Tiziano Treu
Tiziano Treu (born 22 August 1939) is an Italian politician and academic, former Minister of Labour and Social Security and Minister of Transports, and former president of the National Council for Economics and Labour. Biography Treu graduated in law at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, where he then began teaching labour law. In his student years, he attended the Augustinianum College, where he met Romano Prodi and Giovanni Maria Flick. Prior to the 1990s, Treu had been close to the democratic-reformist wing of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). In 1995 he was nominated Minister of Labour and Social Security in the Dini Cabinet. In 1996 he was elected Deputy as an exponent of Lamberto Dini's Italian Renewal (RI), and was confirmed as the head of the ministry in the Prodi I Cabinet, and then became Minister of Transport in the subsequent D'Alema I Cabinet. On 24 June 1997, Treu, as Minister of Labour, proposed a delegated law, later named Pacchetto Treu, made with the intention of fight unemployment: with this law temporary agency work obtained legislative recognition from the Italian legal system. Once the political season of The Olive Tree ended, Treu occupied a marginal role in