Claudio Fava

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Claudio Fava

Giovanni Claudio Fava (born 15 April 1957) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Italian Islands with the Democrats of the Left (DS), part of the Socialist Group and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development.

He is a substitute for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Committee on Fisheries and the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Fava was born in Catania, Sicily. His father Giuseppe Fava, founder of the I Siciliani monthly magazine – for which Claudio Fava also worked – was killed by the Mafia on January 5, 1984.

[edit] Career

A graduate in law (1980) and a qualified journalist (since 1982), he was (1999-2001) the Regional Secretary of the DS in Sicily, and became a member of the national executive of the DS in 1999.

In 1991, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the Sicilian Regional Assembly for La Rete, and in 1992-1994 served as member of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy.

On November 5, 2006, he worked as the International Observer of the Nicaraguan Elections 2006 for the European Union.

Also in November of 2006, he led the European parliament's special investigation into the role of European Union member states in the operation of CIA secret prisons. The report criticized the governments of Poland and Romania for failing to cooperate with investigations, and also chastised several top EU officials.