What Sergio spoke about.

15 Sep

2026

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Devastating heatwaves, wildfires and droughts in Europe: lessons from summer 2026 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, sincerely thanking the fire brigade and the civil protection service for their work, I would point out that official statistics remind us that 96% of forest fires in Europe are caused by human activities, either accidentally or maliciously. The vast majority of forest fires occur either because a cigarette butt is dropped carelessly or because a…

15 Jun

2026

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Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, artificial intelligence is undoubtedly a major technological breakthrough. The spasmodic race to find superintelligence, which can act without needing human beings, has reached worrying levels. Many are aware of the fact that artificial intelligence can soon turn from very useful comfort to imminent existential danger for the entire human race. …

30 Apr

2026

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How to secure a sustainable future for the EU livestock sector in light of the need to ensure food security, farmers’ resilience and the challenges posed by animal diseases? (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the livestock sector has always been a strategic sector for the European Union, both economically and in terms of employment. The importance of this sector in ensuring the food security of European citizens and the maintenance and protection of our territory must not be overlooked. In the last twenty years, the sector has seen a 37% reduction in li…

11 Mar

2026

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Child sexual abuse online: protect children, not perpetrators (topical debate)

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12 Feb

2026

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Cooperation among enforcement authorities regarding unfair trading practices in the agri-food supply chain (debate)

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22 Oct

2025

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UN Climate Change Conference 2025 in Belém, Brazil (COP30) (debate)

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To all these people – and not just to them – I say: Be careful not to be unnecessarily frightened by those who have an interest in terrorizing you to achieve their goals. Climate change has always existed and will always exist, not caused by human activities but by the different intensity of solar activity. This is what the world's leading scientists tell us, and we will certainly not be chasing t…

22 Oct

2025

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UN Climate Change Conference 2025 in Belém, Brazil (COP30) (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, for many years the prophets of misfortune have warned us of the dangers of global warming, caused - they say - by human activities. Now they tell us that it is human activities that cause climate change, ignoring that climate change has always happened and will always happen, certainly not because of human activities but because of the different…

7 Oct

2025

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Common agricultural policy (joint debate)

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(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, too much paper, too many rules, too many controls that distance those who work the land from their true mission: produce, innovate, ensure the maintenance of the territory, guarantee our food safety. We welcome this package of simplification measures. It is a response, perhaps belated but necessary, to the legitimate protests of agricultural e…

11 Sep

2025

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Summer of heatwaves in the EU: addressing the causes and providing adequate housing and health policies to address record-breaking temperatures (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are talking about global warming as if climate change were an unprecedented phenomenon and mainly caused by human activities. Yet history and scientific evidence tell us more: 1,000 years ago, during the Middle Ages, the Earth's temperature was on average higher than it is today, yet no one at that time polluted the atmosphere using coal or petr…

9 Jul

2025

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EU Preparedness Union in light of the upcoming wildfire and droughts season (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the Community and national institutions are led to point the finger at climate change to justify the constant occurrence of forest fires. The truth is that 96% of forest fires are due to human activities, both accidental and malicious. This teaches us that it makes no sense to concentrate public resources on measures related to climate change, b…

7 May

2025

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High levels of retail food prices and their consequences for European consumers (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in recent years European consumers have had to suffer a considerable increase in food prices, which has put a strain on their purchasing power. If we consider that prices granted to food producers are often lower than production costs, the main causes of increases in consumer prices must be found in the processing and marketing chains of agri-fo…

13 Mar

2025

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A Vision for Agriculture and Food (debate)

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We, my dear fellow Member, want to ensure adequate resources for the agricultural world and that these resources actually go to our farmers and are not lost on the streets. We want a more targeted policy that allows our farms to look to the future, not only with hope but also with certainty that they can have a decent income. This is our goal and we will move with our whole group in this direction…

13 Mar

2025

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A Vision for Agriculture and Food (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, too many people, including in this Parliament, believe that the financial resources available to the CAP are excessive in relation to the number of potential beneficiaries. Probably those who have this mistaken opinion do not know that our farmers are entrusted with the task of ensuring food safety for all consumers but also the protection and maintenance of 3/4 of the …

12 Feb

2025

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US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the World Health Organisation and the suspension of US development and humanitarian aid (debate)

