Maria Damanaki

Maria Damanaki (Greek Μαρία Δαμανάκη, born 1952 in Agios Nikolaos ( Crete) ) is a Greek politician (PASOK ) and EU Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries.

Biography

Damanaki completed a study of Chemieingenierurwesens at the National Technical University of Athens in 1975. During her studies, she was active in the resistance against the Greek military dictatorship works. When student uprising in 1973, she was the voice of the radio station " Edo Politechnio ". She was temporarily imprisoned and tortured.

Political career

After the fall of the dictatorship in 1977, she was selected as the youngest Member of the Greek Parliament, which it initially belonged to 1993 for the communist KKE, and later for the Synaspismos. Since 1991, she was Chair of the Synaspismos, but resigned from the party leadership after the party in 1993 at the 3 - had failed % threshold. In 1994, she was defeated in the election of Athens mayor as a candidate of a left electoral alliance the candidate of the New Democracy party, Dimitris Avramopoulos. From 2000 to 2003 she was back to Parliament on, but resigned in 2003 out of the Synaspismos and gave her mandate on. In 2004, she joined the PASOK and was re-elected for this in the parliamentary elections in 2004, 2007 and 2009. Since February 2010 she is member of the European Commission, where she is responsible for the department Fisheries and Maritime Affairs.

Fisheries Policy

Immediately after taking office Damanaki offset the previously influential EU officials Cesar Deben, the critics had accused of lobbying for the Spanish deep-sea fishing. Damanaki announced to lower the catch quotas for all species of fish so that they the recommendations of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea ( ICES) correspond in the context of sustainable use. This came at once to the resistance of representatives of the Spanish and the German fishing industry and the respective ministries. In contrast, fisheries experts from several environmental organizations welcomed the new fisheries policy.

Swell

  • CV on the website of Maria Damanaki (English)
Agios Nikolaos, Crete New Democracy (Greece) Greek legislative election, 2004 Greek legislative election, 2007 Greek legislative election, 2009 Individual fishing quota Catherine Ashton Michel Barnier Tonio Borg John Dalli Kristalina Georgieva Connie Hedegaard Siim Kallas Neelie Kroes Janusz Lewandowski Andris Piebalgs Viviane Reding Olli Rehn Antonio Tajani Androulla Vassiliou Frans Andriessen Emma Bonino Franz Fischler
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