Parliament speaker Mihaela Dotsova is in Rome on 15 and 16 October 2026 for the European Conference of Speakers of Parliament of Council of Europe member states, the parliament's press office said.
Dotsova will speak on "Renewing the international rules-based order: the role of parliaments in dealing with and responding to modern crises". She will also hold bilateral meetings with other speakers of parliament during the forum.
The forum will be opened by Lorenzo Fontana, president of Italy's Chamber of Deputies, Senate president Ignazio La Russa, Petra Bayr, president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and Italian foreign minister Antonio Tajani.
The agenda also includes "Resilient democracies: united against hybrid threats" and "Artificial intelligence and the labour market".
Prime minister Rumen Radev is in Brussels on both days for a regular meeting of the European Council. According to the Council of Ministers, leaders will discuss Europe's competitiveness, energy prices and the EU's 2028–2034 Multiannual Financial Framework, as well as migration, EU enlargement, the war in Ukraine and the situation in the Middle East.