1. Giulio Tremonti served in the government of Italy as Minister of Economy and Finance under Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from 1994 to 1995, from 2001 to 2004, from 2005 to 2006, and from 2008 to 2011.
12 Facts About Giulio Tremonti
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Giulio Tremonti is a full professor of law at the University of Pavia, Italy, and has been a visiting professor at the Institute of Comparative Law, Oxford.
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Giulio Tremonti first ran for the Italian Parliament in 1987 with the Italian Socialist Party.
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Giulio Tremonti again served as finance minister starting in 2001, when Berlusconi came back to power.
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Giulio Tremonti was compelled to resign on 3 July 2004, after internal disputes about the economic situation of the country within the House of Freedoms, particularly with conservative National Alliance.
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On 5 September 2012 Giulio Tremonti announced that he was setting up his own political movement ahead of elections to be held by next spring, potentially syphoning support from Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom party.
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Giulio Tremonti made a significant reduction in the corporate tax rate and has abolished taxes on reinvested profits.
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Giulio Tremonti has been the promoter of the Global Legal Standards.
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From 2008 until 2009, Giulio Tremonti was a member of the High Level Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems, co-chaired by Gordon Brown and Robert Zoellick.
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Giulio Tremonti expressed how high taxes are a drag on growth and how fiscal federalism can create territorial taxation competition between regions that can reduce the burden on families and workers.
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Giulio Tremonti has been a critic of China's dumping trade policy that causes delocalization of jobs from Europe to Asia.
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Giulio Tremonti is currently a member of the Italy-USA Foundation, chairman of the Aspen Institute Italia and a frequent guest columnist on the Corriere della Sera.