Giulio Tremonti

Infobox Prime Minister
honorific-prefix = Onorevole
name = Giulio Tremonti

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order4 = Italian Minister of Finance
term_start4 = May 10 1994
term_end4 = January 17 1995
primeminister4 = Silvio Berlusconi
predecessor4 = Franco Gallo
successor4 = Augusto Fantozzi
order = Italian Minister of Economy and Finance
term_start = May 8, 2008
term_end =
predecessor = Tommaso Padoa Schioppa
successor =
primeminister = Silvio Berlusconi
order2 = Italian Minister of Economy and Finance and Deputy Prime Minister
term_start3 = June 10 2001
term_end3 = July 3 2004
primeminister3 = Silvio Berlusconi
predecessor3 = Vincenzo Visco
successor3 = "Silvio Berlusconi" "interim"
Domenico Siniscalco
primeminister2 = Silvio Berlusconi
term_start2 = April 23 2005
term_end2 = May 17 2006
predecessor2 = Domenico Siniscalco
successor2 = Tommaso Padoa Schioppa
birth_date = birth date and age|1947|8|18
birth_place = Sondrio, Italy
nationality = Italian
religion = Roman Catholic
alma_mater = University of Pavia
residence =
profession = economist
university professor
party = Forza Italia
spouse =
children = |

Giulio Tremonti (born August 18, 1947) is an Italian politician and economist. He is the current Minister of Economy and Finance in the Italian government, presided over by Silvio Berlusconi. He served in the same capacity and as Deputy Prime Minister in prior Berlusconi cabinets.

Career

Tremonti was born in Sondrio. He is a tenured professor at the University of Pavia, Italy, and has been a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Comparative Law, Oxford.

He first ran for the Italian Parliament in 1987 with the Italian Socialist Party. Elected for the first time in 1994 for the Pact for Italy, he switched his allegiance to Forza Italia soon after the Parliament held session, and obtained a position in the first Berlusconi cabinet.

Born in Sondrio, Northern Lombardy, in a family of Venetian ancestry (from Lorenzago di Cadore, Northern Veneto), he was the man who facilitated the dialogue between Silvio Berlusconi and Umberto Bossi, leader of the Northern League and a friend of Tremonti's, leading to the formation of the center-right coalition House of Freedoms. Although a member of Forza Italia, on many issues he is closer to the League. In particular, he is a staunch political and fiscal federalist, supporting a federal reform of the Italian political system and more autonomy for Lombardy and Veneto, where he has his core supporters.

Tremonti again served as Finance Minister from 2001 to 2004, when he was compelled to resign after disputes about the economic situation of the country - he had been widely criticized by the opposition and, within the House of Freedoms, by the National Alliance. He was then reappointed to the position after his substitute, Domenico Siniscalco, resigned in September 2005.

With his last book, "La paura e la speranza", he expressed open support to the anti-globalisation arguments and he suggested a populist and protectionist political economy for Europe.

He is currently Chairman of the Aspen Institute Italia and a frequent guest columnist on the "Corriere della Sera", one of Italy's most respected newspapers.

Essays on economics and finances

*"La fiera delle tasse" ("The Bills' Fair", 1991)
*"Il federalismo fiscale" ("Fiscal Federalism", 1994)
*"Il fantasma della povertà" ("The Phantom of Poverty", 1995)
*"Le cento tasse degli italiani" ("The Hundred Taxes of Italians", 1996, with G. Vitaletti)
*"Lo Stato criminogeno" ("The crime-generating State", 1997)
*"Rischi fatali – L’Europa vecchia, la Cina, il mercatismo suicida: come reagire" ("Fatal risks: Old Europe, China, the Suicidal Free Market Ideology: How to React", 2005)
*"La paura e la speranza - Europa : la crisi globale che si avvicina e la via per superarla" ("Fear and hope - Europe: crisis approaching and the way to overcome it", 2008)

References

* [http://www.governo.it/Governo/Biografie/ministri/Tremonti_Giulio.html Official biography] it icon
* [http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_24/b3736626.htm 2001 Profile in "Business Week"]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3862245.stm BBC Report on his resignation in 2004]
* [http://www.giuliotremonti.it/ Giulio Tremonti's Official Website]

Persondata
NAME= Tremonti, Giulio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Italian politician
DATE OF BIRTH= August 18, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH= Sondrio, Italy
DATE OF DEATH=
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