Gianni De Michelis (born on 26 November 1940 in Venezia) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Southern with the NPSI, and is therefore a Non-Inscrit in the European Parliament waiting for the acceptance of his party's request of membership in the European Socialist Group. Image File history File linksMetadata Gianni_De_Michelis_(EP,_6th_term). ... November 26 is the 330th day (331st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Venice is known for its waterways and gondolas Gondola. ... A politician is an individual involved in politics to the extent of holding or running for public office. ... A Member of the European Parliament (English abbreviation MEP) is a member of the European Unions directly-elected legislative body, the European Parliament. ... Elections to the European Parliament were held in Italy on June 13, 2004. ... The Partito Socialista Nuovo PSI is a small Italian socialist party. ... Non-Inscrits (English: Non-Attached; the English name is also official, but the French name is prevalent even in English texts) are Members of the European Parliament who do not sit in one of the political groups. ... The European Parliament is the parliamentary body of the European Union (EU), directly elected by EU citizens once every five years. ...

He sits on its Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, and is a substitute for the Committee on Legal Affairs, a member of the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China and a substitute for the Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly. The Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) is a committee of the European Parliament. ... The Committee on Legal Affairs of the European Parliament is preparing many crucial decisions of the Europen Parliament. ...

Betweeen 1993 and 2001, during the so called "judicial storm of Mani Pulite" within more than 35 different trails, apart from the numerous favorable verdicts, he has been convicted of corruption and was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months (negotiated) in Venice for highways in Veneto and to 6 months for illegal financing (Enimont bribe, also negotiated). Mani pulite (Italian for clean hands) was a nationwide Italian police investigation into political corruption held in the 1990s, following the scandal of Banco Ambrosiano in 1982, which implicated mafia, Vatican Bank and P2. ... Location within Italy Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venexia) 45°26′N 12°19′E, the city of canals, is the capital of the region of Veneto and of the province of Venice in Italy. ... Veneto is one of the twenty Regions of Italy. ...

Education

• 1963: Graduate in pure chemistry (University of Padua)

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Career

• 1963-1972: Voluntary assistant and then Professor of general chemistry (University of Padua)
• 1972-1980: lecturer in general chemistry (University of Venice)
• 1980-1999: associate Professor
• 1976: Member of the PSI national party executive, responsible for organisation of the party at national level
• 1992-1993: national Vice-Secretary of the PSI
• 1997-2001: national Secretary of the PS
• Town councillor (1964-1980 and 1990-1995) and councillor with responsibility for urban planning (1969) of the municipality of Venice
• 1976-1994: Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy
• 1987-1988: Chairman of the PSI deputies
• 1980-1983: Minister for State Holdings
• 1986-1986: Minister of Labour
• 1988-1989: Deputy Prime Minister
• 1989-1992: Foreign Minister
• Chairman (1984-1992) and member of the Executive Committee (since 2001) of the ASPEN Institute in Italy
• since 2001: national Secretary of the Nuovo PSI (Italian New Socialist Party)
• since 2002: Chairman of IPALMO - Institute for Latin America and the Middle East
• since 2003: European member of the ASEM Task Force
• since 2004: Member of the European Parliament

See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy) Gymnasivm Patavinum: The Universitys main Bo palace shown in a 1654 woodcut The University of Padua (Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is one of the most well-renowned universities in Italy. ... Lecturer is the name given to university teachers in most of the English-speaking world (but not at most universities in the US or Canada) who do not hold a professorship. ... General is a high military rank, used by nearly every country in the world. ... The University of Venice (Università Ca Foscari Venezia) was founded on August 6, 1868 as the Scuola Superiore di Commercio, the first institution in Italy to deal with higher education in the fields of economics and commerce. ... Chamber of Deputies or Camera dei Deputati, one house of the bicameral parliamentary system, seats 630 members of which 475 are directly elected and 155 by regional proportional representation. ... A hierarchy (in Greek hieros = sacred, arkho = rule) is a system of ranking and organizing things. ... An institute is a permanent organizational body created for a certain purpose. ... The European Parliament is the parliamentary body of the European Union (EU), directly elected by EU citizens once every five years. ... Elections to the European Parliament were held in Italy on June 13, 2004. ...

External links

• European Parliament biography of Gianni De Michelis (incl. Speeches, Questions and Motions)
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