What Carlo spoke about.

1 Feb

2023

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Preparation of the Special European Council meeting of February, in particular the need to develop sustainable solutions in the area of asylum and migration (debate)

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Mr President, Madam Minister, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we have important expectations of the next extraordinary Council which, thanks also to the determination of the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, will address the issue of immigration. We hope that the many statements of these days, which seem to be going in the right direction, will finally follow the facts. We must get out of…

19 Jan

2023

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The Global Gateway Initiative (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we have been stressing for a long time how much the European Union should focus on certain policies of strategic interest that can really represent added value for its Member States, for its citizens and how much it should overshadow the bureaucracy and hyper-regulation that have all too often characterised its evolution. This is what finally happe…

17 Jan

2023

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

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Madam President, Prime Minister, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the new Swedish centre-right government is called upon to lead the Council at a stage still marked by the dramatic consequences of the war in Ukraine. Together we need to increase our ability to defend ourselves against external threats. We need to find concrete solutions to tackle illegal immigration, starting with the next Extr…

16 Jan

2023

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30th Anniversary of the Single Market (debate)

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Mr President, Madam Minister, welcome, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the single market is and remains an achievement to be defended. But now we need to put the real economy and small and medium-sized enterprises back at the centre, not speculative finance and large multinationals. After Brexit, COVID and Ukraine, the need to shorten value chains is becoming increasingly clear; bringing strat…

15 Dec

2022

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The 30th anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, 30 years after the UN declaration, religious minorities are still being persecuted. There are still seven countries in the world where a person can be sentenced to death by criminal blasphemy laws, in clear violation of international law: Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Brunei, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria. And from Nigeria comes a unique o…

14 Dec

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 15 December 2022 (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Vice-President, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, the next European Council is called upon to provide decisive answers. Support to Ukraine must continue, it is the only premise for a just and lasting peace, but families and businesses cannot afford further delays or ineffective measures. The establishment of a price cap in contrast to speculation on the price of gas, reform of the e…

22 Nov

2022

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Situation in Libya (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Libya must be stabilised, it is a matter of our security, but in order to achieve stabilisation, including political stabilisation, Europe must play a leading role, repairing the tragic mistake of 2011. We can no longer afford to have a constantly divided country on the southern shore of the Mediterranean, in which weak governments, conditioned by …

9 Nov

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, the last Council ended with lights and shadows. Well, the continuation of financial, military and humanitarian support to Ukraine. Badly, having postponed, once again, clear choices on the energy front and this shows that the European Union, once again, is too slow and divided in its response to crises. Households and businesses were expecting and …

19 Oct

2022

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EU-Western Balkans relations in light of the new enlargement package (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, if it had not been for Ukraine, we would probably have continued to lag behind in the Western Balkans, despite the great work of Commissioner Várhelyi, to whom I would like to publicly applaud. Because, you see, especially in neighbourhood policies, there is not only the issue of formally meeting Community parameters, but increasingly that of po…

19 Oct

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, first of all I would like to respond to President García Pérez's harsh words about Italy, reassuring you and this House that, you see, the new President of the Italian Senate, Ignazio La Russa, at the time of Merkel, of whom much has been said, was the Minister of Defence of a party that expressed 29 members of a group that is the Grou…

17 Oct

2022

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Sustainable maritime fuels (FuelEU Maritime Initiative) - Deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, a little less than ten years after the first directive on alternative fuels infrastructure, of which I was the rapporteur, working already then with my colleague Mr Ertug, whom I thank for his cooperation, it was decided to create a regulation, precisely in order to give a clearer picture to industry, operators and consumers. I must say frankly tha…

17 Oct

2022

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FRONTEX's responsibility for fundamental rights violations at EU's external borders in light of the OLAF report (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I did not have to speak in this debate, but I must say that it was an enlightening debate, because, you see, we are all in favour of maximum transparency, we are all in favour of respect for human rights, but this debate has revealed to us that this is not really the object of the dispute. The object of the dispute is the mandate of Frontex, because it has been …

