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Speaker: Elisabetta GUALMINI (Italy — Partito Democratico)
Political group: Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament
Date: 2023-03-29
Debate: Order of business

  Elisabetta Gualmini (S&D).   – Actually, how do you dare to ask for a debate on the rule of law in Spain when you know the only problem with that is that you are blocking the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary after four years.
So really, this is really anti-democratic and outrageous, colleagues.
Speaker: Elisabetta GUALMINI (Italy — Partito Democratico)
Political group: Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament
Date: 2023-03-15
Debate: Deaths at sea: a common EU response to save lives and action to ensure safe and legal pathways (debate)

  Elisabetta Gualmini (S&D).   – Signor Presidente, cara Commissaria, onorevoli colleghi, siamo con Lei sulla velocizzazione, speriamo, del pacchetto "Asilo e migrazione", per una solidarietà finalmente effettiva – ce lo auguriamo. Ma francamente bisogna dirci che non se ne può più di sentire dare la colpa all'Europa, sempre, perché le responsabilità politiche ci sono e si vedono. 
Io non ho mai visto un governo di estrema destra chiedere di rafforzare le competenze europee sulla gestione dei migranti, mentre ho visto fior fior di governi di estrema destra chiedere soldi all'Europa per finanziare muri e ho visto governi di estrema destra, come quello di Meloni e di Salvini, ripetere all'infinito i peggiori slogan anti-immigrati: slogan nativisti "prima gli italiani", slogan neocolonialisti "aiutiamoli a casa loro", slogan cospirazionisti "i migranti approdano in Europa per favorire il grande capitale e sostituire i lavoratori europei", slogan razzisti "gli sbarchi selettivi". 
E poi di fronte a stragi di innocenti, come quella di Cutro, cosa si fa? Si dice che l'Europa non fa abbastanza. Ma è troppo comodo! Ci si inventa un nuovo reato con parole enormi "andremo alla caccia dei trafficanti sull'intero globo terracqueo" – terracqueo, segniamocelo! – e non si chiariscono le responsabilità sui salvataggi quando è lo stesso governo che ha reso una corsa agli ostacoli salvare le persone in mare. E l'omissione di soccorso è un reato, anche questo, oltre a quello dei trafficanti. 
E poi si finisce a fare il karaoke per il compleanno di Salvini e chi se ne frega quando ci sono i morti e le bare. Se avete interesse per la Nazione, non fateci vergognare e assumetevi le vostre responsabilità.
Speaker: Elisabetta GUALMINI (Italy — Partito Democratico)
Political group: Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament
Date: 2023-02-02
Debate: Improving working conditions in platform work (A9-0301/2022 - Elisabetta Gualmini)  (vote)

  Elisabetta Gualmini,  rapporteur. – Mr President, dear colleagues, today we vote for the mandate of the report on platform work to the trilogue. I’m asking you to vote in favour of this report, which is a very balanced and innovative text. I thank all the shadow rapporteurs because they have contributed to improve the text. 
I would like to immediately correct the political narrative which is going on and on. No later than yesterday I got an email from Bolt saying that we would introduce a general automatic reclassification of all platform workers. This is simply not true, and even impossible legally and technically. 
We are not against self—employment. If you are genuinely self-employed that is absolutely okay. We are not against job creation and innovation. But if you are bogus self—employed and, on the contrary, you are a slave of the algorithm, then you have to have your rights recognised as an employee. That is the point! 
We have reached three goals: we defend the workers; we defend good employers and fair competition; and we are promoting the human use of the algorithm. We do not want machines governing the labour market. Never again should it happen that a young rider like Sebastian Galassi dies in a car accident and then is fired after he dies. This is a shame. This is a shame. 
I ask you to support this text, to support social justice, which is the glue for democracy. I ask you not to disappoint the millions of workers who are waiting outside, and I ask you not to surrender to multimillionaires and powerful lobbies who try to interfere with our democratic process. Really, the conditions of workers are not an issue of right and left. It is an issue of dignity. That is why I ask you to vote in favour of this report, because this is what it is in play: social justice! On va écrire une très belle page de l’histoire européenne!
Speaker: Elisabetta GUALMINI (Italy — Partito Democratico)
Political group: Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament
Date: 2023-02-01
Debate: Order of business

