Mario Monti

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Mario Monti (born March 19, 1943 in Varese , Lombardy ) is an Italian economist and politician . Since 1994 he has been President of the private Luigi Bocconi University of Economics . From 1995 to 2004 he was also EU Commissioner , first for the internal market, then for competition. From November 16, 2011 to April 28, 2013 he was Prime Minister of Italy . He headed a cabinet of independent experts. Monti was the founder of the Scelta Civica party (civil election); From its inception until mid-2013, he was also its chairman. He has been a Senator for life since 2011 .

Life

Monti completed his studies in economics at the private Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi in Milan with the then usual university degree of Laurea . He then completed a postgraduate degree ( M.Sc. ) at Yale University in the United States , where he was a student of James Tobin .

He was a lecturer at the Universities of Milan , Trento and Turin . Together with Michael A. Klein , in 1971/72 he developed the so-called Klein-Monti-Modell about the behavior of banks in a monopoly situation . From 1989 to 1994 he was rector of the private Bocconi University and then its president until 1999. Since 2004 he has been the university president again, the mandate was suspended as long as Monti was Prime Minister of Italy.

Monti is married and has two grown children.

politics

EU commissioner

In 1994, Monti was nominated by the center-right Berlusconi I government for the office of EU Commissioner for the Internal Market in the Santer Commission . He held this post until 1999, then until 2004 he was commissioner for competition in the Prodi Commission , nominated by the center-left government of Massimo D'Alemas .

The then non-party Monti was not nominated again by the Italian government under Silvio Berlusconi after the end of his second term in 2004; his successor as competition commissioner was Neelie Kroes and his successor as Italian commissioner was Franco Frattini .

He was best known for his competition law policy towards Microsoft and various car companies such as Volkswagen . In 2000, on Monti's advice , the European Commission sued the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for supporting WestLB . In 2007 he became a member of the Council of Wise Men on the Future of Europe .

Prime Minister

On November 9, 2011, Monti was appointed Senator for life by the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano .

After Berlusconi's resignation in November 2011, Monti was commissioned by Napolitano to form a transitional government made up of non-party experts and non-politicians (governo tecnico) . On November 16, he presented his cabinet and was sworn in as head of government. In his inaugural speeches before the Senate and the Camera dei deputati (House of Representatives), he swore the parliamentarians to a tough austerity course and announced cuts.

Monti was Italy's Minister of Economics and Finance until July 11, 2012 , when he passed this position on to the previous Vice Minister Vittorio Grilli .

Mario Monti waives part of his salary and prefers to use public transport for his business trips.

On December 15, 2011, he brought his austerity package (Salva Italia) , which includes cuts in pensions, to the two chambers of Parliament and linked the vote on it with the vote of confidence . On December 16, 2011, the Chamber of Deputies expressed its confidence in the Monti government with 495 votes (88 against, 4 abstentions).

In March 2012 observers noted the first successes. Other commentators expressed disappointment. In September 2012, he said that he did not want to run for a new election planned for spring 2013. Two weeks later, he said he hoped there would be a clear winner. He emphasized: “I do not expect my services to be needed.” The Wall Street Journal wrote on September 28, 2012: “The new cabinet of technocrats managed to push through epochal reforms in just a few months. Monti and his ministers turned the labor market, pension and tax systems upside down - even if the lion's share of the resolutions have not yet been implemented. "

Parliamentary elections 2013

After the party Il Popolo della Libertà no longer gave him confidence in votes in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies at the beginning of December 2012, Monti waited for the adoption of the budget law for 2013 and announced his resignation on December 21, 2012. However, President Napolitano instructed him to remain in office until the new Prime Minister was elected, and he brought the parliamentary elections expected for April 2013 forward to February 24th and 25th, 2013.

Since he is already a senator for life, Mario Monti could not stand for election in the parliamentary elections. However, he agreed to be re-elected head of government after the elections. However, he definitely ruled out a collaboration with Silvio Berlusconi. On December 24, 2012, he presented the Agenda Monti , a program to continue his reform policy. In addition to debt reduction, the focus is on reducing bureaucracy and the fight against corruption and tax evasion. Monti also wants to work for more employment, especially for women and young people. At the end of December 2012, talks were held to form a joint electoral list for various center parties based on the Monti Agenda. Mario Monti's Twitter entry from December 25, 2012, Insieme ... "Saliamo" in politica! (Together ... Let's get into politics.) Was taken by the Italian media as an announcement that he would get actively involved in party politics during the election campaign. On December 28, Monti explained the details of his supporters' candidacy at a press conference. Founded party he Bourgeois choice ( Civic Choice ) could gain in the House of 8.30% of the vote and 39 seats in the Senate could Montis joint list with the Union the middle achieve 9.13% and 19 votes.

