What Marco spoke about.

24 Apr

2024

IT Speech

Iran’s unprecedented attack against Israel, the need for de-escalation and an EU response (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for being here, we are at the last plenary session of this legislature and many of the things I have heard in this House today, we have already repeated many times. It has been mentioned that this House has called for pasdaran to be included in the list of terrorist organisations. The Commission has refused to do so. I understand some of the reasons, h…

13 Mar

2024

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Type-approval of motor vehicles and engines with respect to their emissions and battery durability (Euro 7) (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the period is special and complex, we come from a legislature that has legislated a lot on environmental issues and often in an exaggerated, ideological, very political way. I accept the fact that there was a majority in this Parliament that was very different from what I would have liked, I accept that, but I recognise that on this issue, on Euro 7, we managed to impro…

12 Mar

2024

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State of play of the corporate sustainability due diligence directive (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this has been an important legislature in which we have probably legislated too much, making an important impact on the business world. Many of the rules that we have introduced, some of which I have contested, represent costs for businesses and we live in a context, even at a global level, in which there is no reciprocity with respect to certain institutions…

27 Feb

2024

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Driving licences (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we have probably come to a time in the legislature that is not the best time to discuss these issues, because there are exploitations, the groups are divided, my group is divided and probably my position is not that of many colleagues. But the issue of security is important, the rapporteur said: Those of us who speak with the association of fami…

8 Feb

2024

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Multilateral negotiations in view of the 13th WTO Ministerial Conference in Abu Dhabi, 26-29 February 2024 (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, thank you for being here. We all agree that the rules of the WTO need to be changed, especially its functioning. But I would not want us to be too optimistic about a defense of World Trade Organization orthodoxy that our international partners, primarily the Americans and the Chinese, do not pursue. The U.S. IRA was a demonstration that we may want…

18 Jan

2024

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EU Action Plan: protecting and restoring marine ecosystems for sustainable and resilient fisheries (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I thank the Commissioner for being here. Important amendments have been adopted on this text, including by my group, because a majority is being created in this Parliament in favour of a new approach, against hyper-regulation and criminalisation of the fisheries sector, fed up with certain policies that in the past have also been excessively punitive, and perhap…

13 Dec

2023

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Review of the Spanish Presidency of the Council (debate)

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Madam President Metsola, Mr President Sánchez, Madam President von der Leyen, ladies and gentlemen, I am well aware that these debates then also become a little national debates, as we have seen in many six-month periods of the Presidency. This is normal, we understand it well, it cannot even be a list of things done and things not done, also because sometimes it is beyond the will of a Presidency…

9 Nov

2023

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Outcome of the EU-US summit (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, Madam representative of the Spanish Government, ladies and gentlemen, of course these meetings are important and I absolutely agree with the Commissioner's words, but we also need, at European level, to become aware of what our political and macroeconomic objectives are. Continuing to pursue, with a certain orthodox vision, the visions of a WTO that are no longer curren…

18 Oct

2023

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Fighting disinformation and dissemination of illegal content in the context of the Digital Services Act and in times of conflict (debate)

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Mr President, I’m quite shocked about the support that this Parliament has given to the European Commission because honestly, right of speech should be something on which you should be more attentive. Less than one year ago, this Chamber approved the Digital Services Act, and we are already witnessing the dangers of arbitrary enforcement of its policy. Of course, the aims are agreed by all of us, …

4 Oct

2023

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Need to complete new trade agreements for sustainable growth, competitiveness and the EU’s strategic autonomy (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, competitiveness, growth and strategic autonomy are all objectives that we share, absolutely all of them. The problem is that what is happening in recent years is exactly the opposite, and it is certainly not the fault of the Commission, it is the fault of so many factors and perhaps we are doing too much analysis on ourselves and less on what is…

13 Sep

2023

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Opening of negotiations of an agreement with the United States of America on strengthening international supply chains of critical minerals (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we obviously support the resolution too, which seems to me to be common sense. But I remember very well the reactions of the Commission when the United States presented this project. I am not a defender of the Biden Presidency, but in order to achieve the same goals that we set ourselves with the ecological transition – of course, they probably vio…

12 Sep

2023

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Iran: one year after the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I too am angry at Borrell; But I know it's not just your fault. Unfortunately, we are here to commemorate, after a year, the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Iranian Kurd who sacrificed herself for freedom; We are here at a commemoration which I hope makes political sense because, of course, the Commission has not done what we have asked for, but the govern…

