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In 2009 he was elected at the European Parliament with Italia dei Valori as independent. He is member of the ALDE group, of which he has been, since 2000 and until the election, general secretary adjunct. He is currently Vice President for the group. He is also head of delegation for IDV (Italia dei Valori) at the European Parliament. ==Career== Born in Florence in 1962, he graduated in Political Science with a dissertation on the "road economy" in Dakar, which was the result of a "field research" in Senegal. He was responsible for the information at the UN in Afghanistan. He lived in Peshawar (Pakistan's turbulent city on the border with Afghanistan), Kabul and in the rest of the country. Afghanistan has been a harsh and exciting period but, above all, a school of life so important for his personal growth that he wrote some books about it.〔Niccolò Rinaldi, ''Islam, guerra e dintorni. Viaggio in Afghanistan'', Turin, ed. L´Harmanattan Italia, 1997.〕〔Niccolò Rinaldi, ''Droga di Dio. Afghanistan: la società dei credenti'', Naples, ed. L´Ancora del Mediterraneo, 2002.〕〔Niccolò Rinaldi, ''Firenze, Herat e la forza di Kabul'', a story published in ''Imago Mundi: Piazza di Guerra'', Florence, ed. Festina Lente, 2003.〕 In 1991 he left the United Nations and he started working at the European Parliament, as political adviser. In 2000 he became one of the Secretaries General of the Parliament. In 2009 he was elected MEP with Italia dei Valori as independent. He is now Vice-President for ALDE (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe) and IDV Head of Delegation in the European Parliament.〔(Niccolò Rinaldi at the European Parliament )〕 He is a great promoter of voluntary work, which he has been doing for a long time, especially to help disabled people. He has a passion for mountains. On the peak of Monte Bianco he shot a video on the territorial conflict between Italy and France.〔(Niccolò Rinaldi on the top of Mont Blanc )〕 and he is a member of the Tuscan sky rescue service and of Italian Alpine Club. He is also co-founder and member of the board of the fair trade cooperative Equoland.〔(Equoland website )〕 Niccolò Rinaldi is also a member of the Italian Journalists Association. After Antonio Di Pietro's resignation, Niccolò Rinaldi decide to he ran for the national secretariat of Italy of Values during the Extraordinary Congress (28-28–30 June 2013).〔A servizio, ma da cittadino”, La Stampa.it, 26 June 2013, http://www.lastampa.it/2013/06/29/italia/politica/italia-dei-valori-inizia-la-nuova-era-di-pietro-a-servizio-ma-da-cittadino-lb57leDOdc3yhf7Hy3rgtJ/pagina.html〕 Even if he was the favourite candidate at the polls, especially after other candidates' (Borghesi, Castellarin, Scalera who withdrew their candidacy) convergence to his motion and Gianni Vattimo's blessing, he will not be elected, despite having submitted a most radical and innovative proposal for IDV's secretariat" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Niccolò Rinaldi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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