Lucia ANNUNZIATA

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• 2026-06-16 “(10:49:38 – 10:50:23): Dear colleague and dear comsir, is the war in Iran really about to be concluded? I'd like to share this question with you because we don't have to fall into this trap. The agreement on the table is just a memorandum, 2 page long, that agree on 60 days suspension. Just the right time for Trump 2 months to enter a voting campaign for midterm without having to deal with an unpopular war. The same 60 day will be helpful to Iran, as they already have say, to continue to pin down their, process in Israel. Is this the way to continue to defend Espolat and to continue to maintain this **Hermann TERTSCH, **Sebastian TYNKKYNEN , **Barry ANDREWS and **Villy SØVNDAL interventions are missing due to a network error on the European Parliament website which caused a crash of the live stream.”
  EU-Iran relations
• “Thank you, Madam President, colleagues. Now, together as looking at the proposal of Trump as a noble candidate. And particularly with regard to the peace project that has been put together by the white House and references to the displacement of Palestinian people in peace and the transfer of these individuals, it has to be clear that what's the point here is that the Palestinian people, the Palestinian state, will fall into the hands of the Israelis. What is the result of this? What is this? There is no possibility of having some sort of lasting peace under these particular circumstances. This particular U.S. strategy, beginning in the 1990s, has been based on a series of failures which involve regime change, regime change, and nothing else. Because we have to understand that these particular approaches cannot be successful under any circumstances whatsoever. 500,000 men in Iraq tried to implement regime change. And of course, there is no way that 80 million Shiites will be the will be able to be any sort of subject to any sort of regime change by a small Israeli contingent. That is something totally unrealistic.”
  Relations with Israel - Palestine
• “Thank you, sir. Indeed, the private sector thinks that it's more and more attractive to invest in, uh, in an operation that is making available almost 1000 billion. This is a bonus. This is also dangerous because it's very possible that all this start a wave of huge, a huge wave of corruption. Now we hope not to. But are we thinking about that.”
  Accounting and auditing of EU budget
• “Many have assumed for a long time that the European Army would simply be the sum of a total national armed force. But states remain sovereign, as it should be in the management of the management of their army. So we have worked precisely on this challenge, identifying the key capability gaps and exploring how Europe can address them collectively. In our view, the most effective path is to develop the technological dimension altogether. It is the most feasible step. Technologies are already there, yet no single state has a decisive advantage, and no single state can invest sufficiently on its own. What Europe can do rapidly and shared by all member states, is to strengthen the development of technologies in order to create a common architecture, an integrated system of command control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capable of enabling Europe forces to act together efficiently and coherently, creating joint operations among all states and with NATO. Finally, we have included two key recommendations in this report. First, we believe that the principle of bi European should play a central role in future procurement strategies. Second, the European Parliament, we think, must play an essential role in this development. We cannot risk leaving the issue of defence outside effective oversight and democratic control. Thank you.”
  EU competences on defence
• “Many have assumed for a long time that the European Army would simply be the sum of a total national armed force. But states remain sovereign, as it should be in the management of the management of their army. So we have worked precisely on this challenge, identifying the key capability gaps and exploring how Europe can address them collectively. In our view, the most effective path is to develop the technological dimension all together. It is the most feasible step. Technologies are already there, yet no single state has a decisive advantage, and no single state can invest sufficiently on its own. What Europe can do rapidly and shared by all member states, is to strengthen the development of technologies in order to create a common architecture, an integrated system of command control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capable of enabling Europe forces to act together efficiently, coherently creating joint operations among all states and with NATO. Finally, we have included two key recommendations in this report. First, we believe that the principle of bi European should play a central role in future procurement strategies. Second, the European Parliament, we think, must play an essential role in this development. We cannot risk leaving the issue of defence outside the Outside effective oversight and democratic control. Thank you.”
  EU competences on defence
• “Um, colleague, Mr. Kubilius. Madam chair, months ago, when we began to talk about Europe's strategic autonomy, it seemed to many an exaggeration or even a sign of abandoning diplomatic option. Today, several months after the discussion began, we find ourselves facing a new conflict in the Middle East after the one in Ukraine living proof that Europe is exposed to risk of attack. They now are taking new forms for which we are not yet prepared. War has changed. In fact, it's total conflict. Today presents an entirely new phase and entirely new threats. This new world are increasingly technologically driven and increasingly unmanned. New technologies are transforming strategies leading toward the miniaturization and decentralization of systems. As drones, AI enabled weapons, smart minds, portable missile systems, missile systems are proving, even the role of human power is changing. The future is moving toward weapons that requires minimal direct human involvement. How can we defend our citizens, our sovereignty, and our democratic system? And in a security environment that is changing so rapidly? This is the question we have tried to answer in this report by interviewing many experts, NATO officials, military personnel, think tank national representatives. To begin with, we are convinced that defense must be brought back to its true meaning, which is not a metaphor for rearmament. The right to safety and protection is a constitutional right of all European citizens, and one of the pillars of state sovereignty. Our task, therefore, is not simply to increase military spending, but to ensure that Europe can genuinely protect its citizens through a collective effort and a shared strategy.”
