Patrizia Toia
Patrizia Toia (born March 17, 1950 in Pogliano Milanese ) is an Italian politician . She has been a member of the European Parliament since 2004 , initially as a representative of the La Margherita party , and since 2008 of the Partito Democratico . First she sat in the liberal ALDE group , in 2009 she moved to the social democratic group .
education and profession
Toia has a degree in Political Science from the University of Milan and a specialization in Strategic Spatial Planning from Luigi Bocconi University of Economics in Milan. She then worked as a senior civil servant in the regional government of Lombardy .
Political career
Toia began her political career with the Democrazia Cristiana . For this she belonged 1975–1985 to the municipal council of Vanzago (province of Milan) and 1985–1995 to the regional council of Lombardy . The Christian Democratic Party renamed itself Partito Popolare Italiano (PPI) in 1994 . As their member, she moved to the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament in 1995 .
In the 1996 parliamentary elections , however, she was elected to the other chamber, the Senate , in which she represented the constituency of Cinisello Balsamo near Milan until 2004 . She was a member of the Senate Finance and Budget Committee from 1996-2001. In the center-left cabinets Prodi I and D'Alema I (1996–99) she was State Secretary in the Foreign Ministry . In the D'Alema II government (1999–2000) she served as Minister for Community Policy and in the Amato II cabinet (2000–2001) as Minister for Relations with Parliament. After her re-election in 2001 , she was a senator in the opposition, was a member of the Committee on Industry, Trade and Tourism and deputy chairperson of the Special Committee on Human Rights. In 2002, the PPI merged with the Democrazia è Libertà - La Margherita party , which united Christian democratic and social liberal members. Toia was a board member of this party and coordinator for the province of Milan.
In the 2004 European elections , she was elected to the European Parliament as the representative of the constituency of Northwest Italy . La Margherita was not a classically liberal party, but joined the group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe . Toia was a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and a member of the delegation to the EU - Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee . La Margherita merged in 2007 with the social democratic Democratici di Sinistra to form the center-left rallying party Partito Democratico (PD), of which Toia has been a member since then. During the merger, it was initially agreed that the European parliamentarians should initially remain in their respective parliamentary group (liberal or social democratic).
After the European elections in 2009 , in which Toia was also re-elected, all PD MEPs joined the social democratic group, which on this occasion renamed itself the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats (out of consideration for the former Margherita members who did not understood as socialists / social democrats). Toia was deputy chairman of this group from 2010 to 2014. In 2009 she also took over the deputy chairmanship of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and was a member of the delegation in the ACP- EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly . After her re-election in 2014 , Toia continued to serve as Vice-Chair of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and a member of the delegations for relations with Belarus and in the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly .
Web links
- Entry for Patrizia Toia in the European Parliament 's database of MEPs
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Toia, Patrizia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian politician, member of the Camera dei deputati, MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pogliano Milanese |