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Italian ASI. Benvenuti and Cinque appointed commissioners

The waiting for the decision of the Lazio Regional Administrative Court remains in the background

The indiscretions that the astrophysicist Piero Benvenuti, as commissioner of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the lawyer Giovanni Cinque sub-commissioner, have confirmed. In fact the same professor said at the University of Padua that he had received the nomination decree from the Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on the proposal of the Minister of Education Marco Bussetti. Benvenuti said he was happy...

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Padua, Italy, 11/16/2018 16:39
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