Giusi PRINCI

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• 2025-07-17 “E-002986/2025 Answer given by Executive Vice-President Ribera on behalf of the European Commission State aid rules prohibit Member States from granting tax advantages to multinationals, if these advantages, among other conditions, are not also available to other undertakings in a similar situation in the same country. The Court of Justice has clarified the application of the State aid rules regarding aggressive tax planning by multinationals. A judgment of 10 September 2024 in the Apple case 1 confirmed that the grant of a tax ruling cannot reduce the tax amount normally payable by the recipient of the ruling if subject to the ‘normal’ tax rules. The Commission is committed to keep enforcing the State aid rules against such practices. Aside from State aid rules, the EU is strongly committed to tackling tax avoidance schemes, including by multinationals, to make sure there are no tax advantages when compared to smaller operators, including small and medium-sized enterprises. To this end, the EU has introduced targeted measures, such as the Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive, the Directive on Administrative Cooperation 1 to 9 and most recently the so-called Pillar 2 Directive 2 . Moreover, the Commission endorses efforts within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the Group of 20 (G20) to develop a new approach for taxing the digital economy. This includes discussions on a framework called Pillar 1, which ultimately should allow re-allocating the taxing rights of excess profits of the largest multinationals to the jurisdictions where their end consumers live. 1 https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=289923&doclang=EN. 2 OJ L 193, 19.7.2016, p. 1; OJ L 64, 11.3.2011, p. 1; OJ L 328, 22.12.2022, p. 1.”
  EU taxation policy (political compass) · EU competences on taxation · Tax Havens
• 2025-04-03 “E-001380/2025 Answer given by Ms Lahbib on behalf of the European Commission Combating and preventing violence against women and domestic violence is a key priority for the EU. The Roadmap for Women’s Rights 1 , adopted in March 2025, is articulated around eight key women’s rights principles, with freedom from gender-based violence as the first principle. The first objective under this principle consists of preventing and combating all forms of violence against women and girls, including domestic violence, femicide, and technology-facilitated gender-based violence. The Roadmap does not include, in and of itself, specific actions and resources but rather sets a long-term vision with key principles and objectives on women’s rights which will inform forthcoming concrete policy measures, in particular under the Gender Equality Strategy post2025. An open public consultation on concrete actions for this strategy was launched in May 2025. In parallel, several actions are already ongoing. For instance, in May 2024 the Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence 2 was adopted. The EU has now its first, strong and comprehensive law to fight gender-based violence, which requires Member States to take strong prevention measures. The Directive must be implemented by June 2027. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Continent Action Plan 3 includes the InvestAI initiative that aims at mobilising EUR 200 billion for investment in AI. This facility will not focus on investments in specific AI systems, but rather aims at mobilising investments for infrastructure needed for AI development, notably the development of AI Gigafactories in the EU. 1 The EU Roadmap for Women’s Rights: a renewed push for gender equality - European Commission. 2 Directive (EU) 2024/1385 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 on combating violence against women and domestic violence, OJ L, 2024/1385, 24.5.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2024/1385/o. 3 AI continent - European Commission.”
  Gender roles, equality and inclusion
• “While we recognize their value, we still need to make sure that there are certain accountability on the member states, because otherwise, the risk is that we would worsen the administrative burden without achieving any kind of results. And the this PRS assessment confirms that action is not homogenous, and support for the most vulnerable continues to be very difficult. And the four month target in many cases is not yet respected. This is why the EPP would press on one specific stress, one specific point. Instruments. Tools are not enough. We need to understand what we've got already. So we would highlight three main aspects. First of all, a stronger alignment between training and the labor market so that the young people's skills more effectively respond to the real needs of the companies, more decisiveness in preventing early school leaving and support for the most vulnerable young people through instruments that are capable of intervening early and combating the risk of exclusion, three better territorial cohesion and a more fairer access to European opportunities, with particular attention paid to rural and ultra peripheral regions where the young people remain further away from opportunities of mobility, training and inclusion.”
