After earning a degree in literature and philosophy in 1978,he worked as a non-tenured lecturer from 1978 to 1983,and as a tenured lecturer from 1984 to 1999. From 1999 to 2004 he was a member of the European Parliament during its 5th term. He is a member of La Margherita,which is a part of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
From 1996 to 2001 he was a member of the national leadership of I Democratici. He was a member of the national executive of I Democratici from 1998 to 2001. From 2001 to 2004 he was a member of the national leadership of La Margherita (full Italian title:Democrazia èLibertà–La Margherita). He has been a member of the national executive of La Margherita since 2004. He was a municipal councillor and Democrazia Cristiana group leader in the municipality of Bitonto from 1985 to 1990. He became Deputy Mayor in 1990 and continued to serve until 1994.
During his 1999-2004 term in the European Parliament,he was a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development from 21 July 1999 to 14 January 2002 and from 17 January 2002 to 19 July 2004,the delegation for relations with southeast Europe from 29 September 1999 to 14 January 2002,the delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China from 7 February 2002 to 19 July 2004.
From December 12,2004 onward he was a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties,Justice and Home Affairs. During this time,from 21 July 1999 to January 14,2002 and from January 17,2002 to February 19,2003,he was a substitute for the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
Claudia Benedikta Roth is a German politician. She was one of the two party chairs from 2004 to 2013 and previously served as one of the vice presidents of the Bundestag. She is currently serving as Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021.
Emine Bozkurt is a Dutch politician of Turkish descent and Member of the European Parliament between 2004 and 2014. She is a member of the Dutch Labour Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists.
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Lapo Pistelli is an Italian politician and Member of the of the Italian Parliament, elected for the Italian Democratic Party. In the Italian Democratic Party is the Head of the Foreign Affairs and International Relations Department.
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Johannes (Hans) Blokland is a former Dutch politician and former Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the ChristianUnion, former treasurer of the Independence and Democracy group, and former vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
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Vittorio Emanuele Agnoletto is an Italian doctor, politician and a former Member of the European Parliament for the Southern Italy constituency. He was first elected in the 2004 European Parliament elections on the Communist Refoundation Party list, part of the European Left. He was not re-elected in the 2009 European Parliament elections.
Louse Wies Sija Anne Lilly Berthe "Lousewies" van der Laan is a retired Dutch politician of the Democrats 66 (D66) party and jurist.
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Ursula Schleicher is a German Christian Social Union in Bavaria politician and harpist who served two terms in the Bundestag from 1972 to 1980 and five terms in the European Parliament between 1979 and 2004. She served as state chair of the Paneuropean Union in Bavaria between 1988 and 1994 before becoming its deputy federal chair in 1995 and was a Vice-President of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999. Schleicher was appointed Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, the Bavarian Order of Merit and the Grand Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2001.
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