Lionello Levi Sandri

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Lionello Levi Sandri (born October 5, 1910 in Milan , † April 14, 1991 in Rome ) was an Italian European politician and EEC commissioner.

Career

After completing his studies, Sandri began a career as a civil servant in the Italian labor administration in 1932 , where he achieved comparatively high-ranking posts at a young age. In 1940 he became a lecturer in labor law at the University of Rome. From the same year he took part in the Second World War in North Africa . Shortly afterwards he switched to the resistance against Mussolini and from 1942 led the partisan division "Fiamme verdi" in the Brescia region .

After the war, Sandri was involved in the Italian social democracy . From 1946 to 1950 he was a member of the Brescia City Council for the party. From 1948 he was a member of the party executive at the state level. He was also head of cabinet in the Italian ministries of labor and transport.

In the first EEC Commission, to which he was a member from 1961 as successor to Giuseppe Petrilli , Sandri was primarily responsible for social policy and also for the overseas states and territories, for the economy and finances. He was particularly committed to the harmonization of labor and social law in the EEC countries.