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Alessandro Butticé (born in Merano May 11, 1959) is an Italian Brigadier General (retired) of the Guardia di Finanza, former Executive of the European Commission and expert in investigations and institutional communication of economic-financial law enforcement and international investigative cooperation[1][2]. He has been the first military and member of a police force to serve in the EU institutions. Today he is a columnist and opinionist journalist for Il Riformista[3], Formiche.net[4], aise.it[5] and other media. In his career he was commander of the Sapri Unit, Deputy Commander of the Guardia di Finanza at the Rome Airports, Editor-in-chief of the magazine Il Finanziere, Section Head of the Central Unit of Tax Police, before taking up the function in October 1990 as the first officer of the Guardia di Finanza, but also the first military officer and belonging to a police force at the European Commission. In the Guardia di Finanza he was one of the pioneers, from 1985 to 1990, of a new institutional communication policy of the Corps. The first institutional campaign was conceived by him, in 1988, "Guardia di Finanza, on the side of the honests”[6]. With two themes: "with you against ...: who plays with the health of your children" (on the theme of the fight against drugs) and "who wants to make you pay their taxes" (on the theme of the fight against tax fraud), this campaign preceded the Mani pulite season by a few years. Since his arrival at the European Commission, as the first military man and belonging to a European police force, he has been among the pioneers of the anti-fraud and anti-crime services of the European Union (at the Directorate-General for Budget, then the Secretary-General of the European Commission (UCLAF) and contributed to the creation of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) which he was the first spokesperson and the head of communication from its creation, in 1999, to 2009. In this capacity, he contributed to making the Guardia di Finanza an Italian flagship in the world and to correct the image of Italy not only as the home of fraud but also as a virtuous example in the fight against fraud and organized crime [7][8]. It has also launched an ethical policy of relations between investigative services and journalists[9][10][11]. He left the European Commission in 2018 and is today a columnist for Il Riformista, Formiche.net and a correspondent from Brussels for aise.it. He is also President of the Brussels-European Union Section of the National Association of Italian Financiers (ANFI)[12], which he founded in 2013, Delegate for Belgium, the European Union, NATO and international organizations, and for the coordination of other foreign delegates, from the National Association of the decorated of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (ANCRI)[13][14][15]. He is a member, Treasurer 2019/2021 and President-elect 2021/2022, of the Rotary International Club of Brussels West.
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![]() Brigadier General Guardia di Finanza (retired) Alessandro Butticé, Head of Unite (retired) of the European Commission, Journalist opinionist | |
Born | (1959-05-11) May 11, 1959 (age 65) Merano, Italy |
Allegiance | Italy, European Union |
Service/ | Guardia di Finanza |
Years of service | 1979 – 2013 |
Rank | ![]() |
Awards | Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, 2019
Medal for length of service (20 years) at the European Commission, 2014 Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, 2013 Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, 1993 Maurician Medal, 2010 Military Medal of Merit for Long Command Silver Cross for seniority of service in the Guardia di Finanza, 1995 Cross with the Order's white badge of merit of the Spanish Civil Guard Corps, 1996 |
Other work | Manager at Anti-Fraud Services and DG GROW of the European Commission |