  Elisabetta Gualmini,  on behalf of the S&D Group. – Madam President, actually, we are not against the topic itself, but for the sake of compromise we do suggest eventually to leave the debate in this mini—plenary with no resolution, and with a changed title that is ‘Commission statement on anarchist terrorist actions and violent extremism in Europe’. 
I can explain why. It is because we think that anarchism is anarchism. It is not left or right. If you are an anarchist, you are not left or right; you are an anarchist against the institutional order. This is our proposal.
Speaker: Elisabetta GUALMINI (Italy — Partito Democratico)
Political group: Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament
Date: 2022-12-14
Debate: Preparation of the European Council meeting of 15 December 2022 (debate)

  Elisabetta Gualmini (S&D).   – Mr President, dear Minister, dear Commissioner, dear President of the European Commission, we are at the end of 2022 and we can say that it has also been an annus horribilis because we face a triple attack on democracy: an attack on democracy by Russia with the criminal invasion of Ukraine; an attack on our economy, our single market with the unacceptable blackmail on gas; and then – I do not want to escape – an attack on the democratic functioning and reputation of this institution by unimaginable criminal corruption. 
But, at the same time, we have stood up and reached outstanding results. We have a more social Europe, a Europe for health, REPowerEU, finally the freezing of resources for Orbán and his despotic regime. So I really hope that the Council tomorrow will go on with the same determination, also by envisaging a revision of the MFF in the summer in the name of a permanent instrument of public support for people and for companies which are struggling with inflation. 
I think that we will get stronger if we do this together. Thank you and Merry Christmas to all of you.
Speaker: Elisabetta GUALMINI (Italy — Partito Democratico)
Political group: Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament
Date: 2022-11-23
Debate: A truly interconnected Energy Single Market to keep bills down and companies competitive (topical debate)

  Elisabetta Gualmini (S&D).   – Signora Presidente, signora Commissaria, onorevoli colleghi, il dramma di oggi sono i costi dell'energia e l'inflazione. 
Mi spiace, ma la Commissione europea ci prende in giro mettendo un tetto al prezzo del gas di 275 euro per megawattora che non si è mai visto, mai, neanche nei momenti peggiori. Abbiamo ritrovato l'anima dell'Europa con NextGenerationEU e ora la stiamo perdendo con misure tardive e del tutto illusorie. Serve uno SURE 2.0, un REPowerEU molto più potente. 
D'altro canto, anche i governi nazionali deludono, vedi la destra italiana che non ha fatto nulla per le bollette se non copiare e incollare le misure del governo Draghi e, più che una manovra, ha pensato di inaugurare una guerra tra poveri, abolire il reddito di cittadinanza perché la povertà è una colpa e, come nell'Inghilterra vittoriana, chi non lavora non deve mangiare e chi se ne frega.
È la destra che fa bonus e taglia le accise invisibili, che pensa di aumentare il contante fino a 5 000 euro e appiattisce le tasse a favore di chi sta meglio. La destra che spende moltissimo per le pensioni e zero per i giovani, forte con i deboli e debole con i forti, la nuova ricetta, ma noi non staremo certo zitti.
Speaker: Elisabetta GUALMINI (Italy — Partito Democratico)
Political group: Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament
Date: 2022-11-09
Debate: Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

  Elisabetta Gualmini (S&D).   – Mr President, dear colleagues, we have learned the lesson from the pandemic that from tragedies coming from outside we are able to find our unity and the soul of Europe. What we have done with the common debt, SURE and Next Gen has been revolutionary. 
Now, on gas and energy, we really have the same challenge and we cannot take the luxury of time. So we need again a stronger Europe for at least three things: a cap on gas; a centralised purchasing agency for gas; social investments for families and companies not able to pay their bills. 
But for all that we need a strong Europe, a stronger Europe. I am very tired of listening to anti—European, extreme right parties that are now asking for European money, European assistance, European aid. Where were you when we spoke about strengthening the competences of our European institutions? You always said ‘no’. So now we need a united Europe, a Europe that delivers. We have to decide. We can do things if we are united – and please do tell the truth!
Speaker: Elisabetta GUALMINI (Italy — Partito Democratico)
Political group: Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament
Date: 2022-10-19
Debate: Whitewashing of the anti-European extreme right in the EU (topical debate)

