17 Facts About Beniamino Andreatta

Beniamino "Nino" Andreatta was an Italian economist and politician.

Beniamino Andreatta was a member of Christian Democracy, and one of the founders of the Italian People's Party in 1994 and of the Olive Tree centre-left coalition in 1996.

Beniamino Andreatta had a long association with Bruno Kessler, president of the Province of Trento from 1960 to 1974, on the topic of autonomy.

Beniamino Andreatta held several ministerial posts: in 1979 he was Minister of the Budget and Economic Planning in the first government of Francesco Cossiga and without portfolio "special assignment" in the second government led by Cossiga.

Beniamino Andreatta was Treasury Secretary from October 1980 to December 1982 in the government of Arnaldo Forlani and the two governments of Giovanni Spadolini.

Beniamino Andreatta did not participate in the following governments of Bettino Craxi and Giulio Andreotti, especially since he was skeptical of the economic policies that these adopted.

Beniamino Andreatta's stay at the Treasury coincided with some of the most critical years in the history of contemporary Italy.

Beniamino Andreatta sanctioned the separation of the Bank of Italy by the Italian Ministry of the Treasury, and when in 1981 the P2 the scandal was revealed, he was adamant in removing officials and managers who appeared in the list seized from Licio Gelli.

Beniamino Andreatta himself held a historic speech in Parliament publicly reporting responsibilities of the Vatican bank and its leaders.

Beniamino Andreatta was vice president of the European People's Party from 1984 to 1987, and was close to Helmut Kohl and his Christian Democratic Union.

Beniamino Andreatta returned to power in 1992, in the wake of the scandal of Tangentopoli who had alienated many politicians, as Minister of the Budget with the interim of the Cassa per il Mezzogiorno in the first government of Giuliano Amato, Beniamino Andreatta was then foreign minister in the government of Carlo Azeglio Ciampi from April 1993 to March 1994, and in this role he advanced a proposal for reform of the UN.

Beniamino Andreatta was one of the main proponents and supporters of the birth of the Olive Tree coalition.

Beniamino Andreatta was throughout his career a promoter of a mixed economic system and between the pupils of his main school of thought the most important was Romano Prodi, which he sponsored as a guide for the center-left coalition after the fall of the first Berlusconi government in 1995.

Prodi nominated him as defence minister in his first government, where Beniamino Andreatta made a number of significant proposals: the reform of the General Staff, the 'abolition of conscription, the reform of the civil service.

Beniamino Andreatta launched Operazione Alba and proposed ideas to build and organize a European defence forces.

Beniamino Andreatta suffered from cerebral hypoxia for twenty minutes, incurring permanent damage.

Beniamino Andreatta's daughter Eleonora, nicknamed Tinny, is a senior executive at Rai and, in 2012, was appointed the director of Rai Fiction.