Vytenis andriukaitis
Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis (born August 9, 1951 in Kjusjur , Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , Soviet Union ) is a Lithuanian social democratic politician . From November 2014 to November 2019 he was EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety.
Life
Andriukaitis was born in Siberia, where his Lithuanian parents were deported by the Stalinist regime in 1941. The family was only able to return to Lithuania towards the end of the 1950s. In 1969 Vytenis Andriukaitis passed the high school diploma with distinction at the 24th middle school in Kaunas . From 1969 to 1975 he studied surgery at the Kaunas Medical Institute , and from 1979 to 1984 he studied history at Vilnius University . From 1976 to 1984 he worked as a surgeon at the Ignalina Hospital . In 1980 he graduated in military surgery in Riga. From 1985 to 1993 he worked as a cardiac surgeon at the Vilnius Clinical Hospital .
1988–1989 he was a member of the Sąjūdis independence movement . From 1989 to 1999 and 2001 he was deputy chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania , from 1999 to 2000 its chairman.
From 1992 to 2004 and from 2008 to 2014 he was a member of the Lithuanian Parliament ( Seimas ), from 2001 to 2004 as its vice-president. From 2012 to June 2014 he was the Minister of Health of Lithuania . From November 2014 to November 2019 he was EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety.
In addition to Lithuanian , Andriukaitis speaks Polish , English , Russian , German and Esperanto . He is married and has three children.
Andriukaitis supports the renewed approval of the herbicide glyphosate for another 10 years in the EU.
Individual evidence
- ↑ EU Commissioner defends glyphosate approval. Spiegel Online, June 14, 2017, accessed June 17, 2017 .
Web links
- Vytenis andriukaitis on the website of the European Commission (English)
- Vytenis Andriukaitis website (Lithuanian)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Raimondas Sukys |
Minister of Health of Lithuania 2012-2014 |
Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė |
Vytenis Andriukaitis | Andrus Ansip | Miguel Arias Cañete | Dimitris Avramopoulos | Elżbieta Bieńkowska | Violeta Bulc | Corina Crețu | Valdis Dombrovskis | Marija Gabriel (from July 2017) | Kristalina Georgiewa (until December 2016) | Johannes Hahn | Jonathan Hill (until July 2016) | Phil Hogan | Jean-Claude Juncker | Jyrki Katainen | Julian King (from September 2016) | Věra Jourová | Cecilia Malmström | Neven Mimica | Carlos Moedas | Federica Mogherini | Pierre Moscovici | Tibor Navracsics | Günther Oettinger | Maroš Šefčovič | Christos Stylianides | Marianne Thyssen | Frans Timmermans | Karmenu Vella | Margrethe Vestager
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| SURNAME | Andriukaitis, vytenis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Andriukaitis, Vytenis Povilas (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian doctor and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kjusjur , Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , Soviet Union |