Giulio Tremonti
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Giulio Tremonti (Sondrio, Lombardy, August 18, 1947) is an Italian politician and economist, and was the former Italian minister of Economy and Finance and deputy-prime minister in the governments of Silvio Berlusconi. He is actually Vice-President of Forza Italia.
[edit] Career
A former professor of law at the University of Pavia and at the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice, he first ran for the Italian Parliament in 1987 with the Italian Socialist Party. Elected for the first time in 1994 for the Patto per l'Italia, he switched his allegiance to Forza Italia soon after the Parliament held session, and obtained the position in the first Berlusconi cabinet.
Born in Sondrio (Northern Lombardy, a Lega Nord's stronghold) and having Venetian ancestry (his family comes from Lorenzago di Cadore, Northern Veneto) was the man who reapproched Silvio Berlusconi with his friend Umberto Bossi, leader of the League, leading to the formation of the House of Freedoms. Although being a fellow member of Forza Italia, on many issues he is close with the League, in particular he is a staunch fiscal federalist and political federalist, supporting a federal reform of Italian political system and more autonomy for Lombardy and Veneto, where he has his core supporters.
He again served as Finance Minister from 2001; in 2004, Tremonti was compelled to resign after disputes about the economical situation of the country - widely criticized by the opposition and, within the House of Freedoms government coalition itself, by Alleanza Nazionale. He was then reappointed to the position after his substitute, Domenico Siniscalco, resigned in September 2005. Tremonti participated in a meeting of the Bilderberg Group in June 2004 in Stresa.
He is currently chairman of the Aspen Institute Italia, and sometimes contributes to one of Italy's most renowned newspaper, Il Corriere della Sera.
[edit] Essays on economics and finances
- La fiera delle tasse ("The Bills' Fair", 1991)
- Il federalismo fiscale (1994)
- Il fantasma della povertà ("The Phantom of Poverty", 1995)
- Le cento tasse degli italiani ("The Hundred Taxes of Italians", 1996, with G. Vitaletti)
- Lo Stato criminogeno (1997)
- Rischi fatali – L’Europa vecchia, la Cina, il mercatismo suicida: come reagire ("Fatal risks: Old Europe, China, the Suicide Market: How to React", 2005)
| Preceded by Franco Gallo |
Italian Minister of Finance 1994-95 |
Succeeded by Augusto Fantozzi |
| Preceded by Vincenzo Visco |
Italian Minister of Economy and Finance 2001-04 |
Succeeded by Silvio Berlusconi |
| Preceded by Domenico Siniscalco |
Italian Minister of Economy and Finance 2005-06 |
Succeeded by Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa |
