Giulio Tremonti

Giulio Tremonti (2018)

Giulio Tremonti (born August 18, 1947 in Sondrio ) is an Italian politician , university professor and lawyer. He was the Italian Minister of Finance and Economy under Silvio Berlusconi four times , namely from May 1994 to January 1995, from June 2001 to July 2004, from September 2005 to May 2006 and from May 2008 to November 2011.

Political career

Tremonti in 1994

Tremonti is a professor of law at the University of Pavia and also a certified tax lawyer. He was also a visiting professor at the Institute of Legal Practice , Oxford . He began his political career in 1987 in the Partito Socialista Italiano , where he was close to Gianni De Michelis and held employee and advisory functions in the Italian Ministry of Finance. In 1994 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the first time as a member of the central reform party Patto Segni , but in the same year he joined Forza Italia and became finance minister in Berlusconi's first cabinet .

Through his friendship with Umberto Bossi , the chairman of the Lega Nord , he succeeded in bringing Berlusconi closer to the Lega , which in 2000 led to the establishment of the center-right alliance Casa delle Libertà . Tremonti's positions often correspond more to the positions of the autonomist Lega than to those of his own party, which is why he has often been referred to as a Leghista with the Forza Italia party book . In particular, he advocates federal reforms and more autonomy for the northern Italian regions of Lombardy and Veneto .

From 2001 to 2004 he took over the function of finance and economics minister in the second Berlusconi government, but then resigned due to massive criticism from the ranks of the Alleanza Nazionale of his budget policy.

In September 2005 he returned to office to replace his resigned successor Domenico Siniscalco and to ensure the adoption of the 2006 budget. At the same time, he held the position of Deputy Prime Minister in Berlusconi's third cabinet.

For the 15th legislative period (2006-2008) Tremonti was elected as a representative of the opposition to one of the vice-presidents of the Chamber of Deputies. In the fourth Berlusconi cabinet , Tremonti was again Minister of Finance and Economics. In January 2009 Tony Blair , British Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007, called him "the most educated minister of economics in Europe". Forza Italia went to the collecting party Il Popolo della Libertà (PdL) in 2009 , to which Tremonti subsequently belonged. Towards the end of the term in office (2011), the political differences between Berlusconi and Tremonti became more and more apparent.

In October 2012 he founded his own party: the Lista Lavoro e Libertà (“List of Work and Freedom”, 3L for short). In December 2012, it formed an alliance with the Lega Nord , with which it subsequently ran for elections. In the 2013 parliamentary elections , Tremonti ran as the top candidate for the Lega Nord for the Senate. Two months after the election, he resigned from the Senate faction of the Lega Nord and joined the Grandi Autonomie e Libertà faction . His mandate ended in March 2018.

Tremonti and his former political advisor Marco Milanese were charged in March 2012 with corruption and illegal parliamentary funding. The trial ended with a "deal" for Tremonti : He was sentenced to four months in prison, which was converted into a fine of 30,000 and a fine of 10,000 euros. According to the Milanese court, Tremonti had the renovation of an apartment on Campo Marzio (in the government district of Rome), which Tremonti lived from 2010 to 2011, worth 60,000 euros. The allegation that Milanese had also paid the rent of 8,500 euros per month for Tremonti was dropped.

He is also chairman of the Italian Aspen Institute and is an occasional contributor to the Corriere della Sera . Tremonti is also a member of the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere .

literature

• La fiera delle cup . (In: "The Bills' Fair", 1991)
• Il federalismo fiscale . (1994)
• Il fantasma della povertà . (In: "The Phantom of Poverty", 1995)
• Le cento cup degli italiani . (In: "The Hundred Taxes of Italians", 1996 / with G. Vitaletti)
• Lo stato criminogeno . (1997)
• Rischi fatali - L'Europa vecchia, la Cina, il mercatismo suicida: come react . (In: "Fatal risks: Old Europe, China, the Suicide Market: How to React", 2005)
• La paura e la speranza - Europe: la crisi global che si avvicina e la via per superarla . Mondadori, Milan (2008) ISBN 978-88-04-58066-9

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berlusconi under pressure after the resignation of the minister. - After the resignation of Economy and Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti, the Italian government comes under pressure. The EU finance ministers expect Berlusconi to implement a drastic savings plan. faz.net July 3, 2004
2. ↑ handelsblatt.com: Surprise coup in Rome
3. ↑ Marco Zatterin: Ci vuole un legal standard Tremonti chiede un'intesa global per la trasparenza dell'economia. (No longer available online.) In: La Stampa Archivio. La Stampa, January 9, 2009, formerly in the original ; accessed on March 11, 2009 (Italian): "Certo lo ha lusingato Tony Blair, l'ex premier britannico che lo ha definito" il piu 'colto fra i ministri economici "." 
4. ↑ Casa di via Campo Marzio, Tremonti patteggia la pena. In: Il Sole 24 Ore , April 10, 2014.

Web links

Commons : Giulio Tremonti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Profile at the Italian Chamber of Deputies (Italian)
• Profile in Business Week , June 11, 2001 (English)