Adolfo Urso | |
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Minister for Business and Made in Italy | |
Assumed office 22 October 2022 | |
Prime Minister | Giorgia Meloni |
Preceded by | Giancarlo Giorgetti |
President of COPASIR | |
In office 9 June 2021 –12 October 2022 | |
Preceded by | Raffaele Volpi |
Succeeded by | Lorenzo Guerini |
Member of the Senate | |
Assumed office 23 March 2018 | |
Constituency | Veneto |
Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
In office 15 April 1994 –14 March 2013 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Padua,Italy | 12 July 1957
Political party | MSI (until 1995) AN (1995–2009) PdL (2009–2010) FLI (2010–2011) FareItalia (2011–2015) FdI (2015–present) |
Alma mater | Sapienza University of Rome |
Profession | Politician,journalist |
Adolfo Urso (born 12 July 1957) is an Italian politician and journalist.
The son of Sicilian parents,after studying in Acireale and Catania,Urso graduated in sociology at the "La Sapienza" University of Rome.
He was a journalist for the MSI's newspaper Secolo d'Italia,Deputy Director of the newspaper Roma (1991–92),Editor-in-chief of L'Italia settimanale (1993–94) and Director of the magazine Charta Minuta (since 1994).
Urso was elected Deputy from 1994 to 2008,as member of National Alliance first and then of The People of Freedom. He served as Deputy Minister of Productive Activities with delegation to foreign trade in the second and third Berlusconi government. As Deputy Minister he dealt with the internationalization of companies (Law 56/2005),and presented the Italy-Syria agreement on investment protection for parliamentary ratification (Law 258/2003).
In the fourth Berlusconi government Urso was appointed Undersecretary and subsequently Deputy Minister of Economic Development. After joining Gianfranco Fini's new party,Future and Freedom,on 15 November 2010 Urso,along with other FLI representatives Andrea Ronchi,Roberto Menia and Antonio Buonfiglio,as well as Giuseppe Maria Reina of the MPA,resigned and left the Government due to the refusal by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of resign to form a new government open to the Union of the Centre,as had been requested by Fini. [1]
On 19 April 2011 Urso founded the association FareItalia and on 9 July,together with Andrea Ronchi and Giuseppe Scalia,he definitively left FLI. [2] [3]
In 2015 Urso joined Brothers of Italy,a party led by Giorgia Meloni,and in 2018 he was elected senator into its lists. [4]
In April 2024,Urso,as an industry minister,met with representatives of Uber to discuss the company's position in the country. This was followed by protests from a taxi driver labor union in May 2024. [5]
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