14 Facts About David Casa

David Casa is Malta's longest serving MEP, having served since June 2004.

David Casa is Co-Chair of the Media Working Group of the European Parliament and the EPP's Head of National Delegation for Malta.

In 2019, David Casa successfully negotiated the Work-Life Balance Directive, which enshrined paternal leave as an EU right for the first time.

David Casa was elected Quaestor of the European Parliament, having withheld his nomination for a second term to support the candidature of Roberta Metsola for President of the European Parliament.

David Casa is known for his work in the European Parliament Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and was the European Parliament's lead negotiator on landmark legislation on social affairs.

David Casa was the EPP Group Coordinator for the EMPL Committee for two terms during the 8th legislature, having been reelected unanimously in 2017.

Mr David Casa was the EPP coordinator for the employment and social affairs committee and serves as the substitute for the economic and monetary affairs committee.

David Casa became the first ever Maltese member of the European Parliament to lead and successfully negotiate a directive on behalf of the European People's Party.

On 26 February 2019 the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs approved the agreement David Casa reached with the Council on the Work Life Balance Directive.

In 2020, David Casa was nominated Co-Chair of the Media Working Group of the European Parliament.

In 2021, David Casa presided over the first edition of the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism, for which he was responsible as Quaestor of the European Parliament and as Co-Chair of the Media Working Group.

David Casa was one of the founding members and subsequently Secretary General of the Moviment Iva, an organisation which played a fundamental role in the campaign in favour of Malta's accession to the European Union in the run-up to the referendum on the subject.

Mr David Casa was Secretary of the Malta-EU Steering and Action Committee and subsequently served as advisor and Personal Assistant to Prof Guido de Marco during his tenure as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister.

David Casa was active in the Council of the Confederation of Malta Trade Unions and later he formed part of the Executive Committee of the Union of Bankers.