Antonio Tajani

Date of Birth: 04.08.1953

Antonio Tajani - Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Italy, European Commissioner for Transport from 2008 to 2010 and from February 9, 2010 to October 31, 2014 responsible for Industry and Entrepreneurship. He was also one of the Vice-Presidents of the European Commission. President of the European Parliament from January 17, 2017 to July 3, 2019.

Place of Birth. Education. Antonio Tajani was born on August 4, 1953, in Rome. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at 'La Sapienza' University in Rome. He was the deputy chairman of the youth organization of the Italian Monarchist Union (Unione monarchica italiana), served as an officer in the Air Force (at the radar in San Giovanni Teatino).

In 1982 he became a professional journalist and editor of the parliamentary section of the weekly magazine Il Settimanale.

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In 1982 he was a news presenter for the Radio 1 program of the RAI television and radio broadcaster.

In 1983 he was the head of the Rome newsroom of the newspaper Il Giornale, which belongs to the Silvio Berlusconi family.

He was a special correspondent in several countries, including Lebanon, the Soviet Union, and Somalia.

Antonio Tajani speaks English, French, and Spanish.

Together with Cesare Previti, Giuliano Urbani, Antonio Martino, and Marcello Dell'Utri, he participated on June 29, 1993, in a meeting of jurists and others linked to the interests of Silvio Berlusconi's Fininvest companies and the beginning of the Forza Italia! Association for Good Government, which became the Forza Italia party.

In 1994 he was elected a member of the European Parliament, was the chairman of the Forza Italia group in the EP, and a member of numerous committees and delegations.

In 2001 he became a city councilor in Rome.

From 2002 he served as deputy chairman of the European People's Party.

In May 2008 he succeeded Franco Frattini as Italy's representative in the European Commission after Frattini was appointed Foreign Minister of Italy.

On February 9, 2010, he received the portfolio for industrial and business policy in the revised team of the European Commission and remained Vice-President of the Commission.

In 2014 he returned as Vice-President to the European Parliament. He has also been a member of the executive committee of the revived Forza Italia party since 2014. He was nominated by the European People's Party group for the position of President of the European Parliament and was elected on January 17, 2017, in the fourth round of voting. His term ended on July 3, 2019.

On January 26, 2022, he was re-elected as President of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs of the European Parliament.

In the parliamentary elections on September 25, 2022, he was elected as a deputy in his electoral district with 49% of the votes.

Since October 22, 2022, he is Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Italy.

Family. Antonio Tajani is married and has two children.

09.19.2023