Pasqualina Napoletano (born 28 September 1949) is an Italian politician and
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 ...
Socialist Group
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, and sits on the
European Parliament
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Molfetta
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It has a well restored old city, and its own dialect.
History
The earliest local signs of permanent habitation are a ...
,
Province of Bari
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It has an area of , and a total population of 1,594,1 ...
.
She joined the
Italian Communist Party
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The PCI was founded as ''Communist Party of Italy'' on 21 January 1921 in Livorno by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) ...
in 1971, and was responsible for the women's section in
Rome
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Regional Council, and also became group leader.
She was elected to the
European Parliament
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in 1989, and became Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Budgets. Her commitment to this was combined with activity in the
Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality The Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) is a committee of the European Parliament.
Membership Chair
Vice Chairs
*Eugenia Rodríguez Palop
*Sylwia Spurek
* Elissavet Vozemberg-Vrionidi
*Robert Biedroń
Members
*Regina Bastos ...
Maghreb
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countries. From 1999 to 2004, whilst still a Member of the European Parliament, she became Chairman of the Italian delegation and Vice-Chairman of the PSE Group.
She was
rapporteur
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For example, Dick Marty was appointed ''rapporteur'' by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Eur ...
on ''Wider Europe'' for the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and took part, as member of the European Parliament's delegation, in all the activities involved in the creation of the
Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly
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. Napoletano is currently responsible for foreign policy in the Socialist Group in the European Parliament.
From 1994 to 1996, she returned to teaching, and subsequently took up the post of head of the Deputy Prime Minister's secretariat.