What Patrizia spoke about.

13 Sep

2022

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The new European Bauhaus (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the Bauhaus was created to give a cultural, artistic and sustainable boost to our cities, our homes and our way of life. But there is something more: I think that today, in the energy crisis we are experiencing, which has never been so severe for decades, the new Bauhaus can also be a useful tool in our toolbox to deal with this crisis. We have tal…

13 Sep

2022

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EU response to the increase in energy prices in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, today I think it is clear to everyone: the greatest threat to European citizens is the unstoppable rise in gas prices, with repercussions that are destroying entire industrial realities and killing the real economy and that of the lives of families, even medium-sized ones. We must therefore go to the root of the problem. Subsidies are not enough, state aid is…

5 Jul

2022

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EU action plan for the social economy (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today we are debating the Cañas report and I thank the rapporteur very much. We discussed the Lagodinsky report a few weeks ago, another one is probably coming from Parliament from the ECON Committee, this shows the extreme activity and attention of Parliament on the subject of the social economy, I say this also on behalf of the Social Economy Intergroup. But t…

23 Jun

2022

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Gas storage (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the regulation we are adopting today is part of a broader strategy, a more comprehensive framework, the strategy that Europe has set itself, the first continent in the world, to radically change its energy supply model, from fossil energy to renewable energy. The war that Russia has brought to Ukraine, the unfortunate war has only aggravated this situation and a…

19 May

2022

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The REPowerEU Plan: European solidarity and energy security in face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including the recent cuts of gas supply to Poland and Bulgaria (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, radically changing our model of energy supplies while maintaining production capacity and growth in Europe is a gigantic task, but we can do it if we are united, that is, if no country, as unfortunately happens today, plays an ambiguous game or holds back. The points are clear and shared, Commissioner: acceleration of renewables and hydrogen, creation of local s…

7 Apr

2022

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Mental Health (debate)

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(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we could sadly say that in Europe there is a kind of ghost that wanders about, which is invisible because we do not want to see it, because it is hidden in families, in their despair, in their loneliness, in a few care facilities. I am talking about mental illness, for which we all have the great guilt of having left the families alone, the people who suffe…

6 Apr

2022

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Global approach to research and innovation: Europe’s strategy for international cooperation in a changing world (debate) (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen... (start of the off-microphone intervention) ... in the pandemic and we suffered a lot. But we've also learned a lot about our lives, the challenges we face, the weaknesses we have, but also the resources we can rely on to overcome those challenges. And above all, a very strong awareness was born in all of us, I believe, at all levels, of how much our life re…

5 Apr

2022

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Trans-European energy infrastructure (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the agreement reached at the trilogue is a positive agreement, I am also thinking of the projects of mutual interest between the Member States and third countries, which were introduced during the trilogue, a very important aspect also with Africa and therefore we will support it. However, within a few weeks we have entered another era, due to Russ…

24 Mar

2022

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The Power of the EU – Joint European Action for more affordable, secure and sustainable energy (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, today we are called by history, I would say, to make a great leap in the quality of our energy policy in order to build that Energy Union that had already been designed. And we must do so with extraordinary interventions and without taboos, as the Commissioner said. I start from the first of the interventions, that of the storages. Good for the idea of common…

10 Mar

2022

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Myanmar, one year after the coup

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in Myanmar as in Ukraine, certainly farther from our eyes but equally brutal, the most brutal violence continues. Arrests, bombings, killings of the most defenseless civilians, as always in these situations, women and children, sexual assaults, persecution of Christians and other minorities, brutal military repression, immense crowds of refugees…

10 Mar

2022

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The need for an ambitious EU Strategy for sustainable textiles (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the great change in sustainability is affecting all sectors of production, as well as the way we live, move and work. And for this reason the production sector must also be accompanied, the production related to textiles must be accompanied in this transformation, and I say deliberately accompanied, because here it is a question of making public…

9 Mar

2022

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Batteries and waste batteries (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in the past Europe has often made the mistake of not linking to its environmental policies a coherent industrial policy, as in the case of photovoltaic panels, a classic, and has thus created its dangerous dependence on other areas of the world, both for high-tech products and for low-content products. We are now faced with the challenge of high…

