Mario Mauro

Mario Mauro (born July 24, 1961 in San Giovanni Rotondo) is an Italian Member of the European Parliament and a teacher of history. He was first elected on the Forza Italia ticket, and in 2009 on the merged party The People of Freedom ticket. He sits with the European People's Party group.

On July 20, 2004 he was elected one of the 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament.^[1]

Reported opinions

Following the approval by the European Parliament on 18 January 2006 of a resolution which invited member states to consider homosexual couples equivalent to those of a man and a woman and condemned as homophobic States and Nations which oppose recognition of gay couples, Mauro declared: "The document approved is an ideological one which has little to do with the concrete protection of fundamental human rights, but sounds much more like a manifesto in praise of the destruction of the values that gave rise to the European Union as a political project" and "how else could we describe the demand for the European Institutions to meddle in the life of Member States modifying the constitutions of the different countries so as to open the way to gay marriage irrespective of the decisions of their peoples?"^{[cite this quote]}

Again on the question of recognition of same-sex couples, Mauro declared that "European law has no jurisdiction over family law in the single EU countries and therefore over making the family equivalent to cohabitation and homosexual unions".^{[cite this quote]}

Currently he holds, in addition to his position as European Parliamentary, the following positions:

1) Personal Representative of the OSCE presidency against racism, xenophobia and discrimination, with special reference to discrimination against Christians (2009). 2) Professor contracted "Fundamental human rights in natural law and international agreements" and "History of European institutions" at the European University of Rome (since 2008).

In his parliamentary duties, which can be accessed http://www.europarl.europa.eu, he maintains a dynamic work of monitoring the activity of the Commission for the promotion and defense of human rights in various parts of the world and protection of activists who suffer persecution or discrimination of local authorities.

References

1. ^ European Parliament page

External links

• Website

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