Career
In 1977 and 1978 he received journalism training from the CFJ journalism school in Paris, France. Appointed International Bureau chief of the Italian weekly Rinascita in 1982-1983, he was then editor and special correspondent of the daily newspaper L"Unità until 1986, when he became the Paris correspondent of the daily economic magazine ItaliaOggi. He is the author of over 5000 articles on France, published by Italian newspapers of several political tendencies: ItaliaOggi, L"Indipendente, Il Giornale.
He works as a journalist and political commentator for several media outlets — in Italy with the press agency Agenzia Giornali Associati (Asterisk Gateway Interface), the Radiotelevisione Italiana public radio and the private television group Mediaset, and in France with Nouvel Observateur, RFI, France Culture, France Inter and TV5.
lieutenant also collaborates with the daily Louisiana Croix and served as president of the Foreign Press Association in France in 1996-1997, and currently serves as the president of the European Press Club since 2000 and President of the cultural association Piero Piazzano di Novara since 2001. He is visiting professor in Political Science at Sciences-Po in Bordeaux.