change language
you are in: home - ecumenis...dialogue - internat...or peace - sarajevo 2012 newslettercontact uslink

Support the Community

  

Let us help Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

The Community of Sant'Egidio launches a fundraising campaign to send humanitarian aid to the refugee camps in Bangladesh, in collaboration with the local Church

Christmas Lunch with the poor: let's prepare a table table that reaches the whole world

The book "The Christmas Lunch" available online for free. DOWNLOAD! And prepare Christmas with the poor


 
printable version

Tajani Antonio


President of the European Parliament

Born in Rome on 4 August 1953

Married, 2 children
Lived in Paris, Bologna and Rome

Education and languages
- Classical studies at the ‘Torquato Tasso’ secondary school, Rome
- Degree in Law from ‘La Sapienza’ University, Rome
- Foreign languages: French, English and Spanish

Professional Activities
- Officer of the Italian Air Force
He completed officer training at the Florence AirWarfare School (Scuola di Guerra Aerea) and attended a specialisation course for Air Defence Controller at the Training Technical Centre at Borgo Piave. Assigned to the Operational Base of the 33rd Air Force Radar Centre, he worked as Air Defence Controller and was Head of the Operations Room monitoring Italian and European civil and military air traffic
- Professional journalist and parliamentary journalist Editor of the Italian weekly ‘Il Settimanale’
- Presenter for the RAI 1 radio news programme
- Head of the Rome editorial office of the Italian daily ‘Il Giornale’ Special correspondent in Lebanon, the Soviet Union and Somalia

Political Positions
- European Commission Vice-President and Commissioner in charge of Industry and Entrepreneurship from February 2010
- European Commission’s Vice-President and Commissioner in charge of Transport from May 2008 to February 2010
- Vice-Chair of the European People’s Party, elected at the EPP Congress in Estoril in 2002, re-elected at the EPP Congress in Rome in 2006 and re-elected again at the EPP Congress in Bonn in 2009 and in Bucharest in 2012
- Member of the Bureau of the Group of the European People’s Party. He has taken part in all EPP summits in preparation of the European Councils
- Member of the Convention on the Future of Europe, which drew up the text of the European Constitution
- Elected as member of the European Parliament in 1994, 1999 and 2004 with over 120 000 preference votes

During his 15 years of parliamentary activity he took part in many committees (Foreign Affairs, Constitutional Affairs, at the time chaired by the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano, Transport and Tourism, Fisheries, Security and Defence).

(September 2016)

Münster 2017 - Paths of Peace

 

Assisi 2016 - Thirst for Peace

 

Tirana 2015 - Peace is Always Possible

 

Antwerp 2014 Peace is the future

 

World meeting for peace The Courage to Hope

 

Sarajevo 2012

 

September 11: Religions in Dialogue for Peace

 

Barcelona 2010

 

Message of His Holiness Benedict XVI
Benedict XVI

Programme in English
PDF

BROADCAST LIVE PROGRAMME

RELATED NEWS
October 11 2017
HAVANA, CUBA

Religions gather in Havana to open Paths of Peace in Cuba


The interreligious meeting of prayer for peace organized by Sant'Egidio in the Caribbean State
IT | EN | ES | DE | NL | ID
September 25 2017
JOS, NIGERIA

The Spirit of Assisi in Nigeria: in Jos Christians and Muslims in dialogue to open new Paths of Peace


After Münster, the meetings of prayer and inter-religious dialogue promoted by Sant'Egidio in Africa
IT | EN | ES | DE | CA
September 22 2017
MÜNSTER, GERMANY

Paths of Peace: textes, videos and news of the International Meeting of prayer for peace of Münster

IT | EN | ES | FR | CA
September 14 2017

At the Roots of Terrorism. VIDEO


#Pathsofpeace
IT | EN | FR
September 12 2017
MÜNSTER, GERMANY

#pathsofpeace: world religions launch a movement to prevent conflicts. Next year's appointment in Bologna

IT | EN | NL
September 12 2017
OSNABRÜCK, GERMANY

Closing ceremony of Paths of Peace: all the interventions

IT | EN | ES | DE | CA | NL
all related news

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
December 26 2017

Look at the world map enlightened by the Christmas lunches

IT | EN | ES | DE | FR | PT | CA | NL

ASSOCIATED PRESS
February 23 2018
Domradio.de
"Wir können Frieden organisieren wie andere den Krieg"
February 1 2018
SIR
50° Comunità Sant’Egidio: Hilarion (Patriarcato di Mosca), “la nostra una collaborazione che ha dato tanti buoni frutti”
January 30 2018
Vaticannews
Corridoi umanitari: la collaborazione ecumenica via della speranza
January 26 2018
POW - Pressestelle des Ordinariates Würzburg
Angst und Lethargie überwinden
January 15 2018
Roma sette
Ecumenismo, in processione con anglicani, luterani e ortodossi
all press-related

BOOKS
Religions and Violence



Claretian Communications Foundation, Inc.
Making Peace



New City
more books


FOLLOW LIVE THE EVENT
Sarajevo 2012