Benita Ferrero-Waldner

See also: Ferrero (homonymy)

Benita Waldner , more known under the name of Benita Ferrero-Waldner , born the September 5th 1948 with Salzburg is a political woman Austrian.

Doctor in right since 1970.

First woman of the history to becoming Chief of the Protocol department of UNO (during the mandate of Boutros Boutros-Ghali)
1995 - 2000: secretary of foreign affairs of Austria
2000 -2004: Foreign Minister of Austria, in the successive governments directed by Wolfgang Schüssel.
called “the smiling lioness”, because of the wild combat which it carried out against the European Union when this one had taken sanctions against its country at the time of the come to power of the coalition government with the party of extreme-right-hand side of his/her former comrade Jörg Haider.
the Party of the Austrian people (ÖVP, conservative) supported his candidature for the presidency of the Republic in April 2004, election which was gained by its social democrat adversary Heinz Fischer.
Indicated for the Foreign relations, key position if it is, in the news European commission (Commission Barroso). It took its functions the November 22nd 2004, for a coming mandate in the term the October 31st 2009. It in particular contributed to the release of the Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor wrongfully shown in Libya to have inoculated the virus of the AIDS to children.

External bonds

Official site of the European Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner in French
Official site of Benita Ferrero-Waldner

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