{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Lionello Levi Sandri |image = Lionello Levi Sandri (cropped).jpg |office = European Commissioner for [[European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion|Social Affairs]], [[List of European Commission portfolios#Inter-Institutional Relations and Administration|Personnel and Administration]] |president = [[Jean Rey (politician)|Jean Rey]] |term_start = 2 July 1967 |term_end = 30 June 1970 |predecessor = Himself {{small|(Social Affairs)}} |successor = [[Albert Coppé]] {{small|(Social Affairs, [[European Commissioner for Transport|Transport]] and [[European Commissioner for Financial Programming and the Budget|Budget]])}} |office1 = [[European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion|European Commissioner for Social Affairs]] |president1 = [[Walter Hallstein]] |term_start1 = 8 February 1961 |term_end1 = 2 July 1967 |predecessor1 = [[Giuseppe Petrilli]] |successor1 = Himself {{small|(Social Affairs, [[List of European Commission portfolios#Inter-Institutional Relations and Administration|Personnel and Administration]])}} |birth_date = {{birth date|1910|10|5|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Milan]], [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]] |death_date = {{death date and age|1991|4|14|1910|10|5|df=y}} |death_place = [[Rome]], [[Italy]] |party = [[Italian Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] }}
'''Lionello Levi Sandri''' (5 October 1910 in [[Milan]] – 14 April 1991 in [[Rome]]) was an [[Politics of Italy|Italian politician]] and [[European Commissioner]].
Upon completing his education in 1932, Levi Sandri entered a career as a civil servant in the Italian employment administration and was promoted to high-ranking posts at a young age. In 1940 he became a lecturer in industrial law at the [[University of Rome La Sapienza|University of Rome]]. In the same year, he served in North Africa in the Second World War. Following the armistice on 8 September 1943 and the related events, however, he chose to join the resistance movement against [[Benito Mussolini]], where he came to lead the [[Partisan (military)|partisan]] formation "[[Fiamme Verdi]]" (Green Flames) in the [[Brescia]] region.
After the war, Levi Sandri became involved in the [[Italian Socialist Party]] (PSI). From 1946 to 1950 he was a member of the town council for Brescia. From 1948 he was a member of the party executive committee at a regional level. Moreover, he was the chief of staff in the Italian Ministry for Employment.
He later advocated the formation of the [[Party of European Socialists]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pes.org/downloads/History_PES_EN.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-07-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060808201111/http://www.pes.org/downloads/History_PES_EN.pdf |archivedate=8 August 2006}}</ref>
He was appointed to the first [[European Commission]] in December 1960 (or February 1961) as the successor to [[Giuseppe Petrilli]] in the [[Hallstein Commission]] and was responsible for the Social Affairs portfolio, in addition to overseas states and territories. He supported the equalisation of work and social rights between the EEC states. He continued as a member of the second Hallstein Commission (1962–1967), where he was a vice-president from 1964, and as a member of the [[Rey Commission]] from 1967 to 1970.
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==External links== * The [https://archives.eui.eu/en/fonds/156740?item=LLS private papers] of Lionello Levi Sandri are deposited at the [https://www.eui.eu/en/academic-units/historical-archives-of-the-european-union Historical Archives of the European Union] in Florence
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