  Focus of EU policy on education (shaping workers vs citizens)
• “Chairman, I'll be speaking in Italian. My institutional view is accompanied by my direct experience in the school world, first as a teacher and then as a director of a school. Ai in classrooms, as has been said, and I would like to congratulate the speakers, represents a huge opportunity, not just in the service of the teachers, but also if it helps to develop the students as well. As a teacher, I saw how this is key with capability of interpreting the needs of students and stimulate their critical thinking and their reasonings and their creativity. As a director of a school, I was able to see how organizational choices and school policies can support or limit educational innovation. Ai, as has been said, is capable of reinforcing the collaborative learning experience, in particular, targeted feedback. Differentiating the precursors. Under. It obviously has to be under the guidance of the teacher. But for that, the teachers need to be trained, involved in the choices, and responsible for the educational pathway of their students. Together with ongoing training and practice, we need to put the teachers at the heart of this, ensuring that the support instruments for their professionalism is there. So I'd like to ask, how can we guarantee that AI really reinforces learning and the key role of the teachers without compromising the role, their role? And can teachers really use AI in the classroom to stimulate self? Stimulate critical thinking and but still maintaining an active role in actual learning. Thank you.”
  Governance of academic priorities within the EU
• “Thank you. I would like to speak Italian. Firstly, I'd like to congratulate you on this these reports and the rapporteurs, Nicola, and how important this report is, which is, uh, dealing with one of the greatest challenges of the future of EU. We cannot reach true gender equality without attacking the root of this inequality. Women's economic independence is a basis for any progress toward a fair society, and it is a decisive factor contributing the competitiveness of our European social model. The data are clear. The pension problem is a huge cost, and I'm especially thinking of settings where there are women, uh, where the care sector, which and where women are underpaid and their work is undervalued with respect to pensions, even though these are high professional skills which are essential for our economic development. To face this problem, we have to act on two levels. Firstly, we have to cut back on wage discriminations in professions which are predominantly female, and we've got to improve their pension schemes and we've got to change traditions and try to open up doors to employment and jobs, which have been mainly reserved to men so they can play their essential role.”
  Gender roles, equality and inclusion
• “Thank you. Thank you very much. Congratulations, Commissioner. I heard you in plenary when you unveiled this key plan. There are three main planks. First of all, more stringent rules for social media, media literacy and skills in schools and fighting against abuse. We can see that this is a social emergency, an education emergency, and the problems are structural. I come from Italy. In 2025, 68% of children from 11 to 19 were the victims of online bullying, and they were also the victims of bullying as well. I come from Calabria. And we know how important sport is. Sport, I think, is a wonderful tool to empower our children. It helps with their self-esteem and it helps them become strong. Now the social media depersonalized depersonalized young people. It affects their cognitive functions. They become truly absorbed in this online world. So it's extremely important to bring them back to the real world. World in Calabria. The sports infrastructure is crumbling. And that's why we feel very strongly about the investment in sports infrastructure. And you mentioned this. This is extremely important. So that through sport, by meeting other young people, young people can regain their self-esteem. Thank you.”
  Role of education (social change vs. tradition)
• “Thank you. Chair I'll speak Italian. Chair. Colleagues, it's an honor for me to be able to speak today as the shadow for the EPP on the annual report on the EU's policy on human rights and democracy in the world. I'd like to express my appreciation for the excellent cooperation that has been the hallmark of our work. The compromise text that we present today is the outcome of a joint effort between the main political groups. It's a document that also reflects the fundamental values of the People's Party family balance, pragmatic approach to human rights, and supporting women in difficult situations. Just one topic remains open and that is women in conflicts. Unfortunately, we weren't able to come up with a compromise on a joint point of view on violence directed against women and girls in zones of conflict. As the EP, we did our best to reach a non-ideological compromise that could respect all the political sensitivities, notwithstanding that small difficulty. I'm happy to announce that we achieved an excellent positive outcome. In particular, we are proud of how we manage to include hard and fast measures to support women in business, starting with improving their access to financing for women running SMEs, and also through the support of venture capital and business angels, and promoting their role in Stem subjects and digital areas. Another important area was making sure I was at the centre of our debate, not just as a risk of discrimination based on gender when not regulated or ethically developed, but also as an instrument to prevent gender based violence and to give a voice to activist women across the world.”
