What Patrizia spoke about.

11 Apr

2024

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Internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (recast) - Common rules for the internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (recast) - Union’s electricity market design: Regulation - Union’s electricity market design: Directive (joint debate – Reform of the energy and electricity markets)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this is an important reform. It has been said and we will understand when we implement it, how important it has been. I would like to highlight three aspects here. The first: We have in some way designed the foundations around which a market for hydrogen and also a market for renewable gases can be born and prosper. We have guaranteed its injection into the netw…

11 Mar

2024

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Energy performance of buildings (recast) (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, lower energy consumption, lower cost of citizens' bills, upgrading of homes: Who could possibly be against these goals? Yet there has been a great controversy against the directive, great attacks in some countries - I think of mine - shouting wolf!, wolf!, as if it were a danger, and all for political exploitation against Europe, for an electoral a…

28 Feb

2024

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Improving the Union’s protection against market manipulation on the wholesale energy market (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we approve a very important reform, linked to that of the electricity market, the regulation on gas, biomethane and hydrogen, a reform that concerns the protection of the Union - these are very demanding words - with respect to market manipulation. What happened in 2021 and 2022 in wholesale energy markets, with exorbitant and stratospheric pric…

28 Feb

2024

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Regaining our competitive edge - a prosperous EU in a fragmented global economy (topical debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Europe risks a competitiveness gap - perhaps already suffering - vis-à-vis the other major powers of the world and the economies we know. We cannot afford to back down, to lose ground in terms of technological research capacity and also in terms of positioning ourselves in the upstream of innovation, otherwise we will lose all the dimensions of lif…

15 Jan

2024

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Ozone depleting substances - Fluorinated gases regulation (joint debate - Gas emissions)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to briefly outline some of the objectives of the contribution we have made as a Committee on Industry, always working, so I have worked, in the belief that the environmental protection policies we are pursuing are not only compatible with competitiveness, but can also boost the competitiveness of our production system. The first object…

21 Nov

2023

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Packaging and packaging waste (debate)

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– Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is an honour for me to represent here the ITRE Committee, which has done a great deal of work on this measure, and it is even more an honour to be the rapporteur of a committee which has obtained shared expertise on some very important articles. We welcome and unhesitatingly support the aim of this regulation – the reduction of packaging wa…

20 Nov

2023

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Framework of measures for strengthening Europe’s net-zero technology products manufacturing ecosystem (Net Zero Industry Act) (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, European industry has high levels of competitiveness in many key sectors for our production system. But the challenge today – and it is a European challenge and only at this level can we play and win – is the challenge of maintaining this competitiveness through the long path of transition to the sustainability of our production apparatus, avoiding falling in…

18 Oct

2023

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New European innovation agenda (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, innovation, by all accounts, is the engine, the lever on which to act for the improvement, for the advancement of society. For this reason, the Innovation Union must be our framework, our beacon. The agenda is important and we are confident that the new Commissioner will be able to give impetus and implementation. It is important because it connects and brings t…

17 Oct

2023

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Commission Work Programme 2024 (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Vice-President, this extraordinary legislature is coming to an end and I think that these months that separate us from the end require an additional effort, a commitment to achieve those commitments that we made with the citizens at the beginning of the legislature and that have gone through all the difficult phases in terms of climate, environmental, digi…

16 Oct

2023

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Establishing the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I think that this step, which we are voting on today in Parliament and which has been drawn up by the Commission, represents an important step forward in identifying a European industrial policy that really brings us to that strategic autonomy, that European sovereignty which is essential to maintaining the levels of productivity and competitive…

5 Oct

2023

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The new European strategy for a better internet for kids (BIK+) (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Madam Commissioner, this strategy is certainly a step forward along a road on which we have already done many things. I am thinking of the regulation of data and I am thinking of the regulation for artificial intelligence, which also has provisions with regard to minors, but I also think that we must do much, much more, not only talk about it, but put into pr…

4 Oct

2023

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Decent Housing for All (topical debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, Minister, it is truly a disgraceful paradox that in Europe, the flag of social justice and human dignity, housing, a fundamental right, is still an unattainable mirage for many families, who may have housing but lose it for the cost of rent that they can no longer pay, or for young people who must find their autonomy. Europe can and should take …

