Renato Brunetta
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Renato Brunetta MEP | |
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Assumed office June 14, 2004 |
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Constituency | North-East |
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Born | 26 May 1950 Venice, Italy |
Nationality | Italian |
Political party | Forza Italia |
Profession | Economist Politician |
Renato Brunetta (Venice, May 26, 1950) is an Italian economist and politician.
He is a former member of the Italian Socialist Party, currently a Member of the European Parliament for the North-East with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's Party, and vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. He is a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, as well as substitute for the Delegation to the European Union-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee.
[edit] Career
- The Italian Prime Minister's economic adviser, and a professor of Labour Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
- From 1985 to 1989, vice-chairman of the Labour and Social Affairs Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (in Paris).
- From 1983 to 1987 he was Ministry of Labour official responsible for all the strategies for employment and incomes policy.
- In 1989 founded the European Association of Labour Economists, of which he is the first chairman.
- In the 1980s and 1990s worked as an economic adviser to the Bettino Craxi, Giuliano Amato, and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi governments.
- Since 1999: Member of the European Parliament.
- Founder and editor of the journal Labour - Review of labour economics and industrial relations, he was also the lead writer for the newspapers Il Sole 24 Ore, Il Giornale, and Avanti!.
- He is the author of numerous publications on labour economics and industrial relations.
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[edit] External links
- Official website of Renato Brunetta: www.renatobrunetta.it
- European Parliament biography of Renato Brunetta (incl. Speeches, Questions and Motions)
- DeclarationPDF of financial interests (Italian)
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Preceded by Luigi Nicolais |
Italian Minister of Public Administration and Innovation 2008 – present |
Incumbent |
Categories: Italian MEP stubs | 1950 births | Living people | Members of Forza Italia | Italian economists | Italian journalists | Members of the European Parliament from Italy | Members of the EPP-ED Group from Italy | Politicians of the European People's Party | Members of the Italian Socialist Party | People from Venice (city)