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Dec

2024

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Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2023 (debate)

Madam President, honourable Members, dear Ms O'Reilly, thank you for all your interesting interventions. Good administration is not only a concept – it is a right enshrined in the Treaties and the Charter of Fundamental Rights. The demands and the needs from EU citizens, businesses and associations for transparent, accessible and efficient EU institutions based upon principles – notably of non-dis…

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Dec

2024

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Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2023 (debate)

Madam President, honourable Members of the European Parliament, dear Ms O'Reilly, I am very pleased to take the floor on the European Parliament's report and the resolution on the activities of the European Ombudsman in 2023. I want to thank the rapporteur, Mr Saliba, the coordinators of the PETI Committee and all its members involved for this annual exercise, providing the views of the European P…

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Sep

2022

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, Madam President von der Leyen, ladies and gentlemen, I too, on behalf of the Conservative Group, would like to greet, welcome and fully support Mrs Zelenska and reiterate on this occasion how useful and essential it is to send a message of clarity from this House in full support of Ukraine. His speech this year on the State of the Union is certainly the most difficult speech of re…

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Jun

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23-24 June 2022, including the meeting with Western Balkan leaders on 23 June - Candidate status of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, President of the Commission, Minister, there are two important aspects to this Council meeting: The first has an external value and the second has an internal value. As regards the action to be taken on the issues and choices that the Commission first, Parliament and the Council then made with regard to support for Ukraine, I think it is important to reiterate h…

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Jun

2022

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Conclusions of the special European Council meeting of 30-31 May 2022 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Madam President of the Commission, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, the choices that the Council has made are important given the strategic moment, above all because they reaffirm a fundamental concept, which is to continue on the path of unity. That is why we also appreciate the effort that is being made to find solutions from the point of view of unit…

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Jun

2022

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EU islands and cohesion policy (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, on behalf of the Conservative Group, I would first of all like to highlight very positively the excellent work that has been done to prepare this report and to thank in particular all the colleagues who have worked in this direction, starting with President Omarjee. It is certainly a very important moment, because the aim is to really implement Art…

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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)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Minister and Madam President of the Commission, I have listened very carefully to your speech and I think that this discussion of ideas is very useful and important in order to find immediate and rapid solutions to the evolution of the conflict. There is no doubt that the path pursued is a path that must be pursued decisively with regard to the attitude towar…

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May

2022

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Italy, Mario Draghi (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner Gentiloni, President Draghi, I too wish you, on behalf of our group, a welcome to this Parliament. At a very complex and difficult time, it is certainly necessary to recall the unity that has been made by everyone, by you in a particular way, which represents, even in the context of the strong and clear condemnation of what is happening, a strong…

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Apr

2022

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Increased pre-financing from REACT-EU (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, more than 3.9 million people have fled Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian aggression, taking refuge in the various territories of the European Union. Unfortunately, this figure is set to increase in the coming weeks, in view of the protracted conflict. This is an emergency which concerns women and children in particular and which has seen a…

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Mar

2022

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Address by Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, welcome, Prime Minister Trudeau, Ukrainian President Zelensky, first in this House and then in the Canadian Parliament, stressed that Ukrainians are defending the values that form the pillars of all free and democratic countries and that the unity of these countries is now more important than ever. That is why I believe, Mr Prime Minister, that your presence …

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Mar

2022

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Debriefing of the European Council meeting in Paris on 10 March 2022 - Preparation of the European Council meeting 24-25 March 2022 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for twenty-eight days we have been witnessing a military aggression by Russia and an ever-increasing series of barbarities targeting civilian targets, and at the same time a great test of courage and resistance on the part of Ukraine and its people. But they are also twenty-eight days in which our continent has rediscovered that climate of cold war that had c…

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Mar

2022

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Russian aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, Madam President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, an unjustifiable tragedy is hitting our continent. What is happening before our eyes, a few kilometers from our borders, is an all-out attack by the Russian Federation against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a democratic country. The images coming to us from Ukraine bear witness not only to an unjustified and indis…

