Franco Frattini
Franco Frattini | |
---|---|
Friuli Venezia Giulia | |
In office 9 May 1996 – 22 November 2004 | |
Constituency | Bolzano (1996–2001) Veneto (2001–2004) |
Personal details | |
Born | Independent (2012–2022) | 14 March 1957
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Spouse |
Stella Coppi (m. 2010) |
Children | 1 |
Alma mater | Sapienza University |
Occupation | Magistrate, politician |
Franco Frattini (14 March 1957 – 24 December 2022) was an Italian politician and magistrate. From January to December 2022, Frattini served as president of the Council of State.[1]
Frattini previously served as
Education and career
Frattini was born in Rome in 1957. He attended the "Giulio Cesare" Classical High School in Rome and graduated in law in 1979 at the Sapienza University.[2]
From 1984 he was
In 1990 and 1991, he worked as a legal adviser to the deputy secretary of the PSI,
Early political career
In 1994, Frattini was appointed Secretary General to the
In 1996, he joined Berlusconi's
Minister in Berlusconi's cabinets (2001–2004)
Minister of Public Function
In 2001, Frattini was a candidate for the
Minister of Foreign Affairs
From 14 November 2002 to 18 November 2004, Frattini served as
During his ministerial tenure, Italy supported the
Italian forces took part in
During the Italian military presence in the south of Iraq, eight Italians were kidnapped, of whom two were later murdered: the mercenary Fabrizio Quattrocchi and the journalist Enzo Baldoni,[12][13][14] in addition to the SISMI agent Nicola Calipari, killed by U.S. soldiers during the liberation of kidnapped journalist Giuliana Sgrena. It remains unclear whether Italy offered a ransom for the release of the other six hostages. The killing of Quattrocchi was reported live on the late night Italian television program Porta a Porta, at the time of which Frattini was a guest in the studio, which raised criticism of Frattini for the lack of tact in not informing the victim's family in advance.[15][16][17] Frattini was later also criticized for saying Quattrocchi "died bravely, I would say as a hero".[18]
In 2004, Frattini had to leave office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which passed to
Vice President of the European Commission and European Commissioner (2004–2008)
On 4 November 2004, Frattini was named by Berlusconi to take up the
In February 2006, during the
At the start of 2007, Frattini backed an Italian push for EU support of a worldwide ban on the
As European Commissioner, he promoted a "visa facilitation agreement between the European Community and the
In 2008, Frattini joined the newly formed
During his term as European Commissioner, Frattini was also appointed by
Minister of Foreign Affairs (2008–2011)
At the
Benghazi Treaty and migration policy
During the first summer of his second foreign ministry the "Treaty of friendship between Italy and
In September 2010, on the occasion of the second visit of
The
Foreign policy
The reaction of Italian diplomacy, led by Frattini, to the revolts of the
Like other Western countries, Italy was completely taken aback by the Arab uprisings, and after a first moment at a loss for words it tried to frame the phenomenon in the reassuring discourse of
As far as European politics is concerned, according to Colombo and Greco, the reaction capacity of the Berlusconi IV government proved to be "totally insufficient", in the absence of a coherent long-term and vulnerable strategy to the internal divisions of the majority and to a "persistent underestimation of risks ". According to Colombo and Greco, the attitude of the Berlusconi IV government over the EU was "particularly erratic", pointing to the Union from time to time as a mandatory external constraint, the cause of national evils, or the only source of salvation. This volatility led to the projection of an image of an unreliable Italy in Europe.[44] Frattini and Italian diplomacy also lost the initiative in proposing themselves in Europe as an engine or co-star of pro-integration coalitions, dealing with Europe only in an "occasional and distracted" manner, and rather caring for important bilateral relations (with Russia and Turkey, for example), regardless of the international and European context, according to a "small cabotage" policy. All of this, coupled with the
Controversies
During the
In November 2010, Frattini dubbed the
Later activities
In 2011 Frattini was briefly president of the Alcide De Gasperi Foundation and from 2011 he was president of the Italian Society for International Organization (SIOI), an emanation of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Frattini was the first politician to hold SIOI chairmanship, until then reserved for diplomats and academics of the highest level.[51] He later joined the "Institute of Eurasian Studies" and served as its president.[52]
In December 2012, Frattini left the PdL, later defining the leadership of the new party,
Frattini did not run for the 2013 Italian general election,[55] while supporting the "Agenda
Since 2013, Frattini was a consultant to the Serbian government of
Since 2014, Frattini was a member of the high court of sports justice of CONI, a court of last resort of the Italian sports system.
