1. Monica Frassoni was born on 10 September 1963 and is an Italian politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009 and as co-chair of the European Green Party from 2009 to 2019.
21 Facts About Monica Frassoni
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In 2010, Frassoni co-founded and leads the European Alliance to Save Energy a multi-stakeholder, business-led organisation which aims to promote and advocate energy savings and a new energy model.
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Monica Frassoni is a member of the steering committee of the Coalition of Energy Savings.
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Since 2013, Monica Frassoni has been president of the Management Board of the European Centre for Electoral Support, one of the most important organisation worldwide to implement electoral and democracy assistance projects mainly funded by the European Union and its Member States.
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Monica Frassoni is a member of the board of trustees of "Friends of Europe" a leading think tank that works to promote a more inclusive, sustainable and forward-looking Europe.
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Monica Frassoni is a board member of the Foundation ceci n'est pas une crise, created in 2013 in Belgium to respond to the challenges of cultural and identity populism.
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Monica Frassoni is a Political Science graduate from the University of Florence Cesare Alfieri.
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From 1983, Monica Frassoni became actively involved in the European Federalist Movement.
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Monica Frassoni was appointed president of the European Co-Coordinating Bureau of Youth NGOs, a position she held from 1991 to 1993.
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In 1999, Monica Frassoni was elected as a member of the European Parliament for her first mandate with Ecolo, becoming the first non-Belgian politician to be elected in a Belgian political party and the first Italian national to be elected abroad.
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Monica Frassoni became involved in several specific environmental issues with a clear European dimension in terms of EU law, such as protection of the Ebro River in Spain, high-speed infrastructures like the Lyon-Turin tunnel, waste in Naples, etc.
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In June 2004, Monica Frassoni was re-elected for a second term, this time with the Italian Federation of the Greens.
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In 2007, Monica Frassoni was her group's candidate for the presidency of the European Parliament, standing against Hans-Gert Pottering.
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Monica Frassoni secured about three times the number of voters of her own group.
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From 2003, Monica Frassoni was a member of the executive and later Vice-Chair of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
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In 2009, following the end of her second mandate in the European Parliament, Monica Frassoni was elected a co-chair of the European Green Party, being re-elected in 2012 and 2015.
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In 2010, Monica Frassoni co-funded and was appointed President of the European Alliance to Save Energy, a multistakeholder, business-led advocacy organisation aiming at promoting strong and ambitious EU-wide regulation on energy and at thus strengthening policies for the decarbonisation of EU-economy.
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Monica Frassoni is a regular speaker and lecturer in academic fora and public events, focusing on sustainable energy and energy savings, green transformation of the global economy and society to fight exclusion and climate change, democracy and participation of civil society, notably women and youth, in decision-making at all levels.
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Monica Frassoni is actively involved in projects and events and writes publications on possible reforms on the European Union, focusing on the quality of democracy and the Green transformation of the economy.
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Monica Frassoni contributes opinion pieces to discussions on EU affairs, energy and industrial policy, migration and Italian politics.
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In 2010, Monica Frassoni was nominated by the Foreign Policy magazine as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers list, along with Marina Silva, Cecile Duflot and Renate Kunast, for "taking Green mainstream".