Vicenza
Vicenza ( , ; ) is a city in northeastern Italy. It is in the Veneto region at the northern base of the ''Monte Berico'', where it straddles the Bacchiglione River. Vicenza is approximately west of Venice and east of Milan.
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Italian
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politician
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.
He is a
Member of the European Parliament
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When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...
European Parliament
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Committee on Legal Affairs
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Responsibilities
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. He is a substitute for the
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI) is a committee of the European Parliament.
Responsibilities of the Committee
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#The operation and development of the Common Agricul ...
and the
Committee on International Trade The Committee on International Trade (INTA) is a committee of the European Parliament. Its current chair, elected on 10 July 2019, is Bernd Lange.Christian Democracy, he later joined Forza Italia, of which he was regional coordinator for
from 1998 to 2005.
In 2005, he left Forza Italia and formed his own political group,
Veneto for the European People's Party
Veneto for the EPP ( it, Veneto per il PPE, VPPE) was a regional Christian democratic political party based in Veneto, Italy.
History
VPPE was founded in 2005 as a trans-party political movement by Giorgio Carollo, both members of Forza Italia an ...
. In the 2007 provincial election of
Vicenza
Vicenza ( , ; ) is a city in northeastern Italy. It is in the Veneto region at the northern base of the ''Monte Berico'', where it straddles the Bacchiglione River. Vicenza is approximately west of Venice and east of Milan.
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, he is candidate for president with the support of parties both from the centre-left and the centre-right:
Italy of Values
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,
UDEUR
The Union of Democrats for Europe ( it, Unione Democratici per l'Europa, UDEUR), also known as UDEUR Populars (''Popolari UDEUR''), was a minor centrist, Christian-democratic political party in Italy.
Led by Clemente Mastella, minister of Labour ...
,
Liga Fronte Veneto
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The party's f ...
Giancarlo Galan
Giancarlo Galan (born 10 September 1956 in Padua) is an Italian politician.
Political career
After having been an activist of the Italian Liberal Party in the 1970s and the 1980s, he was not active in politics until he joined Forza Italia sin ...