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Pier Luigi Bersani
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Pier Luigi Bersani (born on 29 September 1951) is an Italian politician, and was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in the 2006 General election. Subsequently, on May 17, 2006, he was appointed as Minister of Productive Assets in the cabinet of Romano Prodi.
Bersani was born in Bettola, Province of Piacenza (Emilia-Romagna).
A graduate in philosophy, he joined the Italian Communist Party and subsequently the Democratic Party of the Left - now the Democrats of the Left. A member of the National Secretariat of the Democrats of the Left, he is responsible for the economic sector. He was the Vice-Chairman of the comune of Piacenza, then Vice-Chairman of the Piacenza Province Council in 1990.
He was a President of Emilia-Romagna from 1993 to 1996, then Minister for Industry, Commerce and Tourism (1996-1999) and Minister for Transports (1999-2001). From 2001 to 2004 he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy.
In 2004 he was elected to the European Parliament representing the North-West region for the Democrats of the Left, part of the Socialist Group, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
He was a substitute for the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, a member of the Delegation to the European Union-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia, and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with Belarus. He left the European Parliament on his re-election to the Chamber of Deputies in 2006.
He co-founded the Association NENS ("New Economy, New Society"), and is chairman of the Association Nuova Romea. Bersani was awarded the Legion of Honour of the French Republic. He already served as Minister of Industry from 1996 to 1999, and Minister of Transportation from 1999 to 2001.
- Official website of Pier Luigi Bersani: www.pierluigibersani.it
- European Parliament biography of Pier Luigi Bersani (incl. Speeches, Questions and Motions)
- Declaration of financial interests (in Italian;
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| Preceded by Claudio Scajola |
Italian Minister of Economic Development 2006 – present |
Incumbent |
Categories: 1951 births | Living people | People from the Province of Piacenza | Democratic Party of the Left and Democrats of the Left Party members | Légion d'honneur recipients | Members of the European Parliament from Italy | Members of the Italian Communist Party | Members of the Socialist Group from Italy