Elisabetta Trenta ( Italian: Elisabetta Trenta ; born June 4, 1967, Velletri ) - Italian scientist, security and political expert, Minister of Defense of Italy since June 1, 2018.
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| Head of the government | Giuseppe Conte | ||||||
| The president | Sergio Mattarella | ||||||
| Predecessor | Robert pinotti | ||||||
| Birth | June 4, 1967 (52 years old) Velletri , Lazio , Italy | ||||||
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Biography
In 1994, she graduated from the La Sapienza University of Rome , where she studied political science, in 1996 received a master 's degree in international development, and in 2008 at Link Campus University - in the field of intelligence and security [1] .
For a long time, SudgestAid has been involved in various projects in countries that have experienced internal conflicts. She worked in Italy and abroad under the programs of the Ministry of Defense of Italy, from 2005 to 2006 she was a political adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iraq, in 2009 she worked in the UNIFIL mission as an adviser to the Ministry of Defense of Lebanon, led a project in Libya to reintegrate combatants into civilian life . She worked at the Roman private university Link Campus, was engaged in research at the Military Center for Strategic Education (Centro Militare di Studi Strategici) [2] .
After the parliamentary elections in 2018, the leader of the Five Star Movement, Luigi Di Mayo, called Elizabeth Trent the possible secretary of defense in his future cabinet. Because Sudgest Aid has partnered with Link Campus University, which is led by former Christian Democratic party activist Vincenzo Scotti , and there has already been an investigation into both organizations on suspicion of corruption when Sudgest Aid received government contracts from government agencies with affiliates, the press began to express concerns about a conflict of interest. Another cause for concern was the cooperation of the university with Moscow State University [3] .
On June 1, 2018, Trenta received the portfolio of the Minister of Defense in the coalition government of the Five Star Movement and the North League .
In July 2019, after a series of high-profile scandals surrounding the activities of the non-governmental organizations and Mediterranea, picking up immigrants who seek to enter the European Union by boat from Libya and delivering them to Italy in defiance of a government ban, Trent told the newspaper Corriere della Sera about his contacts with the Minister of internal Affairs Salvini , who, according to her, did not take its arguments about the need to use to resolve the situation, the ships of the Navy of Italy, operating under , organized by the EU decision [4] .
Notes
- ↑ Governo Conte. Ecco chi sono i 18 ministri (solo 5 donne) (Italian) . Avvenire (31 maggio 2018). Date of treatment June 1, 2018.
- ↑ Piera Matteucci. Elisabetta Trenta ministro della Difesa: un'esperta di sicurezza con un'ombra di conflitto d'interessi (Italian) . la Repubblica (31 maggio 2018). Date of treatment June 1, 2018.
- ↑ Gianluca Di Feo. Link Campus, Elisabetta Trenta, i contractor: ecco i legami tra l'università e la ministra della Difesa (Italian) . la Repubblica (26 marzo 2018). Date of treatment June 6, 2018.
- ↑ Migranti, il ministro della Difesa Trenta: “Ho avvisato Salvini sulle ong ma non ha ascoltato. Manderò le navi militari ” (Italian) . il Fatto Quotidiano (8 luglio 2019). Date of treatment July 11, 2019.
Links
- Elisabetta Trenta (Italian) . Ministero della Difesa . Date of treatment June 1, 2018.