3 Oct

2022

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The EU's actions in the field of freedom of religion or belief worldwide (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Minister, Madam Commissioner, for some time now it has seemed that religious freedom is an uncomfortable issue, to be dealt with reluctantly, strictly late in the hour and without ever voting on demanding documents. And when it happens to vote for them, it is difficult to recognize who are the victims and who are the perpetrators, almost as if this fundamenta…

15 Sep

2022

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Implementation of the Updated New Industrial Strategy for Europe: aligning spending to policy (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, first of all I would like to thank the rapporteur. It was necessary to include in the Union’s new industrial strategy the TRAN Committee’s view on the development of a key sector for our economy such as tourism, a sector that is trying to get out of a very harsh situation after the dramatic COVID-19 season and despite the soaring costs following…

14 Sep

2022

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Nicaragua, in particular the arrest of the bishop Rolando Álvarez

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, after having dismantled the independent press and the political opposition, the regime is focusing its repression on the Catholic Church, the last remaining independent reality, considered hostile for criticising the regime and opening its doors to protesters injured as early as 2018, during protests repressed in blood by the Ortega police. Bish…

9 Jun

2022

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The call for a Convention for the revision of the Treaties (debate)

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(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Madam Vice-President, Minister, in the face of the pandemic first and the war then we woke up weak and defenceless. We realized, with culpable delay, that we would need energy security, shorter value chains, investments in defense, food sovereignty. If today we do not have all this it is not because of the treaties, but because of the political choices that…

8 Jun

2022

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The massacre of Christians in Nigeria (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, a few weeks ago the stoning and burning of the body of student Deborah Samuel was not enough for this Parliament to wake up from its torpor. It is sad to say, but it took a massacre of 50 faithful, including many, too many children, for this House to accept our request to dedicate a debate to the daily tragedy of Christians in Nigeria. Victims t…

3 May

2022

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The follow up of the Conference on the Future of Europe (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, last Saturday in this House I announced on behalf of the ECR Group our withdrawal from the Conference. I did so with the sincere disappointment of those who in recent months have actively participated in the work. I talked about a missed opportunity, but these days I had to admit to myself that those who designed all this, in fact, were good, be…

2 May

2022

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Persecution of minorities on the grounds of belief or religion (short presentation)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we have been waiting for this report with the Intergroup on Religious Freedom for a long time, and I really want to thank my colleague Karski, who has worked hard on this report, including on the negotiations that followed. Unfortunately, however, I share with my colleagues that, despite the extraordinary efforts, this negotiation turned out to be problematic. A…

6 Apr

2022

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Human rights situation in North Korea, including the persecution of religious minorities

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, extermination, murder, slavery, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence, forced exiles of entire ethnic groups, disappearances of people, forced fasts, persecution for the most varied reasons, political, religious, racial and gender: This is what we have heard from North Korea's hell. Think that the recent report of …

5 Apr

2022

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

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Mr President, Mr High Representative, ladies and gentlemen, this summit has unfortunately not been a success for the European Union. They weigh the too many ambiguities of Beijing and weigh the too many mistakes of the past: excessive relocations, lack of reciprocity, leaving the Chinese in control of many European infrastructures and strategic companies. In 2021, we imported twice as much goods f…

5 Apr

2022

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Situation in Afghanistan, in particular the situation of women’s rights (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the images of last August are still alive in our memory. The tragic Western retreat from Kabul, the triumphant return of the Taliban marked the beginning of dramatic steps backwards on the hard-won rights paid for with blood by Afghan civilians and, let us never forget, also by many of our military. I think of religious minorities, such as the H…

9 Mar

2022

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Batteries and waste batteries (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the ideology of the Green Deal offers Europeans the blind illusion that the ecological transition of our one, small Europe can save us from the so-called climate crisis, while everything out there around us is leading to serious shortages of supply of strategic raw materials. The production of batteries cannot disregard rare earths, both for the…

15 Sep

2021

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State of the Union (debate)

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Madam President, Madam President von der Leyen (which I no longer see), ladies and gentlemen, let us leave out yet another dream book and focus on a budget that has some light, yes, but also too many shadows. Well the idea of common debt to finance the recovery, but badly the delays, the political conditionalities against governments that do not align with the dictates of the Commission and the at…