Nicolas Mosar
Nicolas Mosar (* November 25, 1927; † 6 January 2004) was a Luxembourgian politician, diplomat and Commissioner for Energy of the European Commission.
Biography
After schooling, he studied law and then worked as a lawyer and was 1962-1963 President of the Conference of Young Lawyers Luxembourg.
His political career began Mosar, a member of the Social Chrëschtlech Vollekspartei (CSV) was in 1959 with the election as a member of the City Council of Luxembourg, to which he belonged until 1984 and where he was at times also Assistant ( Schaeffe ). In 1969 he was first elected a deputy of the Chambre des Députés. Between 1972 and 1974 he was president of the CSV. With the exception of a two -year hiatus from 1974 to 1976 after the electoral defeat of the CSV he was until 1984 a member of parliament. After the electoral defeat of 1974, he handed over the post of party president Jacques Santer. In 1979 he became the successor of Pierre Werner, President of the CSV fraction in the Chamber of Deputies and held that office until 1984.
In 1985 he was Gaston Thorn, Luxembourg as a member in the EC Commission and took over as the successor of the Belgian Étienne Davignon in the First European Commission Jacques Delors, the Office of the Commissioner for Energy. He was also responsible for the Euratom in this function. For his services he was awarded the Robert Schuman Medal of the EPP- ED Group in the European Parliament on 13 December 1988.
After retiring from the Commission in 1989, he was Ambassador to Italy and remained in that post until 1992. During this assignment he was also the Luxembourg delegation to the 25th session of the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO) in Rome in November 1989.
His son Laurent Mosar is also a deputy of the CSV and was president of the " Chambre des Députés ".
Swell
- The commissions 1958-2004
- Personalities of the CSV