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Mr Francesco VERDUCCI (Italy, SOC)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group since 23/01/2023
  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 01/08/2017 to 03/09/2018
  • Member: Socialist Group from 27/01/2014 to 31/07/2017
  • Member: Members not belonging to a Political Group from 28/06/2013 to 26/01/2014

In the Assembly

  • since 23/01/2023 Representative - Italy
  • from 28/06/2013 to 03/09/2018 Substitute - Italy

In the committee(s) and sub-committee(s)

  • Full Member: Special Committee on the New Democratic Pact (since 26/01/2026)
  • General Rapporteur on combating racism and intolerance: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (since 03/10/2024)
  • Full Member: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (since 24/04/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities (since 22/06/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Integration (from 27/04/2017 to 03/09/2018)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People (from 25/01/2017 to 03/09/2018)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Population (from 23/03/2015 to 25/01/2017)
  • Alternate of Ms Maria Teresa BERTUZZI (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 28/06/2013 to 21/11/2013)
  • Alternate of Mr Vannino CHITI (Full Member): (Former) Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 28/06/2013 to 03/09/2018)

Interventions

Last speeches

23/04/2026 | 17:43:45 Let me also thank my colleague Mr Mogens JENSEN for this work. Mr President, We know how devastating the impact of artificial intelligence can be for creative arts workers in the absence of rules. We have an obligation to prevent Big Tech from disposing of other people's labour in order to accumulate capital that only remains in private hands. I am thinking first of all of the imbalance that exists between the weakness of those who produce content and the overwhelming power of the platforms... 21/04/2026 | 19:18:21 Thank you Mister President. As you said, and for the sake of greater understanding of colleagues, we only approved part of the amendment by Ms Mariia MEZENTSEVA-FEDORENKO and Mr Oleksii GONCHARENKO, who I thank, citing Resolution 2540 to which they refer, and citing the issue precisely of the use of hybrid war propaganda, and expunging the final part of the amendment due to the fact that we have already included references to Ukraine and Russian oppression regarding religious discrimination... 21/04/2026 | 19:08:12 Thank you President. First of all I want to thank all my colleagues. It has truly been a debate of great richness, of great depth, and I think it is a full part of this resolution of ours and also an incentive to keep this issue alive in our work, given its urgency and importance. I will not be able to quote everyone, I will mention three colleagues representing such a complex debate. The first quotation I want to make goes to my colleague Ms Meryem GÖKA. She said at one point: "it is not... 21/04/2026 | 17:32:49 Thank you, Mister Chair. Dear colleagues, everyone should have the right to believe or not to believe and to live free and equal in the fullness of their being. Yet this is not the case for many people today, even in our countries of the Council of Europe. And this is a major political issue, which concerns our democracies. Among the causes of religious intolerance, the main one is war. Our time, again, is marked by traumatic events. In February 2022, Russia's criminal aggression against... 02/10/2025 | 11:46:46 President, tonight the Sumud flotilla, heading to Gaza to bring food and to draw the world's attention to the humanitarian catastrophe taking place in the inaction of governments, was attacked by the Israeli army: an illegal aggression in international. The activists, including young Jews and some of our parliamentary colleagues, did not resist and were arrested. President, this House must condemn what is happening. The flotilla is a humanitarian, non-violent mission, in full compliance with...

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