| Giuliano Ferrara | |
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Giuliano Ferrara in Florence (right) |
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| Born | Giuliano Ferrara 7 January 1952 Rome, Italy |
Giuliano Ferrara (born in Rome on January 7, 1952) is an Italian politician, journalist, founding editor of Il Foglio, and TV presenter.
After the militancy in the PCI and PSI, in the nineties has become a supporter of Silvio Berlusconi, and finally one of the most intellectual representatives of Italian Theoconservativism
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He came from a family of Communists: his father Maurizio was a communist senator, and Giuliano was active in the Italian Communist Party until his twenties. In 1982 he broke with the party and became vocal as an ex-Communist. He initially gravitated toward socialism, but later moved toward social conservatism. He was in the Berlusconi I Cabinet and founded the newspaper Il Foglio.
In 2008 he ran in the Italian general election on a platform favoring a moratorium on abortion, as part of the "devout atheist" (cognate of Theoconservatism) Italian political current, of which he's one of the most prominent leaders. He also has expressed admiration for Pope Benedict XVI. These views might seem surprising, as he is an atheist and in his Communist period, three of his partners had abortions, although they could be related to his reported experience of Klinefelter's Syndrome. They may also be attributable to his veneration for German-American neoconservative scholar, Leo Strauss, who held a similarly elevated idea of religion as social ethics.[1]
Ferrara takes a position on abortion in 1989, criticizing from the pages of Corriere della Sera the lack of responsibility of the male which follows the introduction of the first abortion pills. In the following years, while remaining a non-believer, takes a position closer to that of the Catholic Church in support of issues such as traditional family and the rights of the unborn. It argues for abstention in the referendum on assisted procreation of 12 and 13 June 2005.[2]
Ferrara agrees with the Catholic Church regarding the defense of the Judeo-Christian roots of Europe, while heightening the contrast feature of Islamist fundamentalism.
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| Preceded by — |
Member of the European Parliament for Italy 1989–1994 |
Succeeded by — |
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| Preceded by Paolo Barile |
Italian Minister for Parliament 1994–1995 |
Succeeded by Guglielmo Negri |
| Media offices | ||
| Preceded by Andrea Monti |
Editor in chief of Panorama 1996 |
Succeeded by Roberto Briglia |
| New title | Editor in chief of Il Foglio since 1996 |
Incumbent |
| New title | Host of Otto e mezzo 2001–2008 |
Succeeded by Lilli Gruber |