Tiziano Treu (born 22 August 1939) is an Italian politician and academic, former Minister of Labour and Social Security and Minister of Transports, and current president of the

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Biography

Treu graduated in law at the

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in Milan, where he then began teaching labour law. In his student years, he attended the

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, where he met

Romano Prodi Romano Antonio Prodi (; born 9 August 1939) is an Italian politician, economist, academic, senior civil servant, and business executive who served as the tenth president of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. He served twice as Prim ...

and

Giovanni Maria Flick Giovanni Maria Flick (born 7 November 1940) is an Italian journalist, politician, and jurist. Career Flick was born in Cirié, Piedmont, to a Catholic, half-ethnic German family, as the fifth of seven children. He began his education at the Je ...

. Prior to the 1990s, Treu had been close to the democratic-reformist wing of the

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(PSI). In 1995 he was nominated Minister of Labour and Social Security in the

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. In 1996 he was elected

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as an exponent of

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Italian Renewal Italian Renewal ( it, Rinnovamento Italiano, RI) was a centrist and liberal political party in Italy. The party was a member of The Olive Tree and centre-left coalition, while also affiliated to the European People's Party from 1998 to 2004. H ...

(RI), and was confirmed as the head of the ministry in the

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, and then became

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in the subsequent

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. On 24 June 1997, Treu, as Minister of Labour, proposed a delegated law, later named ''Pacchetto Treu'', made with the intention of fight unemployment: with this law temporary agency work obtained legislative recognition from the Italian legal system. Once the political season of The Olive Tree ended, Treu occupied a marginal role in the

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, being however elected to the

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in 2001 and in 2006 with

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(''La Margherita''; DL) and in 2008 with the

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(PD). In 2013, with the end of his parliamentary mandate, Treu became a member of the

, an assembly of experts that advises the Italian government, the Parliament and the regions, and promotes legislative initiatives on economic and social matters, and in 2017 he was named president of the assembly by the

Gentiloni Cabinet The Gentiloni government was the 64th government of the Italian Republic, in office from 12 December 2016 to 1 June 2018. The government was headed by Paolo Gentiloni, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Renzi government. The government ...

, tough, on the occasion of the constitutional referendum of 2016, he voted to suppress it. In addition to this, in September 2014, Treu was named by the

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as Special Commissioner of National Institute of Social Security (INPS), until the election of

Tito Boeri Tito Michele Boeri (born 3 August 1958) is an Italian economist, currently professor of economics at Bocconi University, Milan and acts as Scientific Director of the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti.

as president.

References

External links

*Files about his parliamentary activities (in Italian)
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