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... 25/06/2025 | 20:54:56 Thank you, President. Aside from the challenges of democracy and the rule of law, the challenges of combating global warming and the ecological transition are undoubtedly the most important ones, and they will be more and more about how we conceive of these things related to the environment, human health, but also the economy as a right from now on. And you have to change the narrative a little bit, though, because so many speeches have also been rightly critical, but this report, and we have... 25/06/2025 | 19:15:23 Thank you President, I will speak in Italian. [in English]. Democracy is not supported only by the right to vote; it is only a tool through which the citizen decides by whom to be represented. There are other rights necessary to the very life of democracy: the right to information is one of them. It is essential to have the opportunity to make decisions in the light of free, truthful information, capable of triggering dialogue and not conflict, discussion and not partisan positions. Already... 10/04/2025 | 17:31:30 Thank you, President. The 2022 proposal by President Emmanuel MACRON, as the rotating president of the Council of the European Union, to establish a European political community represented and continues to represent an ambitious attempt to create a forum for co-operation among European states and not only those that are members of the EU, such as San Marino who is also present, to tell the truth, but also the United Kingdom, the Western Balkans and other European nations. This attempt to... 09/04/2025 | 12:41:07 Thank you, Minister. A strong headwind is blowing from the United States of America with the directives of Donald TRUMP's presidency, which are also the benchmark of many European political forces but which are based on everything the Council of Europe does not stand for: force winning over dialogue, discrimination winning over inclusion, allergy to multilateralism. The hope is that this sort of nightmare will end quickly, thanks to the American citizens themselves who are opposed to this...