Loyola de Palacio
Ignacia de Loyola de Palacio del Valle-Lersundi (born September 16, 1950 in Madrid ; † December 13, 2006 ibid) was a Spanish politician ( PP ) and Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Transport and Energy under Romano Prodi (1999– 2004).
Life
Loyola de Palacio had a sister, Ana de Palacio del Valle-Lersundi , former Foreign Minister of Spain, two years older .
De Palacio studied law at the Complutense University of Madrid and was active for many years in the conservative Spanish People's Party ( Partido Popular ). From 1996 to 1999 she was Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in the government of José María Aznar .
She became a member of the European Parliament in the 1999 European elections . A few weeks later, however, she left Parliament again, as she became Vice-President of the European Commission with the appointment of the Prodi Commission, where she was also responsible for the transport and energy departments. She held these positions until the Barroso I Commission was appointed in 2004. Under her successor Jacques Barrot , she was one of the six coordinators for the priority axes of the Trans-European Transport Network , where she was responsible for priority axis 6 Lyon-Trieste-Divaca / Koper-Divaca-Ljubljana-Budapest-Csop.
It caused a scandal in 2004 when she wished Cuba’s ruler Fidel Castro dead after he had broken his left knee and right upper arm in a fall. This incident increased their isolation within the European Commission.
The politician, who is considered to be conservative, died late in the evening on December 13, 2006 at the age of 56 in a Madrid clinic of complications from cancer.
Quotes
«Todos esperamos que se muera cuanto antes. No digo que lo maten, digo que se muera. Yo no le deseo la muerte a nadie, pero la única solución sería que Castro desapareciera. »
“We all hope he dies as soon as possible. I'm not saying he should be killed, I'm saying he should die. I don't wish anyone dead, but the only solution would be that Castro disappear. "
Awards
literature
- Loyola de Palacio , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 13/2007 of March 31, 2007, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
- Loyola de Palacio - Member of the European Commission, Vice-president
- Entry on Loyola de Palacio in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
Michel Barnier (until April 2004) | Frits Bolkestein | Philippe Busquin | David Byrne | Anna Diamantopoulou (until March 2004) | Franz Fischler | Neil Kinnock | Pascal Lamy | Erkki Liikanen (until July 2004) | Mario Monti | Poul Nielson | Loyola de Palacio | Chris Patten | Romano Prodi | Viviane Reding | Michaele Schreyer | Pedro Solbes (until April 2004) | Günter Verheugen | António Vitorino | Margot Wallström
Additions:
Joaquín Almunia (from April 2004) |
Péter Balázs (from May 2004) |
Jacques Barrot (from April 2004) |
Joseph Borġ (from May 2004) |
Stavros Dimas (from March 2004) |
Ján Figeľ (from May 2004) |
Dalia Grybauskaitė (from May 2004) |
Danuta Hübner (from May 2004) |
Siim Kallas (from May 2004) |
Sandra Kalniete (from May 2004) |
Márkos Kyprianoú (from May 2004) |
Janez Potočnik (from May 2004) |
Olli Rehn (from July 2004) |
Pavel Telička (from May 2004)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Palacio, Loyola de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Palacio del Valle-Lersundi, Ignacia de Loyola de (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish politician (PP), MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madrid |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 13, 2006 |
| Place of death | Madrid |