  Gender roles, equality and inclusion
• “Thank you very much, president. Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, for future memory. If memory has a future, I quote Leonardo Chacha. And these words reflect a concern that we've had across time. And we shouldn't just have words. We should think about having conscience, responsibility, or choice. But marcinelle isn't just a place of pain. It is linked to our European history. On the 8th of August 1956, a fire claimed the lives of 262 European workers Belgians, poles, Greeks, Germans, French, Hungarians and 136 Italians men who had suitcases of poverty but huge hopes that would go down into the darkness so that others could have light. Men that became part of the European project, and that is the whole point of the 8th of August. It is not linked to a ceremony or a formal act. It is about the need to give a name, dignity and voice to those who built Europe on a personal sacrifice without being in the limelight of history. The EPP firmly supports the resolution and would like to congratulate the rapporteur, acknowledging the fact that the memory of work isn't in the past, but is the basis of the European project today and in the future. Because the victims of the Marcinelle tragedy are linked to the whole philosophy of work that is still alive in our communities workers, technical experts, professionals, researchers, teachers, and new generations that are bringing new vision and skills to Europe. But if we want to truly recognize them, then we shoulder responsibility. The Marcinelle tragedy tells us that each and every worker has their own story. Family and promise, and that we cannot have proper development of growth if we forget the face of those who have made it possible. That is why the 8th of August has to speak to the whole of Europe. We have to pay tribute to those who build, serve, treat, innovate and work on a daily basis so that marcinelle can become a live memory. Dignity and the future. Thank you.”
  EU policy on labour exploitation in global supply chains
• “Thank you. President. High Representative colleagues, the enhanced agreement with Uzbekistan is a political choice, and it's got to do with how Europe intends to deal with Central Asia. That's no longer an outermost region. Region. It represents stability, security, critical raw materials and a bridge between Europe and Asia. As a demonstration of that, you have the first EU Central Asia Parliamentary Forum, which recently took place in Samarkand, and that was really something that was encouraged by our Uzbek friends, which I coordinated as the head of the EU delegation there. Enabling the various parliamentary actors to come together in a clear and concrete dialogue. The enhanced dialogue is also something that comes from that, from the responsibility of a Europe that's not stepping down, that's not giving up on its voice, on its voice. That doesn't ever separate the way it speaks and its values. And so now we're opening up a new phase in these relations with Uzbekistan. And we're saying loud and clear to Central Asia that Europe is here and that it's needed when it comes to sharing the message of its democratic values. Thank you.”
  EU policy on Central Asia
• “This requires training and development of skills which are above and beyond gender, so that women can use their talent to to enhance European competitive labour, policies must consume conclude social protection regardless of gender. And in this framework, care structures and uh Will take on a strategic role. We need investments which will encourage women to participate in the labour market and. Reduce charges and establish a better pension system and work which will allow a life of private life and professional life balance. All this will be efficient only if we have a true change in our mentality. Care must not be only in the hands of women. We need equal participation on the part of men and women for family care. And these are fundamental requirements. And this is fundamental in the EPP position. And we will try to put concrete policies in the text to try to promote equality of men and women and family assistance and equality and care. That way, we can work constructively from the technical and political standpoint to improve the system as swiftly as possible.”
