Alberico GAMBINO

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What Alberico GAMBINO has said (8)

• 2025-10-21 “E-004129/2025 Answer given by Mr Brunner on behalf of the European Commission As set out in the Commission’s replies to E-000955/2023 1 , E-002427/2023 2 and E002983/2025 3 , Member States are competent to maintain law and order and apply public security measures to prevent violence and hooliganism at sports events. As a result, the Commission did not receive specific information about the incident referred by the Honourable Member, as these issues are matters for the national authorities concerned. Member States have established national football information points to increase the effectiveness of police cooperation in connection with football matches with an international dimension 4 . The Council adopted in 2022 a Resolution concerning good practice guidance in respect of police liaison with Supporter Liaison Officers appointed by football clubs and national federations to help prevent and reduce the scale of violence, disturbances and other prohibited behaviour in connection with football matches with an international dimension 5 . 1 https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/P-9-2023-000955-ASW_EN.html. 2 https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/-ASW_EN.html. 3 https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/-ASW_EN.html. 4 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32002D0348&qid=1680716577862 (amended by https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legalcontent/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32007D0412&qid=1680719079722). 5 https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-13371-2022-INIT/en/pdf.”
  EU law enforcement cooperation in criminal matters
• 2025-02-06 “E-000554/2025 Answer given by Mr Brunner on behalf of the European Commission With the Global Alliance to Counter Migrant Smuggling 1 , the Commission facilitates the cooperation between Member States on operational, policy and legislative aspects of the fight against migrant smuggling. The Operational Action Plan 2 of the European Multidisciplinary Platform Against Criminal Threats on migrant smuggling covers actions to identify and dismantle criminal networks. Member States and the EU support information campaigns addressing risks of irregular migration and common operational partnership projects to enhance law enforcement and judicial cooperation with partner countries. In 2023, the Commission proposed a Directive 3 and a Regulation 4 to update the EU anti-smuggling legal framework. The Commission adopted a transport operators toolbox 5 , to address the facilitation of irregular migration, and proposed a Regulation in this domain 6 . The EU has adopted legal acts establishing high security standards for travel documents 7 . As technological capabilities advance, the EU must remain vigilant and proactive in adopting state-of-the-art security features to protect documents and underlying issuance processes. 1 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/api/files/document/print/en/ip_23_6081/IP_23_6081_EN.pdf 2 https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-7101-2023-INIT/en/pdf 3 COM(2023) 755 final. 4 COM(2023) 754 final. 5 https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/system/files/202306/Toolbox%20addressing%20the%20use%20of%20commercial%20means%20of%20transport%20to%20facili tate%20irregular%20migration%20to%20the%20EU.pdf 6 COM(2021) 753 final. 7 Notably Council Regulation (EC) No 2252/2004 of 13 December 2004 on standards for security features and biometrics in passports and travel documents issued by Member States, OJ L 385, 29.12.2004, p. 1; Council Regulation (EC) No 1683/95 of 29 May 1995 laying down a uniform format for visas, OJ L 164, 14.7.1995, p. 1; Council Regulation (EC) No 1030/2002 of 13 June 2002 laying down a uniform format for residence permits for third-country nationals, OJ L 157, 15.6.2002, p. 1; Regulation (EU) 2019/1157 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on strengthening the security of identity cards of Union citizens and of residence documents issued to Union citizens and their family members exercising their right of free movement, OJ L 188, 12.7.2019, p. 67.”
  Asylum & border control · EU law enforcement cooperation in criminal matters
• “Chair, commissioner colleagues. The international context has changed structurally with the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine. Instability in the Mediterranean. Global competition. That means that we have to address European security with realism, without ambiguity as well. We need to strengthen European defence. That doesn't mean that we should reject diplomacy, but it means we have to live up to our own responsibility to protect our own citizens, our interests, and our own freedom. The Member States are responsible for their own decisions for security, but Europe needs to be more capable in terms of supporting international forces to act together. No country can do it on its own. We need to have a credible defence, which is built on industrial programming for defence, which isn't going to be done by 2030, but we need to guarantee a solid manufacturing Basis with the ability to manufacture goods in appropriate time frames. These are the conditions for a more secure Europe, a more credible Europe, which is a credible pillar of the transatlantic alliance.”
