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A veteran legislator in Italian politics and an activist for various reform policies, she was elected six times as deputy and two times as senator.
A veteran legislator in Italian politics and an activist for various reform policies, she was elected six times as deputy and two times as senator.
She was the leader of [[More Europe]], a liberal, [[european federalism|european federalist]] party list she announced on December 2017, in the [[2018 Italian general election]].
She was the leader of [[More Europe]], a liberal, [[european federalism|european federalist]] party list she announced on December 2017, in the [[2018 Italian general election]].

== Personal Life ==
Bonino never married nor bore children, even succumbing to the Italian authorities in 1975 after having an illegal abortion. She fostered children, but never successfully became pregnant, despite attempts using artificial insemination. She remains private and conservative about her personal life in relation to the usual promiscuous behaviors of female Italian politicians.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=0hyBDAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=emma+bonino&ots=EG78KXwiah&sig=xn39L1dGOuNW1UM76D8hXY6BNxY#v=onepage&q=emma%20bonino&f=true|title=Politics, Gender and Conceptual Metaphors|last=Ahrens|first=K.|date=2009-10-09|publisher=Springer|isbn=9780230245235|language=en}}</ref>


==National political career==
==National political career==
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On 15 March 1999, together with all the [[Santer Commission]], she resigned due to the accusations of fraud and mismanagement against commissioner [[Édith Cresson]]. The final report however leveled charges against most commissioners, including Bonino herself. In November 2002, she was appointed Head of the Italian Government delegation at the Inter-governmental Conference of the Community of Democracies in [[Seoul]].
On 15 March 1999, together with all the [[Santer Commission]], she resigned due to the accusations of fraud and mismanagement against commissioner [[Édith Cresson]]. The final report however leveled charges against most commissioners, including Bonino herself. In November 2002, she was appointed Head of the Italian Government delegation at the Inter-governmental Conference of the Community of Democracies in [[Seoul]].


Along with [[Marco Pannella]], another member of the [[Radicali Italiani|Radical Party]], Bonino has fought numerous battles for [[civil rights]] and individual liberty, mainly concerned with divorce, the legalisation of [[abortion]], the legalisation of drugs, and for sexual and religious freedoms. She has fought for an end to [[capital punishment]], against [[female genital mutilation]], and the eradication of [[world hunger]].
Along with [[Marco Pannella]], another member of the [[Radicali Italiani|Radical Party]], Bonino has fought numerous battles for [[civil rights]] and individual liberty, mainly concerned with divorce, the legalisation of [[abortion]], the legalisation of drugs, and for sexual and religious freedoms. She has fought for an end to [[capital punishment]], against [[female genital mutilation]], and the eradication of [[world hunger]]. In 1975, Bonino funded the information centre for abortion (CISA), and in 1997 she supported the international movement condemning the discrimination of females in Afghanistan, ''<nowiki/>'Un Fiore per le Donne di Kabul'<nowiki/>'' (A Flower for the Women of Kabul). Bonino is also a champion of the recognition of women's rights in the countries of the African Union through the Maputo protocol. She is a founder of the nongovernmental organizations ''<nowiki/>'Non c'è Pace senza Giustizia'<nowiki/>'' (No Peace Without Justice), which supports the international protection and promotion of human rights and democracy, and ''<nowiki/>'Nessuno Tocchi Caino''' (Hands Off Cain), which is an international league that fights for the abolition of the death penalty.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PWJMAQAAQBAJ&pg=PR9&dq=emma+bonino&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjKxcmLr5DhAhWBOn0KHfcxBf44ChDoAQhHMAY#v=onepage&q=emma%20bonino&f=false|title=Scientific Freedom|last=Giordano|first=Simona|last2=Coggon|first2=John|last3=Cappato|first3=Marco|date=2012-08-07|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=9781849668996|language=en}}</ref>


In June 1999, she obtained a historic percentage of votes (8.5%) in the European elections (vs. the usual 2–3% that Radicals got in the previous and subsequent elections). Her list ([[Lista Bonino]]) won seven of 78 Italian seats in this election.
In June 1999, she obtained a historic percentage of votes (8.5%) in the European elections (vs. the usual 2–3% that Radicals got in the previous and subsequent elections). Her list ([[Lista Bonino]]) won seven of 78 Italian seats in this election.


