00:00and then rebel of autocratic dictatorships, of the Nazi-fascist dictatorship.
00:05And this commitment, this action, he wrote not in the memory and testimony of the past,
00:11but in the choice of responsibility which is the DNA of our blood that we have inherited there.
00:18Thank you.
00:19Thank you, Congresswoman Bonetti.
00:24President Conte, please.
00:30Mr. President, Ministers and Colleagues,
00:39Today Parliament must express itself on a very clear point.
00:46This Government, President Meloni, has begun this legislature, her government action,
00:53finding 209 billion on the desk, something never happened for a Prime Minister in the history of the Republic.
01:02And what legacy does he leave to Italy by leaving?
01:06We are now at the end of this legislature.
01:10He essentially leaves two signatures, two straitjackets for Italy.
01:17The first signature is that of the Stability Pact.
01:21It's a stability pact that we've invited you not to sign so that we can renegotiate it.
01:27You signed it and you yourselves realized it, then, unfortunately too late,
01:34which was too restrictive because it forced us to cut healthcare, education, politics and work,
01:39innovation, research.
01:41Then the second straitjacket.
01:44And here is the rearmament, in its dual version.
01:49Signing up was a big mistake,
01:52having subscribed to the 5% increase in spending compared to Pille for NATO expenses.
01:58You did it to pay homage to Donald Trump, who repaid us with tariffs.
02:05And then again with many other things, many other slaps,
02:09including an illegal war that today costs citizens and businesses a lot
02:15with the high cost of energy, the high cost of fuel.
02:18And then there is European rearmament.
02:23And here was another grave historical error that you committed.
02:27Why a European rearmament without a shred of common European defense?
02:32It simply means giving each country the opportunity
02:35to be able to rearm at will.
02:39This satisfied Germany's never-ending needs.
02:45to return to being a great and military superpower.
02:49They suffered so much in Germany, for many decades.
02:54And this rearmament plan did it, it destroys the European common market.
02:58It took us decades to build and coordinate a market
03:02where everyone could feel in harmony,
03:06from a perspective of coordinated economic growth and social development.
03:11Instead today whoever has more money will become a superpower,
03:16even in 2039 the largest conventional army in the world.
03:20And there it is at FD, you are handing over Europe and a military arsenal
03:28in the hands of neo-Nazis.
03:32But do you realize?
03:35Why all this?
03:38Because, I know, there have been in those rooms,
03:41the temptation is very strong.
03:43Giorgia Meloni wanted to join the club,
03:47to be accepted into the club of those who matter.
03:50And what is the result, Mr. Minister Giorgetti?
03:53That today we count less than yesterday and less than ever.
03:57What is the government doing today?
03:59Let's get to the point.
04:01He is asking to activate the famous safeguard clause,
04:05of the stability pact that you signed without any discussion.
04:09You want more budget space, more spending margins,
04:15to then operate a budget deviation.
04:19Is this a wrong thing?
04:21The budget deviation?
04:23Of course not.
04:24We made five of them during the pandemic emergency.
04:30But do you know why we made them?
04:31Do you remember, Minister Giorgetti?
04:35We did them because we have to safeguard the country.
04:40We did it to secure the jobs of a million workers.
04:47We even made deviations of up to 140 billion
04:51to provide liquidity to businesses,
04:53guarantee access to mortgages and bank credit with state prices.
04:58We did it for, of course, not that nonsense of a thousand euros with a click,
05:05let's be clear.
05:06Instead, we did it with targeted measures.
05:09to defend the economic and productive fabric,
05:13when, that today you are at Palazzo Chici,
05:17they went on TV and called us criminals.
05:23The deviation can be made,
05:27but don't ask us for a euro for rearmament.
05:35But then make us understand,
05:37you managed to find beauty for a few days,
05:40of 17 cents for that excise tax cut
05:45who Meloni said was a state thief,
05:48nothing for the high cost of living, nothing for the high fuel bills,
05:51nothing for businesses that are in difficulty
05:54and you come and talk to us about 20-21 billion for military spending?
