What Marco spoke about.

16 Dec

2021

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Barriers to the free movement of goods (debate)

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Mr President, thank you Commissioner Vălean for being here, thank you also to my fellow Members for being here on a subject that is very sensitive and important, despite the fact that in the Internal Market Committee we did not have the courage to leave the direct expression of why we are here today in the text we approved, we had to delete the references to the Brenner and the Austrian measures. …

11 Nov

2021

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The outcome of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC) (debate)

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Mr President, Vice-Presidents, ladies and gentlemen, I too welcome the new dialogue with the United States: cybersecurity, digital, data management, big global challenges are just some of the important elements to discuss. And it is also good that we are not talking about a free trade agreement, which on issues such as agriculture would take us far and lead us into conflicts that are difficult to …

19 Oct

2021

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Commission Work Programme 2022 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Šefčovič, ladies and gentlemen, I followed this type of debate even before I was a Member of the European Parliament, in the role I had previously held. I would also like to see a change in the type of relationship that leads us to this because, of course, next month we will be voting on a resolution and we will be able to better analyse the work that the European Com…

14 Sep

2021

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A new EU-China strategy (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we all know the China dossier, it is very complex, and I must say that the resolution, compared to an attitude that Parliament had in the past a little more fearful, I think has as its novelty the fact that it is more ambitious. Surely it is thanks to the rapporteur, to those who have worked on this file, but also because the situation is very deteriorating: …

14 Sep

2021

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Situation in Lebanon (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I have listened carefully to the High Representative and I must say that I can only agree with her words, but it is clear that the situation has been in the public eye for many years. Since Hariri's murder, it has probably been possible to intervene in what is a situation of political instability due to a situation that perhaps does not exist in the rest of t…

8 Jul

2021

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Decent working and employment conditions in the aviation sector - Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on aviation (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, thank you for being here, certainly with us, when we talk about these things it would be important if the Commissioner for Competition were also there, because I am absolutely convinced that the aviation crisis is not born with Covid, that it has certainly accentuated it, but it does not even depend on management errors, that certainly there have a…

8 Jul

2021

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The case of Ahmadreza Djalali in Iran

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, I am a member of the Delegation for EU-Iran relations and, like many of my colleagues, I am well aware of this case, we have been following it for a long time, but we have difficulty in delivering results. In fact, the issue is that our credibility is also at stake. We certainly need to vote on tough resolutions like the one we are going to vote…

8 Jul

2021

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Sustained price increase of raw and construction materials in Europe (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to have Commissioner McGuinness here because, having been a Member of the European Parliament for a long time, I believe that more than other Commissioners, and perhaps even those who mainly follow international trade, have a capacity to listen to requests from Members of the European Parliament. Finally, we are talking about an issue that for some …

6 Jul

2021

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Situation in Nicaragua (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the High Representative, in recent weeks I have signed, I am one of the Members of the European Parliament who signed Mr López Gil's appeal, to which the High Representative responded with an important letter, to which he shows commitment. Obviously it is a commitment that must go forward, it must involve the Member States, it must probably move towards econo…