Raffaele Costa

Raffaele Costa
President of the province of Cuneo
In office
13 June 2004 – 9 June 2009
Preceded byGiovanni Quaglia
Succeeded byGianna Gancia
Member of the European Parliament
In office
13 June 1999 – 13 June 2004
Minister of Health
In office
21 February 1993 – 23 April 1993
Prime MinisterGiuliano Amato
Preceded byFrancesco De Lorenzo
Succeeded byMaria Pia Garavaglia
In office
10 May 1994 – 17 January 1995
Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi
Preceded byMaria Pia Garavaglia
Succeeded byElio Guzzanti
Secretary of the Italian Liberal Party
In office
27 May 1993 – 6 February 1994
Preceded byRenato Altissimo
Succeeded byNone
Minister of Transport and Navigation
In office
28 April 1993 – 10 May 1994
Prime MinisterGiuliano Amato
Preceded byGiancarlo Tesini
Succeeded byPublio Fiori
Minister for the Coordination of Community Policies and Regional Affairs
In office
28 June 1992 – 21 February 1993
Prime MinisterGiuliano Amato
Preceded byPier Luigi Romita (Coordination of Community Policies)
Mino Martinazzoli (Regional Affairs)
Succeeded byGianfranco Ciaurro
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
5 July 1976 – 27 April 2006
ConstituencyPiedmont 2 – Fossano
Personal details
Born (1936-09-08) 8 September 1936 (age 89)
Mondovì, Italy
PartyPLI (1976–1994)
UdC (1993–1998)
Forza Italia (1998–2009)
PdL (2009–2010)

Raffaele Costa (born 8 September 1936) is an Italian politician who was a deputy for decades and a minister and undersecrtary in various givernments. He was the president of the province of Cuneo from June 2004 to June 2009. Previously, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies representing the Italian Liberal Party and later Forza Italia between 1976 and 2003, and was also Minister for the Coordination of Community Policies and Regional Affairs from 1992 to 1993, Minister of Transport and Navigation from 1993 to 1994, Minister of Health between 1993 and 1995, and a member of the European Parliament (MEP) of the European People's Party from 1999 until June 2004. He was a author and publisher, and his son also became a prominent politician.

Early life and education

Costa was born on 8 September 1936 in Mondovì, in the Italian region of Piedmont during the Fascist Italy era of the Kingdom of Italy. He holds a degree in Law and Political Science.[1] His son, Enrico Costa, is also a politician and was Minister of Regional Affairs and Autonomies (a post Costa himself held from 1992 to 1993) in the Renzi government (2014–2016) and the ensuing Gentiloni government (2016–2018).

Career

Costa was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1976,[2] 1979, 1983, 1987, 1992, 1994, 1996, and 2001.[3][4] He was minister without portfolio for the co-ordination of community political and regional affairs (1992–1993), Minister of Health (1993–1995), Minister of Transport and Navigation (1993–1994) in the Ciampi government (from 2 January 1994 also Minister of Navigation).[5] Previously, he had served as the parliamentary undersecretary of state in the Ministry of Grace and Justice in the first Cossiga government (1979–1980), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Giovanni Spadolini's governments (1981–1982) and the fifth Fanfani government (1982–1983), the Ministry of the Interior in Bettino Craxi's governments (1983–1987), and the Ministry of Public Works in the Goria government and the ensuing De Mita government (1987–1989).[6]

In 1992, Costa proposed a parliamentary commission about the waste at the UEFA Euro 1992 that came after the event, with Umberto Zappelloni writing on Il Foglio that "when the accounts were done, the total cost came to 7,230 billion lire, of which over 6,000 came from the state coffers."[7] This triggered a long series of controversies, culminating in the establishment of two parliamentary commissions (the first by Costa and the second in 1999 promoted by Athos De Luca.[7] The two investigations yielded no results.[7]

Duting his parliamentary career, Costa was chairman of the Defence Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, vice-chairman of the Agriculture and Forestry Committee of the Chamber of Deputies (1976–1979), general secretary of the Italian Liberal Party (1993–1994), chairman of the Liberal Democratic Federalist parliamentary group (1995–1996), administrator of Forza Italia's Office for Citizens' Rights, and president of the province of Cuneo (2004–2009). Elected a MEP in the 1999 European Parliament election in Italy as a member of Forza Italia and in the European People's Party European Parliament group, Costa was a European Parliament member of the former Committee on the Atmosphere, the Committee on Budgetary Control, Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection.[8]

Author and publisher

Costa has written four books, incluging The Doctor Is Outside the Room, My First Republic, Italy: Land of Waste, and Italy: Land of Privilege He founded and published the periodical Il Duemila in 1971.

References

  1. ^ "Raffaele Costa". Camera dei deputati – Portale storico (in Italian). Retrieved 16 January 2026.
  2. ^ "Costa Raffaele – VIII Legislatura". Camera Legislature (in Italian). Retrieved 16 January 2026.
  3. ^ "Raffaele Costa, VII Legislatura della Repubblica". Dati Camera (in Italian). Retrieved 16 January 2026.
  4. ^ "Raffele Costa". La Camera dei Deputati – XIV Legislatura (in Italian). Retrieved 16 January 2026.
  5. ^ "Costa Raffaele – XI Legislatura". Camera Legislature (in Italian). Retrieved 16 January 2026.
  6. ^ "Raffele Costa X Legislatura". Camera Legislature (in Italian). Retrieved 16 January 2026.
  7. ^ a b c D'Angelo, Maria Carmela (16 June 2021). "Il calcio nelle canzoni che raccontano l'Italia e gli italiani". Atlante Magazine Treccani (in Italian). Retrieved 16 January 2026.
  8. ^ "Raffaele Costa | 5th parliamentary term". European Parliament. Retrieved 16 January 2026.
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