Career
Secretary of State for Foreign Trade, Third Constitutional Government. Secretary of State for Industries, Fourth Constitutional Government. Deputy, Assembly of the Republic, since 1979.
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1980-1981. European Commissioner: responsible for Fisheries, 1986-1988. Vice-President, European Commission, responsible for Personnel, Admin, and Translation Energy and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Distributive Trades and Tourism Co-operatives, since 1989.
Worked in petrochemical industries, foreign trade and agriculture.