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Dear colleague, I have expressed my views on many of President Trump's statements on the day of his inauguration. I underlined the positions I share, such as the abandonment of the Paris Agreement, such as the exit from the World Health Organization, this bandwagon that demonstrated during the period of the COVID-19 health emergency an absolutely failed management. So the same thing I have shown a…

12 Feb

2025

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US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the World Health Organisation and the suspension of US development and humanitarian aid (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, President Donald Trump has sanctioned the withdrawal of the United States of America from the Paris Agreement, in which the signatories commit themselves to limiting global warming to well below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, with the ambitious goal of achieving climate neutrality by mid-century. Probably even the President of …

22 Jan

2025

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EU financing through the LIFE programme of entities lobbying EU institutions and the need for transparency (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union must improve its monitoring of the transparency of the use of public resources used to finance the projects presented in the LIFE programme. Some of these projects have been financed with numerous tens of millions of euros to encourage the return or reintroduction of large carnivores, such as wolves and bears, to the territory…

20 Jan

2025

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Heat record year 2024 - the need for climate action to fight global warming (debate)

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We, my dear colleague, have many demonstrations of climate change that have taken place in the past and that will also take place in the future, as you well know. Just study a little and you can easily find it. As far as my statements are concerned, I am here, I am Sergio Berlato, an Italian Member of the European Parliament, at the fifth parliamentary term, and I have always expressed my views wi…

20 Jan

2025

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Heat record year 2024 - the need for climate action to fight global warming (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, to deny climate change would be to deny the evidence, simply because climate change has always existed and will always exist, because this is a constant feature of our planet: Changes mainly related to the variable intensity of solar activity. Affirming that the main cause of climate change is due to human activities, and in particular to CO emissi…

16 Dec

2024

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Right to clean drinking water in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, access to clean drinking water must continue to be regarded as an indisputable right for all people. To guarantee this right, the institutions must promote the protection of drinking water from all pollutants, regardless of whether it is water available on the surface or from underground sources. Particular attention must be paid throughout the …

27 Nov

2024

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Topical debate (Rule 169) - Budapest Declaration on the New European Competitiveness Deal - A future for the farming and manufacturing sectors in the EU (topical debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the subject of today's debate is: What future can there be for the agricultural and manufacturing sector in the European Union? But what future can we imagine for European agriculture if we continue to make choices that force our farmers to clash daily with unfair competition from other countries that can export their products to Europe without the obligation to…

19 Sep

2024

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Droughts and extreme weather events as a threat to local communities and EU agriculture in times of climate change (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I express my heartfelt solidarity with the people affected by the bad weather in central Europe, but also in Emilia Romagna, which was already terribly affected last year by the weather. The atmospheric events that cyclically affect the various Member States of the European Union should make us understand that it no longer makes any sense to contin…

28 Feb

2024

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Need for an urgent Council decision in favour of amending the protection status of wolves in the Bern Convention (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, if the Community institutions so wish and if common sense prevails, we shall soon see the reduction in the level of protection of the wolf from strictly protected species to simply protected species, with the consequent amendment of the annexes to the Berne Convention and the Habitats Directive. This decision will allow all Member States that wish to do so to…

27 Feb

2024

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Geographical Indications for wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products (debate)

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(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, one of the right complaints that has been raised these days during the protests of our farmers is the lack of adequate income; there is a huge gap between the prices paid to producers and the prices paid by consumers. This is also due to a highly organised demand, especially in large-scale organised distribution, and a supply that is not yet adequately orga…

13 Sep

2023

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Reviewing the protection status of wolves and other large carnivores in the EU (topical debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are here once again to talk about the need to remedy the excessive presence of wolves in our territories, which is creating devastating problems for the economy and the ecosystem. Some people think we should stand for the wolves, some against them. We believe that all wildlife must be managed to ensure a fair balance between the various speci…

11 Jul

2023

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COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned and recommendations for the future (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, no one is under the illusion that we will stop fighting to guarantee all European citizens the right to truth and justice. No one is under any illusions! That truth that has been denied us about the origin of the virus, about the effectiveness and danger of these experimental gene substances passed off as vaccines, about adverse reactions, about ex…