Marco Cappato
| Marco Cappato MEP | |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office 14 June 2004 |
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| Constituency | North-East |
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25 May 1971 Milan, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Political party | Lista Emma Bonino |
Marco Cappato (born 25 May 1971 in Milan, Italy) is an Italian politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament from Italy until 2009. He represented the Lista Emma Bonino within the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe parliamentary group. He was Member of the Foreign Affairs, the Civil Liberties and Human Rights Committees. He also served as a Vice-President of the European Parliament Delegation for the Relations with the Mashrek Countries. He was the European Parliament Rapporteur on the human rights in the world for 2007.
Born in Milan, he has a degree in economics from the Bocconi University in Italy. He was the general advisor of the "Movement of the Pannella Club" from 1994 to 1995, when he was appointed national secretary of the Movement and of the General Council of the Transnational Radical Party.
After a brief experience in the field of human resource management at the Galbani de Melzo Institute, he started to collaborate with the radical group within the European Parliament in 1995. In 1996 he was appointed treasurer of the CORA (Radical Antiprohibitionist coordinator). In 1997 and 1998 he was the Transnational Radical Party representative at the United Nations in New York, where he became particularly involved in the campaign for the implementation of the International Criminal Court. From February 1999 to July 2001 he was Coordinator to the "Radical Committee for the liberal revolution of the United States of Europe". From June 1999 to July 2004 he was a MEP representing the Lista Bonino.
He was the European Parliament "rapporteur" on the Directive on "privacy with regard to electronic communication".
Due to his efforts in countering the generalized control proposals in the field of electronic communications (he is mostly known for his report on privacy in electronic communications) he was awarded the European of the Year title by the weekly newspaper "European Voice". The citation stated that the award was "for his leadership in the campaign for the protection of privacy, in particular in respect of the preservation of the protection of the citizens personal data in the very moment where the United States have undertaken a war against terrorism." Cappato however donated the 5,000 euro award to the Luca Coscioni Association for the freedom of scientific research.
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