Demetrio Volcic
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Demetrio Volcic MEP | |
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Member of the European Parliament | |
In office 1999–2004 | |
Parliamentary group | Party of European Socialists |
Constituency | North-East Italy (European Parliament constituency) |
Personal details | |
Born | Dimitrij Volčič 22 November 1931 Ljubliana, Yugoslavia |
Died | 5 December 2021 Gorizia, Italy | (aged 90)
Citizenship | Italian |
Alma mater | University of Trieste |
Profession | Journalist |
Demetrio Volcic (22 November 1931 – 5 December 2021), also known in
European Socialist Party
.
Early life and journalist career
He was born Dimitrij Volčič in
Serbian Orthodox elementary school in Ljubljana. After the end of World War II, his parents moved back to Trieste, where Dimitrij finished a Slovene language high school. He studied economy at the University of Trieste.[citation needed
]
Already in his student years, he became involved in journalism. In 1956, he moved to
political sciences at the University of Trieste.[3]
Political career
Volcic entered politics in 1997, when he successfully ran for
Italian Senate after the death of the senator Darko Bratina. He ran as an independent candidate with the support of the Democratic Party of the Left. In 1999, he was elected to the European Parliament on the list of the Democrats of the Left. As an MEP, between 1999 and 2002 he was vice-chair of the delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee, and from 2002 to 2004 he has vice-chair of the delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees. He was also a member of the committee on regional policy, transport and tourism from 1999 to 2002, and of the committee on foreign affairs, human rights, common security and defence policy from 2002 to 2004.[4]
References
- ^ "È morto Demetrio Volcic: raccontò agli italiani il mondo oltre la Cortina di ferro". la Repubblica (in Italian). 2021-12-05. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
- ^ Mitja Volčič, Primorski slovenski biografski leksikon (Gorizia: 1992), pp. 259-260.
- ^ "Chi sono i laureati famosi dell'Università di Trieste?". Tutored. 24 August 2018. Retrieved 4 October 2019.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "5th parliamentary term - Demetrio VOLCIC - MEPs". European Parliament. Retrieved 4 October 2019.