Carmen Fraga Estévez

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Carmen Fraga Estévez, 2003

Carmen Fraga Estévez (born October 19, 1948 in León ) is a Spanish politician of the conservative PP and a member of the European Parliament .

Carmen Fraga is the daughter of Manuel Fraga Iribarne , who was a minister during the Franco dictatorship and later became a co-founder and honorary president of the PP. She studied geography, where she graduated with honors in 1970. From this year she worked in the Spanish Ministry of Infrastructure. From 1980 to 1985 she studied law, after the Spanish accession to the EU in 1986 she worked as a parliamentary assistant for the Group of the European People's Party in the European Parliament until 1994 .

In the 1994 European elections , Fraga herself was elected to the European Parliament, where she became the first Vice-President of the EPP Group. From 1997 to 1999 she chaired the Committee on Fisheries .

From 2002 to 2004 she gave up her seat in the European Parliament to become Secretary General for Deep Sea Fisheries in the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture in the Aznar government . After the change of government in Spain in early 2004 , she ran again in the 2004 European elections and was re-elected to parliament, to which she has belonged ever since. She is a member of the EPP Group Bureau and was a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on Fisheries from 2004-09 . After the European elections in 2009 , she became chairwoman of the Fisheries Committee, as she had done in 1997–99; on the other hand, she is only a substitute member of the Agriculture Committee.

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SURNAME Fraga Estévez, Carmen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish politician (PP), Member of the European Parliament
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Leon