Sandro Gozi
Sandro Gozi: short bio
Former
Italian Secretary of State for European Affairs (2014-2018), Sandro Gozi is
Member of the European Parliament for the Renew Europe Group (Liste
Renaissance) since February 2020. he was elected President of the Union of
European Federalists (UEF) in November 2018.
Doctor
of Public Law from the University of Bologna with a thesis on comitology
(1996), holder of a DEA in international relations at the Institut d'Etudes
Politiques de Paris (1995), as well as a Master's degree in international
relations at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (1998).
Member
of the cabinet of the President of the European Commission Romano Prodi between
2000 and 2004. In 2006, he was appointed European Affairs Advisor to the
President of the Italian Council of Ministers and, between 2008 and 2013, he
was elected leader of the Democratic Party group in the Parliamentary Committee
on European Union Policies and responsible at national level for the policies
of the European Union for the Democratic Party. In August 2013, he is elected
Vice-President of the Assembly of the Council of Europe and, from January to
July 2014, he is appointed Vice-President of the Socialist Group in the Assembly
of the Council of Europe. From July to October 2019, he joined the French Prime
Minister Philippe’s Cabinet as Chargé de Mission.
He has published several books, including Génération
Erasmus: ils sont déjà au pouvoir (Plon, Paris, 2016), L'urgence européenne
(with Marielle de Sarnez, Thaddée, Paris, 2014), Non! ce n'est pas la faute à
Bruxelles (Le Manuscrit, Paris, 2007), La Cible (Editions Saint-Simon, Paris,
2020).
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