Raffaele Costa | |
Office: | Minister of Health |
Term Start: | 21 February 1993 |
Term End: | 23 April 1993 |
Primeminister: | Giuliano Amato |
Predecessor: | Francesco De Lorenzo |
Successor: | Maria Pia Garavaglia |
Term Start2: | 10 May 1994 |
Term End2: | 17 January 1995 |
Primeminister2: | Silvio Berlusconi |
Predecessor2: | Maria Pia Garavaglia |
Successor2: | Elio Guzzanti |
Office3: | President of the Province of Cuneo |
Term Start3: | 13 June 2004 |
Term End3: | 9 June 2009 |
Predecessor3: | Giovanni Quaglia |
Successor3: | Gianna Gancia |
Office4: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies |
Term Start4: | 5 July 1976 |
Term End4: | 27 April 2006 |
Office5: | Member of the European Parliament |
Term Start5: | 13 June 1999 |
Term End5: | 13 June 2004 |
Birth Date: | 8 September 1936 |
Birth Place: | Mondovì, Italy |
Nationality: | Italian |
Party: | Liberal (till 1994) Forza Italia (1994–2009) |
Raffaele Costa (born 8 September 1936) is an Italian politician. He was the president of the Province of Cuneo from June 2004 to June 2009. He was previously a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies representing the Italian Liberal Party and later Forza Italia between 1976 and 2003, and was also a member of the European Parliament of the European People's Party until June 2004.
His son, Enrico Costa, is also a politician and was Italian Minister of Regional Affairs and Autonomies in the Renzi Cabinet and the Gentiloni Cabinet.
Costa was born in Mondovì. He holds a degree in Law and Political Science.
He was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1976, 1979, 1983, 1987, 1992, 1994, 1996 and 2001.
He was Minister without Portfolio for the co-ordination of community political and regional affairs (1992), Minister of Health (1993), Minister of Transport and Minister of the Merchant Marine in the Ciampi government.
Costa was parliamentary under-secretary of state in the:
Costa has written four books:
He founded and published the periodical Il Duemila in 1971.