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Raffaele Fitto is an Italian politician, and has been minister for European affairs, Southern Italy, cohesion policy and the national recovery and resilience plan since 2022. A former Member of the European Parliament (from 1999 2000 and 2014 2022), Fitto was co-chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group from 2019 to 2022, and was thus a member of the Conference of Presidents. He served on the Committee on Budgetary Control, the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Committee on Regional Development. A long-serving Member of the Italian Parliament (Camera dei Deputati), Fitto’s terms of office ran between 2006 and 2014 and from 2022 to the present day. Fitto was Italian minister for regional affairs from 2008 to 2010 and minister for territorial cohesion from 2010 to 2011. During his earlier career, Fitto was President of the Apulia region (2000 2005) and served repeatedly as Councillor for the Apulia region (1990 1994 and 2005 2006). Fitto was Regional Councillor for Tourism for Apulia from 1994 to 1995, and Vice-President of the Regional Council with responsibility for the budget from 1995 to 1999. Born in 1969, Fitto holds a doctorate in law from the University of Bari (1994).