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Mr Piero FASSINO (Italy, SOC)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group since 24/01/2022
  • Vice-Chairperson: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 25/01/2021 to 23/01/2022
  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 08/10/2018 to 24/01/2021
  • Member: Socialist Group from 02/10/2006 to 03/10/2011

In the Assembly

  • since 08/10/2018 Substitute - Italy
  • from 02/10/2006 to 03/10/2011 Representative - Italy
  • from 28/06/1994 to 07/11/1996 Representative - Italy

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

  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 22/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 24/04/2023)
  • Chairperson: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 24/01/2022 to 21/01/2024)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by member states of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee): Bureau of the Assembly (from 24/01/2022 to 21/01/2024)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by member states of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee): Standing Committee (from 24/01/2022 to 21/01/2024)
  • Second Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 27/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Member: Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 24/05/2019 to 30/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 23/11/2018 to 22/01/2023)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 12/10/2018 to 23/01/2022)
  • Member: (Former) Political Affairs Committee / Committee on General Affairs (from 02/10/2006 to 03/10/2011)
  • Chairperson: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (since 05/03/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (since 27/04/2023)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on Conflicts concerning Council of Europe Member States (from 26/01/2023 to 21/01/2024)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on Conflicts concerning Council of Europe Member States (from 24/01/2022 to 22/01/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 24/01/2019 to 22/01/2023)
  • Alternate of Mr Marco DREOSTO (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Western Balkans (since 05/03/2024)

Interventions

Last speeches

01/10/2024 | 19:16:40 In these hours, agencies around the world are pounding the news of thousands of missiles that Iran is launching on Israeli cities. So, we are faced with another chapter in a tragedy that has already claimed thousands and thousands of lives in Gaza, in Lebanon, in northern Israel, and in the coming hours may determine them in Israeli cities as well. It is obvious that, in the face of such a picture, it is right, as has been proposed, to be able to distinguish a purely political dimension from... 27/06/2024 | 19:19:59 Thank you, President. Of course, the debate has also brought out very different positions, and so it is not surprising. We find them every day in an issue that affects us directly and of which we are all obviously well aware. I just want to say this. The condemnation of how the Netanyahu government handled the military operation in Gaza is a general condemnation. What I have heard here does not correspond to reality, I don't think there is anyone who has spared criticism of the handling that... 27/06/2024 | 18:13:15 Thank you, Chairman, I have visited the past few weeks, as Chairman of the Middle East sub-committee of this Assembly, Israel and Palestine, and I therefore believe that the issue that has been placed on the agenda should be framed in the evolving situation on the ground. The situation as we know today is deadlocked, it is deadlocked because two different interpretations of the UN resolution are opposing each other. Israel is calling for the release of hostages as a condition for initiating a... 27/06/2024 | 16:43:04 Thank you, President. I also thank all those who have spoken. I say this, we have 50 years of division behind us, there are many reasons for this crisis. There are responsibilities on both sides. But I believe that we cannot resign ourselves to considering this division as irreversible, because I believe that it is still possible to work toward reunification. I want to emphasise to our Turkish friends, who have reiterated here, some have reiterated the inevitability of the two-state... 27/06/2024 | 15:38:43 Thank you Mr. President, Thank you colleagues, [In English] I speak in Italian because there is a translation. The report is about the situation in Varosha, Varosha is a part of the city of Famagusta. It was in the 1950s and 1960s a very important international tourist resort, which in 1974, by virtue of the political crisis that occurred in the island of Cyprus, came under Turkish control and it is a ghost town, because by virtue of an agreement that was then established, the town of Varosha...

Activities