Sandro Gozi
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| Born | 25 March 1968 Sogliano al Rubicone, Cesena, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | • University of Bologna • Sciences Po • Brussels Free University | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | European Council on Foreign Relations, Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, Spinelli Group | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Italian Social Movement (1984–1992), Italian Republican Party (1992–1994), Democratic Party (Italy) (2007–2019), Italia Viva | ||||||||||||||||||||
Italian Europhile politician, parachuted into the European Parliament in a French seat. Attended the 2017 Bilderberg.
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Sandro Gozi is an Italian politician who became Member of the European Parliament for a French constituency in 2020.[1][2] He attended the 2017 Bilderberg meeting.
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Education
He graduated in law from the University of Bologna in 1992. He then obtained a diplôme d'études approfondies at SciencesPo in Paris in 1994. In 1996, took a PhD in public law in Bologna with a thesis on European comitology.[3] He also holds a master's degree in international politics from Brussels Free University in 1998.[4]
During his university years, Gozi was close to the post-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI) of Giorgio Almirante, with whom he is portrayed in a photo.[5]
Career
Between 1995 and 1996, Gozi worked in Italy's foreign service. He subsequently was an official at the General Secretariat of the European Commission for almost a decade from 1996 to 2005. From 2000 to 2004, he was political assistant and member of cabinet of then European Commission President Romano Prodi. In 2001, Gozi was also appointed coordinator for the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe.
A member of the national parliament since the 2006 elections who was elected in Umbria on the list of L'Ulivo, Gozi again advised then-prime minister Prodi on European Union (EU) politics until 2008, and later served as chairman of the parliamentary committee on Schengen, Europol and immigration affairs.[3] In addition to his role in the Italian Parliament, Gozi was a member of the Italian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 2013 until 2015.
In 2007, he was one of the founders of the Democratic Party. From 2011 to 2013, Gozi was ambassador for the Rome bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics.[6]
On 28 February 2014, Gozi joined the Renzi Cabinet as Under-Secretary for European Affairs in the office of Matteo Renzi.[3] Despite not receiving the title of minister, as his predecessors, Gozi was tasked with coordinating, with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the six months of Italy's presidency of the EU Council.
At the 2018 Italian general election, Gozi was candidate for Parliament in his native Emilia-Romagna, where he came in third among the PD candidates and was not elected.[7]
In November 2018 in Vienna, he was elected president of the Union of European Federalists.[8]
In 2019, he was a candidate in the European elections in France, in 22nd place on the Renaissance list Renew Europe, supported by La République En Marche and MoDem. He ranked 22nd on the list and remained a member of the Democratic Party in Italy while participating in the elections. Following the elections, he was elected as one of the five French MEPs who would replace the post- Brexit British MEPs.
On 1 February 2020, he took office as a member of the European Parliament. On 5 May 2021, he was elected secretary general of the European Democratic Party, succeeding former French Secretary of State for European Affairs Marielle de Sarnez, who died prematurely in January of the same year.
In February 2025 he suggested that
we should start allocating resources to European military projects and initiatives to speed up the construction of a real European military power.[9]
Covid
During Covid from 2020, Gozi asked about "Safeguarding EU citizens’ passenger rights"[10] and was part of a group suggesting "Developing a common vaccination card in the EU in light of the COVID-19 pandemic".[11]
In July 2021, he said:
In France, the reaction [to vaccine passports] was largely positive, so much so that in the hours after the announcement there were more than a million reservations to take the vaccine. It is a decision to encourage vaccination as much as possible and reward civic sense. I believe that even in Italy the reaction would be positive.[12]
Curious legal proceedings
On 15 April 2019, the Single Court of the Republic of San Marino created a register of suspects for an alleged "phantom" consultancy with the San Marino Central Bank on the "regulatory adjustment to harmonize relations with the EU". An investigation was launched against Gozi and the president of the BCSM, Catia Tomasetti. However, on 2 July 2020 the same court dismissed the criminal proceedings against Gozi and Tomasetti, citing no relevant conduct against them.[Gozi has powerful protectors?].
The Commissioner of the Law, Alberto Buriani, who had opened the investigation in 2019, was remanded for trial for offences of false testimony and attempted extortion[These accusations sound very suspicious]. He was allegedly in conspiracy with Simone Celli, former Secretary of State of the Republic of San Marino, and was charged for facts related to that investigation. Buriani was also remanded for trial in conspiracy with third parties for violating the investigative secret and official secrecy related to the investigation concerning Gozi and Tomasetti.
On 8 February 2024, the trial of former Secretary of State Simone Celli and former Law Commissioner Alberto Buriani ended with a sentence of one year for Celli (for attempted bribery, one year imprisonment with a suspended sentence) and four years for Buriani (for attempted bribery and abuse of authority, a total of four years imprisonment and five years' disqualification from public office)
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2017 | 1 June 2017 | 4 June 2017 | US Virginia Chantilly | The 65th Bilderberg Meeting |
| Brussels Forum/2010 | 26 March 2010 | 28 March 2010 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund. |
References
- ↑ https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/204419/SANDRO_GOZI/home
- ↑ https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/an-essential-sustainable-single-market
- ↑ Jump up to: a b c Toby Vogel (September 18, 2014), Sandro Gozi – accidental minister European Voice.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160126030231/http://www.sandrogozi.it/documenti/cv_english.pdf
- ↑ https://www.adnkronos.com/fatti/politica/2019/08/16/spunta-foto-gozi-nel-fronte-della-gioventu-lui-avevo-anni_0wGQkFzot40IHu026p9XkO.html
- ↑ http://www.radio24.ilsole24ore.com/programma/a-bordo-campo/lambasciatore-roma-2020-campioni-143753-gSLAkCJdF
- ↑ http://www.cesenatoday.it/politica/assegnati-gli-ultimi-seggi-del-proporzionale-ecco-gli-11-parlamentari-romagnoli-manca-gozi.htm
- ↑ http://www.cesenatoday.it/politica/sandro-gozi-eletto-come-nuovo-presidente-dei-federalisti-europei.html
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/sandrogoziufficiale/photos/the-decisions-taken-by-president-trump-last-night-such-as-the-suspension-of-aid-/1164785785097922/?_rdr
- ↑ https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/questions/reponses_qe/2020/006008/P9_RE(2020)006008_EN.pdf
- ↑ https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2020-007085_EN.html
- ↑ https://www.strettoweb.com/2021/07/green-pass-in-francia-gozi-reazione-dei-cittadini-largamente-positiva-anche-in-italia-sarebbe-lo-stesso/1211009/