Since his resignation, he has been the head of government's official duties on a provisional basis before being replaced by Enrico Letta on April 28, 2013.

Membership and activity in organizations

Between 2004 and 2008 he was a member of the supervisory board of the Brussels think tank BRUEGEL and has since been its chairman. In 2010 he was involved in founding the Spinelli Group , which advocates European federalism .

Until he took office as Italian Prime Minister in 2011, he was European chairman of the Trilateral Commission and on the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Conference .

He is an international advisor to Goldman Sachs and Coca-Cola .

From August 26, 2020 (founding meeting), he will head the European Commission for Health and Sustainable Development . It is intended to bundle the interests of the 53 countries in the WHO Europe region, with the WHO Europe office serving as the organizational basis.

literature

Web links

Commons : Mario Monti  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mario Monti officially tasked with forming a government  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stern.de  In: Stern , accessed November 13, 2011
  2. ↑ FAZ.net October 18, 2013: Monti resigns
  3. ^ Mario Monti: 'I convinced Thatcher that the Maastricht Treaty was a good idea' , The Independent, October 15, 2012.
  4. ^ Profiles: Mario Monti , BBC News, February 18, 2013.
  5. ↑ http://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/SitoPubblico_EN/Navigation+Tree/Home/About+Bocconi/Organization/Governance/?lang=en
  6. ↑ Sharp criticism of lawsuit  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: rp-online , April 12, 2000@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rp-online.de  
  7. ↑ Mario Monti appointed senator for life . In: Spiegel Online , November 9, 2011
  8. ^ Kordula Doerfler: Italy - 20 lost years . In: Frankfurter Rundschau online , November 11, 2011
  9. ^ Italy: Monti charged with forming a government . In: FAZ , November 13, 2011. Retrieved November 13, 2011
  10. ↑ spiegel.de: Monti's inaugural address in Rome: "Don't clap, listen"
  11. ^ Monti becomes head of government and minister of economics . In: Die Welt , accessed on November 16, 2011
  12. ^ Governo, Grilli nuovo ministro dell'economia . In: Corriere della Sera , accessed July 11, 2012
  13. ^ How Monti is rebuilding Italy , zeit.de, December 5, 2011.
  14. ^ Camera, fiducia al governo sulla manovra. La Repubblica , December 16, 2011, accessed December 16, 2011 (Italian).
  15. ↑ Mario Monti, the star reformer , zeit.de, March 20, 2012.
  16. ↑ Monti's program disappointed ( memento of May 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), reproduction of La Stampa, April 19, 2012
  17. ↑ Tobias Piller, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung May 14, 2012: "Mario Monti falls short of expectations"
  18. ^ Monti: After one term of office is over , RP, September 12, 2012.
  19. ↑ Monti announces resignation. tagesschau.de , December 8, 2012, archived from the original on December 9, 2012 ; Retrieved December 27, 2012 .
  20. ↑ Italy dissolves parliament - new elections at the end of February. Reuters , December 23, 2012, accessed December 27, 2012 .
  21. ↑ Monti wants to continue leading Italy. Der Tagesspiegel , December 23, 2012, accessed on December 27, 2012 .
  22. ^ Tilmann Kleinjung: Monti wants to save political heritage. tagesschau.de , December 24, 2012, archived from the original on December 23, 2012 ; Retrieved December 27, 2012 .
  23. ↑ Monti puts agenda for further term on the Internet. Wirtschaftswoche, December 25, 2012, accessed on December 27, 2012 .
  24. ↑ Andres Wysling: Monti shies away from plain language. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , December 27, 2012, accessed on December 27, 2012 .
  25. ↑ L'appello di Monti on Twitter: "Basta lamenti, saliamo in politica". La Repubblica , December 27, 2012, accessed December 27, 2012 .
  26. ↑ Twitter message from Mario Monti , accessed December 27, 2012, in Italian
  27. ↑ Peter Pinzler: EU: Bruegel's Thinking Room . In: Die Zeit of January 20, 2005
  28. ↑ Mario Monti at trilateral.org. He was succeeded in April 2012 by Jean-Claude Trichet
  29. ^ Steering Committee Bilderberg Conference . Archived from the original on June 8, 2010 ; Retrieved November 11, 2011 . ; In 2012 the Italian Franco Bernabè is on the Steering Committee. (accessed October 7, 2012)
  30. ↑ Mario Monti at the Brussels Economic Forum, accessed on November 11, 2011
  31. ↑ WHO: International (August 12, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Monti, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian economist and prime minister
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Varese