Emma Bonino
| Emma Bonino | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
|
In office 28 April 2013 – 22 February 2014 |
|
| Prime Minister | Enrico Letta |
| Preceded by | Mario Monti (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Federica Mogherini |
| Minister of European Affairs and International Trade | |
|
In office 17 May 2006 – 7 May 2008 |
|
| Prime Minister | Romano Prodi |
| Preceded by | Giorgio La Malfa (European Affairs) |
| Succeeded by |
Andrea Ronchi (European Affairs) Claudio Scajola (Development) |
| European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection | |
|
In office 25 January 1995 – 16 September 1999 |
|
| President |
Jacques Santer Manuel Marín (Acting) |
| Preceded by | Christiane Scrivener |
| Succeeded by | David Byrne |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
9 March 1948 Bra, Italy |
| Political party |
Radical Party (Before 1989) Pannella List (1989–1996) Bonino List (1996–2001) Italian Radicals (2001–present) |
| Other political affiliations |
Transnational Radical Party (1989–present) |
| Alma mater | Bocconi University |
| Website | Official website |
Emma Bonino (born 9 March 1948 in Bra) is an Italian politician, who most recently served as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Previously she was a member of the European Parliament and a member of the Italian Senate. She served in the government of Italy as minister of international trade from 2006 to 2008. She is a leading member of the Italian Radicals, a political party which describes itself as a "liberale, liberista e libertario" (liberista means economic liberal or, better, libertarian in the American sense; libertario, here, denotes a form of cultural liberalism concerning moral issues, with some ideological connection with historical left-libertarianism). She graduated in modern languages and literature from Bocconi University in Milan in 1972.
A veteran legislator in Italian politics and an activist for various reform policies, she was elected as one of four vice presidents of the Senate on 6 May 2008.
Bonino was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1976 and reelected in 1979, 1983, 1987, 1992, 1994 and 2006. In 1975, she founded the Information Centre on Sterilisation and Abortion and promoted the referendum which led to the legalisation of abortion in Italy. In 1986, she was among the promoters of a referendum against nuclear energy that led to the rejection of a civil nuclear energy programme in Italy.
On 17 May 2006, Bonino was appointed as minister for international trade in the cabinet of Romano Prodi. She resigned from office on 7 May 2008 when she had been elected vice president of the Senate the previous day. In 2008, at the elections of 13 and 14 April, she was elected to a seat in the Senate, the second parliamentary chamber, on the list of the Democratic Party for the Piedmont constituency.
...
Wikipedia