  Artificial Intelligence for military purposes
• “I'll speak Italian. Thank you Commissioner. You will apologize, I will apologize, I won't. I'm not going to talk so much about data. I'm going to talk about Gaza because it's basically the same idea. The Trump solution, uh, of taking private interests before public interests. President Trump will be in Jerusalem for his very first international visit. And Netanyahu and his government has felt that this situation is a gift for him yesterday. The government plans to invade Gaza, to, uh, kick the Palestinians out and then to, uh, leave it up to International private, international organizations, NGOs who will have to take care of the Palestinians. This is another page in our democracies. We were we had a policy of mediation. So international humanitarian organizations of the states are replaced by private organizations. So I'm looking at this year that I've been here and I have not seen anything. We don't seem to be able to make any difference in Palestinian. But don't worry because the ghosts will be hovering over us. Thank you.”
  Relations with Israel - Palestine
• “Colleagues, never in my long working life have I so often heard the word diplomacy as I have during recent weeks? Mrs. von der Leyen herself said that we need to do everything possible to de-escalate and stop this conflict. But what's the proposal? What are we actually. How are we actually going to de-escalate? We haven't been told. Let's also talk about democracy. I mean, we hear people talking about war and democracy all the time. And the president again referred to the conflict as one of unintended consequences. So perhaps. I mean, hasn't this war been done, carried out in violation of international law? We haven't got an answer to that question either. Now, yesterday was the worst day of the conflict so far. Iran sent missiles over the entire region, and at the same time, Israel crossed the traditional space in the south of Lebanon dedicated to Hezbollah, and started to attack the center of the country for the first time since I can remember. Europe has also constantly been under attack, Cyprus and also Turkey. And nevertheless, we don't hear anything in terms of information about this. We don't know anything. If there was a time for diplomacy, I think it's long gone. Thank you.”
  Relations with Israel - Palestine
• “Colleague, Mr. Kubilius. Madam chair, months ago, when we began to talk about Europe's strategic autonomy, it seemed to many an exaggeration or even a sign of abandoning diplomatic option. Today, several months after the discussion began, we find ourselves facing a new conflict in the Middle East after the one in Ukraine. Living proof that Europe is exposed to risks of attack, they now are taking new forms for which we are not yet prepared. War has changed. In fact, its tool conflict today presents an entirely new phase and entirely new threats. This new world are increasingly technologically driven and increasingly unmanned. New technologies are transforming strategies leading toward the miniaturization and decentralization of systems. As drones, AI enabled weapons, smart minds, portable missile systems, missile systems are proving, even the role of human power is changing. The future is moving toward weapons that requires minimal direct human involvement. How can we defend our citizens, our sovereignty, and our democratic system in a security environment that is changing so rapidly? This is the question we have tried to answer in this report by interviewing many experts, NATO officials, military personnel, think tank, national representatives. To begin with, we are convinced that defense must be brought back to its true meaning, which is not a metaphor for rearmament. The right to safety and protection is a constitutional right of all European citizens and one of the pillars of state sovereignty. Our task, therefore, is not simply to increase military spending, but to ensure that Europe can genuinely protect its citizens through a collective effort and a shared strategy.”
  Artificial Intelligence for military purposes
• “Yes. Talking about the relationship between institutions and political institutions and Ong, it seems to me that what is lacking at the moment in our discussion is what's going on in Gaza, where the traditional intermediated or organization has been kicked out and substituted by a group of private, so-called private owners. Uh, my question is, do we have to consider this as a game changer. After all, this is a decision of America. If they decide this line, we are going to live with that first. Second, these things finish in a disaster, as you know. Shooting, shooting, shooting. The first mission failed. But don't you think the US organization here meaning EU, we should open up. We should open an like an observation point to try to understand who those peoples are. I think this is something we should not bypass.”
  Relations with Israel - Palestine
• “Thank you. President. Just after the ceasefire with Iran, China allowed Iran to import Sam missiles, according to the Chinese foreign minister. And I think that is something we can rely on in terms of, uh, source. And we can see that they're also exporting lots of fuel At above market prices. So China is not this anodyne power. Let us not. Mistake this action. We need to make sure that the best economic protection is those who have a strong military behind it. And I think we need to reopen the dialogue with China. We have to understand what's going on in this country. Let's not neglect human rights. That is a core issue for us. But we should push dialogue with this nation, with China, regardless of the information coming from other nations, especially information on China that we get from the US as well. So dialogue is part and parcel of our strategic independence as well.”
  EU-China relations
• “Yes, I'll try to be shorter than two minutes. I just noticed one thing that a long time ago when we started this debate and things looked a little better. You know, there was a very divisive mood in this plenary tonight. Despite everything, commissaire, I think we are getting there to discuss the technicalities, the means, the money and the organisation I have. Thank you very much for being here and thanks to our colleague, we have been working very hard on this report. Still, before I leave, just I'm not part of any military experience. I am a politician and a politician because I think we are people who are intermediary with consensus of people. So one thing is missing in oral discussion, which also proved to be as developed very well, is developing well, we still don't talk about how to get a popular consensus on this operation. If there is one thing that. There are two things that Ukraine war has taught us. One, the modernization of war. And second, the fact that Ukraine has a more resilient people. That is why continue to resist. And the real weakness of Putin is the fact that he has no people. That goes because it seems the head of Russia. So I think as a politician. Mr.. Mr.. Mr.. Thank you. I think that we should address the issue of how we have to make the population talk about these things, because we need the consensus, after all. Popular resilience is the most important weapon. Thank you.”
  Russia-Ukraine conflict (10th term)