  EU competences on defence
• “Thank you, Madam Chair. Dear Commissioner, congratulations, first of all, for the work program that you have put in place over the past few months. Now the EU needs to make a strategic investment for security and stability on the continent. And as Giorgia meloni herself indicated, this needs to be done. And it's also a trade opportunity. But the process needs to be merit based, look at specific reforms and also be based on the rule of law. We welcome the progress made with regard to Albania and Serbia. The process is promising, but the date for concluding the negotiations is that plausible and realistic? And what is your take on the two countries then? At the same time, I would express a concern about the situation in Kosovo as has been highlighted. There are political issues. The government formation is at a deadlock and it risks compromising the reforms that have been achieved. And there was a first step towards normalisation with Belgrade and that might now be in jeopardy. So how is the Commission planning on dealing with those critical issues? Thank you.”
  EU enlargement
• “Thanks very much, chair. Dear colleagues. I would like to express my thanks first and foremost to the two co-rapporteurs for their constructive and balanced approach to this. What they've come up with is a sound starting point. We as the ECR share the broad thrust of this, and we will propose amendments to bolster the financial and operative framework year to date. Military mobility is one of the pillars of our deterrence and response capacity. Without due and stable and predictable funding, um, this will just be hot air. The next MFF must see to it that the right resources are earmarked, bolstering the Connecting Europe facility, and also bolstering the role of the EIB and the role of private capital. We endorsed the full integration of ports, multimodal hubs and ports. We want a dual use approach to infrastructure. Civil and military logistics must live side by side within the same ecosystem in order to engender security and industrial competitiveness. We warmly embrace the four priority corridors and the 500 strategic projects Largely focused. As people have said on the eastern flank, this is what we must primarily stand up for, for our security, to ensure full mobility of European forces. We must expand this vision to the center, the west and the south of our continent. The Mediterranean, with its ports, its logistical infrastructure, is a strategic strategic theater. Just as the East is, we must bolster our refueling capacity as well. Technological neutrality is vital in times of crisis. We must not forsake traditional fuels and traditional engines. We must come up with realistic solutions which are interoperable between the EU and NATO. Only if we have this will we be safer and more competitive?”
  Defence spending
• “I will speak in Italian. Speaking Italian for Madame. Thank you to all of the speakers for their presentations. In light of the framework that you set out and particularly the current geopolitical framework with instability in the Middle East and global issues with fuels, then it's clear that sustainable fuels are important not just for reducing emissions, but also are important in terms of strategic independence for the EU. Yet at the moment, the sector is still very dependent, it's still developing and it's not uniformly distributed. So my question is as follows. How can we ensure that um possible um any possible flexibility mechanisms to move from physical use of. Physical use of fuels and to ensure that we're not undermining the physical and infrastructure needed at European level. And secondly, do you think that given that there isn't a stable and predictable framework beyond 2030, there's a risk of loss of competitiveness? And for the European sector in comparison with international players? Thank you.”
  Energy (green transition)
• “Thank you, Mrs. Brown. Well, having heard from two representatives of the United Nations, let's now leave some space for the European dimension. And I give the floor to Mr. Stavros Lambrinidis, who is ambassador, EU ambassador to the UN, and he's going to be speaking to us online and sharing his point of view. Ambassador, go ahead please.”
  EU diplomatic representation
• “Thank you very much, chairman. Colleagues, I'd like first of all, to start by thanking the experts for their very interesting presentations. As my colleague has just said. I too would have liked to think that we would have had somebody from the Trump administration participating in this panel. Obviously, relations between ourselves are absolutely critical to global stability. From a political and strategic point of view, we in Fratelli d'Italia feel that there is absolutely no alternative to the transatlantic alliance. And thanks to the role played by our Prime Minister Giorgio Meloni, who is very much a bridge builder across the Atlantic, we are strong exponents of frank and sincere, open dialogue. Prime Minister Meloni has stated on a number of occasions how important it is that we invest in the strategic alliance, but I do feel that we need to bring together Americans and Europeans to discuss the issues of sovereignty and rule of law in the context of Ukraine. Explicitly, we cannot be standing on the sidelines. We need to be making constructive contribution, together with the Americans, to a lasting and just and sustainable peace. We also need to try to do our utmost to ensure a trade war of any sort. But there is a bit of a wake up call here. We cannot ask for the Americans to open up their markets. While we are constantly imposing more green standards, which are simply destroying our own industry and putting up barriers right, left and center, which destroys our credibility. It's all very well saying we need to have more strategic autonomy, but we do need to recognize the importance of our alliances for the future. And so I think we need to work on the basis of these principles. And I would also say that we need to organize a meeting between representatives of Europe and America, ideally president von der Leyen and President Trump himself as quickly as possible. Thank you.”
  Relations with NATO