Sandro Gozi (Sogliano al Rubicone, 25 March 1968) is an Italian politician, former Undersecretary of State for European Affairs in the Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni governments.

[citation needed] During his university years, Gozi was close to the post-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI) of Giorgio Almirante, with whom he is portrayed in a photo.

[3] Between 1995 and 1996, Gozi worked in Italy's foreign service, dealing with economic relations with the states of the former Yugoslavia, Turkey, Cyprus, Albania, and Greece.

At the 2008 Italian general election, Gozi was re-elected as MP for Umbria for the PD, again serving as head of the party delegation in the parliamentary committee for European affairs.

That same yeat, Gozi launched a domestic campaign to support the appointment of Mario Draghi, the governor of Banca d'Italia, as next President of the European Central Bank.

[7] In September 2012, he announced he would run for the 2012 centre-left primary election for the office of President of the Council;[8] he had to withdraw after not being able to collect the required 95 signatures of party delegates.

[11][12][13] In 2014, Gozi and Harlem Désir, the then French Secretary of State for European Affairs, set out a list of priorities after talks in Paris, saying the European Commission should adopt more growth-friendly economic policies and grant maximum flexibility within existing EU budget rules to countries undertaking growth-promoting investments and structural economic reforms.

[18] In December 2018, Gozi said he was working, together with Carlo Calenda and +Europa, on a new party for Renzi aimed at gathering the votes of moderates leaving Forza Italia and of disgruntled grillini.

In 2019, he was a candidate in the European elections in France, in 22nd place on the Renaissance list Renew Europe, supported by La République En Marche and the centrists of MoDem.

In October 2019, press organs reported that he also worked for Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat; according to Gozi, the collaboration ended when he took office with the French government[25].

In addition to Gozi, Renew's ‘Team Europe’ is composed of Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann of ALDE and Valérie Hayer of Renaissance.

Unfortunately, the Commissioner of the Law, Alberto Buriani, who had opened the investigation in 2019, was remanded for trial for offences of false testimony and attempted extortion.

He was in conspiracy with Simone Celli, former Secretary of State of the Republic of San Marino, and was charged against President Tomasetti for facts related to that investigation.