Raffaele Costa
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
President of the Province of Cuneo
In office
13 June 2004 – 9 June 2009
Preceded byGiovanni Quaglia
Succeeded byGianna Gancia
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
5 July 1976 – 27 April 2006
Member of the European Parliament
In office
13 June 1999 – 13 June 2004
Personal details
Born (1936-09-08) 8 September 1936
Mondovì, Italy
Political partyLiberal (till 1994)
Forza Italia (1994–2009)

Raffaele Costa (born 8 September 1936 in Mondovì) is an Italian politician. He was the president of the Province of Cuneo from June 2004 to June 2009. He was previously a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies representing the Italian Liberal Party and later Forza Italia between 1976 and 2003, and was also a member of the European Parliament of the European People's Party until June 2004.

His son, Enrico Costa, is also a politician and was Italian Minister of Regional Affairs and Autonomies in the Renzi Cabinet and the Gentiloni Cabinet.

Education

Costa holds a degree in Law and Political Science.

Parliamentary career

He was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1976, 1979, 1983, 1987, 1992, 1994, 1996 and 2001.

As Minister

He was Minister without Portfolio for the co-ordination of community political and regional affairs (1992), Minister of Health (1993), Minister of Transport and Minister of the Merchant Marine in the Ciampi government.

As Under-Secretary of State

Costa was parliamentary under-secretary of state in the:

  • Ministry of Justice
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs (8th Legislature)
  • Ministry of the Interior (Craxi Government)
  • Ministry of Public Works (9th Legislature)

In the European Parliament

Other appointments

  • 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
  • President of the Province of Cuneo (2004–2009)

Author

Costa has written four books:

  • The Doctor is Outside the Room
  • My First Republic
  • Italy, Land of Waste
  • Italy, Land of Privilege

Publisher

He founded and published the periodical Il Duemila in 1971.

See also


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