What Alessandro spoke about.

25 Apr

2024

IT Speech

Framework of measures for strengthening Europe’s net-zero technology products manufacturing ecosystem (Net Zero Industry Act) (debate)

Watch

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are not opposed to this measure, on the contrary, it will bring us a vote in favour, just so to speak, because of its integrity, even having opened up to nuclear power as a sustainable source gives us the possibility of finally taking Europe one step further. But it is one of the few measures, a drop in the sea in the many measures under the aeg…

13 Mar

2024

IT Speech

Cohesion policy 2014-2020 – implementation and outcomes in the Member States (debate)

Watch

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, first of all I would like to thank my colleague Andrey Novakov for his extremely balanced report. Cohesion policy 2014-2020 has been a key pillar for European progress, with a significant allocation of funds and an absorption rate of around 89%. Europe has been facing unexpected crises in recent years: the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the energ…

11 Mar

2024

IT Speech

Energy performance of buildings (recast) (debate)

Watch

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, although the directive is far less insane than the Commission's original proposal, you will forgive me if I do not join the chorus of those who are celebrating today. I see the pockets of European citizens emptying to fill those of solar panel and heat pump manufacturers in China. You will forgive me if, after the disastrous experience of the superbonus, which d…

28 Feb

2024

IT Speech

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

Watch

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the fact that there is no Council for a debate which is addressed specifically to the Council is, at the very least, scandalous, a disrespect for this House which has always been emphasised. I tell my Green friends: nets, especially in the mountains, work little, very little, also because moving them from one valley to another is far from simple…

26 Feb

2024

IT Speech

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Watch

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I wonder whether President von der Leyen has read the latest report on competitiveness. I guess not, because otherwise he would have announced his resignation instead of announcing his re-election, promising us another five years of bankruptcies and SMS regarding billionaire contracts that disappear into thin air. This is what the Commission says in a few lines …

12 Dec

2023

IT Speech

Framework for ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials (debate)

Watch

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, better late than never! One of the few common sense measures of this Commission comes to the last mile of an ideologically imbued legislature. If some common sense had been applied, you would have been concerned first about what was needed to make the transition – the tools, the materials, the technologies – but as there is little common sense in h…

18 Oct

2023

IT Speech

A true geopolitical Europe now (topical debate)

Watch

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the true European geopolitics now – let us hope never – since what has been done so far can be summed up in one word: failure. In recent years we have seen them of all colors, from Sofa Gate, where your geopolitics could not figure out who should sit where, at the Qatar Gatewhere you have been able to hide the dust under the carpet. Not to mention schizophren…

4 Oct

2023

IT Speech

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

Watch

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this debate has a very beautiful title, suitable for the demagogy that reigns supreme in this House and in the rooms of the European institutions, which should protect citizens, but which do not do so on time. I think it's time to say enough. Enough of the hypocrisy and rhetoric of proclamations for their own sake. Just make agreements that make us dependent …

3 Oct

2023

IT Speech

EU-Switzerland relations (debate)

Watch

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, thank you for having carried out a much more balanced work than other more ideological positions, despite some unforgivable geographical gaps. In fact, important regions that have historical, cultural, economic and linguistic relations with Switzerland are not mentioned, such as Lombardy, Valle d'Aosta and above all Piedmont. I would remind you, my…

3 Oct

2023

IT Speech

Interim report on the proposal for a mid-term revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027 (debate)

Watch

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, the multiannual financial framework is fundamental to European policy, because without adequate financial resources, major projects remain empty proclamations. It is crucial to remember that we are using the money of citizens, who are living in an unprecedented economic crisis and from whom we cannot and mu…

13 Sep

2023

IT Speech

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

Watch

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, let me understand: With the millions of euros that the European Commission has spent on the LIFE WolfAlps programme, don't you have the data? Interesting to know, especially for European taxpayers. I would like to thank the Members who proposed the debate, with the hope that we will finally move from words to deeds and hoping that this debate will …

12 Sep

2023

IT Speech

Ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (debate)

Watch

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, no one questions the objective of preserving public health: We would miss him! But we cannot do this by undermining the productivity and well-being of entire regions. The regions of the Po basin, for example, Piedmont and Lombardy in particular, live a reality where for geographical reasons it is not possible to guarantee that air recirculation tha…

12 Jul

2023

IT Speech

Delivering on the Green Deal: risk of compromising the EU path to the green transition and its international commitments (debate)

Watch

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, the level of confrontation that you have fuelled over the Nature Restoration Act over the last few hours shows how many of Europe's citizens have already called themselves out of line, invented at the table and based on environmental rhetoric and the sacrifice of many for the benefit of a few. You have given birth to a distorted project, trying …

