[1] On June 7, 2009 he was elected for Lega Nord Padania in the 7th legislature (2009–2014) of the European Parliament, joining the Europe of Freedom and Democracy (ELD) Group.

[2] From 2011 to 2013 he was also a substitute member of the delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

[2] In April 2013, he announced that he had been expelled from the Lega Nord due to disagreements with the party's political secretariat.

[3] While remaining a member of the ELD in the European Parliament, as of November 5, 2013, he is listed as independent from his national political party of reference.

[4] In 2014 he was a candidate, in the European elections as the chief candidate of Associative Movement of Italians Abroad in the Central Italy Constituency (which gathers the 14 constituencies of Tuscany, Umbria, Marche and Lazio), without being re-elected.