John Dalli

John Dalli ( born October 5, 1948 in Qormi ) is a conservative Maltese politician and former European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection.

Life

After school, worked and met John Dalli at the company Malta Drydocks, which funded his studies at the Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology. He finished his studies about the correspondence course of an institution in the United Kingdom as an auditor.

Dalli worked for a Maltese advertising agency and the largest textile factory on the island, for which he has held senior positions until 1981. From 1977 to 1979 Dalli worked for the company in Brussels.

John Dalli is married to Josette Dalli ( born callus ), with whom he has two daughters.

Political career

1971 John Dalli joined the youth movement of the Maltese Nationalist Party and remained on the board until 1977 to go for his company to Brussels.

1979 to 1981 he led the campaign of his party. His own candidacy was unsuccessful. From 1987 to 1990 he was Parliamentary Secretary for Industry, 1990-1992 Minister of Economy and Finance from 1992 to 1996. From 1998 to 2004 Dalli served as Minister of Finance and Economy. 2004 Dalli was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and Investment Promotion. From 2008 to 2010 he was Minister for Social Policy. After his appointment as Commissioner in February 2010 Dalli resigned as minister and member of parliament.

From 1987 to 1996 and from 1998 to 2004 Dalli was chairman of a Libyan- Maltese Commission, which took care of the development of relations between the two countries.

EU Commissioner

In February 2010, Dalli was a member of the European Commission José Manuel Durão Barroso, where he led the Department of Health and Consumer Protection took over as Commissioner. As a result of investigations by the European Anti -Fraud Office ( OLAF) Dalli resigned after corruption allegations on October 16, 2012 as a European Commissioner.

Public policy positions and controversies

In his first official acts as an EU Commissioner Dalli showed up in March 2010 as an outspoken proponent of genetic engineering in food production. This placed it at odds with Germany's consumer minister Ilse Aigner, who wanted to prevent a relaxation of the strict EU regulations for genetically modified foods. Dalli advocated a repeal of the ban on imports of genetically modified foods in the European Union.

In May 2010, Dalli sat for the admission of porcine blood -derived thrombin, could be glued together with the small pieces of meat into larger, for meat production, as this is harmless for health. His attempt, however, was blocked by the European Parliament.

In October 2010, Dalli sat among other things, of an EU Tobacco Products Directive, to reduce the nicotine dependence in the European Union.

In June 2012, Dalli expressed as EU consumer protection minister for the approval of the controversial " Roundup Ready" soybean seeds by Monsanto, even though the so sprayed herbicide glyphosate is suspected to damage the genetic material and cause birth defects. The approval would the NGO 's view " Testbiotech " against EU law, because the residues from spraying in the risk assessment of the seeds have not been taken into account.

Also in June 2012 came Dalli, responsible for the EU animal welfare, in conflict with the initiators of the EU-wide animal welfare campaign 8hours. Initiated by the Danish MEP Dan Jørgensen campaign collected until early 2012 across the EU over 1.1 million signatures to limit the transport time from farm animals to a maximum of 8 hours. At the same time signed 395 MEPs and thus the majority of EU parliamentarians the written declaration 49 /2011. In the presentation of the petition by the representatives of European animal welfare organizations and EU parliamentarians June 7, 2012 Dalli promised a new EU draft law on the protection of animals during transport for the year 2014. Although his remarks were recorded by a camera, Dalli short time later completely distanced from his statements. For this reason, the 8 -hours - initiators held on 28 September 2012 in Dallis home country Malta a large conference on animal welfare from. The pressure on Dalli regarding the requirement for an 8 -hour transport time limit grew even in subsequent weeks.

In September 2012, Dalli trying to go against unspecified defamation of his person in online blogs in Malta. As background for defamation Dalli suspected his possible candidacy as party leader of the Maltese Nationalist Party.

As a result of investigations by the European Anti -Fraud Office ( OLAF) Dalli resigned as Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection on 16 October 2012. Prior to these investigations was a complaint from the Swedish tobacco company Swedish Match. A Maltese entrepreneurs to have offered the company for money to establish contact with Dalli, in order to influence EU tobacco legislation. Dalli dismissed all allegations. The allegations proved in investigations of the Prosecutor's Office in Malta, as unfounded. Back in 2004, Dalli had resigned as Maltese Foreign Minister after corruption allegations.

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