Giorgio_La_Malfa
Giorgio La Malfa
Italian politician
Giorgio La Malfa (born 13 October 1939 in Milan)[1] is an Italian politician.
Giorgio La Malfa | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Budget and Economic Planning | |
| In office 4 April 1980 – 1 December 1982 | |
| Prime Minister | Francesco Cossiga Arnaldo Forlani Giovanni Spadolini |
| Preceded by | Beniamino Andreatta |
| Succeeded by | Guido Bodrato |
| Minister of European Affairs | |
| In office 22 April 2005 – 17 May 2006 | |
| Prime Minister | Silvio Berlusconi |
| Preceded by | Rocco Buttiglione |
| Succeeded by | Emma Bonino |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 25 May 1972 – 14 April 1994 | |
| In office 9 May 1996 – 14 March 2013 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1939-10-13) 13 October 1939 (age 84) Milan, Italy |
| Political party | PRI (1972–2011; 2019–present) |
| Alma mater | University of Pavia St John's College, Cambridge |
| Profession | Politician, University professor |
La Malfa was born in Milan, the son of Ugo La Malfa, a long-time Italian political leader and minister.[2] He read law at the University of Pavia and the economics tripos at St John's College, Cambridge, before working as a research fellow in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he co-authored a paper on the Italian economy with Franco Modigliani.[3] Upon returning to Italy in 1966 he taught political economy at the University of Catania in Sicily.
La Malfa served as secretary of the Italian Republican Party (PRI) from 1987 to 1993, when he stood down and was indicted to face trial over a corruption scandal.[4][5] He returned to politics in 1994,[6] and has since 2001 been president of the party.[7] From 2001 to 2005 he was President of the Finances Commission of the Italian Chamber of Deputies.[8] He was Italian minister for European Union Affairs from April 2005[9] until the elections of April 2006, when the centre-right coalition lost its majority; La Malfa was nonetheless elected to Parliament.[10] La Malfa was re-elected to the Chamber in the 2008 Italian general election with The People of Freedom, but on 24 September 2009 he announced his detachment from the Berlusconi IV Cabinet through a letter published by Corriere della Sera.[11]
On 8 June 2011 he was expelled from PRI by the party's college of arbitrators, for having voted against the Berlusconi Cabinet on 14 December 2010. He was readmitted into the party in March 2019.[12]
- Le innovazioni nella teoria dello sviluppo (1970)
- L'Italia al bivio, ristagno o sviluppo (1985, with E. Grilli and P. Savona)
- Le ragioni di una svolta (1992, with G. Turani)
- L'Europa legata: i rischi dell'euro (2000)
- Della Vedova, Benedetto (11 October 2003). "Catallassi: Benedetto Della Vedova intervista Giorgio La Malfa" (in Italian). Radio Radicale.
- "'Il metro e' anche di mio padre Ugo La Malfa'" (in Italian). La Repubblica. 24 November 1996.
- "University News", The Times, 26 June 1964, p. 16.
- Cowell, Alan (3 March 1993). "Web of Scandal: A special report.; Broad Bribery Investigation Is Ensnaring the Elite of Italy". New York Times.
- "5 former party chiefs to go on trial in Italy". Toledo Blade. 25 May 1994.
- "BERLUSCONI ALLA CAMPAGNA D' EUROPA". La Repubblica. 30 May 1994.
- "Nasce il premier all'italiana. Oggi il voto finale" (in Italian). Corriere della Sera. 14 October 2005.
- "Pensioni. Pezzotta: questa non è una riforma. Sabato la decisione sullo sciopero generale". RAI News. 30 September 2003. Archived from the original on 2011-06-13.
- Scherer, Steve (23 April 2005). "Berlusconi Heads New Government, Ends Coalition Fight". Bloomberg.
- Mistichelli, Stefania (11 April 2006). "Le Marche avranno 24 parlamentari" (in Italian). Il Quotidiano.
- "Pri, sei cesenati eletti in Consiglio Nazionale. Rientra nel partito Giorgio la Malfa". Cesena Today (in Italian). 12 March 2019.