10 Facts About Lilli Gruber

Dietlinde "Lilli" Gruber was born on 19 April 1957 and is an Italian journalist and former politician.

Currently a talk show host for Italian private television channel La7, Gruber served as Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to September 2008 with the Olive Tree centre-left coalition.

Lilli Gruber was born in Bolzano and is a German and Italian native speaker.

Lilli Gruber attended the foreign languages and literature course at the University of Venice.

In 1982 Lilli Gruber started her journalism career and in 1987 became the anchor of TG1, the main television news program on Rai Uno.

Lilli Gruber attacked his "unresolved conflict of interest", and considered that RAI had abandoned its tradition of pluralism in order to support the government's views.

Lilli Gruber has worked for the Italian newspaper La Stampa, for "Io Donna", TV Sorrisi e Canzoni and Anna.

Lilli Gruber topped the Olive Tree votes in two electoral regions, and beat Berlusconi himself in the Central region vote.

Lilli Gruber served in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, and as an alternate on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Chair of the Delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen.

Lilli Gruber resigned from her position in September 2008, months before the natural completion of her mandate, to return to her previous journalism career.