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Portuguese politician (1933–2021) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
António José Baptista Cardoso e Cunha (28 January 1933 – 24 January 2021) was a Portuguese Social Democratic Party (PSD) politician. He was a government minister in the 1970s and 1980s, and then from 1986 to 1992 he served as Portugal's first European Commissioner.
António Cardoso e Cunha | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 1988 | |
| Commissioner for Energy, Euratom, Small Businesses, Staff and Translation | |
| In office 1989–1993 | |
| President | Jacques Delors |
| Preceded by | Nicolas Mosar |
| Succeeded by | Marcelino Oreja |
| European Commissioner for Fisheries | |
| In office 5 January 1986 – 1989 | |
| President | Jacques Delors |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Carlo Ripa di Meana |
| Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries | |
| In office 1980–1981 | |
| Prime Minister | |
| Preceded by | Joaquim Lourenço |
| Succeeded by | Basílio Horta |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 28 January 1933 Leiria, Portugal |
| Died | 24 January 2021 (aged 87) |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
| Alma mater | University of Lisbon |
Born in Leiria, Cardoso e Cunha studied at the University of Lisbon and then worked as chemical engineer and in business administration.[1]
He was elected to the Assembly of the Republic in 1978,[2] and in September 1978 he was appointed as State Secretary for Foreign Trade, a junior ministerial post in the Democratic Alliance government led by Alfredo Nobre da Costa. In November 1978, the new Prime Minister Carlos Mota Pinto appointed Cardoso e Cunha as State Secretary for Industrial Renewal. From 1980 to 1981, Cardoso e Cunha served in the cabinets of Francisco Sá Carneiro and Francisco Pinto Balsemão as Minister for Agriculture and fisheries.
When Portugal joined the European Economic Community in 1986, Cardoso e Cunha was nominated by the government of Aníbal Cavaco Silva to be Portugal's first member of the European Commission. He joined the first Delors Commission as Commissioner for Fisheries,[2] and in 1989 was appointed to the second Delors Commission as Commissioner for Energy, Euratom, small businesses, staff and translation.[2] He served until the Commission's term ended in 1993.[1]
He was then appointed as the first commissioner of Expo '98. He was replaced in 1997 after a change of government, and became president of the state-owned airline TAP Air Portugal until 2004.[1]
In 2006, Cardoso e Cunha was declared bankrupt by the Lisbon Court of Commerce.[1]
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