Guido Podestà

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Guido Podestà (born on 1 April 1947 in Milano) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for North-West with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.

He is a substitute for the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

[edit] Education

• Graduate in architecture
• Member of the Presidential Committee of Forza Italia (since 2002), national official responsible for 'European enlargement and relations with Eastern Europe'

[edit] Career

• since 1994: Member of the European Parliament
• Vice-President of the European Parliament (1997-2004), with responsibility for relations between the European Parliament and the national parliaments of the 15 Member States, relations with the enlargement countries, Balkan non-candidate countries and the Conference of Community and European Affairs Committees of Parliaments of the European Union
• Chairman of the EP Intergroup on senior citizens

See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)

[edit] External links

• European Parliament biography of Guido Podestà (incl. Speeches, Questions and Motions)
• Declaration of financial interests (in Italian; PDF)