Antonio Panzeri and Luca Visentini, the MEP and the trade unionist: who are the two arrested in the corruption investigation in Belgium

Anthony Panzeriformer MEP of the Democratic Party for three terms, e Luca Visentini, a point of reference for European trade unions. They are two of the four arrested by the Belgian police for the investigation corruption which also involves the Qatar. Two rather well-known personalities in the political circles of Brussels.

Panzeri, 67 years old, was a MEP for three terms, from 2004 to 2019. Originally from the Bergamo area, he was general secretary of the Metropolitan Chamber of Labour from Milan (from 1995 to 2003) and then responsible of the European policies of the CGIL. After having been part of the leadership of the DS, he was nominated for the first time for the European Parliament with the list United in the Olive Tree (which united DS and Margherita). In Strasbourg he is reconfirmed at European of the 2009 and to those of the 2014, always with the Pd. In 2017 he left the Democrats to join Article 1. He held various positions in the Eurochamber and was, among other things, president of the subcommittee on human rights.

Luca Visentini, 53 years old, has been the point of reference for European trade unions for several years. It started in Uil of the Friuli Venezia Giulia (where he was, among other things, responsible for youth work and then for tourism and commerce) and in May 2011, at the Athens congress, he was elected confederal secretary of the EtucL’European Trade Union Confederationor the Confederation of European Trade Unions. In 2015 he was elected secretary general, also of the Etuc and in 2019 he was reconfirmed. His farewell to the Etuc is very recent: al Melbourne congress in fact, at the end of November, Visentini won the elections as general secretary of the Ituc (International Trade Union Confederation), the largest trade union confederation in the world. In his spare time he is a poet and writer: between 2004 and 2012 he published four books of poetry and short stories, and directed numerous cultural associations and organizations active in the field of literature and theatre.

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