Nicolas Mosar

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Nicolas Mosar (born November 25, 1927 , † January 6, 2004 ) was a Luxembourg politician , diplomat and commissioner for energy at the European Commission .

Life

After attending school, he studied law and then practiced as a lawyer. Between 1962 and 1963 he was President of the Conference of Young Luxembourg Lawyers.

Mosar, who was a member of the Chrëschtlech Sozial Vollekspartei (CSV), began his political career in 1959 when he was elected a member of the Luxembourg City Council , to which he was a member until 1984 and where he was temporarily also an alderman (shepherd). In 1969 he was first elected a member of the Chambre des Députés . Between 1972 and 1974 he was president of the CSV . With the exception of a two-year break from 1974 to 1976 after the CSV's defeat in the elections, he was a member of parliament until 1984. After the election defeat in 1974 he handed over the office of party president to Jacques Santer . In 1979 he succeeded Pierre Werner as President of the CSV parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies and held this office until 1984.

In 1985 he followed Gaston Thorn as a member of Luxembourg in the EC Commission and took over the post of Energy Commissioner from Jacques Delors as the successor to the Belgian Étienne Davignon in the First European Commission . In this function, he was also responsible for Euratom . For his services he was awarded the Robert Schuman Medal of the EPP - ED Group of the European Parliament on December 13, 1988 .

After leaving the Commission in 1989, he became ambassador to Italy and remained in this post until 1992. In this role he was also a member of the Luxembourg delegation to the 25th meeting of the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) in Rome in November 1989.

His son Laurent Mosar is also a member of the CSV and was president of the "Chambre des Députés".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Conférence du Jeune Barreau de Luxembourg ( Memento of the original of July 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jeunebarreau.lu
  2. ↑ Pauly, Michel: "Professionalisation of Politics. The Political Elite of the City of Luxembourg in the Middle Ages", April 2006 (PDF; 181 kB)
  3. ↑ Robert Schuman Medal (PDF; 530 kB)
  4. ^ Delegates to the FAO conference in Rome in 1989
  5. ^ Homepage of the Chambre des Députés
personal data
SURNAME Mosar, Nicolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourg politician, member of the Chambre, EU commissioner
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1927
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 2004