European Parliamentarian and member of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.
Member of the European Parliament and member of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. At the congress in Brazil in October 2003, she was elected President of the Socialist International Women, a position she was reconfirmed in June 2008 in Athens. She is part of the national promoting committee of the Socialist Party and is the head of the delegation to the European Parliament within the Italian delegation in the PSE group.