Emma Bonino

Politician + Prime Minister + Philosopher

Female

Born Mar 9, 1948

Age 65

Hometown Bra (CN)

Political Party Radicali Italiani

Religion Atheism

Nationality Italians

Emma Bonino is an Italian politician, former Member of the European Parliament and current Member of the Italian Senate. She is a leading member of the Italian Radicals, a political party that supports economic and social libertarianism, and human rights.… Read More

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Italy Can't Change Its 2013 Deficit Commitment: Foreign Minister
Reuters.com - Apr 30, 2013

ROME (Reuters) - Italy cannot change the fiscal commitments made with its European partners for this year, Foreign Minister Emma Bonino said on Tuesday, adding to a range of views on public finance pledges expressed by Enrico Letta's new government.
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2 Police Officers Reportedly Shot Outside Italian Premier's Office Amid Swearing In
Fox News - Apr 28, 2013

Two Italian paramilitary policemen were shot and wounded Sunday in a crowded square outside the premier's office in Rome as Italy's new leader was being sworn in elsewhere in the city. The shooting took place shortly after 11:30 a.m., just as Premier Enrico Letta and his Cabinet were taking their oaths at the Quirinal presidential office. Reporters inside the Chigi Palace press office, about a half-mile away, heard the shots and raced outside. An AP television producer saw the two woun...
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Italy Forms New Government
Huffington Post - Apr 27, 2013

ROME — Center-left leader Enrico Letta forged a new Italian government Saturday in a coalition with former Premier Silvio Berlusconi's conservatives, an unusual alliance of bitter rivals that broke a two-month political stalemate from inconclusive elections in the recession-mired country. The daunting achievement was pulled off by Letta, who will be sworn in as premier along with the new Cabinet at the presidential Quirinal Palace on Sunday. Letta, 46, is a moderate wit...
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Katherine Marshall: Ban Female Genital Mutilation
Huffington Post - Feb 06, 2013

The United Nations General Assembly last December 20 passed, by consensus, a resolution whose final section "calls upon States, the United Nations system, civil society and all stakeholders to continue to observe 6 February as the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation and to use the day to enhance awareness raising campaigns and to take concrete actions against female genital mutilations." This resolution was a hard won victory after years of advocacy by ...
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Timeline

Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Emma Bonino.

CHILDHOOD

1948 Birth Born on March 9, 1948.

TWENTIES

1972 24 Years Old She graduated in modern languages and literature from Bocconi University in Milan in 1972.

1975 27 Years Old In 1975, she founded the Information Centre on Sterilisation and Abortion and promoted the referendum which led to the legalisation of abortion in Italy.

1976 28 Years Old Bonino was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1976 and re-elected in 1979, 1983, 1987, 1992, 1994 and 2006.

THIRTIES

1986 38 Years Old In 1986, she was among the promoters of a referendum against nuclear energy that led to the rejection of a civil nuclear energy programme in Italy. … Read More

FORTIES

1993 45 Years Old She served as the Secretary of the Transnational Radical Party in 1993–94 and the party's president in 1991–1993.

1994 46 Years Old 1 More Event

In October 1994, she was appointed Head of the Italian Government delegation to the UN General Assembly for the "Moratorium on death penalty" initiative.

1997 49 Years Old In 1997, her field of competence was widened to include consumer health protection and food safety.

FIFTIES

1999 51 Years Old 1 More Event

On 15 March 1999, together with all the Santer Commission, she resigned due to the accusations of fraud and mismanagement against commissioner Edith Cresson. … Read More

2001 53 Years Old In December 2001, she moved to Cairo with the objective of learning the Arabic language and culture.

2003 55 Years Old In March 2003, she started a daily review of the Arabic press on Radical Radio.

2004 56 Years Old 1 More Event

In January 2004, she organized the "Regional Conference on Democracy, Human Rights and the role of the International Penal Court, the first for an Arabic country. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

2008 60 Years Old 2 More Events

A veteran legislator in Italian politics and an activist for various reform policies, she was elected as one of four Vice Presidents of the Senate on 6 May 2008.

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