30/09/2025 | 11:49:25 Thank you, Mr President. I would like to say to my colleague Ms Meryem GÖKA, who has just spoken, that what is striking is that the mayors who are removed are the mayors of the opposition. There is no record of any mayor belonging to the majority government party being subjected to the same treatment as mayors belonging to the Republican People's Party or the Kurdish party. Just as the journalists who are shot and imprisoned are those who criticise the government. There is no evidence of... 25/06/2025 | 16:17:15 I will speak in Italian. [in English]. We have all warned of the enormous risks raised by the conflict between Israel, the United States and Iran. We hope that everyone will now respect the ceasefire and that it will not be a temporary decision and that the parties will agree to participate in negotiations to define the nuclear issue. Just as we strongly renew our demand to the authorities of Iran to cease their activities to destabilize the political order in the Region. The drama of the... 24/06/2025 | 10:54:46 Thank you President. I believe that this debate is undermined by a misunderstanding: the letter of the nine heads of government and state evokes a conflict between national sovereignty and the European Court, basically arguing that the European Court, in its interpretations, undermines, the Austrian colleague has suggested, the national sovereignty of individual countries. I believe that is not the case. I believe that the European Court of Human Rights was created to protect citizens and to... 09/04/2025 | 18:12:44 "I will speak in Italian" [in English]. Thank you, President. After 3 years of war, of course, the call for peace goes up from many quarters, and that's right. A war that has produced devastation, destruction, casualties, massacres. And yet I believe that we must with great clarity from this house say that not all peace is a just peace. It is not a just peace that rewards the aggressor and punishes the aggressed. It is not a just peace that accepts humiliating conditions that were set by... 08/04/2025 | 17:50:21 Thank you, President. I will speak in Italian [in English]. Big demonstrations, as the Honourable George PAPANDREOU mentioned, that are shaking Eastern Europe. They are demonstrations calling for justice, rule of law, independence of the judiciary, freedom of the media, fight against corruption. They are calling for democracy against autocracies. They do so by waving the flag of the European Union. There is a demand for Europe rising from those demonstrations to which the European Union and... 30/01/2025 | 12:18:35 "Thank you Mister President," [in English]. "I will speak in Italian" [in English]. I would like to thank my colleague Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI for the report which I agree with, of course. We have now reached the third anniversary of a devastating war. The President urged us not to forget the terrible suffering that the Ukrainian people have endured. And everyone agrees that after three years of war the time has come to reach peace, and I think we all share that wish. However, what do we mean... 29/01/2025 | 17:40:12 "Thank you, Mister President" [in English]. "I will speak in Italian" [in English]. I thank the rapporteur who is proposing to us a complex, difficult solution, but one that I agree with. Because in reality we are faced with an issue: we know that in all the countries that were under Soviet power for over sixty years, the transition from autocracy to democracy is not an easy one. We see it in Russia, we see it in Belarus, where autocratic and dictatorial logics prevail, we have seen it in... 28/01/2025 | 18:17:52 Thank you, Mister President. I am going to speak in Italian. [in English]. I would also like to thank, like many colleagues, my colleague Ms Saskia KLUIT for a report that, as the debate shows, is a difficult report. Difficult because we are talking about a war that has shaken the consciences of each one of us, that has aroused emotion, anguish, disquiet, indignation in everyone and in public opinions. And we are talking about a dramatic, huge humanitarian emergency, which has been documented... 28/01/2025 | 11:15:41 "Thank you, Mister President" [Spoken in French]. "I speak in Italian" [Spoken in English]. I would like to thank Ms Dora BAKOYANNIS for her report, which is full of indications that we will have to work on. I believe that we have to start with one consideration. We are living through a phase of international anarchy that is characterised by the profound crisis of multilateralism, the crisis of international institutions, the strong re-emergence of a temptation of autocracy that challenges... 03/10/2024 | 12:37:26 I also lament the many delays of the European Union in the enlargement process... we wait.... Thank you. Like you, I lament the too many delays and the too long timeframe of the European Union's enlargement. But I think that in order to prevent these times from being even longer, we have to avoid fuelling new conflicts and new crisis points. So, I ask you a very clear and direct question. You belong to a party that, when you were in opposition, contested the agreement on the name "North...