06:00But it's crazy, you don't realize it.
06:03Look, our non-rearmament is not born,
06:07it is not the result of a position,
06:10of a polemical opposition.
06:12No, when it comes to Italy's interests, we are always there.
06:15When it comes to defending citizens' interests, we are there.
06:19And that no is the fruit of a clear vision,
06:24ideal and pragmatic.
06:27Look, government and progressive project
06:30It means a real alternative to the rearmament policy you are pursuing.
06:40It means working towards a real security strategy based on cooperation,
06:46on the political protagonism of Europe, which is currently aphasic,
06:52on the multipolar approach,
06:56capable of easing tensions, not fueling them.
06:59you are leading us into a war economy.
07:02I don't know if you are aware of this.
07:04or you are doing it unknowingly.
07:07And look, it's a one-way street
07:10you should reread the history books.
07:13It's not, you see, just a question of increasing the budget.
07:17for armaments,
07:19it's much more.
07:20You have started, with clear complicity,
07:25an entire machine
07:26which guides research, industry, jobs,
07:30public priorities
07:32which even conditions and directs our consciences
07:36towards the logic of conflict.
07:40We'll never get out of this again.
07:43It means redistributing resources
07:45taking them away from healthcare, education,
07:48to the ecological transition, to social infrastructures.
07:51Taking resources away from our young people
07:54it means normalizing the idea
07:58that the first instrument of foreign policy
08:01both the military deterrent,
08:04which costs a lot.
08:06Instead the first tool is dialogue,
08:08diplomacy, which costs nothing.
08:17Yours is not a progressive policy,
08:20it is a regressive policy.
08:23Your choices distort
08:25and will increasingly deform our democracies
08:28and will also compromise our social security.
08:34You see, the 5 Star Movement,
08:36today, together with the other forces
08:38who are here on this side of this hemicycle,
08:43will vote convincingly against rearmament.
08:47And he knows why, in particular,
08:49the Five Star Movement
08:50he took the citizens' commitment.
08:52It's a sinking no.
08:54when we went to Strasbourg
08:57to say no in front of the European Parliament,
09:01all together.
09:03When we went to Lai,
09:04a few hundred meters away,
09:05while Meloni signed unknowingly
09:08and unconsciously,
09:10or unfortunately with great foresight,
09:13that increase to 5% of GDP expenditures
09:15which are unsustainable for us.
09:17When we called for action
09:20citizens of all parties,
09:23of all associations,
09:25of any representative of civil society,
09:30one hundred thousand people and the imperial forums.
09:33Look, our no is out of respect for them.
09:36It is a coherent, consistent no.
09:39It is the no that expresses a vision
09:41completely alternative.
09:42You have to go home.
09:44Now it's our turn.
09:45You really have to go home
09:47because your damages will be,
09:49I say it,
09:50I want to tell the citizens,
09:52difficult to fix.
09:53But we'll give it our all
09:55to review these crazy expenses of yours,
09:57invest in healthcare,
09:59instruction,
10:00politics and work,
10:01research,
10:03innovation
10:04and true security,
10:05do you know what it is?
10:06The freedom of citizens
10:08that you are not insuring,
10:10the freedom to leave home
10:11and return safely,
10:14that one yes,
10:14to take public transport,
10:16to be able to circulate
10:17at any time of the day or night.
10:19You failed there too.
10:24Thank you, President Conte.
10:42President Costa,
10:44Minister Giorgetti,
10:45Dear colleagues,
10:46the communication from the European Commission
10:48March 19, 2025
10:50he considered that the war of aggression
10:52of Russia towards Ukraine
10:54and the resulting threat
10:56to European security
10:57constitute exceptional circumstances
11:00proposing coordinated activation
11:02of the national safeguard clause
11:04to support the increase in spending
11:06for the defense.
