Carmen Fraga Estévez

Carmen Fraga Estévez (* October 19, 1948 in León) is a Spanish politician of the conservative PP and Member of the European Parliament.

Carmen Fraga is the daughter of Manuel Fraga Iribarne, who was a minister during the Franco dictatorship and later co-founder and honorary president of the PP was. She studied geography, where in 1970 she graduated with honors. Starting this year, she worked at the Spanish Ministry of Infrastructure. From 1980 to 1985 she studied law, after the Spanish EU accession in 1986 she worked until 1994 as a parliamentary assistant for the Group of the European People's Party in the European Parliament.

In the European elections in 1994 Fraga himself was elected to the European Parliament, where it was first Vice President of the EPP Group. From 1997 to 1999 she was chairman of the Committee on Fisheries.

2002 to 2004, she gave up her seat in the European Parliament, to be Secretary-General for deep-sea fishing in the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture in the Aznar government. However, after the change of government in Spain in early 2004, she appeared in the 2004 European election to turn and was re-elected to Parliament, to which it belongs since then. She is a member of the EPP Group Bureau and was a member of the 2004-09 Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on Fisheries. After the 2009 European elections, she was already as 1997-99 chairman of the Committee on Fisheries; the Agriculture Committee, it is, however, only a deputy member.