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Jan

2022

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the French Presidency (debate)

Madam President, Mr President Macron, Mr Vice-President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, we have experienced different emotions and feelings in this House this week: from the commemoration of President Sassoli to the election of President Metsola. Very different emotions and feelings because they obviously cross joys and pains and put in place a fundamental element, which I think should ch…

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Jan

2022

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Election of the President of Parliament (announcement of results)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I too would like to join in the good work and happy birthday wishes, obviously and given the coincidence. We look very carefully at your Presidency. We know that in this Parliament there is a need to ensure that the words that resounded yesterday in this House, especially the main one, respect in relations is a fundamental element in the action and work of th…

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Jan

2022

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Memorial ceremony for President David Maria Sassoli

Madam President, authorities, ladies and gentlemen, family members, the premature death of President Sassoli has left a void in each of us, but at the same time a memory that those who have known him will always carry with them, that of a serious man, kind and respectful of his interlocutors regardless of roles, functions and ideas. President Sassoli in recent years has played his role with great …

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Dec

2021

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 16-17 December 2021 - The EU's response to the global resurgence of Covid-19 and the new emerging Covid variants (debate)

Mr President, Madam President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, I too would like to join in thanking the Slovenian Presidency for its work and I think that today it is important, with regard to tomorrow's Council, to reflect not only on the role of a Member of the European Parliament, but also on that of citizens. Reading the agenda of the European Council you have the impression, for some …

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Oct

2021

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The rise of right-wing extremism and racism in Europe (in light of recent events in Rome) (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am genuinely surprised by the Commissioner's report. We are here for a debate where, from the title to the merit, two weights and two measures are used. The premise is a must, full solidarity with the CGIL for what happened in Rome, just as it is absolutely a must to condemn "without ifs and buts" any violent act and any infiltration of associations or move…

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Oct

2021

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

Madam President, Madam President of the Commission, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, I regret that this morning the debate starts as we left it yesterday, again talking about Poland. It's a kind of fixation. This week in this session we talk about Poland every day, in every way, even when it is not on the agenda, because there is probably a real fixation on the part of …

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Oct

2021

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The Rule of law crisis in Poland and the primacy of EU law (debate)

Mr President, Madam President of the Commission, Prime Minister, ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to be here in this debate to support the reasons of the Polish Government, because we are in a surreal debate in this Parliament. This will be the fifteenth and twentieth time we have discussed Poland. There is not a single topic, however important, that has had the attention and interest of the Eur…

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Sep

2021

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, Madam President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, I have listened very carefully to your speech and I think it is important, starting from your considerations and the important passage that Europe sees today, to make some considerations that are not only those of telling the lights and what has been done positively. He claimed the successes of Next Generation EU and the vac…

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Sep

2021

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Natural disasters during the summer 2021 - Impacts of natural disasters in Europe due to climate change (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the summer season that has just passed has undoubtedly been difficult: the floods and fires that have hit Europe have had dramatic consequences, causing casualties, as well as significant economic and landscape damage. Unfortunately, the risk of disastrous and catastrophic phenomena is increasingly frequent for multiple causes and this I believe requires a pragm…

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Jul

2021

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 24-25 June 2021 (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Council at the end of June was supposed to be an opportunity for real change on a number of issues. Listening to this morning's debate, however, I must say that perhaps we have, Mr Sassoli, the wrong title because it seems to me that little is said about the outcome of the European Council and much is said instead of what happened a few hours before…

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Jul

2021

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Slovenian Presidency (debate)

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Madam President of the Commission, Prime Minister Janša, your Presidency is starting while the pandemic is not yet over, with a situation that is certainly improving, but our continent will still have to face very complex and important challenges in the coming months in order to definitively emerge from this dramatic crisis. I believe that the Eurorealism I…