11:07In recent months,
11:09especially after the energy crisis
11:10caused by the war in Ukraine
11:12and in the Middle East
11:13and the consequent increase
11:14of gas and electricity prices,
11:17an important debate has developed
11:18within the European Union
11:20regarding the possibility of exclusion
11:21even energy costs.
11:23And for these reasons,
11:25let's say it with pride
11:27by Italian citizens,
11:29Italy is among the first European countries
11:31who most supported the idea
11:32to extend the scope of application
11:34of the national safeguard clause
11:36also to the energy sector,
11:38thus reiterating that necessity
11:40to act promptly
11:41to support the costs of families
11:44and businesses,
11:45to mitigate what was
11:46the impact of the most affected sectors,
11:48such as agriculture,
11:49fishing,
11:50transport
11:51and the industries
11:52energy-intensive.
11:54And for this,
11:55the President did well
11:56of the Council,
11:57Giorgio Meloni,
11:58to be the first signatory
11:59of the letter sent
12:00to the President
12:00of the European Commission,
12:02Ursula von der Leyen.
12:03Dear colleagues,
12:05allow me to tell you
12:06that I'm very upset
12:07from the interventions
12:08of the oppositions
12:09listen today in this Chamber.
12:11We are always here
12:12to tell us,
12:13going up and down
12:14for the ocean liner,
12:15that Parliament does not count,
12:16that we are only called
12:18to convert the decree laws,
12:19that we are not listened to
12:21preventively.
12:22Instead,
12:22Dear colleagues,
12:23it happens today
12:25the exact opposite.
12:26Minister Giorgetti
12:27he told us two things
12:28Very,
12:29Very,
12:30very important.
12:31First,
12:32that the Government
12:33he thought it was his duty
12:34to appear before
12:35to Parliament
12:36and ask Parliament
12:37same authorization
12:39to set up
12:40this negotiation
12:41with the European Commission
12:42and only after taking
12:44statement of observations
12:46the Parliament
12:47will decide
12:47the so-called
12:48budget deviation.
12:50Second,
12:52that at the distribution
12:53of resources
12:53in different financial years
12:55and to the predisposition
12:57of the provisions
12:57necessary
12:58for the implementation
12:59of the interventions,
13:00we will proceed
13:01with the next one
13:02budget maneuver
13:03and then
13:03the Parliament
13:04will be the protagonist
13:05at every stage
13:06for discussion
13:07of the economic maneuver,
13:08precisely because
13:09will be discussed,
13:10shared,
13:11debated
13:12and approved
13:13right from ours
13:14branch of Parliament.
13:15I heard it said
13:16from colleagues
13:17of the opposition
13:18that we do not sign
13:19no blank delegation,
13:20but colleagues
13:21Minister Giorgetti
13:22he told us
13:23and he told us
13:24that the interventions
13:25in matters of safety
13:26energetic
13:26will be of interest
13:27families,
13:28productive activities,
13:30energy infrastructure
13:31transport
13:32and more generally
13:33if you allow me
13:34the public sector
13:35that you always
13:36recalls
13:37in your interventions.
13:38I also remind you
13:40what do you have
13:41great attention
13:42towards this sector
13:43just that
13:44last week
13:45during the Council
13:46National Throwing Team
13:47the President
13:48had
13:50a few hours ago
13:51just a meeting
13:52with the Minister
13:53Giorgetti
13:54well
13:55Minister Giorgetti
13:56has made available
13:57huge resources
13:58in favor of the municipalities
13:59as well as for the provinces
14:01as well as for the regions
14:02just using
14:03these energy resources
14:05that we are debating
14:06Today
14:06to knock down
14:07those are the costs
14:08of current expenditure
14:09of the municipalities themselves
14:10and if we want
14:12improve current spending
14:13of local authorities
14:14and allow me
14:15I say this
14:16as mayor
14:16the first voice we have to
14:18beating is just
14:19the cost
14:19of the
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