  Gender roles, equality and inclusion
• “So we continue with Madame Princi from the EPP. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, chairwoman. Commissioner. So 8.9 billion for a cultural Europe integrated an opportunity that we can't toss away. So, uh, working on this, working with the UN, uh, on the issue of individuals with disability. Uh, now, this particular prospect, uh, here we see here the huge distance that exists between the ambitions of the European Union and the reality of individuals with disabilities. So indeed, these individuals have been left out of the technology platforms, and there's no accessibility for these individuals. So we need a response on this particular front. Could you reassure us that this particular issue and what was mentioned in article seven, where there is mention of accessibility, do you think that this will take place, that article for Europe, Creative Europe of creativity that and these 8 billion will this all be somehow connected? And will there be digital accessibility for individuals with disabilities? And I ask you right now, how can you guarantee inclusion of individuals with disabilities? Thank you.”
  Gender roles, equality and inclusion
• “Thank you very much. Thank you very much. President. Commissioner. Colleagues. Wildfires and drought have become dramatic. Europe has to deal with these. In Calabria, for example, we've had 150,000 hectares of our green heritage destroyed. We're well aware of the challenge. And in Calabria, we have developed a positive, proactive model for Italy, one which might be replicated across Europe. We've got zero tolerance. That is the policy of Roberto Cueto, who is the president of our region, and we've had some astonishing results. We have managed to use 20 drones to carry out continuous monitoring of the at risk areas, as well as a strategy which has reduced by 57%. Requests for intervention by the national fleet. Calabria is showing that if Europe can engage in prevention, it will spend less and it will also preserve its very valuable wooded heritage.”
  Management of EU forests
• “Thank you. Chairman. The youth Guarantee is a pillar of the European Social Fund, which the EPP fully supports and has done since 2013. It provides concrete opportunities to more than 24 million youth and contributes to the reduction of the rates of unemployment. But there are still some critical aspects we cannot underestimate. School abandonment, persistence, and problems in the labor market, disparities from the territories in particular rural and ultra peripheral areas. For the EPP, the success of this instrument can be measured according to three main conditions the key of qualified education, national responsibility, accompanied by. Targeted European support and capability for building synergies between education, families and social infrastructure. With this in mind, we look favourably on the amendments contained in the Rapporteur's report, which reinforce the specific of the instrument. Preventing early school leaving. In line with European objective of reducing this 9% to threshold, the attention paid to the most vulnerable groups, including young people in the rural areas. Valuing the informal learning, which is an essential to fill in the gaps in certain areas. At the same time, we feel it's necessary to avoid the text using certain aspects emphasis on youth unemployment, as well as avoiding unmeasurable factors, run the risk of undermining the nucleus, which remains access to qualified opportunity within four months, even through personalized services.”
  Youth employment & training
• “We also underlined the importance of a political commitment, a tangible one by the EU, to guarantee that AI is used fairly and promotes better participation of women in public life, and snuffing out online and physical violence against women as soon as they occur, and we are living through decisive moments for our democracy as well, such as elections. And that's an issue too. I'd like to dwell on how a joint effort by the forces represented here has resulted in a pragmatic and robust text that reflects the real needs of women across the world. I'd like to thank all colleagues and our advisers who contributed to that result, and I will continue to work in close contact with all of you to bring forward this important process. It's not always been an easy road, but the progress we've made today are a clear signal of our commitment to women's rights in Europe and in the world. I'd like to thank the coordinator of the EPP, Miletti, who has also supported all the amendments. I would finish by quoting Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Prize winner, who said, I raised my voice not so as to cry out, but to make those without a voice heard. We cannot have success when half of us are left behind. Thank you.”
  Gender roles, equality and inclusion
• “Thank you, Madam Chair. So. You. Will need about 200 years to have real. To have true gender equality between boys and girls. But this is not something that we can accept. Sex equality is built before school. It's. Then it starts in school, and then that's where you have expectations. And then stereotypes have a considerable impact. This strategy does recognize the problem, but also there are, there is imbalance. Um, and then especially in certain sectors and despite initiatives now as a former teacher, I really believe that school is the first is the first stop for lasting change. And we've got to, uh, We've got to take this into account. So I would like to ask the commissioner, how does the commissioner intend to take steps to influence the choices of school goers to be able to make a real impact in the future?”
  Gender roles, equality and inclusion