22/06/2021 | 09:06:37 Mister President, ladies and gentlemen, We come today to the approval of an important, complex work, the result of a collective intelligence that involved many parliamentary colleagues, that involved the people of the office staff and the leadership of our committee, who really put in their heart and soul and helped us to produce a very complete and very important result. We went through this strange period, we were the first committee, Chair, to be meeting remotely. We tested this new method... 20/04/2021 | 17:46:59 Madam President, thank you. It is not easy, but it is also a great honour to speak in this Chamber after hearing the speeches of three members who belong to two different nations and who are completely involved in this affair. Our speech here has a particular meaning because this matter does not only concern the history and lives of these two countries. I would really like our Armenian and Azeri colleagues to understand that this resolution, which I very much support, is truly an opportunity... 19/04/2021 | 18:29:02 I'm sorry, I was confused about the microphones. Yes, I believe that this report is very important. A few years ago in Italy I had the good fortune and the opportunity to take part in the celebrations of a special day, that of the mother tongue, which was born at a particular moment in history, which is that linked to one of the, perhaps the only, very great murders of people in defence of their language. It happened in Bangladesh. These young students, these young people defended the... 28/01/2021 | 12:00:00 Yes, Mister President, ladies and gentlemen. This is a particularly sensitive issue, and I really must congratulate you on your excellent report, which I believe provides us with the tools for reflection and action. There is one aspect that certainly concerns the behaviour of the forces of law and order, which has been forcefully mentioned, and there is a fundamental cultural aspect. On entering the European Parliament building this morning, we all left a piece of our hearts on those flowers... 28/01/2021 | 11:32:05 Yes, President, ladies and gentlemen. The first time I took the floor in this parliamentary assembly, almost three years ago now, I did so on a subject such as this. This was also because I had tabled a proposal in my national parliament for a committee of inquiry into what happened with the Cambridge Analytics case. I believe that today is a fundamental issue. In that speech I said that we are facing new frontiers, new lands that are exactly like the situation of explorers in the Middle Ages... 26/01/2021 | 11:57:00 Dear President, ladies and gentlemen. I do believe that this report is particularly balanced, very thorough, and I would like to reply to the first Polish Member who spoke to say that Mr Orlando was able to hear the voice of the government, the point of view of the government, in great depth because it is transmitted with incredible firepower by the entire broadcasting system, by the entire propaganda system of the Polish Government. And this is one of the problems. Because the division of... 31/01/2020 | 11:01:38 Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, The issue that is addressed in these reports is really crucial for democracy as we know it today because these spaces, these social networks are not just tools. They are not just new media. They are, for all intents and purposes, the new territories. They are a place where democracy is exercised and where, however, today we are exactly where we were before the birth of democracies, before the rule of law, before the Magna Carta. They are places owned by... 29/01/2020 | 17:29:38 I apologize, Mr President, but I was working with a colleague and I was out of place. No, I believe that the debate that we are trying to hold in these hours, in these minutes, is fundamental to the future of the Council of Europe. We've been over this several times already. I personally have been here for just over a year and this is already the third time that we have tried to reflect, in fact, on what our nature is, and consequently on what rules we must give ourselves to respond to our... 28/01/2020 | 17:20:43 Madam President, ladies and gentlemen. The report by my colleague Lord George FOULKES is very timely. We absolutely support it. The threats to journalists and freedom of the press are numerous and diverse. There are some very serious reports in this report, as some of my fellow members said earlier, it is almost unthinkable that in 2020 there will be journalists who have been killed, who have lost their lives, who are in jail. But there are unfortunately also many threats and many risks for... 28/06/2019 | 12:08:56 Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, At the end of May, I represented this Parliamentary Assembly in the city of Sarajevo for the European Museum Forum. It was an absolutely extraordinary experience, because the work that museum professionals do is of the highest quality, and is particularly important for the values in which we believe. The reflection of the three days of work, beyond the final award ceremony, focused on many themes. But one struck me in particular: the construction of...