Brigita Schmögnerová

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Brigita Schmögnerová (born November 17, 1947 in Bratislava , Czechoslovakia ) is a Slovak politician (Sociálnodemokratická Alternatíva, SDA).

biography

After attending school, she studied from 1966 to 1971 at the business school - Vysoká škola ekonomická (VŠE) in Bratislava and then worked as an employee at the chair for business mathematical methodology there. In addition, she completed postgraduate studies in mathematical statistics at the Comenius University in Bratislava as well as in other courses at the University of Athens and Georgetown University . She then worked as an assistant at the VŠE from 1976 to 1979 and then as a macroeconomist at the Slovak Academy of Sciences .

Schmögnerová took a leading position in the reformed party of the democratic left (Strana Demokratickej ľavice, SDĽ), which emerged as the successor to the Communist Party of Slovakia . Between March and December 1994 she represented the SDĽ as Deputy Prime Minister responsible for economic issues in the government of Prime Minister Jozef Moravčík . She was also an advisor to President Michal Kováč .

In the government of Prime Minister Mikuláš Dzurinda she was finance minister from 1998 to 2002 and during this time she pursued a tight course towards the accession of Slovakia to the European Union (EU) on May 1, 2004. She became a symbol of economic measures for Stabilization of the economic and financial sector, which on the other hand led to an increase in prices and an increase in unemployment . In 2002 she resigned as minister at the request of her party in order to counteract the poor poll results of the SDĽ. Peter Weiss, Milan Ftáčnik and Schmögnerová founded the Social Democratic Alternative (Sociálnodemokratická Alternatíva, SDA), which, according to the former finance minister, was to become a “modern, anti-populism and nationalism” new political force.

Subsequently, between 2001 and 2005, she was the successor to Danuta Hübner, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Europe . In this office she was succeeded in 2005 by the previous Prime Minister of Poland, Marek Belka .

In addition to her political activities, she was also the author of several economic and political books.

Brigita Schmögnerová is married and has one son.

Publications

  • Cúvanie napred - súbor myšlienok publikovaných v denníkoch resp. týždenníkoch v rokoch 1993 to 1997. 1997, ISBN 80-967830-4-1 .
  • Svetlo sa rodí za tmy. 1998.
  • Sociálne modely Európskej únie (dnes a zajtra). 2004.
  • Na dohľad či v nedohľadne: O konkurencieschopnosti, udržateľnom rozvoji a sociálnej inklúzii. 2008, ISBN 978-80-8101-070-5 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hannes Hofbauer , David X. Noack: Slovakia: The arduous way to the west. Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85371-349-5 , p. 123.
  2. ^ Hannes Hofbauer, David X. Noack: Slovakia: The arduous way to the west. Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85371-349-5 , p. 127.
  3. ↑ Brigita Schmögnerová - biografia , accessed on August 22, 2018 (Slovak)
personal data
SURNAME Schmögnerová, Brigita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava , Czechoslovakia