António Cardoso e Cunha

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António José Cardoso e Cunha (born January 28, 1933 in Leiria ) is a former Portuguese politician of the PSD and EC commissioner.

biography

Antonio Cardoso graduated as a chemical engineer.

For several legislative terms he belonged to the Assembleia da República . He was State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economics and from January 3, 1980 to September 4, 1981 Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries (Ministro da Agricultura e Pescas) in the cabinets of Prime Ministers Francisco Sá Carneiro , Diogo Freitas do Amaral and Francisco Pinto Balsemão .

After Portugal joined the European Community , on January 6, 1986, he was first Commissioner for Fisheries . From 1989 to 1993 he was the Commissioner for Energy of the European Commission to. During his tenure as energy commissioner, he tried to dissolve the monopoly of gas and electricity companies. However, these plans were rejected by the electricity industry.

After that he was the first commissioner of the Expo 98 in Lisbon until 1997 . He then became Chairman of the Board of Directors of the airline TAP Portugal . He resigned from this position in August 2004.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cabinet Pinto Balsemão
  2. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Homepage of the Ministry of Agriculture@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / portal.min-agricultura.pt
  3. ↑ List of Portuguese Ministers for Agriculture and Fisheries ( Memento of the original of September 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.agroportal.pt
  4. ^ "Monopoly under electricity", Die Zeit, January 31, 1992
  5. ^ "Electricity industry rejects plans for forced transmission from Brussels", ENERGY CHRONICLE March 1992
  6. ↑ Expo '98
  7. ↑ "Cardoso e Cunha abandona presidência da TAP", press release of August 6, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Cardoso e Cunha, Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cardoso e Cunha, António José (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Leiria