Tommaso Foti

thumb|Tommaso Foti in 2019 Tommaso Foti (born 28 April 1960) is an Italian politician of Brothers of Italy serving as Minister of European Affairs (Cohesion policies and PNRR). He represented the National Alliance from 1996 to 2008, The People of Freedom from 2008 to 2013, and Brothers of Italy since 2018. Since 2022, he has served as group leader of Brothers of Italy in the chamber. Quotes [Verbatim transcript n°. 4 of the speech held at the Italian Chamber of Deputies on 25 October 2022, after Giorgia Meloni's inaugural speech There are millions of people who right now dream that they can be in this Chamber, like I am, like our colleagues are. We have had this privilege and we have a duty to honor it, honor it in the best way possible [...] (p. 98). So today is a historic day, of course, because you, as a woman, allow me a confidence: even a girl from Garbatella can become Prime Minister with the right. (p. 98) (Addressing Giorgia Meloni). We have never made the right electoral signs to win, and we have never even made the decoy lists to win the elections. (p. 99). [..] freedom in economy means a lot; it means [..] first of all freedom from fiscal oppression. (p. 100). [...] do we perhaps want to deny that some choices, especially the "green pass", have ended up in many situations to slow the recovery of the’economy? (p. 100). [...] we know very well that there is a world of dependent work to defend, but there is also a world of self-employment that we cannot forget, because it is that world that works every morning to ensure that the Italy system continues. (p. 100). The right is courage or not; [...] We have courage, we believe above all that the Fatherland should be served and that the Fatherland should not be used! (p. 100) '''Verbatim Transcript of the Session Assembly n. 10 held at the Italian Chamber of Deputies on 16 October 2022 [On immigration to Italy] [...] the search for a solution is not to bring Africa to Europe or Africa to Italy, but for Italy and Europe to go to Africa and try to create the conditions in Africa, so that those peoples can work and produce on those lands, perhaps freeing Africa from certain European exploiters, among whom the Italians are certainly not. [On immigration to Italy] [...] there are still some who say that the problem is Italy! No! The problem is that Italy, forcefully, must put the issue in Europe for a situation that is intolerable! In fact, we cannot think of coping with this situation alone! And let no one delude himself even to say: but they have given you a fistful of dollars or a fistful of euros. This is not solidarity, on the contrary, that is a practice that, perhaps, those who feared it were better off not using, because the commodification of the person does not exist for us, for the right-wing benches it does not exist! [On immigration to Italy] [...] none of us can pretend that, in the spirit of hairy solidarity, everything is legal and only on Italian soil. [On immigration to Italy] Those who are entitled, enter Italy, those who are not entitled, stay out. External links Category:1960 births Category:Living people Category:Politicians from Italy