13 Jun

2023

IT Speech

Establishment of the EU Ethics Body (debate)

Watch

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, ethics is by definition the doctrine or the speculative investigation of man's practical behaviour in the face of the two concepts of good and evil. It is a philosophical doctrine which the Commission and the majority of this Parliament are inconvenient for trying to hide their faults. What is ethical, for example, about President von der Leyen'…

13 Jun

2023

IT Speech

Artificial Intelligence Act (debate)

Watch

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, I have never spared criticism, even fierce criticism, of the Commission. I recognize, however, that in this case, together with Parliament, they have taken the right path, perhaps also dictated by the awareness of not being able to put in place the necessary resources, especially economic ones, to keep up with China and the United States. So I b…

10 May

2023

IT Speech

Fighting cyberbullying of young people across the EU (debate)

Watch

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, one in two teenagers in Italy is bullied and cyberbullyed, a worrying figure that is constantly increasing. In 2022, 31% of children were at least once victims of cyberbullying, compared to 23% in 2020. It is a form of violence that can have serious consequences on the mental and physical health of our children: anxiety, depression, social isolatio…

20 Apr

2023

IT Speech

Cohesion dimension of EU state aid and de minimis rules (debate)

Watch

Madam President, Commissioner, it is clearly necessary to review the role of de minimis, especially in the mountainous areas of our continent. We know how to do business, do industry, do agriculture in mountain areas already has inherent difficulties in the role that the territory makes available to the people who live there, so it is necessary to take into account these peculiarities, as argued b…

15 Feb

2023

IT Speech

Access to strategic critical raw materials (debate)

Watch

(IT) Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, I am delighted that this debate is taking place, because at last on the issue of rare earths there will emerge all the paucity of European energy policy, all the hypocrisy of the Commission and all the obtuseness with which you claim to save the world without realising that you are massacring it, imposing on us a model of sustainability tha…

13 Feb

2023

IT Speech

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Watch

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we learn from press sources that the Commission's latest stunt is to knock out gas boilers. Perhaps the worst crisis is not the war in Ukraine, COVID or inflation, but it is embodied by the European Commission itself. Because after having brought the European automotive industry to its knees, put the Mediterranean diet and Italian excellence under attack and …

13 Feb

2023

IT Speech

EU funding allocated to NGOs incriminated in the recent corruption revelations and the protection of EU financial interests (debate)

Watch

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, it is a pleasure that in the end, once again, the facts proved us right. We have spent years posing the problem of NGOs, but we have only received insults and offenses, even from someone who came to this House to be a moralizer, the one with a straight back. Well, that someone's in jail today, sorry. We remain, however, guarantors, everyone will…

1 Feb

2023

IT Speech

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Watch

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, eighty years have passed since 26 January 1943, when the Alpini survived the Russian army at the Battle of Nikolajewka. A survival born of sacrifice and a deep sense of duty in facing a harrowing retreat from an unmotivated, tragic, unjust and wrong war. Even today, eighty years later, the Alpini evoke those values of solidarity, brotherhood and self-denial that…

18 Jan

2023

IT Speech

Criminalisation of humanitarian assistance, including search and rescue (debate)

Watch

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the arrogance of the left in this House is no longer limited. The use of spurious debates has now overcome ridicule. We're at the theater of the absurd. Everyone was expecting a serious and honest debate on the role of NGOs, given what happened in this very Parliament less than a month ago, but no. This evening we are here to discuss how these help…

23 Nov

2022

IT Speech

Protection of livestock farming and large carnivores in Europe (debate)

Watch

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, a few weeks ago in a municipality in Valchiavenna the head of a wolf was found hanging from a road sign. It was a despicable, violent act, to be condemned, which, however, testifies to the degree of conflict between large carnivores and local populations and demonstrates the failure of the LIFE programmes, with more than EUR 24 million spent. The reality is that…

17 Oct

2022

IT Speech

The Rule of Law in Malta, five years after the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia (debate)

Watch

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we are here today to talk about justice, justice that should be fairly reserved for states and therefore for citizens, who need to hear that the European institutions treat all cases of infringement fairly. We have put Poland and Hungary in the dock and – God forbid – Italy, too, for their too right-wing governments, which questioned the so-called rule of law…

8 Jun

2022

IT Speech

The massacre of Christians in Nigeria (debate)

Watch

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, I am very disappointed that such an important debate will be relegated to the last debate of the evening, with an empty Chamber, as if it were something to hide under the carpet, as if it were something to be ashamed of. 5,898 Christians were murdered in 2021 alone, 16 people per day killed for their religious beliefs. Of these, 78% are in Niger…