Demetrio Volcic (22 November 1931 – 5 December 2021), also known in Slovene as Dimitrij Volčič, was an Italian journalist, author, and politician of Slovenian descent.[1] He rose to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s as foreign correspondent for the Italian television RAI. In the late 1990s, he served as member of the Italian Senate, and later as Member of European Parliament for the European Socialist Party.
Volcic entered politics in 1997, when he successfully ran for by-election to the Italian Senate after the death of the senator Darko Bratina. He ran as an independent candidate with the support of the Democratic Party of the Left. In 1999, he was elected to the European Parliament on the list of the Democrats of the Left. As an MEP, between 1999 and 2002 he was vice-chair of the delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee, and from 2002 to 2004 he has vice-chair of the delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees. He was also a member of the committee on regional policy, transport and tourism from 1999 to 2002, and of the committee on foreign affairs, human rights, common security and defence policy from 2002 to 2004.[4]
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^"È morto Demetrio Volcic: raccontò agli italiani il mondo oltre la Cortina di ferro". la Repubblica (in Italian). 2021-12-05. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
^, Primorski slovenski biografski leksikon (Gorizia: 1992), pp. 259-260.
^"Chi sono i laureati famosi dell'Università di Trieste?". Tutored. 24 August 2018. Retrieved 4 October 2019.[permanent dead link]
^"5th parliamentary term - Demetrio VOLCIC - MEPs". European Parliament. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
January 01, 1970
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