Jacques Poos

Jacques F. Poos ( born June 3, 1935 in Luxembourg ) is a Luxembourgian politician.

Study and career

After schooling, he graduated in commerce and economics in Lausanne, which he completed in 1959. Subsequently, an employee in the public service, first as attaché at the Economics Ministry and from 1962 to 1964 as a lecturer in the Statistical Service. In 1961 his doctorate in economics in Lausanne. Between 1964 and 1976 he has been director of the daily paper, the second largest daily newspaper in Luxembourg.

Between 1980 and 1982 he is first director of the Banque continentale du Luxembourg (BCL ) and then to 1984 Director of Banque Paribas Luxembourg SA.

Political career

Member of Parliament

Poos began his political career in 1969 with the election of a member of the Municipal Council of Esch- sur -Alzette, where he remained until 1976. In 1974, he was first a member of the Chamber of Deputies elected ( Chambre des Députés ). There he represented until 1999, the interests of the socialist Lëtzebuerger Esch Aarbechterpartei (LSAP ).

Minister in the governments of Thorn, Santer and Juncker

On July 21, 1976, he was appointed Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Gaston Thorn. In this role he was also Governor of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF ) and the European Investment Bank ( EIB). These offices he held until the end of the coalition of the LSAP with the Demokratesch Party ( DP) of Thorn on July 16, 1979.

On 20 July 1984, the LSAP formed, along with the Christian Social Party (CSV ), a coalition government. Prime Minister Jacques Santer called him then Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Cooperation. These offices he held under the January 20, 1995 from serving Prime Minister Jean -Claude Juncker to 7 August 1999. As Foreign Minister, he was also in the second half of 1985, first half of 1991 and in the second half of 1997, President of the Council of the European Union. He was so near the French politician Maurice Couve de Murville the only politician who has held the post three times.

Between 1984 and 1989 he was also Minister for Economic Affairs and Treasury, as well as from 14 July 1989 to July 13, 1994 Secretary of Defense.

Member of the European Parliament

In the parliamentary election in 1999 Poos does not occur again as the leading candidate to the LSAP. Instead, he was elected Member of the European Parliament. During this time he was also Vice- President of the European Parliament. In 2004 he withdrew from active political life.

Biographical sources and background literature

  • Jacques Poos entry through the House of Representatives database of the European Parliament
  • " Not Germany but Bush and Blair are isolated," interview on the Iraq War, " TIME " of 12 September 2002
  • Interviews with Jacques Poos on European policy CVCE

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  • Member of the Chambre des Députés ( Luxembourg )
  • LSAP Member
  • Finance ( Luxembourg )
  • Minister of Foreign Affairs ( Luxembourg )
  • Of Defense ( Luxembourg )
  • Support of the Falcon ( Grand Cross )
  • MEPs for Luxembourg
  • Luxembourg
  • Born in 1935
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