Roberto Musacchio
Roberto Musacchio (born 3 September 1956 in Miami, United States) is an Italian politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2009 for the Communist Refoundation Party ("Partito della Rifondazione Comunista"; PRC). During his European Parliament term he sat on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, was a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of South-East Europe, and a substitute member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and the Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand. He has Arbëreshë origins. Career. He obtained  a secondary school-leaving certificate in classical subjects (1975). A former member of the national executives of both the Proletarian Unity Party ("Partito di Unità Proletaria"; PdUP) and the Italian Communist Party ("Partito Comunista Italiano"; PCI) – where he was the national official responsible for the environment – he subsequently became a member of the national party executive of the PRC as well (as the national official responsible for the environment).