Carlo Casini

Carlo Casini ( born March 4, 1935 in Florence) is an Italian politician of the Christian Democratic party UDC and Member of the European Parliament in the Group of the European People's Party.

Career

Casini made ​​1958 the university law degree and then worked as a lawyer in 1960, 1961-66 as a judge, from 1966 as a deputy prosecutor in Florence and from 1999 as a judge of the Supreme Court of Cassation Italian. He also worked as a journalist and is President of the Italian pro-life movement. From 2000 to 2008 he was a lecturer in international law, human rights and bioethics at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome.

Political career

From 1979 to 1992 Casini was for the Christian Democrats (DC) Member of the Italian Parliament. He was the rapporteur for the Code of Criminal Procedure, for adoption, for drugs and terrorism.

After the decline of the DC he joined in 1994 the Partito Popolare Italiano ( PPI) and the Centro Cristiano Democratico (CCD ) to which finally burst into the UDC 1996. Casini has the same last name as the chairman of the UDC, Pier Ferdinando Casini, however, is not related to him.

In the 1984 European elections Casini was first elected to the European Parliament, where he served until 1999, including as Chairman of the Legal Committee. In 2006 he moved as substitutes for his party colleague Armando Dionisi again into the European Parliament. In the European elections in Italy in 2009, he was confirmed and then voted in Parliament as Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs. Casini is a member of the Conference of Committee Chairs and the Delegation to the ACP -EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. Deputy Casini is on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China.