- Giuseppe Caron
Giuseppe Caron (born
February 24 1904 ) was an Italian Christian Democratic Party (CDP) politician who was a Minister in successive governments in the 1950s to the 1970s, and aEuropean Commissioner . He was born inTreviso .Caron trained as a
chemist and worked in thepharmaceutical industry and as a lobbyist. Later, in 1952, he became vice-president of the Italian Chamber of CommerceDuring
World War II Caron became involved in the resistance against theGerman army and was a member of the CDP "Committee for National Release" in Treviso.He was elected to the
Italian Senate in all legislative elections from theItalian general election, 1948 to theItalian general election, 1972 .Caron's first political office was as under-secretary for Civil Aviation. He served under-secretary for Public Works in the Government of
Antonio Segni from 1955 to 1957, under-secretary for Defense in the 1957-1958 Governments ofAdone Zoli and 1958-1959Amintore Fanfani Government.He became active in European politics as one of the Italian delegates at the
Council of Europe .In November (or December) 1959 he was appointed as one of the Italian
European Commissioner s on the firstHallstein Commission to replacePiero Malvestiti who resigned to become President of theEuropean Coal and Steel Community . Caron took over Malvestiti's Internal Market portfolio.His seat in the Senate was taken by
Attilio Venudo .Caron was re-appointed to the second Hallstein Commsion which served from January 1962 and became a Vice-President of the Commission. He resigned from the commission in May 1953 having been re-elected to the Senate in the elections of April 1963. He was replaced in the commission by
Guido Colonna di Paliano .He then joined the governments of
Aldo Moro from 1963 to 1968 where he served as under-secretary to the Budget minister. He held the same position in the first Government ofMariano Rumor from 1968 to 1969 and then became Budget Minister in the second Rumor Government from 1969 to 1970.External references
*it icon [http://www.senato.it/leg/03/BGT/Schede/ProcANL/ProcANLscheda10266.htm Italian senate substituion process 1959]
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