Andrea Cozzolino

Andrea Cozzolino MEP
Member of the European Parliament for Southern Italy
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 July 2009
Personal details
Born	(1962-08-03) 3 August 1962
Nationality	Italian
Political party	Democratic Party

Andrea Cozzolino (born 3 August 1962) is an Italian politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2009. He was elected MEP for the first time in 2009 and then reelected in 2014 and 2019.

European Parliament

In Parliament, Cozzolino has been serving on the Committee on Regional Development since 2014. In 2019, he also joined the Subcommittee on Human Rights. Cozzolino has in the past been a member of the Committee on Budgetary Control (2009-2012), the Committee on Budgets (2009-2013) and the Committee on Petitions (2014-2019).

In addition to his committee assignments, Cozzolino has been part of the Parliament's delegations for relations with the Mashriq countries (2014-2019), the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (since 2019).

Cozzolino voted against the European Parliament resolution of 23 November 2022 on recognising the Russian Federation as a state sponsor of terrorism.

On 16 December 2022, the National Commission of Guarantee of the PD decides to cautiously suspend Cozzolino from the party, "until the closure of the ongoing investigations by the judiciary related to the 'Qatargate' scandal".

After the announcement by the PD Party Leader in the European Parliament, Brando Benifei, of the party's vote in favour of the request for waiver of immunity for MEPs Cozzolino and Marc Tarabella, requested by the Begian Prosecutor and supported by the President Roberta Metsola, Cozzolino declares his intention to renounce it.

On 12 January 2023, Cozzolino resigns all commission posts and withdrawn his amendments and, in line with what he previously stated, votes in favour of the request for waiver of immunity, approved by the European Parliament on February 2.