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Mr Paolo GRIMOLDI (Italy, EC/DA)

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Deputy
Lega Salvini Premier

Camera dei deputati
IT - 00186 - Roma
Italy

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance from 18/12/2019 to 22/01/2023
  • Member: Members not belonging to a Political Group from 08/10/2018 to 17/12/2019
  • Member: European Democrat Group from 23/04/2012 to 27/06/2013

In the Assembly

  • from 08/10/2018 to 22/01/2023 Representative - Italy
  • from 23/04/2012 to 27/06/2013 Substitute - Italy

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

  • Full Member: Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 23/11/2018 to 22/01/2023)
  • Alternate of Ms Rossana BOLDI (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 23/01/2012 to 27/06/2013)
  • Alternate of Mr Karl ZELLER (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 23/01/2012 to 27/06/2013)

Interventions

Last speeches

15/03/2022 | 19:43:04 Thank you, Mister President. Thank you all for the interesting debate we have had. I would like to emphasise, I think, that this is the time for firmness, but it is also the time for responsibility and solidarity. I am one of the few members I have heard today who have gone to the region to see what is happening. Last week I was in Poland, and I had the opportunity to go to the Ukrainian border. I also saw the humanitarian tragedy we are witnessing. Since here in the Council of Europe we also... 11/04/2019 | 11:30:02 I thank all members, because I have been in the Assembly for some time and have been able to learn and better understand what we do here. However, I have a comment to make. If I understand correctly, we want to modify the rules to make it more difficult to create political groups, yet the Assembly now has some 20 Vice-Presidents. Is that not somewhat excessive? Perhaps it would be better to have more political groups so that we can democratically express different opinions. Whenever I go home...

Activities

Reports and committee opinions

Motions, Written Declarations, Questions

08/03/2022 | Doc. 15471 | Motion for a resolution The role of sites of remembrance: places of commemoration and education for democratic citizenship 08/03/2022 | Doc. 15470 | Motion for a resolution Cultural heritage and climate change 01/09/2020 | Doc. 15131 | Motion for a resolution Urgent need for electoral reform in Belarus 28/06/2019 | Doc. 14938 | Written declaration Safeguard the democratic rights of Catalan parliamentarians 11/10/2013 | Doc. 13259 | Written declaration The right to the family as the fundamental unit of society

Votes on adopted texts

12/10/2022 | Doc. 15592, vote on the draft text for resolution Safe third countries for asylum seekers 12/10/2022 | Doc. 15592, vote on the draft text for recommendation Safe third countries for asylum seekers 12/10/2022 | Doc. 15604, vote on the draft text for resolution Pushbacks on land and sea: illegal measures of migration management 11/10/2022 | Doc. 15616, vote on the draft text for resolution Raising awareness of and countering Islamophobia, or anti-Muslim racism, in Europe 11/10/2022 | Doc. 15600, vote on the draft text for resolution Misuse of the Schengen Information system by Council of Europe member States as a politically-motivated sanction