  Elisabetta Gualmini (S&D).   – Signor Presidente, onorevoli colleghi, io non casco certo nella trappola. Ci vengono a fare la lezioncina, ci spiegano che l'estrema destra in Italia ha vinto le elezioni e quindi può fare tutto quello che vuole e noi dobbiamo solo stare zitti.
E invece no. Noi siamo determinati a parlare, a opporci, a raccontare che cos'è l'estrema destra. Perché questa è l'estrema destra che ha addirittura radicalizzato quel poco che rimaneva del partito liberale di Berlusconi, è l'estrema destra che ha eletto come cariche più importanti un nostalgico del fascismo e un ipertradizionalista per cui l'omofobia è la norma. Questa è l'estrema destra che fa l'europeista in Italia e poi viene qui a smantellare, pezzo dopo pezzo, l'Unione, l'estrema destra dei porti chiusi, dei blocchi navali, per cui tutti i migranti sono clandestini, meglio il nativismo, dove siamo tutti uguali, tutti identici perché abitiamo tutti nello stesso quartierino e non abbiamo paura.
Allora noi di fronte a questo non staremo zitti, a noi nessuno chiude la bocca, noi racconteremo, noi manifesteremo, perché a noi piacciono le differenze, ci piace la democrazia, ci piace il pluralismo e tutto l'odio lo lasciamo a voi.
Speaker: Elisabetta GUALMINI (Italy — Partito Democratico)
Political group: Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament
Date: 2022-10-18
Debate: General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023 - all sections (debate)

  Elisabetta Gualmini (S&D).   – Mr President, the general EU budget for 2023 is a powerful political tool. There is a lot of politics inside, not only economics. In times of skyrocketing inflation and economic recession, politics has to deliver. If politics does not deliver, we will have explosive populist upsurges, anti-system protests and nationalist outcries.
During the pandemic, we were able to basically double the budget of the EU: with Next Generation EU, SURE, REACT-EU, we got another EUR 1 000 billion – exactly like the multiannual financial framework. We were kind of magic. Now we have a similar challenge with the energy crisis.
Increasing resources for Erasmus+, the Just Transition, is good news, but it is not enough. We need fresh money coming from new own resources to provide on-the-spot responses to gas deprivation and energy prices. We cannot lose the credit we had during the pandemic. We cannot lose the battle against inequalities and social despair. We cannot lose face in front of our people’s expectations. We simply cannot.
Speaker: Elisabetta GUALMINI (Italy — Partito Democratico)
Political group: Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament
Date: 2022-09-13
Debate: Adequate minimum wages in the European Union (debate)

  Elisabetta Gualmini (S&D).   – Mr President, dear Commissioner, what we are voting on tomorrow, dear friends, is simply a revolution – a revolution in the name of social justice, dignity and decency for workers. Today, inflation is skyrocketing. The purchasing power of families is falling down and social tensions are exploding. A directive on minimum wages is precisely what we need. Europe has come first, and now in each country, salaries must be adequate to the costs of living. We recognise the importance of the most representative of trade unions, and we encourage Member States to increase the coverage of collective bargaining.
This is a historic moment. We believe that social rights are more important than the ups and downs of the economy. We believe that the living conditions of millions of workers are more important than partisan interests. And we believe that the younger workers, the most precarious ones, their hopes have to be at the centre of our political action. This is not high politics. This is practical problem solving. It is our concrete step toward a fairer and social Europe.
Speaker: Elisabetta GUALMINI (Italy — Partito Democratico)
Political group: Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament
Date: 2022-05-04
Debate: Competition policy – annual report 2021 (debate)

