Italian previous International Minister Frattini dies at 65

Italian previous International Minister Frattini dies at 65


Italian previous Overseas Minister Franco Frattini

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Franco Frattini, who served 2 times as Italy’s overseas minister and held various other cupboard posts, died on Saturday at the age of 65, Italian media claimed.

Frattini, who experienced been sick for some time with cancer, died in a Rome clinic.

He was overseas minister beneath governments headed by Primary Minister Silvio Berlusconi 2002-2004 and 2008-2011 and held two other cupboard posts in governments headed by Berlusconi and Lamberto Dini in the 1990s.

From 2004 to 2008 he was European commissioner for justice and at the time of his dying he was president of Italy’s Council of Condition, a consultative system that oversees general public administration.

He started out his political action as a member of the Socialist Celebration and afterwards joined Berlusconi’s center-right parties.



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