Emma Bonino has been transferred to the Stroke Unit of the San Filippo Neri Hospital.” The transfer, we read in a communication from the ASL Roma1, took place with the aim of “guaranteeing an appropriate setting”. The historic radical leader had been hospitalized since yesterday in intensive care at the Santo Spirito hospital in Rome following an illness.
L’ex Foreign Ministerwho in 2023 had recovered from a left lung cancerin October 2024 she was hospitalized for breathing problems.
Come leader of the Radical Partysince the 1970s has been at the forefront of civil rights battlespromoting investigations and referendums on theabortion (contributing to the issuing of the law 194), on the divorceand for the legalization of soft drugs. His activism it extended to international plan with campaigns for moratorium on the death penalty and for the establishment of International Criminal Court.
Institutional and European career
On the institutional fronthas been elected several times to the Chamber of Deputies et al European Parliament. The pinnacle of his European career was the charge of European Commissioner (1995-1999) with important mandates such as Humanitarian Aid.
Ministerial positions in Italy
Upon returning to Italy, she held the role of Minister for International Trade and European Policies (Prodi II government) and di Vice-President of the Senate. The most important assignment was that of Minister of Foreign Affairs (2013-2014) in Letta Governmentwhere he brought his profound diplomatic and humanitarian experience.