Europe", which features training courses for entrepreneurs and administrators of the Italian North-East and focuses on improving awareness of and access to the existing financial opportunities at the regional, ministerial and European level. In February 2020, he was the only Italian politician to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington D.C., where he presented through a series of high-level meetings the political strategy of the Lega, with particular attention to the promotion of structural change within EU governance and the national implementation of the flat-tax scheme. Following the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, he was actively involved in diplomatic actions in cooperation with the Italian diplomatic network and the European External Action Service in order to facilitate the repatriation of Italian nationals stranded abroad. He contributed to the rescue of Italian citizens from critical settings, such as Burkina Faso, Nepal, Tajikistan and the Dominican Republic. Within this framework, he was the first to question and expose to the public opinion’s attention the handling of the rescue operations by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as its controversial use of the resources offered by European Civil Protection Mechanism. In April 2020, he was appointed as rapporteur for the own-initiative parliamentary report on the future European strategy for small and medium-sized enterprises. The document identified a set of primary legislative objectives such as the simplification of tax systems, the streamlining of bureaucracy, the modernization of work tools through concrete and immediate tax incentives, the simplification of access to credit and, last but not least, ensuring access to direct economic support in cases of exceptional difficulty. Concerning trade policies towards non-EU countries, the report defined a framework of reference to ensure the protection and resilience of SMEs and the European economic system as a whole in the face of growing deregulation of the world market's competition. The final text was voted by the European Parliament’s plenary session on 16 December 2020 and was approved with 533 votes in favour, 58 against and 82 abstentions. As a Member of the TRAN committee, he contributed to the approval of the Mobility Package through his appointment as shadow rapporteur on the directive on posting of workers in the transport sector. Concerning the traffic restrictions adopted by the Tyrolean government, he sided with transport undertakings affected by the measures and promoted the creation of a working group to negotiate a crisis resolution. Within the