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Franco Bassanini | |
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| Born | 9 May 1940 Milan, Italy |
| Political party | PSI (before 1981) Independent (1981–1983) Independent Left (1983–1991) PDS (1991–1998) DS (1998–2007) PD (since 2007) |
Franco Bassanini (born 9 May 1940) is an Italian lawyer, politician, minister,[1] and undersecretary of state.
Career
[edit]Born in Milan, Bassanini was a deputy from 1979 to 1996 and a senator from 1996 to 2006. He served as the minister of public administration and regional affairs from 1996 to 2001 in the cabinets led by firstly Romano Prodi, then by Massimo D'Alema and lastly by Giuliano Amato.[2]
Bassannini was president of Astrid, a think-tank specialising in the study of institutional and administrative reform. As a member of the administrative council of the ENA, he was called by Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 to take part in the Commission pour la libération de la croissance française, presided over by Jacques Attali and designed to reform France's administration.
Amember of Italy-USA Foundation, Bassanini served as the professor of constitutional law at the First University of Rome,[clarification needed] and was the chairman of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti. He is also on the advisory board of the Official and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), where he is regularly involved in meetings regarding the financial and monetary system.[3]
Honours
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References
[edit]- ^ Hine, David; Vassallo, Salvatore; Cattaneo, Istituto Carlo (2000). The return of politics. Berghahn Books. p. 139. ISBN 978-1-57181-798-3. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
- ^ Franco Bassanini, after a meeting with the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, declared that deregulation is a war that you never wins ... my job is to simplify, deregulate and delegify, but almost all my Cabinet colleagues do the opposite. It is a canvas of Penelope, but if I had not solved by night the complications that they write during the day, we would end up swamped by a kind of impenetrable legislative jungle: Buonomo, Giampiero (2012). "Liberalizzazioni: a cosa non si è pensato". Golem Informazione. Archived from the original on 2012-08-01. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
- ^ Bassanini, Franco. "Advisory Board". OMFIF. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
- ^ "Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana". Quirinale (in Italian). Retrieved October 24, 2022.
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