All about Adolfo Urso, the new Minister of Economic Development
Adolfo Urso will be the new Minister of Economic Development and Made in Italy. Here is a resume, a political and journalistic career, and curiosities
After the interlude at Copasir, Adolfo Urso returns to dealing with economic issues. The new Minister of Economic Development and Made in Italy has a long right-wing history behind him: in the first center-right governments led by Berlusconi he was also Deputy Minister for Foreign Trade.
In recent weeks, Urso has curated and woven international relations in particular in the United States for the benefit of the president of the Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, in view of the almost certain electoral victory that actually took place.
Born in Padua 65 years ago from parents from Acireale (Catania), graduated in Sociology at Sapienza in Rome, he began political activity in the Italian Social Movement and became a journalist (among other things he was one of the signatures of the weekly Italian directed by Marcello Venetians).
In 1983 he was among the authors of the book: 'Athletes in black shirts. Sport in Mussolini's Italy '. In 1986 he became the editor-in-chief of 'Proposal', an area bimonthly.
In 1988 he was one of the regents of the Youth Front; the following year he joined the political secretary of the MSI-DN, where he will head the Information Department.
Among the promoters of the National Alliance, he entered Parliament in 1994.
The current one is his seventh term, the last two as a senator.
With the Berlusconi II and III governments he was deputy minister with responsibility for foreign trade from 2001 to 2006 and between 2009 and 2010. In 2013 he was not nominated by the PDL.
On the strength of the experience and contacts gained in the center-right executive, he founded the company Italy World Services, which provides advice and assistance for Italian companies abroad.
In 2015 he joined the Brothers of Italy and in 2018 he returned to politics by running for the Senate. Elected, obtained the vice-presidency of Copasir.
His activity with the Iws is contested when the Draghi government opens the way to the presidency of the Intelligence Control Committee as the only member of the opposition.
He explains that he passed the leadership of the company to his son. He was then elected president of the organization, overcoming obstacles and criticisms also of the League: Salvini did not want to give up the presidency of Copasir which was the prerogative of Raffaele Volpi, then not surprisingly re -nominated by Salvini in the elections held on 25 September.
The senator is also the president of the Farefuturo foundation which, according to the website, "promotes the culture and values of the nation, avoiding the rampant 'presentism', in the belief that the utmost commitment is needed to design the future of Italy in the context of a Europe delle Patrie ".
Father of three children, he is married to Olga, Ukrainian from Lugansk, a city in Ukraine, self-proclaimed pro-Russian Republic. "
My wife and our son talk in Russian, ”the senator recently said.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/adolfo-urso-ministro-sviluppo-economico/ on Fri, 21 Oct 2022 16:51:46 +0000.