8 Mar

2022

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Rising energy prices and market manipulation on the gas market (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the spiral in gas prices is becoming, day after day, an unbearable emergency for the budget of middle-class families and for the production of certain industrial sectors, which risk suspending their activity, with serious damage to the continental economy and to the production capacity of our continent. For this reason, courageous initiatives must be taken; You …

15 Feb

2022

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A statute for European cross-border associations and non-profit organisations (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is a great satisfaction for those who, like me, have been fighting for social economy entities, social enterprises, cooperatives and many others for many years to see that things are changing, that there is a new season in Europe. You think that the last report on the social economy that I presented to the vote in this Parliament dates back to 2008 or 2009. B…

15 Feb

2022

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Strengthening Europe in the fight against cancer(debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in Europe we often proudly fly the flags of research and rights. Well, here, in the fight against cancer, we have the opportunity to translate these thunderous words into tangible results, as this excellent plan shows us and proposes to us, a plan that we must approve and implement. Commissioner, research means new and more effective early detection capacitie…

14 Feb

2022

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A European strategy for offshore renewable energy (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, while we are dealing with the complicated energy transition, the problems of gas and its supply and the dear bills with new and fully European proposals, we must, however, without hesitation, change course and take a decisive step in the new direction, which is represented, with our energy priorities, by renewables, of which we must greatly increase productio…

19 Jan

2022

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Digital Services Act (continuation of debate)

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(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe is the first power in the world to create a complete system of rules for the digital universe, an essential challenge for a democracy such as the European one, which wants to be a champion of digital innovation and at the same time preserve the human rights of its citizens. There are points that need to be improved and on which we need to be more amb…

14 Dec

2021

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New orientations for the EU’s humanitarian action (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the world has certainly not improved in recent years and our humanitarian intervention needs to be reorganised and refocused in this global context, which has become more uncertain and worrying due to COVID, unresolved conflicts, new territorial disputes, climate change and natural disasters. The important thing is that our policy is always people-centred and th…

24 Nov

2021

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State of the Energy Union (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I think this report tells us that we are heading in the right direction. It makes us see lights and shadows and we have to work on some critical elements. I cite two of the critical elements. The first is the issue of renewables. The production of renewables is growing, and fortunately, but, Commissioner, it will not grow at the pace necessary to reach the 2030 …

24 Nov

2021

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The EU's role in combating the COVID-19 pandemic: how to vaccinate the world (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, a certain amount of rhetoric, I was going to say hypocrisy, is bearable in international relations and in statements on global cooperation, but this rhetoric becomes unbearable and unacceptable when it comes to health, when it comes to people's lives and deaths. I think that if we say "we must be safe when we are all safe", "we will vaccinate 70% of the popul…

20 Oct

2021

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 21-22 October 2021 (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to point out that the construction of Europe started precisely from energy, from a project for the joint management of coal and steel, and today, in the face of the terrible price crisis affecting families and businesses, we must have the same courage, the same vision, we must take a leap forward in European integration. New competences and roles…

6 Oct

2021

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European solutions to the rise of energy prices for businesses and consumers: the role of energy efficiency and renewable energy and the need to tackle energy poverty (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, many analyses have been carried out on the rise in energy prices. I think now is the time for proposals. As far as I am concerned, I want to make four very concrete proposals to the Commission and the Council, to be launched immediately. First: European coordination in storage and subsequent distribution is needed. So let's create a European strategic reserve…

15 Sep

2021

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EU contribution to transforming global food systems to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is disheartening to see that the post-COVID world is not on track to reach the goal of ending hunger and ensuring food security by 2030. And it is even sadder to have to admit that the maternal, infant and young child nutrition targets will probably not be met by 2025 either, as set by the WHO assembly. We therefore strongly call on the Commission to start fr…

7 Jul

2021

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A new ERA for Research and Innovation (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today, thanks to Next Generation EU, all European countries are investing much more than in the past in research and innovation, but we want to take a step forward. We want a European Research and Innovation Area, a European area is not the sum of 27 national spaces, even if excellent or better than in the past, it is something else, more that we still have to b…