The EDP in Belgrade for a European Serbia: legality, free media, fair elections
During the two days of 18–19 September in Belgrade, the European Democratic Party delivered a clear message
● Regional councillor of Lombardy from 2013 to 2015
● Mayor of Segrate, near Milan, since 2014, re-elected in 2020
● Environmental issues, land protection, sustainable mobility and energy transition have always been on his agenda
from 2013 to 2015
since 2014, re-elected in 2020
From 2013 to 2015, I was a Lombardy regional councillor, elected on Umberto Ambrosoli’s Civic Pact list, sitting on the environment and territory committees. In 2015, I was elected mayor of Segrate, a town of 37,000 inhabitants on the eastern border of Milan, which is undergoing rapid economic, urban and social development. In 2020, I was re-elected with the support of a broad coalition ranging from the Third Pole to the Green and Left Alliance. Attention to environmental issues, territorial defence and sustainable mobility has always been the cornerstone of my political vision and administrative programme. It’s no coincidence that Segrate was one of three European cities called upon to present its own environmental project at COP 26 in Glasgow in 2021. Thanks to the efforts of my municipal administration in recent years, we have been able to secure the funding needed to build the extension of line 4 of the Milan metro from Linate airport to Segrate and the new Porta Est high-speed railway station, two strategic infrastructures for the mobility of my city, Milan, Lombardy and northern Italy. Bio by Paolo Micheli, new member of the EDP
During the two days of 18–19 September in Belgrade, the European Democratic Party delivered a clear message
European Movement in Serbia, in collaboration with the European Democratic Party, is organising a public debate entitled “Serbia’s European Hour – Lost Time or New Opportunity?”
EDP MEPs in Paris with Gozi, Bayrou and Barrot: priorities for Strasbourg, governance reform, the cost of living, ecological transition and Europe’s global role
The Secretary General of the EDP and MEP for Renew Europe responds to the Serbian President’s letter: “It is not the citizens who are compromising Serbia’s European path, but its government, with violence, lies, and attacks on freedom.”
As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen international cooperation between democratic forces, the EDP recently hosted a transatlantic dinner discussion in Paris, bringing together key figures from European and American centrist politics.
Thirty years ago, in Srebrenica, more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were murdered by the Bosnian Serb army. In 2007, the International Court of Justice ruled that the atrocities constituted genocide. The wider Bosnian War saw over 100,000 killed, thousands of women raped, and more than two million people forced from their homes between 1992 and 1995. On this solemn occasion remembering one of the darkest chapters in Europe’s recent history, the ALDE Party, LIBSEEN members in the region, ALDE in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, European Democratic Party, Liberal International, LYMEC, Renew Europe in the Committee of the Regions, Renew Europe in the European Parliament, and the Young Democrats for Europe are united in honouring their memory and issue the following statement: