Mario Mauro

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Mario Mauro (2012)

Mario Mauro (born July 24, 1961 in San Giovanni Rotondo , Foggia Province ) is an Italian politician ( FI , PdL , SC , PpI ). He was a member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2013 and its vice-president from 2004 to 2009. From 2013 to 2018 he was a member of the Italian Senate and from April 2013 to February 2014 he was Italy's Minister of Defense .

Life

Mauro studied philosophy at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, which he graduated in 1985. He is a member of the Catholic lay movement Comunione e Liberazione (CL). From 1989 to 1999 he was president of the television production company L'Opera Broadcast Video Service . In 1992 he received the license to teach secondary schools. From 1997 to 1999 he was Vice President of the Compagnia delle Opere (CDO), a Catholic business association that is close to CL.

Mauro began his political career as a member of the Forza Italia party . In the European elections in 1999 he was elected to the European Parliament as a representative of the constituency of Northwest Italy , where he joined the Christian Democratic group EPP-ED . He was a member of the Committee for Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport and was its deputy chairman from 2002 to 2004. From 2000 to 2006 he was responsible for schools and universities on the Forza Italia party executive committee.

In the 2004 European elections he was re-elected and elected on 20 July 2004 of the fourteen Vice-Presidents of Parliament. In addition, he was a member of the executive board of the EPP-ED Group for the legislative period until 2009, was a member of the Committee on Budgets and was a delegate in the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly . From 2005 he was a representative of the EU Parliament in the Academy of European Law (ERA). From 2007 to 2009 Mauro taught at the Catholic Università Europea di Roma . Forza Italia went up in 2009 in the center-right collecting party Il Popolo della Libertà (PdL), to which Mauro subsequently belonged. In the 2009 European elections he was re-elected as an EU parliamentarian. He continued to serve on the EPP Group Bureau, served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and was Delegate for Relations with the United States.

Mauro (right) with the Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos (2013)

In January 2013, Mario Mauro left the PdL. In the parliamentary elections in February 2013 , he stood for Mario Monti's citizens list Scelta Civica and was elected to represent Lombardy in the Italian Senate . On April 28, 2013, he took over the defense department in the Letta cabinet (“Grand Coalition”). On November 15, 2013, the representatives of the Christian Democratic wing, including Mauros and the parliamentary group leader Lorenzo Dellai , moved out of the Scelta Civica and then founded the new party Popolari per l'Italia ("Christian Democrats for Italy").

When Matteo Renzi took over the government on February 22, 2014, Mauro's tenure as Minister of Defense ended. Subsequently, he was party leader of the Popolari per l'Italia . From February 2014 until the end of the legislative period in March 2018, he was a member of the Senate Committee on Constitutional Affairs. At the constitutional referendum in December 2016, he campaigned for a “no”. In March 2017 he joined the Senate parliamentary group of Forza Italia .

In the 2019 European elections , Mauro ran for Popolari per l'Italia in the constituency of southern Italy. With 8,827 votes, however, he missed re-entry into the EU Parliament.

Fonts

  • L'Europa sarà cristiana o non sarà. Spirali, Milan 2004.
  • Il Dio dell'Europa. Edizioni Ares, Milan 2007.
  • (with Elisabetta Chiappa) Piccolo dizionario della radici cristiane d'Europa . Edizioni Ares, Milan 2007.
  • Guerra ai Cristiani. Le persecuzioni e le discriminazioni dei cristiani nel mondo. Lindau, Turin 2010, ISBN 978-88-7180-874-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Mario Mauro , ilSussidiario.net
  2. ↑ Riccardo Nanini: Believe in works. Theology, politics and economics at the Compagnia delle Opere. Lit Verlag, Berlin / Münster 2010.
  3. ↑ a b c Entry on Mario Mauro in the Members' database of the European Parliament
  4. ↑ Scheda di attività Mario MAURO, XVII Legislatura , Senato della Repubblica.
personal data
SURNAME Mauro, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH San Giovanni Rotondo