In May 2014, Frattini was awarded an honorary degree from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation for his commitment to the development of “mutual understanding and relations” between Italy and Russia.[64][65]
Frattini was a candidate to succeed
In 2018, on the occasion of the Italian presidency of the
In 2020, while holding a sport judge position in the trial of the doping case of PRC swimmer Sun Yang, it was revealed that Frattimi had made comments about dog meat eating in China and used derogatory terms against the Chinese people on social media over a number of years. Concerns over his anti-China bias persuaded the federal court that Frattini should not have presided over banning the PRC swimmer.[71][72]
As of September 2020, he was a member of the Italian Aspen Institute.[73]
Positions
Interviewed by Reuters in 2007, Frattini said it was his intention to investigate technical possibilities for implementing internet monitoring of "dangerous words" such as "bombs", "killing", "genocide", and "terrorism". The project did not see the light of day.[74][75]
In 2007, Frattini was censured by the European Parliament for his statements against the freedom of movement of people in the EU. In the interview granted and published on 2 November 2007, Frattini stressed that, to respond to the security problem, "what is to be done is simple: you go to a nomad camp in Rome, for example on the Christopher Columbus, and to those who are there you ask" what's your life? If all year 'I do not know', you take it and send it back to Romania. This is how the European directive works: simple and without escape." The motion of censure, presented by the European left, was voted to a large extent: 306 yes, 86 no, and 37 abstentions.[76]
In March 2009, Frattini condemned the 2009 Durban Review Conference, terming the final document unacceptable, since it included positions that emerged in the 2001 conference, which qualified Zionism as a form of racism.[77]
Frattini later made declarations against multiculturalism,[78] but in favour of the administrative vote for regular migrants,[79] and pleaded for a common European policy on migration.[80]
In November 2009, he called "suggestive"
On 22 October 2010, he declared to the
In November 2010, he defined the revelations of WikiLeaks as "the 9/11 of world diplomacy".[85] and said that Julian Assange "wants to destroy the world".[86]
Personal life and death
Frattini died of cancer on 24 December 2022, at the age of 65.[87]
Electoral history
Election | House | Constituency | Party | Votes | Result | |
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1996 | Chamber of Deputies | Bolzano | FI | 36,510 | Elected | |
2001 | Chamber of Deputies | Bolzano | FI | 32,171 | Not elected | |
Veneto 2 | FI | –[a] | Elected | |||
2008 | Chamber of Deputies | Friuli Venezia Giulia
|
PdL | –[a] | Elected |
- ^ a b Elected in a closed list proportional representation system.
First-past-the-post elections
1996 general election (C): Bolzano | ||||
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Candidate | Coalition or Party | Votes | % | |
Franco Frattini | Pole of Freedoms | 36,510 | 46.8 | |
Ennio Chiodi | The Olive Tree | 34,914 | 44.8 | |
Others | 6,531 | 8.4 | ||
Total | 77,955 | 100.0 |
2001 general election (C): Bolzano | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Candidate | Coalition or Party | Votes | % | |
Claudio Bressa | The Olive Tree–SVP | 37,577 | 49.0 | |
Franco Frattini | House of Freedoms | 32,171 | 42.0 | |
Cristina Zanella | Italy of Values | 4,003 | 5.2 | |
Achille Chiomento | Bonino List–Pannella List | 2,922 | 3.8 | |
Total | 76,673 | 100.0 |
Honors
Frattini received Medaglia Teresiana at University of Pavia in 2008.
Foreign honours
- Malaysia: Honorary Grand Commander of the Order of Loyalty to the Crown of Malaysia (2003)[88]
- Uruguay: Grand Officer of the Medal of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (2003)[89]
- Russia: honorary degree from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation for his commitment to the development of “mutual understanding and relations” between Italy and Russia (May 2014).[90]
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External links
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Official website – blog Diario Italiano Diario Italiano di Franco Frattini
- Interview with Franco Frattini: On World Politics, the United Nations, and Leadership Archived 2 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine