Roberto "Nik" Albanese was born in November 1950 in

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. He was among the founding members of the Italian Greens in 1986 and promoter of the creation of the Regional Park of the Lambro Valley (Lombardy). He was elected as regional councillor of Lombardy in 1985 and ran for the 2014 European elections and other local elections (province of

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and municipality of

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) as member of the Greens. Director of the Green Man Institute (Monza), spokesperson of the Greens of Monza and

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district, educator and essayist, he worked in many European projects to promote peace and environmental protection. Among his last commitments at the European level, he represented the Italian Greens at the 23rd European Green Party Council in Lyon (12 November 2015) and he was
petitioner at the European Parliament
to intervene in the crisis of the

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sector in Italy. Albanese died in January 2016 at the age of 65.

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