Roberto Gualtieri

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Roberto Gualtieri (2017)
Gualtieri in the European Parliament (2019)

Roberto Gualtieri (born July 19, 1966 in Rome ) is an Italian historian and politician of the Partito Democratico (PD) and finance minister of Italy since September 5, 2019 . From 2009 to 2019 he was a member of the European Parliament , where he has chaired the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs since 2014 . Since 2016 he has been one of the three chief negotiators of the European Parliament for the Brexit negotiations.

Life

Gualtieri studied philosophy and history at the La Sapienza University in Rome from 1986 to 1992 . In 1997 he completed his doctorate in contemporary history. From 2001 to 2014 he was Deputy Director of the Istituto Gramsci Foundation , which is dedicated to preserving the work of Antonio Gramsci and researching the history of the labor movement . Since 2012 he has been Associate Professor of Contemporary History at La Sapienza University. He has worked as an author for various newspapers and magazines and has written several books on the history of the 20th century.

Gualtieri was 2001-06 board member of the Rome section and 2005-07 member of the party council of the Democratici di Sinistra (DS; Left Democrats). When they were preparing their merger with Democrazia è Libertà - La Margherita in 2006 to form the center-left rallying party PD, Romano Prodi called Gualtieri into the group of “wise men” who worked out the founding manifesto of the new party. Subsequently, Gualtieri was a member of the national board of the PD.

In the European elections in 2009 he was elected to the European Parliament for the constituency of Central Italy . There he joined the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Social Democrats (S&D) and became a member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO), the Subcommittee on Security and Defense and Delegate for relations with the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO , for relations with the United States States (2009–11) and for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2011–14). In addition, from 2013 he was a member of the interinstitutional working group and rapporteur of the AFCO committee for a transparency register and rules of conduct for lobbyists .

After his re-election in 2014 , he was chairman of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and delegate for relations with Afghanistan for the legislative period until 2019 . He was also a member of the special committees on tax rulings and other measures of a similar nature or effect (2015-16), the committee of inquiry to examine alleged violations of Union law and abuses in the application of the same in connection with money laundering, tax avoidance and tax evasion (2016-17) and the Special Committee on Financial Crime, Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance (2018-19). Since 2016 he has been a member of the steering group for Brexit and - alongside Elmar Brok (EPP) and Guy Verhofstadt (ALDE) - chief negotiator of the European Parliament for the Brexit negotiations. In 2019 he was re-elected for a further term. Since then he has been deputy chairman of the S&D parliamentary group and again chairman of the Economic and Monetary Committee.

Since September 5, 2019, he has been a member of the Conte II cabinet as Minister for Economic Affairs and Finance.

Work (selection)

  • The PCI tra solidarietà nazionale e “alternativa democratica” nelle lettere e nelle note di Antonio Tatò and Enrico Berlinguer. In: Gabriele De Rosa, Giancarlo Monina: L'Italia repubblicana nella crisi degli anni Settanta. Sistema politico e istituzioni. Volume 4, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino 2003, pp. 277-298.
  • L'Italia dal 1943 al 1992. DC e PCI nella storia della Repubblica. Carocci, Rome 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Doris Dialer, Margarethe Richter: “Cash-for-Amendments” scandal: MEPs under general suspicion. In: Dialer, Richter: Lobbying in the European Union: Between Professionalization and Regulation. Springer VS Wiesbaden 2014, pp. 235–255, on p. 248.
  2. ↑ 8th legislative term | Roberto Galtieri. In: European Parliament. Retrieved January 27, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Paul JJ Welfens: BREXIT by mistake. European Union between disintegration and the new EU. 2nd edition, Springer, Wiesbaden 2018, p. 545.
  4. ↑ 2nd Italian government sworn in under Conte in Rome. In: Südtirol Online . September 5, 2019, accessed September 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gualtieri, Roberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian historian and politician (PD), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome