Magdalena Ãlvarez
Magdalena Álvarez Arza (* February 15, 1952 in San Fernando, Cadiz ) is a Spanish politician ( PSOE) and Vice President of the European Investment Bank. Previously, she was, among other things 2004-2009 Spanish Minister for Infrastructure Funding ( Fomento, corresponding approximately to the German Ministry of Transport) under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
Career
After a PhD at the Complutense University of Madrid was Magdalena Álvarez 1977-1990 university professor of economics at the Spanish National Distance University. From 1981 to 1989 she also taught at the Escuela de Prácticas Jurídicas in Malaga and at the Instituto de Estudios Fiscales.
From 1979 to 1993, she also held various offices in the Spanish Ministry of Finance and tax authorities.
Political career
Álvarez was party -less member of the Andalusian Parliament and was appointed in August 1994 by Manuel Chaves to the Minister of Economy and Finance in the Andalusian Regional Government. Because of conflicts in the Andalusian policy case, none of the two worked out by their annual budgets adopted by the Andalusian Parliament in the first two years. Nevertheless, it was confirmed in each case in office after the regional elections of 1996 and 2000. Their main activity was the negotiations with the Spanish central government on regional financing of Andalusia, where Álvarez particularly emphasized the " historical debt " ( deuda histórica ) Spain over its traditionally rural and poor south.
Álvarez in 2004 became a member of the PSOE party executive and moved to the Spanish parliamentary elections this year as the top candidate for the province of Málaga in the Spanish Congress of Deputies. Shortly after, she was appointed Minister of Infrastructure in the first cabinet Zapatero. Their term of office was accompanied by some notable failures, such as the delay of the development of the railway high-speed line from Madrid to Barcelona. Therefore, the opposition has repeatedly called for the resignation Álvarez '. Yet she was re-elected to the Spanish Parliament elections in 2008 and appointed by President Zapatero in his second cabinet. It was replaced by a comprehensive reshuffle of José Blanco López was only on April 7, 2009.
In the little occurring later European elections in Spain 2009 Álvarez occurred on the third place of the PSOE list and achieved a seat in the European Parliament. As a member of the European Parliament she served on the Committee on Transport and Tourism and the Temporary Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis. In July 2010, she resigned from the European Parliament, after she was appointed as Vice-President of the European Investment Bank.