Pina Picierno


Giuseppina "Pina" Picierno is an Italian politician. Born in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, she is a member of the Democratic Party who has been serving in the European Parliament since 2014. Since 2022, she has served as vice-president of the European Parliament.
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Political career

Career in national politics

Picierno served two terms as a member of the Italian Parliament between 2008 and 2014.

Member of the European Parliament, 2014–present

Picierno was selected to head her party's regional list in the 2014 [European Parliament election in Italy|2014 European elections]. In parliament, she is a member of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats group. She served on the Committee on Budgets from 2014 to 2017 and currently serves on the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality. In addition to her committee assignments, she served as vice-chairwoman of the parliament's delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee from 2014 to 2019.
Picierno was elected as Vice-President on 18 January 2022.
Picierno is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Cancer, the European Parliament Intergroup on Fighting against Poverty, the European Parliament Intergroup on Integrity and of the European Parliament Intergroup on the Western Sahara.

Recognition

In 2019, Picierno was the recipient of the Justice & Gender Equality Award at The Parliament Magazine's annual MEP Awards.

Controversy

In late March 2025, it was revealed that four months earlier Picierno had participated in a meeting with the Israel Defense and Security Forum, a far-right Israeli think tank supporting illegal settlements in the West Bank. The case, unfolding during the Gaza war, was met with criticism both from within her party and other political forces, with Andrea Orlando, Susanna Camusso, Laura Boldrini, Arturo Scotto and Nico Stumpo calling for a removal of IDSF from the registries of the European Parliament. Picierno claimed that "isolating Israel means condemning an entire area to an eternal right-wing sovereigntism", receiving support from other Democratic Party members Filippo Sensi, Simona Malpezzi and Piero Fassino.