Emma Bonino supported the [[NATO]] intervention in [[Kosovo]] in the spring of 1999. From 1999 to 2004, the Lista Bonino was non-affiliated. Since 2004, it is part of the [[Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe|ALDE]] group. In December 2001, she moved to [[Cairo]] with the objective of learning the [[Arabic language]] and culture. In March 2003, she started a daily review of the Arabic press on [[Radical Radio]]. In January 2004, she organized the "Regional Conference on Democracy, [[Human Rights]] and the role of the [[International Criminal Court|International Penal Court]], the first for an Arabic country. She is currently a board member of the [[Arab Democracy Foundation]].
Emma Bonino supported the [[NATO]] intervention in [[Kosovo]] in the spring of 1999. From 1999 to 2004, the Lista Bonino was non-affiliated, as it was founded with a claim to not adhere to the traditional centre-left versus centre-right politics, rather remaining in the middle to maximize any potential bargaining power<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K4jlaPUP1MAC&pg=PA10&dq=emma+bonino&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjKxcmLr5DhAhWBOn0KHfcxBf44ChDoAQgnMAA#v=onepage&q=bonino&f=true|title=Italian Politics: The Faltering Transition|last=Gilbert|first=Mark|last2=Pasquino|first2=Gianfranco|date=2000|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=9781571818409|language=en}}</ref>. Since 2004, it is part of the [[Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe|ALDE]] group. In December 2001, she moved to [[Cairo]] with the objective of learning the [[Arabic language]] and culture. In March 2003, she started a daily review of the Arabic press on [[Radical Radio]]. In January 2004, she organized the "Regional Conference on Democracy, [[Human Rights]] and the role of the [[International Criminal Court|International Penal Court]], the first for an Arabic country. She is currently a board member of the [[Arab Democracy Foundation]].


Bonino was a board member of [[DARA (international organization)|DARA]] until December 2012. In 2016, she was appointed by [[Erik Solheim]], the Chairman of the [[Development Assistance Committee]], to serve on the High Level Panel on the Future of the Development Assistance Committee under the leadership of [[Mary Robinson]].<ref>[http://www.oecd.org/dac/DAC-HighLevelPanel-Panelist-bios.pdf High Level Panel on the Future of the Development Assistance Committee] [[Development Assistance Committee]].</ref>
Bonino was a board member of [[DARA (international organization)|DARA]] until December 2012. In 2016, she was appointed by [[Erik Solheim]], the Chairman of the [[Development Assistance Committee]], to serve on the High Level Panel on the Future of the Development Assistance Committee under the leadership of [[Mary Robinson]].<ref>[http://www.oecd.org/dac/DAC-HighLevelPanel-Panelist-bios.pdf High Level Panel on the Future of the Development Assistance Committee] [[Development Assistance Committee]].</ref>

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Senator
Emma Bonino
OMRI
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
28 April 2013 – 22 February 2014
Prime MinisterEnrico Letta
Preceded byMario Monti (Acting)
Succeeded byFederica Mogherini
Minister of European Affairs and International Trade
In office
17 May 2006 – 7 May 2008
Prime MinisterRomano Prodi
Preceded byGiorgio La Malfa (European Affairs)
Succeeded byAndrea Ronchi (European Affairs)
Claudio Scajola (Development)
European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection
In office
25 January 1995 – 16 September 1999
PresidentJacques Santer
Manuel Marín (Acting)
Preceded byChristiane Scrivener
Succeeded byDavid Byrne
Personal details
Born (1948-03-09) 9 March 1948 (age 76)
Bra, Italy
Political partyRadical Party (Before 1989)
Pannella List (1989–1996)
Bonino List (1996–2001)
Italian Radicals (2001–present)
Other political
affiliations		Transnational Radical Party (1989–present)
Alma materBocconi University
WebsiteOfficial website

Emma Bonino OMRI, CdrLH (born 9 March 1948 in Bra)[1] is an Italian politician, she is currently a Senator for Rome. She recently served as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Previously, she was a member of the European Parliament and a member of the Italian Senate. She served in the government of Italy as minister of international trade from 2006 to 2008.