  Elisabetta Gualmini (S&D).   – Signor Presidente, onorevoli colleghi, Commissaria, l'OCSE ci dice che perderemo un punto e mezzo di crescita economica in Europa, un terzo di quanto previsto per l'esplosione dei prezzi dell'energia, l'inflazione, le sanzioni giustamente inflitte alla Russia.
Le piccole e medie imprese soffriranno particolarmente, eppure offrono 90 milioni di posti di lavoro nell'Unione – cito il distretto ceramico della mia regione, l'Emilia Romagna e la sua rilevanza sulla coesione sociale e il mercato del lavoro. La flessibilità mostrata dalla Commissione sugli aiuti di Stato durante la pandemia e la decisione di prorogare prima il quadro temporaneo per l'emergenza sanitaria, poi il quadro di crisi sono stati indispensabili, hanno consentito di attuare misure nazionali straordinarie, come gli aiuti alla liquidità, l'accesso ai finanziamenti, le garanzie pubbliche, i prestiti agevolati. 
Dobbiamo continuare, la Commissione deve continuare ascoltando il Parlamento per far vedere che l'Europa c'è.
Speaker: Elisabetta GUALMINI (Italy — Partito Democratico)
Political group: Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament
Date: 2022-05-03
Debate: Impact of Russian illegal war of aggression against Ukraine on the EU transport and tourism sectors (debate)

  Elisabetta Gualmini (S&D).   – Mr President, among the devastating effects of Russia’s criminal aggression against Ukraine, there are those on tourism – which accounts for 10% of GDP in Europe – a sector which has already suffered a lot during the pandemic.
We are facing naturally a loss of Russian and Ukrainian tourists all over Europe, and the costs of energy, foodstuff and fuel are growing fast. An explosive mix. We ask for financial assistance for big and small touristic companies within the internal market programme, together with a full crisis management action plan.
Putin has invaded a peaceful country in mainland Europe. This is crystal clear. We have to do our part and support the Ukrainian people in the right to choose their own destiny. Why should a country surrender to the arrogance of a despotic leader? Why should a country submit to the invaders’ will?
Putin will respond for his crimes in front of the history, but for now, we have to work for peace. And we have to relieve the most damaging humanitarian, economic and social effects of war, united as ever.
Speaker: Elisabetta GUALMINI (Italy — Partito Democratico)
Political group: Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament
Date: 2022-03-09
Debate: A new EU strategic framework on health and safety at work post 2020 (continuation of debate)

  Elisabetta Gualmini (S&D).   – Mr President, if truth be told, we should not die from work. We should not get sick from work. We should not risk burnout because of work. The revision of the European strategy on health and safety at work after the pandemic is totally necessary. 
In Italy, in 2021, one hundred people died at work each month; 10% of these were women. Even two young people, Giuseppe and Lorenzo, aged 16 and 18, recently died during their internship. Non-fatal accidents are also increasing, and risks and serious illnesses, stress, psychological disorders and cancer are growing and growing. The COVID pandemic has worsened the phenomenon. In a labour market which is changing a lot, old jobs are disappearing and new jobs, often precarious, unpaid, discontinuous, are spreading. 
We have advanced the legislation in Europe on health and safety. Now we have to connect the dots with the transformation of the labour market after the pandemic, not to mention the consequences of this cynical and criminal Russian aggression of Ukraine, with refugees who will have to work in European countries in decent and regular conditions. 
Platform workers, writers, remote workers. No big deal. But are we sure that smart working is really smart when you have to balance kids and work? The right to disconnect has to be part and parcel of remote working.
We are now voting for a ‘vision zero’ approach for no more work-related deaths by 2030. This is a huge goal. But, at the end of the day, we have to transform work into what it has to be: good and rewarding. Because work gives you dignity. It gives you perspective. It gives you confidence, self-esteem, and it gives you imagination. This is what we are going to fight for forever, we as socialists and democrats, for decent and healthy work everywhere and for everyone.
Speaker: Elisabetta GUALMINI (Italy — Partito Democratico)
Political group: Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament
Date: 2021-10-19
Debate: General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2022 - all sections (debate)

