Giulietto Chiesa

Giulietto Chiesa (born on 4 September 1940 in Acqui Terme, province of Alessandria) is an Italian journalist and politician, Member of the European Parliament for North-West with the Independent - Di Pietro-Occhetto List Civil Society. Originally he represented Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, since 2006 — Party of European Socialists. Chiesa sits on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade. He is a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.

Education

• 1960: Secondary school-leaving certificate in classical subjects

Career

• since 1981: Professional journalist
• 1990: Moscow correspondent, first of all, for L'Unità (1980) then for La Stampa
• 1989-1990: Fellow of the Wilson Center of Washington - Kennan Institute for advanced Russian Studies
• 1968-1970: Member of the National Secretariat of the FGCI - Italian Communist Youth Federation
• 1971-1979: Member of the secretariat of the PCI - Federation of Genoa
• 1975-1979: PCI group leader on the Provincial Council of Genoa
• 1967-1968: National Vice-Chairman of the UGI - Union goliardica Italian

See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)

External links

• (Italian) Personal Website of Giulietto Chiesa
• European Parliament biography of Giulietto Chiesa (incl. Speeches, Questions and Motions)
• DeclarationPDF of financial interests (Italian)
• Giulietto Chiesa : The West Already Was, Voltaire Network, February 1, 2005.