She is a leading member of the Italian Radicals, a political party which describes itself "liberale, liberista e libertario" (where liberista denotes economic liberalism and libertario a form of cultural liberalism concerning moral issues, with some ideological connection with historical left-libertarianism).

She graduated in modern languages and literature from Bocconi University in Milan in 1972.

A veteran legislator in Italian politics and an activist for various reform policies, she was elected six times as deputy and two times as senator. She was the leader of More Europe, a liberal, european federalist party list she announced on December 2017, in the 2018 Italian general election.

Personal Life

Bonino never married nor bore children, even succumbing to the Italian authorities in 1975 after having an illegal abortion. She fostered children, but never successfully became pregnant, despite attempts using artificial insemination. She remains private and conservative about her personal life in relation to the usual promiscuous behaviors of female Italian politicians.[2]

National political career

Bonino was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1976 and reelected in 1979, 1983, 1987, 1992, 1994 and 2006. In 1975, she founded the Information Centre on Sterilisation and Abortion and promoted the referendum which led to the legalisation of abortion in Italy. In 1986, she was among the promoters of a referendum against nuclear energy that led to the rejection of a civil nuclear energy programme in Italy.

On 17 May 2006, Bonino was appointed as minister for international trade in the cabinet of Romano Prodi.[3] She resigned from office on 7 May 2008 when she had been elected vice president of the Senate the previous day. In 2008, at the elections of 13 and 14 April, she was elected to a seat in the Senate, the second parliamentary chamber, on the list of the Democratic Party for the Piedmont constituency.

On 28 April 2013, she was sworn in as foreign minister in the government led by Enrico Letta.

In June 2017, public opinion polls of her stood at 43 percent, second only to prime minister Paolo Gentiloni.[4] Despite the positive public opinion, her party falls short of the 3 percent required for a seat in Parliament. In response, she has adopted the slogan "Love Me Less, Vote Me More."[5][6]

International political career

Emma Bonino with the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, before their meeting in Rome.

Bonino was elected to the European Parliament in 1979 and re-elected in 1984 and 1999. She served as the Secretary of the Transnational Radical Party in 1993–94 and the party's president in 1991–1993. In October 1994, she was appointed head of the Italian Government delegation to the UN General Assembly for the "Moratorium on death penalty" initiative. From 1994 to 1999, she was European Commissioner responsible for Consumer Policy, Fisheries and the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO). In 1997, her field of competence was widened to include consumer health protection and food safety.

On 15 March 1999, together with all the Santer Commission, she resigned due to the accusations of fraud and mismanagement against commissioner Édith Cresson. The final report however leveled charges against most commissioners, including Bonino herself. In November 2002, she was appointed Head of the Italian Government delegation at the Inter-governmental Conference of the Community of Democracies in Seoul.

Along with Marco Pannella, another member of the Radical Party, Bonino has fought numerous battles for civil rights and individual liberty, mainly concerned with divorce, the legalisation of abortion, the legalisation of drugs, and for sexual and religious freedoms. She has fought for an end to capital punishment, against female genital mutilation, and the eradication of world hunger. In 1975, Bonino funded the information centre for abortion (CISA), and in 1997 she supported the international movement condemning the discrimination of females in Afghanistan, 'Un Fiore per le Donne di Kabul' (A Flower for the Women of Kabul). Bonino is also a champion of the recognition of women's rights in the countries of the African Union through the Maputo protocol. She is a founder of the nongovernmental organizations 'Non c'è Pace senza Giustizia' (No Peace Without Justice), which supports the international protection and promotion of human rights and democracy, and 'Nessuno Tocchi Caino' (Hands Off Cain), which is an international league that fights for the abolition of the death penalty.[7]

In June 1999, she obtained a historic percentage of votes (8.5%) in the European elections (vs. the usual 2–3% that Radicals got in the previous and subsequent elections). Her list (Lista Bonino) won seven of 78 Italian seats in this election.

