Giuseppe Vegas
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Giuseppe Vegas | |
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Senate | |
In office 9 May 1996 – 29 April 2008 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Milan | 16 June 1951
Nationality | Italian |
Political party | Forza Italia The People of Freedom |
Alma mater | University of Milan |
Giuseppe Vegas (born 16 June 1951, in Milan) is an Italian politician.
Biography
Graduated with honors in law in 1973 at the University of Milan, he was scientific director of the Einaudi Foundation in Rome and editor-in-chief of Einaudi News, the foundation's newsletter. He has worked in the field of public administration since 1975. Since 1978 he has been a parliamentary councilor at the Senate of the Republic, where he has long been secretary of the Budget Commission.
In 1995 he was appointed Undersecretary for Finance and, subsequently, to the Treasury in the
He was delegated by his party to the congress of the European People's Party in Berlin in January 2001. Re-elected to the Senate in the 2001 parliamentary election, again in the Novara uninominal constituency. Appointed Undersecretary and subsequently Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance of the governments led by Silvio Berlusconi in the five-year period 2001–2006.
In the 2006 political elections he was re-elected senator for the third time for the Forza Italia slate in Piedmont. He was a member of the Budget Commission and of the European Union Policy Commission. He also held the position of deputy leader of Forza Italia in the Senate.
In the 2008 general elections he was re-elected in Parliament (this time in the Chamber of Deputies) on the
On November 18, 2010 he was appointed by the Council of Ministers to the office of President of CONSOB.[1] He continued to participate in the proceedings of the Chamber of Deputies, including the vote of no confidence in the Berlusconi government on December 14, 2010, as his resignation was scheduled after votes on no-confidence motions.
On 10 January 2011 the Chamber of Deputies approved his resignation.