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I served as Italian Undersecretary of State for European Affairs in the Renzi and Gentiloni governments (2014–2018). In 2019, I was appointed adviser to former French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe. That same year, I was elected as a Member of the European Parliament within the Renew Europe group, where I serve on the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, and the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries. I am also a substitute member of the Committee on Regional Development, the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union, including Disinformation, and the Delegation for relations with India. I am President of the UEF, the Union of European Federalists, Secretary-General of the European Democratic Party, and President of the EU-India Association. I took part in the working group on linguistic diversity and the French language in Europe ahead of the French Presidency of the Council of the EU. I was re-elected in 2024 on the L’Europe Ensemble list and retained my positions on the AFCO, IMCO and REGI Committees. Since July 2024, I have also served as Renew Europe coordinator for the IMCO Committee. In October 2024, I became Chair of the European Parliament Delegation to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly (EU-UK PPA). In February 2026, I ran in the Paris municipal elections with the Mouvement Démocrate (MoDem) and, the following March, I was elected to the Council of Paris, the municipal assembly of the French capital.

An Associate Professor at the University of Geneva and Sciences Po Paris, I have taught at several universities in Europe and the United States. I hold a PhD in Public Law from the University of Bologna, with a thesis on comitology (1996), a postgraduate diploma in International Relations from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (1995), as well as a Master’s degree in International Relations from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (1998). I worked in the cabinet of European Commission President Romano Prodi between 2000 and 2004. In 2006, I was appointed adviser on European affairs to the President of the Italian Council of Ministers and, between 2008 and 2013, I served as group leader of the Partito Democratico within the parliamentary committee for European Union policies and as the party’s head of European policy. In August 2013, I was elected Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and, from January to July 2014, I served as Vice-President of the Socialist Group in the Assembly of the Council of Europe.

I have published several books, including « Génération Erasmus : ils sont déjà au pouvoir » (Plon, Paris, 2016), « L’urgence européenne » (with Marielle de Sarnez, Thaddée, Paris, 2014), and « Non ! ce n’est pas la faute à Bruxelles » (Le Manuscrit, Paris, 2007). In September 2020, I published a book entitled « La cible » on the difficulties of my « transnationale » career (éditions Saint-Simon, Paris).