Antonio Giolitti

Antonio Giolitti ( born February 12, 1915 in Rome, † February 8, 2010 in Rome ) was an Italian politician.

The grandson of the liberal Giovanni Giolitti government put a law degree in 1940 from and joined the Communists (PCI ) to the underground. In 1941 he was arrested, but later acquitted for lack of evidence by the Tribunale Speciale per la sicurezza dello Stato.

In 1946 he was elected member of the Constituent Assembly. He was from 1948 to 1957 deputy of the PCI. He left in 1957 because of the Hungarian uprising of 1956, the PCI and joined the Socialists ( Partito Socialista Italiano), for which he was elected 1958-1976 as a deputy again.

Giolitti was budget minister from 1963 to 1964, from 1969 to 1972 and from 1973 to 1974 in the center-left governments ( compromesso storico ) under Moro, Rumor and Emilio Colombo. Giolitti was one of the creators of the economic program. From 1977 to 1985 he was European Commissioner for Regional Policy.

After a confrontation with Bettino Craxi in 1985, he left the PSI. In 1987 he became an independent senator for the PCI - PDS. At the end of the legislature in 1992, he retired from active politics to devote himself to literature. Among other published Antonio Giolitti 1992 Lettere a Marta ( Il Mulino ), an autobiographical work of reflection and personal records.