Demetrio Volcic

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Demetrio Volcic
MEP
Demetrio Volcic
Member of the European Parliament
In office
1999–2004
Parliamentary groupParty of European Socialists
ConstituencyNorth-East Italy (European Parliament constituency)
Personal details
Born
Dimitrij Volčič

(1931-11-22)22 November 1931
Ljubliana, Yugoslavia
Died5 December 2021(2021-12-05) (aged 90)
Gorizia, Italy
CitizenshipItalian
Alma materUniversity of Trieste
ProfessionJournalist

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 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

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ Mitja Volčič, Primorski slovenski biografski leksikon (Gorizia: 1992), pp. 259-260.
  3. ^ "Chi sono i laureati famosi dell'Università di Trieste?". Tutored. 24 August 2018. Retrieved 4 October 2019.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "5th parliamentary term - Demetrio VOLCIC - MEPs". European Parliament. Retrieved 4 October 2019.