14 Jun

2023

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Make Europe the place to invest (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, I would also like to greet the Swedish Presidency. Unfortunately, in these four years there has probably been an excess of rhetoric on the part of everyone. On the part of the Commission in announcing certain instruments and on the part of us Members, both those who are in favour and those who are critical of the Commission's work. A desire to a…

18 Apr

2023

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EU relations with Iraq (debate)

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Madam President, thank you, Commissioner, for being here, thanks to the colleagues who were also with me both on the election mission in 2021 and on the most recent visit we made as a delegation. There are so many things I will never forget in my life. A people that comes out of forty years of wars. Important responsibilities also of us Westerners. External influences such as those of Turkey and I…

18 Apr

2023

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Situation in Peru (debate)

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Mr President, Mr High Representative, I agree with you and your approach. It is clear that we must hope that the Peruvians will be able to decide democratically on their future. The fact that this is a scenario of crisis and instability we have known for many years, for a long time. I also refuse to take a biased position. Among other things, as a Ligurian from the province of Genoa I know many pe…

29 Mar

2023

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Formal sitting - Ceremony on the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I was a young militant on 10 April 1998 and followed the Irish question with passion. With the Good Friday agreement I learned a lesson that I carry within me, which also concerns the necessary attempt to understand the reasons of the other when one arises with respect to a political theme. In this case, then, we are talking about an agreement that has served…

16 Feb

2023

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Availability of fertilisers in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, one minute is not enough to talk about these issues, but I would like to highlight a few points. The resolution we are going to vote on is important and positive, and I believe that all the groups are going to support it, and it puts agriculture back at the centre of the issue with regard to environmental pressures, which have been strongly felt in this secto…

17 Jan

2023

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EU response to the protests and executions in Iran (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, as you know, I am also a member of the Delegation for relations with Iran. We had many debates on the situation in Iran, even before the crisis and the conflict that began in September, and some of us had already denounced certain things. Perhaps some of the blood that was shed could have been avoided. The case of Akbari is a very serious case, but I hope tha…

17 Jan

2023

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Consumer protection in online video games: a European Single Market approach (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, rapporteur, ladies and gentlemen, I would say that the Committee on the Internal Market has done an important job, because we have included in the text so many elements that rightly must be taken into account in a Parliament, which had already done something useful and important with the Committee on Culture, because, of course, we are talking about the internal market …

13 Dec

2022

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Turkish airstrikes on northern Syria and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, some of our colleagues and I are now experts on this side of the world. I am part of the Delegation for relations with Iraq, I have been to the election observation mission and we know the complexity of a difficult area. We have all expressed our solidarity with the attacks that also hit Istanbul, İstiklal Caddesi, but nothing justifies what Turkey…

6 Oct

2022

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COVID-19 – Sustaining EU preparedness and response: looking ahead (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you, Commissioner, for being here with us, for these two and a half years in our societies we have been divided and torn apart within our parties and within our governments. Citizens have been subject to restrictions, which in my view are often unfair. Some mistakes have been made, I admit, in good faith, others probably in bad faith. I think the time has …

14 Sep

2022

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State of the Union (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank President von der Leyen, not least for the attention she has given to this House, because, unlike many of her colleagues, you have been here from the beginning until now, and I must say that, even as an opposition group and party, we have appreciated that. The world of before will not return, we are aware of it. We also supported the san…

4 May

2022

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The social and economic consequences for the EU of the Russian war in Ukraine - reinforcing the EU’s capacity to act (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you, Commissioner, for being here, the consequences are there for the social and productive fabric of the countries of the European Union, but of course there is also the positive element of the fact that we are all united in supporting sanctions, including the new package, which is a fair instrument and which is bringing results, certainly it is also brin…

5 Apr

2022

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Outcome of the EU-China Summit (1 April 2022) (debate)

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Madam President, Mr High Representative, ladies and gentlemen, I do not believe that the summit was a missed opportunity because, of course, the Chinese silence disappoints us, but it confirms that this is a country that lives with profound ambiguities and that does not want to use its potential influence to solve, or help us solve, a very serious problem, Putin's Russia's aggression against Ukrai…

16 Feb

2022

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Harmonised EU approach to travel measures (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I thank the Commissioner for being here tonight, perhaps this debate deserved a moment of increased turnout but it was clearly not possible. You are a politician with great experience in government and you have seen what has happened this year. I am part of a party that has decided not to just say no, no, no, as it could very well choose to do. We made a choice,…