Democracy Shield – very large online platform algorithms, foreign interference and the spread of disinformation (debate)

15

Dec

2025

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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…

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Nov

2025

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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…

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Nov

2025

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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…

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Oct

2025

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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…

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Oct

2025

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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

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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…

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Oct

2025

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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…

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Oct

2025

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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 …

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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, 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…

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Sep

2025

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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…

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Jul

2025

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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…

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Jun

2025

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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 …

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Jun

2025

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State of play and follow-up two years after the PEGA recommendations and the illegal use of spyware (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are talking about PEGA. After two years, the Commission has not yet proposed binding legislation against the abuse of spyware, nor published the promised communication. Do it now, because there is a new case that shakes Europe: the Lo Paragon Graphite Spyware. According to Meta, 17 European countries involved, 61 users infected, of which 7 Italian. Apple is t…

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Feb

2025

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Escalation of gang violence in Sweden and strengthening the fight against organised crime (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, there was on average one explosion a day in Sweden last month. But it is not an isolated case, it is a wake-up call for the whole of Europe. I think that the State must intervene first, removing our boys from the handiwork of crime, from civil death. Then there are social networks, multipliers of discomfort. Let's think about the murder of Salwan Momika, famo…

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Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, precisely because we love freedom of expression, we think that Mr Musk is a danger to democracy, because he represents something new: Technopopulism. The richest man in the world, political, monopolist, who questions liberal democracies and the rule of law. And we know how important it is to fight against private monopolies to strengthen our democracies. It i…

17

Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, TikTok is under the magnifying glass of the European Commission for potential breaches of the Digital Services Act. The cancellation of elections in Romania due to TikTok interference demonstrates the seriousness of the situation: The Commission has successfully initiated formal proceedings against TikTok for suspected infringement of the Digital Services Act. But platf…

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Nov

2024

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Strengthening children’s rights in the EU - 35th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, children's rights, denied rights: Let's think immediately of Gaza, of Ukraine, let's think of Afghanistan, where there are war zones, war zones, children are the ones who pay the most. But they pay the price here too, in our Europe. We heard colleagues say: 25% live at risk of poverty and social exclusion. Poverty and marginalization mean: high rate of school…

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Nov

2024

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Prison conditions in the EU (debate)