  Elisabetta Gualmini (S&D).   – Madam President, the 2020 budget is the first after the humongous financial effort of Next Generation EU. We are talking about the EUR 170 billion for the next year. We have asked for more resources compared to the Commission, overall EUR 4 billion more. 
The programmes for which we have asked for an increase range from Erasmus+ to the Child Guarantee, but here I would like to mention the COVAX programme, one which we speak too little about. Its goal is to deliver vaccines to low income countries all over the world. 
We need the EUR 1 billion more in order to reach the 500 million doses announced by von der Leyen. There can be no talk of getting out of the pandemic if it is only us who manage to get out. We cannot think about returning to normal life if it is only us who save ourselves. We cannot think that the right to a healthy life is only for the few and not for the many. 
We have learned that what solidarity means, and now we just have to spread the lesson.
Speaker: Elisabetta GUALMINI (Italy — Partito Democratico)
Political group: Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament
Date: 2021-10-05
Debate: Implementation report on the EU Trust Funds and the Facility for Refugees in Turkey (continuation of debate)

  Elisabetta Gualmini (S&D).   – Signora Presidente, onorevoli colleghi, oggi votiamo un atto fondamentale sull'utilizzo dei fondi fiduciari europei e del fondo per i rifugiati in paesi come l'Africa Centrale, la Siria e la Turchia.
Parliamo cioè del rapporto tra Europa e flussi migratori, tra Europa e diritti, tra Europa e accoglienza. Allora, se parliamo in fondo di diritti e democrazia, diciamo forte che non possiamo più accettare ricatti da paesi come la Turchia o di recente la Bielorussia, che usano i migranti come merci o come bestie da spostare o trasferire di qua o di là a seconda dei propri interessi nazionali.
Diciamo forte che non possiamo accettare che i paesi destinatari dei fondi usino l'Europa come un bancomat, che non è un optional rispettare i diritti fondamentali delle persone. Diciamo forte che non possiamo accettare che gli obiettivi di sviluppo, occupazione e istruzione siano sottomessi a logiche di potere e allo sfruttamento orrendo di esseri umani. E diciamo forte che non possiamo accettare che i fondi europei finanzino la guardia costiera libica, magari per riportare nel porto di Tripoli centinaia di migranti e mandarli in centri di detenzione dove impera il disprezzo per la vita umana.
Come Socialisti e Democratici chiediamo l'istituzione di un meccanismo di controllo indipendente per monitorare la destinazione di questi fondi. Il Parlamento non può essere tagliato fuori! I diritti non sono in vendita, "les droits ne sont pas à vendre": l'ha detto Ursula von der Leyen, diciamolo forte anche noi!
Speaker: Elisabetta GUALMINI (Italy — Partito Democratico)
Political group: Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament
Date: 2021-09-13
Debate: Fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development (debate)

  Elisabetta Gualmini,  on behalf of the S&D Group. – Mr President, platform workers represent maybe the newest form of work of the new millennium. Their numbers have increased with no bounds. Let me say that we are not afraid of innovations. We are not afraid of these disturbing and dystonic times in which you click a button and a pizza meravigliosa arrives directly in your kitchen. We are not afraid even of flexibility – if it is a good thing. 
But innovations and transformations in the labour market have to move forward with social protection – the safeguarding of the dignity and safety of workers. Social rights are, at the very end of the day, human rights. 
We have been ambitious here. There is a three—step revolution going on. The rebuttable presumption of the employment relationship – if you have an obligation as an employee, you must have a right as an employee. There is no third way. 
We have put the burden and charge of solving eventual court conflicts between a platform and workers on the shoulders of platforms, of employers. 
Finally, transparency and clear information coming from algorithms. We do not want to see any more shameful salaries in what we call a ‘democratic Europe’. We don’t want to see new forms of slavery in what we call a ‘social Europe’. We don’t want to see forms of labour force exploitation and abuse in what we call a ‘fair Europe’. 
We do not ask much. We ask simply for a good balance between rights and duties, between economic growth and social compensation. We ask to build a new social, progressive, compassionate Europe.