Emma Bonino supported the NATO intervention in Kosovo in the spring of 1999. From 1999 to 2004, the Lista Bonino was non-affiliated, as it was founded with a claim to not adhere to the traditional centre-left versus centre-right politics, rather remaining in the middle to maximize any potential bargaining power[8]. Since 2004, it is part of the ALDE group. In December 2001, she moved to Cairo with the objective of learning the Arabic language and culture. In March 2003, she started a daily review of the Arabic press on Radical Radio. In January 2004, she organized the "Regional Conference on Democracy, Human Rights and the role of the International Penal Court, the first for an Arabic country. She is currently a board member of the Arab Democracy Foundation.

Bonino was a board member of DARA until December 2012. In 2016, she was appointed by Erik Solheim, the Chairman of the Development Assistance Committee, to serve on the High Level Panel on the Future of the Development Assistance Committee under the leadership of Mary Robinson.[9]

Philanthropy and charitable causes

Bonino is a member of the eminent international Council of Patrons of the Asian University for Women (AUW) in Chittagong, Bangladesh. The University, which is the product of east-west foundational partnerships (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Open Society Foundation, IKEA Foundation, etc) and regional cooperation, serves extraordinarily talented women from 15 countries across Asia and the Middle East.[10][11]

Personal life

Bonino is a godmother of Countess Luana, elder daughter of Prince Friso and Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau.

On January 12, 2015, she announced on Radio Radicale she was suffering from lung cancer and was being treated with chemotherapy, though she also stated she was not abandoning her political activity.[12] On May 21 of the same year, on the same radio station, she announced her cancer was in complete remission.[13]

Recognition

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic – awarded on 21 December 2015[14]


In 1999 Bonino was one of the two winners of the North-South Prize,[15] an award that honors individuals with accomplishment in the protection of human rights, pluralistic democracy, and improvement of North-South relations.

For her battles and engagements with controversial issues, her engagement in the promotion of human rights and civil rights in the world, she received the "Open Society Prize 2004" and "Prix Femmes d'Europe 2004" for Italy.

She received the America Award of the Italy-USA Foundation in 2013.

References

  1. ^ Gino Moliterno, ed. (2005). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture (PDF). London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-203-74849-2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2015. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ Ahrens, K. (9 October 2009). Politics, Gender and Conceptual Metaphors. Springer. ISBN 9780230245235.
  3. ^ "Governo: a Bonino ministro nuovo e con portafoglio" (in Italian). Retrieved 18 May 2006. [dead link]
  4. ^ "67. La leadership a destra, sinistra e nel M5S - Atlante politico - Demos & Pi". www.demos.it. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  5. ^ Povoledo, Elisabetta (9 February 2018). "She Won Italians' Hearts. But Can She Win Their Votes?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  6. ^ Merelli, Annalisa. "There are two rays of hope for progressives in Italy's election". Quartz. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  7. ^ Giordano, Simona; Coggon, John; Cappato, Marco (7 August 2012). Scientific Freedom. A&C Black. ISBN 9781849668996.
  8. ^ Gilbert, Mark; Pasquino, Gianfranco (2000). Italian Politics: The Faltering Transition. Berghahn Books. ISBN 9781571818409.
  9. ^ High Level Panel on the Future of the Development Assistance Committee Development Assistance Committee.
  10. ^ "Akie Abe, Japan's First Lady, Joins AUW as Patron". dnaindia.com. 19 February 2013.
  11. ^ "CBK joins Advisory Leadership of Regional University Empowering Women". island.lk. 11 March 2017.
  12. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20150113204845/http://www.radioradicale.tv/bonino-ho-un-tumore-al-polmone
  13. ^ https://www.corriere.it/politica/15_maggio_21/bonino-sta-meglio-scomparsa-ogni-evidenza-cancro-f227399a-ffbd-11e4-8e1b-bb088a57f88b.shtml
  14. ^ https://www.quirinale.it/onorificenze/insigniti/338391
  15. ^ "The North South Prize of Lisbon". North-South Centre. Council of Europe. Archived from the original on 1 June 2008. Retrieved 21 January 2008.

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Preceded by European Commissioner from Italy
1995–1999
Served alongside: Mario Monti 		Succeeded by
Preceded by European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection
1995–1999 		Succeeded by
Preceded byas Minister of European Affairs Minister of European Affairs and International Trade
2006–2008 		Succeeded byas Minister of European Affairs
Succeeded byas Minister of Economic Development
Preceded by Minister of Foreign Affairs
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