26/06/2026 | 10:16:23 Thank you, Madam President, I shall speak in Italian. Words are important. And they are even more so when it is we politicians who utter them. Our words do not merely describe reality: they shape it, amplify it, transform it. Sometimes they distort it, almost beyond repair. In politics, words are rarely neutral. They are often biased; they can hurt, they can inflame, or they can heal, forge bonds and build communities. I cannot help but think of yesterday’s debate on migrants. According to... 24/06/2026 | 18:15:30 Thank you, Vice-President, and good luck for the new role. Dear Colleagues, This is the third time in a little over a year that the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) has presented a report to the Assembly on the dramatic democratic breakdown in Georgia. On each occasion, the two rapporteurs have done an excellent job of providing a detailed overview and analysis of developments in the country, as well as... 23/06/2026 | 17:36:07 Dear President, dear colleagues, Since 2003, Serbia has been under the Assembly's monitoring procedure. The last rapporteur of the Monitoring Committee on Serbia dates from 2012. In its Resolution 1858 of 25 January 2012 on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Serbia, the Assembly welcomed the significant progress achieved in implementing obligations and commitments, entering into accession in 2003. At the same time, it resolved to pursue its monitoring of Serbia and invited the... 22/06/2026 | 16:50:39 Madam President, On behalf of the San Marino Delegation, including Ms Alice MINA, now Captain Regent – that is, Head of State for this six-month term – I would like to thank the President of the Assembly, Ms Petra BAYR, and all those who have spoken in the plenary this morning or sent their messages of condolence and sympathy following the passing of our colleague Ms Mariella MULARONI. She had a remarkable ability to listen and seek the views even of her political opponents, to stand firm in... 24/04/2026 | 10:42:52 Thank you, President. I am going to speak in Italian about a strategic objective for the whole continent, and also beyond, which manages to encapsulate four other major objectives that we must achieve. The first is the fight against global warming, I prefer the term global warming to climate change, because the climate is constantly changing, the problem is global warming. Second: future economic development and jobs. Third: the strategic resourcefulness of many of our countries. Fourth... 21/04/2026 | 17:49:58 Thank you, Mister President. I thank Mr Francesco VERDUCCI for the thorough and balanced work carried out on the basis of a motion I submitted, which took its cue from a global campaign called bpur.org to implement an international treaty to end the political abuse of religion, cited in the report, which I hope may reach the United Nations. Religious freedom is one of those fundamental rights on a par with freedom of thought and conscience as recognised by Article 9 of the European Convention... 21/04/2026 | 12:55:17 Thank you President. Mr Secretary General, first of all, I would like to thank you, also on behalf of the Delegation, for your visit to our Republic and for the official oration at the inauguration of our Heads of State. In particular, for having mentioned the value of international law in relation to small States, such as San Marino, which provides in Article 1 of the Constitutional Charter that it conforms to the standards contained in the international declarations on human rights and... 26/01/2026 | 17:14:20 Thank you, President. The election in Kyrgyzstan raised a fundamental question that is useful also in other cases. Can we assess that country's election as we would those of a Western European state? Kyrgyzstan is a country that over the past year has undergone multiple radical changes to its electoral law. In its latest version, before the election, the law required a payment of €3,000 to stand as a candidate, while the average monthly salary is only €450. It was a law that effectively made... 03/10/2025 | 11:53:38 Thank you, Mister President. I will talk about the election in Moldova last weekend. They are of crucial importance within the broader context of the country's path towards the European Union accession, which was already the subject of our referendum last year. Reflecting the high stakes, there were attempts founded with millions of euros, to influence the vote in favour of pro-Russian candidates through practises such as direct vote buying, propaganda and anti-European disinformation. These... 03/10/2025 | 11:28:03 Thank you President, I will speak Italian. It is always depressing and disheartening to note the need to analyse and pose the establishment of new rules to violations of basic, or seemingly self-evident rights, such as that of parliamentarians to travel freely to carry out their work, as solutions. What we are discussing today is not a basic human right, but it certainly is for us parliamentarians, and it should be commonplace to recognise and respect this right. But we have seen the Polish...