Carlo Casini

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Carlo Casini, MEP

Carlo Casini (born 04 March 1935, Firenze) is an MEP from the French Union of Christian and Centre Democrats.

Affiliations

• Member, Committee on Legal Affairs
• Member, Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries
• Substitute, Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
• Substitute, Committee on Development
• Substitute, Subcommittee on Human Rights
• Substitute, Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly

Personal Information

Curriculum Vitae

• Graduate in law (1958).
• Lawyer (1960).
• Magistrate (1961).
• Pretore (Magistrate) for the Empoli District (Florence, 1963).
• Deputy State Prosecutor (Florence, 1966).
• Judge of the Court of Cassation (1999).
• Member of the Chamber of Deputies (8th, 9th, 10th and 11th parliamentary terms - 1979-1994). Rapporteur on code of criminal procedure, adoption, drugs and terrorism.
• Member of the European Parliament (1984-1999).
• Chairman of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Citizens' Rights and Vice-President of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. Rapporteur on artificial human procreation, international adoption and exploitation of minors.
• President of the Italian Pro-Life Movement.
• Member of the national executive of the "Scienza e Vita" Committee.
• Member of the National Bioethics Committee (CNB).
• Member of the European Group on Ethics (EGE)
• Lecturer in international law, human rights and bioethics at the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical Athenaeum (Rome, 2002-2008).
• Silver Medal of Merit for Social Rehabilitation awarded by the Ministry of Justice (1974).

Contact

Address:

Parlement européen

Bât. Altiero Spinelli

09E253

60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60

B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel

Phone:

+32 (0)2 28 45330

Fax

+32 (0)2 28 49330

Email:

carlo.casini@europarl.europa.eu

Website:

http://www.carlocasini.it

Resources

• European Parliament, Dichiarazione degli Interessi di carattere finanziario dei deputati: Carlo Casini, 10 December 2008, accessed 15 April 2009.
• European Parliament, MEP Directory: Carlo Casini, accessed 15 April 2009.