13 Sep

2023

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SME Relief Package (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, after so much rhetoric about SMEs and the backbone of our production system and so many profuse words and few acts, we finally have a package of concrete proposals. So, my first request is that the concreteness and urgency of putting these proposals on the ground be our first objective. Beyond the contents, it is necessary that all this immediately…

11 Sep

2023

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Renewable Energy Directive (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, we are in favour of a directive which has very demanding and ambitious targets and objectives, and we welcome that. But we know that they are also reachable: it is not only ambition, it is also a realism of a job that Europe is doing if, of course, we develop certain conditions; I only quote them by titles. The first concerns the procedures: the pr…

12 Jul

2023

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State of the SME Union (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Europe has finally put in place an industrial policy and strategy worthy of the name, to accompany our production system with the green plan for industry in the challenge of transformation and in the ambition that we have to create a completely decarbonised system. But what is lacking, in my view, is an adaptation of this important strategy to the …

14 Jun

2023

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Surrogacy in the EU - risks of exploitation and commercialisation (topical debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the practice of gestation for others is a practice that tramples on the rights of women and children, exploits and commodifies the body of women, markets gestation and also contradicts the entire path of feminism based on the dignity and freedom of women. This is why ours is a clear and clear no to this practice, which in Italy, as in many countries, most Eur…

13 Jun

2023

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Batteries and waste batteries (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe has not lost, as some with the usual anti-European skepticism claim, the battle to be a leader in the production and use of large-capacity batteries. No, indeed, Europe enters the global production scenario with a wide-ranging commitment, as the rapporteur, Mr Variati, has well explained. In ITRE our work was just that: enhance the innovative productio…

31 May

2023

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Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (debate)

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Mr President, we come to this approval after months of intense and very difficult negotiations. I want to thank my colleague Lara Wolters for the work she has done, which is truly profound and attentive. After awareness-raising campaigns for corporate responsibility in environmental and human rights matters – we must all remember the Rana Plaza tragedy, if we are not hypocrites, because of the tea…

18 Apr

2023

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Energy storage (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, the energy challenge for Europe continues, after last year's success with the first storage regulation to tackle winter, as President Buzek reminded us. Now we have to move on. We need to ensure safe supplies, distribution and optimal use. We need to diversify sources, switch to renewables, to hydrogen. So as a whole, we need to focus on greater integration of all so…

14 Mar

2023

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Data Act (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we can say with great pride that Europe is building – a unique case in the world and truly the first in the world – an architecture of rules that seek to give such impetuous, unstoppable and also very useful digital development, indications, obligations, opportunities and above all responsibility for operators and users, including for consumer citizens, respo…

13 Mar

2023

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Energy performance of buildings (recast) (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we are very serious and very responsible legislators. I speak for myself, for my political group of Socialists and Democrats, and we have very clear ideas and we know that the interest of citizens, families and businesses today is to save energy, to consume less and to pay less in their bills; It is to prepare for the future, not to stand still as someone wou…

15 Feb

2023

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Access to strategic critical raw materials (debate)

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(IT) Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, we expect the Raw Materials Act to set out concretely - with just a few words or promises - what choices and what steps to take in order to have sufficient availability of the strategic resources that precisely the development model we have chosen in Europe indicates as necessary. We have chosen a development that is based on green technolo…

18 Jan

2023

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An EU strategy to boost industrial competitiveness, trade and quality jobs (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, finally in Europe, alongside the word 'environment', there are other words: industry, technology, international competition, work and skills. Industry is finally back in the limelight, because it has been understood that the ambitious goals of decarbonisation cannot be achieved without a coherent and effective and sustained industrial policy. If…

15 Sep

2022

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State of the SME Union (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I think that at this time of great economic crisis and also of the production system, we really must put, beyond any rhetoric, any phrase that we repeat over and over again, as a priority the help, support, attention, calibration of our choices to suit SMEs. The great champions, who are also needed in Europe, the medium-sized companies, are not …

15 Sep

2022

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Implementation of the Updated New Industrial Strategy for Europe: aligning spending to policy (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I think that from this report by Parliament, and I thank my fellow rapporteur and the shadow rapporteurs who have worked, there are many good indications that the Commission must collect promptly and with conviction. These are indications that link very well with all the content of industrial policy set out yesterday by President von der Leyen. …