title: Roberto Musacchio
text: # Roberto Musacchio
  
  Roberto Musacchio (born 3 September 1956 in Miami, United States) is an Italian politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2009 for the Communist Refoundation Party (Partito della Rifondazione Comunista; PRC).
  
  During his European Parliament term he sat on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, was a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of South-East Europe, and a substitute member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and the Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand.
  
  He has Arbëreshë origins.
  
  ## Career
  
  He obtained a secondary school-leaving certificate in classical subjects (1975).
  
  A former member of the national executives of both the Proletarian Unity Party (Partito di Unità Proletaria; PdUP) and the Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano; PCI) – where he was the national official responsible for the environment – he subsequently became a member of the national party executive of the PRC as well (as the national official responsible for the environment).
  
  