A veteran of Italy’s fight for civil and women’s rights, Bonino played a key role in the campaigns that led to the legalization of divorce and abortion in the country during the 1970s.
In 2017, she co-founded the liberal More Europe party, which paid tribute to her on Friday. “Activist, parliamentarian, minister, European commissioner. Always radically free,” party leader Riccardo Magi wrote on X. “Her life was a long struggle against everything that denies freedoms.”
Carlo Calenda, leader of the liberal Italian Action party, said: “The last great protagonist of the civil battles that led to the modernization of
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