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6 Oct

2026

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 15-16 October 2026 (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in a country in the Apennines the school has a new roof thanks to European funds, a municipality could have social housing thanks to European funds and a farmer could have a tractor thanks to European funds. Now right-wing governments tell us that we have to cut the budget and we have to choose which of the three we cut. We say no! The question is wrong. Why sho…

16 Sep

2026

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State of the Union (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, relaunching Europe requires more peace and more justice: Seven American digital companies together are worth more than the GDP of the entire Union. It had never happened in the history of mankind. It's an unbalanced model. Wealth continues to concentrate and is not distributed to people, and the global tax system is complicit: large digital platforms pay on a…

7 Jul

2026

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Presentation of the Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, theaction plan What the Commission has just presented is an unresolved but certainly important step on the path towards European technological sovereignty. Autonomy is not autarky, of course, but it is protagonism, because the Union cannot continue to depend on opaque processes and unilateral decisions by third countries. And recent incidents relat…

18 Jun

2026

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Joint Declaration on ‘Culture for Europe - Europe for Culture’ (debate)

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16 Jun

2026

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Achieving digital sovereignty and resilience for Europe, in light of recent developments affecting access to advanced AI technologies (debate)

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20 May

2026

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High time to deliver on the Single Market, providing certainty and predictability for EU businesses and quality jobs (continuation of debate)

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18 May

2026

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Order of business

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to express my great solidarity with all the people of Modena for the beautiful solidarity reaction they have had. Terrorism has nothing to do with the Modena tragedy and we reject any form of horrific exploitation of this tragedy. (Applause from some stalls)…

29 Apr

2026

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Topical debate requested by a political group (PfE) (Rule 169) - Commission interference in democratic process and elections (topical debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, to say that Europe interfered in the defeat of Orbán is a fairy tale to cover up the failure of its policies. The real point is another: We live in an age of digital oligarchies, where few platforms vaguely decide what we see, who speaks and who disappears. Between '21 and '25 Meta drastically reduced the visibility of political content and in Italy the channels…

10 Mar

2026

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Single Market: how to move from an incomplete single market to one market for one Europe (debate)

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11 Feb

2026

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State violence in Minneapolis and the rule of law in the United States (topical debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the ICE crimes in Minneapolis are not only against the United States of America, but a very unliberal and very liberticidal extreme right is growing all over the world. It is a threat, therefore, that affects everyone, because this right, even in our cities, speaks of security, but produces repression. It uses loneliness and anger to promise order, but it pro…

10 Feb

2026

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Resumption of the sitting

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21 Jan

2026

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Presentation of the Digital Networks Act (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, artificial intelligence and the digital revolution are the true geopolitical infrastructures of the century. Those who govern them establish not only economic flows, but also the forms of thought. New policies are therefore welcome, because the delay must be recovered and a contradiction must be overcome: We Europeans regulate what we have not built. And the …

21 Jan

2026

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European Council meeting (joint debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we have always known this: They are afraid of the European Union for its values and for its unity and for this reason they attack it and it must be saved. But it is not only saved with words or standing still. Saving it means taking a leap forward in integration, investment, strategic autonomy, energy, digital, innovation and common European defence. It means co…

17 Dec

2025

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 18-19 December 2025, in particular the need to support Ukraine, transatlantic relations and the EU’s strategic autonomy (debate)

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We defend the Europe of freedom, by Alcide De Gasperi, by Adenauer, by Spinelli, by Delors, by Romano Prodi. It is you, when you allied with the nationalist right, who betrayed your own heritage, changed you and respected those who remained in the European Parliament who defended Europe's founding values.…

17 Dec

2025

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 18-19 December 2025, in particular the need to support Ukraine, transatlantic relations and the EU’s strategic autonomy (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe's strategic autonomy is indispensable, but hypocrisy is enough: Autonomy is unity, sharing common policies and investments, it is not national shyness of this time. Thanks to the European Union, we have guaranteed our citizens peace, prosperity, solidarity and, within Euro-Atlantic balances, security and sovereignty for decades. Today, everything is un…

25 Nov

2025

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Digital Package (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in the time of the digital revolution, we say yes to simplifying in order to make the lives of citizens and businesses easier and fairer, but no to deregulate by weakening the rights and protection of people. But we also say, and above all, that we need to invest. Our digital norms are the result of a human vision of the economy, and large external platforms and…

12 Nov

2025

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The new 2028-2034 Multiannual Financial Framework: architecture and governance (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, quite bluntly, the truth is that the budget proposal has no courage. It freezes Europe just as the US and China race. As competition in the world increases, the budget is actually smaller and renationalizes common policies. It is the wrong choice of the right-wing governments that are now hegemonic in Europe. We are losing competitiveness on every front but, ins…

22 Oct

2025

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23 October 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, looking at the Middle East, Ukraine, the Balkans and other tensions side by side, it is clear that the logic of the strongest has now returned to the world. While the international institutions guaranteeing peace are humiliated, rights are cornered and in the face of fears nationalism re-emerges, which divides and ultimately produces only war. M…

7 Oct

2025

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Luc Frieden (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Prime Minister, thank you for your words, this building was built not by chance, but for the foresight of the post-war generations. Today, European governments must have more courage and open a season of change, because the Europe we have known so far has served to guarantee peace, development and democracy, but it is no longer enough because the danger is…

10 Sep

2025

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State of the Union (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe's enemy has returned and is among us, and it is nationalism. The Union was born to unite Europe, but the policies of governments influenced by nationalism want to divide it. This is the truth, they want to dismantle the pillars of the integration process. The reduction of the budget, the lack of courage on investment and the common debt, the divisions …

9 Jul

2025

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The EU’s post-2027 long-term budget: Parliament’s expectations ahead of the Commission’s proposal (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the MFF draws the minimum possible Europe when the opposite would be needed: the maximum necessary. Because the challenges we face are not faced by closing in on national borders, but are faced together. Everyone applauds Draghi, but then they do the opposite: No strategic investments, no common fund, no cuts to social cohesion and the CAP and no common debt.…

9 Jul

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26 June 2025 (debate)

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Dear Presidents, at this moment in history you have a mission: Do not weaken the unitary process in favour of an intergovernmental Europe. I say this because we are so accustomed to civilisation, law and peace that we have forgotten that, in fact, Europeans for hundreds of years have waged war, killed themselves, and only for a short period of their history have they lived in peace: after the Rome…

19 Jun

2025

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Institutional and political implications of the EU enlargement process and global challenges (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe is the only process in history that has united 450 million people, not because they are forced, but because they are convinced, against wars, without violence, but by proposing the strength of democracy. Going from 6 to 27 states was an extraordinary process that guaranteed peace, prosperity and well-being. Europe has therefore served us to get here, but …

31 Mar

2025

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Situation of European academics and researchers in the US and the impact on academic freedom (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it is very good to fight as Europeans, at last, for the freedom of science, which is vulnerable everywhere and at any time. Donald Trump has made severe cuts in education, sacked half of the department's officials and cut funding to universities. We know that the United States has been a pillar of world research, which has ensured progress for everyone and ev…

11 Mar

2025

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European Council meetings and European security (joint debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I think that Europe must increase its security, but the way to do this is to open the construction site for common European defence. And it must be said clearly: The mere increase in military spending for 27 national armies does not make us safer. Deterrence is either European or non-deterrence and we must therefore finance joint projects, jointly promote pur…