Mariann Fischer Boel

Mariann Fischer Boel [ Marian fɪʃɐ bo ː l] ( born April 15, 1943 in Aasum on Funen ) is a Danish politician of the center-right liberal party Venstre and former European Commissioner.

Fischer Boel is married and owns with her husband Hans Fischer Boel several farms in Denmark. This included, until recently, the estate Østergård at Munkebo, she has now passed to her daughter and son in law. Through the farm her husband flowed to the EU substantial subsidies, some of which were annually at over 50,000 euros. The criticism then in the Danish public has become loud as she could dispel.

Career in Denmark

1982 to 1991 and 1994 to 1997, she was mistress of Munkebo Council, 1986-1990 and second deputy mayor of the municipality. From 1994 to 2001, she led several parliamentary commissions as president of from 1994 to 1998, the Parliamentary Commission " Food and Agriculture ", then for a year " Trade and Industry " and then to 2001 " tax matters ".

In 2002, she was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Food of the government of Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Career in the EU

From November 2004 to February 2010 she served as European Commissioner, the Department Agriculture and Rural Development. On November 18, 2004, she was appointed to office. In 2007 it presented a submission to the EU wine market reform, in which it wants to ban the term cider. Opponents of reform formulated, among others, the Mainz resolution that political and professional representatives of the Assembly of European Wine Regions ( AREV ) had already outlined on 4 September 2007 in Alba Iulia.