Please answer the following question: Information: - Founded in 1955, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (NATO PA) serves as the consultative interparliamentary organisation for the North Atlantic Alliance. Its current President is Mike Turner from the United States. Its current Secretary General is David Hobbs from the United Kingdom, he has been in this position since January 2008 - The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (ALDE Party) is a European political party mainly active in the European Union, composed of 60 national-level liberal parties from across Europe. Until 10 November 2012, the party was known as European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR). The ALDE Party is affiliated with the Liberal International. - A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. - Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a unitary parliamentary republic in Europe. Located in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea, Italy shares open land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, San Marino and Vatican City. Italy covers an area of and has a largely temperate seasonal climate and Mediterranean climate; due to its shape, it is often referred to in Italy as "lo Stivale" (the Boot). With 61 million inhabitants, it is the fourth most populous EU member state. - The European Democratic Party (EDP) is a centrist European political party in favour of European integration. It was initiated on 16 April 2004 and formally founded on 9 December 2004 in Brussels. Francois Bayrou of the French Democratic Movement (MoDem) and Francesco Rutelli, former leader of the Democracy is Freedom and Alliance for Italy parties, serve as the two co-presidents. - The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE ADLE) is a transnational alliance between two European political parties, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (formerly known as the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party) and the European Democratic Party. It has political groups in the European Parliament, the EU Committee of the Regions, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. There are assorted independents in these groups. - The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is the parliamentary arm of the Council of Europe, an international organisation dedicated to upholding human rights, democracy and the rule of law. The 47-nation Council of Europe is an older and wider circle of nations than the 28-member European Union - it includes, for example, Russia and Turkey among its member states - and oversees the European Court of Human Rights. - Paolo Costa ( born 23 July 1943 in Venice ) is the President of the Venice Port Authority . He was elected as an Italian Member of the European Parliament in 1999 and 2004 , and since 2003 he was the Chair of the Committee on Transport and Tourism at the European Parliament . He was elected on the Olive Tree ticket and sat with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group . Before entering politics he held numerous posts in Planning and Economics at Ca ' Foscari University of Venice , University of Reading , U.K. , and New York University . He served as Pro-Rector of Ca ' Foscari University in Venice ( 1992 -- 1996 ) . He was a member of Venice City Council ( 1997 -- 2000 ) and Mayor of Venice ( 2000 -- 2005 ) . He was Chairman of the Council of AISRE ( Italian Association of Regional Science ) ( 1982 -- 1984 ) ; member of the Scientific Committee for the Italian General Transport Plan ( 1985 -- 1987 ) , and Italian Minister for Public Works ( 1996 -- 1998 ) . He received the honour of Knight of the Grand Cross , Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1998 . - A World Heritage Site is a landmark which has been officially recognized by the United Nations, specifically by UNESCO. Sites are selected on the basis of having cultural, historical, scientific or some other form of significance, and they are legally protected by international treaties. UNESCO regards these sites as being important to the collective interests of humanity. - Venice (; ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is situated across a group of 117 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by bridges. These are located in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay that lies between the mouths of the Po and the Piave Rivers. Parts of Venice are renowned for the beauty of their settings, their architecture, and artwork. The lagoon and a part of the city are listed as a World Heritage Site. - The European Parliament (EP) is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union (EU). Together with the Council of the European Union (the Council) and the European Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU. The Parliament is composed of 751 (previously 766) members, who represent the second largest democratic electorate in the world (after the Parliament of India) and the largest trans-national democratic electorate in the world (375million eligible voters in 2009). What is the relationship between 'paolo costa' and 'democratic party'?
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member of political party