advice of his Foreign Ministry, demoralized, devoid of resources and increasingly irrelevant". Frattini's weakness was detected by the United States particularly with regard to Italian-Russian relations. Later activities In 2011 Frattini was briefly president of the Alcide De Gasperi Foundation and from 2011 he was president of the Italian Society for International Organization (SIOI), an emanation of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Frattini was the first politician to hold SIOI chairmanship, until then reserved for diplomats and academics of the highest level. He later joined the "Institute of Eurasian Studies" and served as its president. In December 2012, Frattini left the PdL, later defining the leadership of the new party, Forza Italia, as "extremists". In 2012, Frattini received the honorary citizenship of the city of Tirana. Frattini did not run for the 2013 Italian general election, while supporting the "Agenda Monti" and Scelta Civica. Frattini later recovered his position as a member of the judiciary and Chamber President of the Italian Council of State. Since 2013, Frattini was a consultant to the Serbian government of Aleksandar Vucic for the European integration of Serbia, succeeding Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Alfred Gusenbauer. Since 2014, Frattini was a member of the high court of sports justice of CONI, a court of last resort of the Italian sports system. He exercised his function as judge for the Parma case, decreeing in May 2014 that the Emilian soccer team could not play in the Europa League. In May 2014, Frattini was awarded a honorary degree from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation for his commitment to the development of “mutual understanding and relations” between Italy and Russia. Frattini was a candidate to succeed Anders Fogh Rasmussen for the post of NATO's secretary general in October 2014, but the post was given to Jens Stoltenberg. In 2018, on the occasion of the Italian presidency of the OSCE, Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano appointed Frattini as "Special representative of the OSCE presidency for the process of resolving the conflict in Transnistria". Among his credentials, Frattini said: "I have excellent relations with the Russian authorities, which undoubtedly played a fundamental role in the resolution [of the conflict] in Transnistria," in addition to reminding all of his own role in starting the process of liberalization of Schengen visas for Moldova. In 2020, while holding a sport judge position in the trial of the