Mario Mauro
Encyclopedia
Mario Mauro is an Italian
Member of the European Parliament
and a teacher of history
. He was first elected on the Forza Italia
ticket, and in 2009 on the merged party The People of Freedom
ticket. He sits with the European People's Party
group.
On July 20, 2004 he was elected one of the 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament.
Again on the question of recognition of same-sex couples, Mauro declared that "European law has no jurisdiction over family law in the single EU countries and therefore over making the family equivalent to cohabitation and homosexual unions".
Currently he holds, in addition to his position as European Parliamentary, the following positions:
1) Personal Representative of the OSCE presidency against racism, xenophobia and discrimination, with special reference to discrimination against Christians (2009).
2) Professor contracted "Fundamental human rights in natural law and international agreements" and "History of European institutions" at the European University of Rome (since 2008).
In his parliamentary duties, which can be accessed http://www.europarl.europa.eu, he maintains a dynamic work of monitoring the activity of the Commission for the promotion and defense of human rights in various parts of the world and protection of activists who suffer persecution or discrimination of local authorities.
Italy
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Member of the European Parliament
Member of the European Parliament
A Member of the European Parliament is a person who has been elected to the European Parliament. The name of MEPs differ in different languages, with terms such as europarliamentarian or eurodeputy being common in Romance language-speaking areas.When the European Parliament was first established,...
and a teacher of history
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
. He was first elected on the Forza Italia
Forza Italia
Forza Italia was a liberal-conservative, Christian democratic, and liberal political party in Italy, with a large social democratic minority, that was led by Silvio Berlusconi, four times Prime Minister of Italy....
ticket, and in 2009 on the merged party The People of Freedom
The People of Freedom
The People of Freedom is a centre-right political party in Italy. With the Democratic Party, it is one of the two major parties of the current Italian party system....
ticket. He sits with the European People's Party
European People's Party
The European People's Party is a pro-European centre-right European political party. The EPP was founded in 1976 by Christian democratic parties, but later it increased its membership to include conservative parties and parties of other centre-right perspectives.The EPP is the most influential of...
group.
On July 20, 2004 he was elected one of the 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament.
Reported opinions
Following the approval by the European Parliament on 18 January 2006 of a resolution which invited member states to consider homosexual couples equivalent to those of a man and a woman and condemned as homophobic States and Nations which oppose recognition of gay couples, Mauro declared: "The document approved is an ideological one which has little to do with the concrete protection of fundamental human rights, but sounds much more like a manifesto in praise of the destruction of the values that gave rise to the European Union as a political project" and "how else could we describe the demand for the European Institutions to meddle in the life of Member States modifying the constitutions of the different countries so as to open the way to gay marriage irrespective of the decisions of their peoples?"Again on the question of recognition of same-sex couples, Mauro declared that "European law has no jurisdiction over family law in the single EU countries and therefore over making the family equivalent to cohabitation and homosexual unions".
Currently he holds, in addition to his position as European Parliamentary, the following positions:
1) Personal Representative of the OSCE presidency against racism, xenophobia and discrimination, with special reference to discrimination against Christians (2009).
2) Professor contracted "Fundamental human rights in natural law and international agreements" and "History of European institutions" at the European University of Rome (since 2008).
In his parliamentary duties, which can be accessed http://www.europarl.europa.eu, he maintains a dynamic work of monitoring the activity of the Commission for the promotion and defense of human rights in various parts of the world and protection of activists who suffer persecution or discrimination of local authorities.