Frans Andriessen

Frans Andriessen


European Commissioner for Trade
In office 6 January 1989 – 6 January 1993
President	Jacques Delors
Preceded by	Willy De Clercq
Succeeded by	Hans van den Broek
European Commissioner for Competition
In office 6 January 1981 – 7 January 1985
President	Gaston Thorn
Preceded by	Raymond Vouel
Succeeded by	Peter Sutherland
Minister of Finance
In office 19 December 1977 – 22 February 1980
Monarch	Juliana
Prime Minister	Dries van Agt
Preceded by	Wim Duisenberg
Succeeded by	Gijs van Aardenne
Personal details
Born	(1929-04-02) 2 April 1929 Utrecht, Netherlands
Political party	Catholic People's Party (1967-1980) Christian Democratic Appeal (1980-present)

Franciscus Henricus Johannes Joseph (Frans) Andriessen (born 2 April 1929 in Utrecht) is a senior Dutch politician.

In 1967 he was first elected to the House of Representatives for the Katholieke Volkspartij (KVP). From 1971 to 1977 he was leader of the KVP.^[1] In 1977, the KVP merged with two protestant parties to form the Christen-Democratisch Appel (CDA). For the CDA, he served as Minister of Finance (1977–1980) and European Commissioner for Competition (1981-1985), Agriculture (1985-1989), and External Relations and Trade (1989–1993).^[2] He is one of few politicians to serve three consecutive terms as an EU Commissioner.^[3]

References

Preceded by Henk Vredeling	Dutch European Commissioner 1981–1993	Succeeded by Hans van den Broek
Preceded by Raymond Vouel	European Commissioner for Competition 1981–1985	Succeeded by Peter Sutherland

Ministers of Finance of the Netherlands

Ministry of Finance

Schimmelpenninck Van Bosse Ossewaarde Van Bosse Van Doorn Van Hall Agnites Vrolik Van Bosse Schimmelpenninck van Nijenhuis Van Bosse Blussé van Oud-Alblas Van Delden Van der Heim Gleichman Vissering Van Lynden van Sandenburg Grobbée Bloem Godin de Beaufort Pierson Sprenger van Eyk Pierson Van Tecklenburg De Meester Kolkman Bertling Treub Van Gijn De Vries Corneliszoon De Geer Colijn De Geer Oud De Wilde Colijn Bodenhausen De Geer Welter Steenberghe Albarda Van den Broek Huysmans Lieftinck Drees Van de Kieft Hofstra Zijlstra Witteveen Vondeling Zijlstra Witteveen Nelissen Duisenberg Andriessen Van Aardenne Van der Stee Ruding Kok Zalm Hoogervorst Zalm Bos De Jager Dijsselbloem

European Commissioners for External Relations

Rey Martino Deniau Soames Haferkamp De Clercq Andriessen van den Broek Brittan Patten Ferrero-Waldner

Merged into High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

European Commissioners for Trade

Rey Deniau Dahrendorf Soames Haferkamp De Clercq Andriessen Brittan Lamy Hübner Mandelson Ashton Ferrero-Waldner De Gucht

European Commissioners for Competition

von der Groeben Sassen Borschette Vouel Andriessen Sutherland Brittan Van Miert Monti Kroes Almunia

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