Benita Ferrero Waldner (* 5 September 1948 in Salzburg) is a Austrian politician and since 2004 clerk sarin for external relations and European neighbourhood politics in the European Union commission Barroso.

Life

It buildup as a daughter of a dentist in upper village with Salzburg, locked 1966 the material High School and studied jurisprudence in Salzburg, where it attained a doctorate to 1970 to the Dr. iuris.

1971 to 1983 worked it in Germany. First at the mechanical engineering company Paul Kiefel GmbH in freeread-sing, then with the textile enterprise Gerns & Gahler GmbH at the same place, where she was female assistant of the management last.

1984 changed it into the Austrian diplomatic service: Starting from 1984 it was in the foreign service in Madrid, Dakar, Paris and deputy minutes boss in the State Department. Under UN-Secretary-General Boutros Ghali she dressed 1994 the office of the first minutes boss at the United Nations in New York. From 1995 to 2000 she was a state secretary in the State Department. On 4 February 2000 it became of Federal President Thomas Klestil, which expressed its first name first erroneously with male ending (Benito), when federal minister for foreign affairs angelobt.

With the Federal President choice on 25 April 2004 Ferrero Waldner began as a candidate of the It lost the choice against Heinz Fischer who came on 52,4 per cent of the voices. The election turnout amounted to approx. 71%. It had been supported thereby after a Hearing" expressly by Haider.

Due to its change to the European Union commission she handed on 20 October 2004 the office to the Foreign Minister over at Ursula Plassnik.

Benita Ferrero Waldner was criticized because of their procedure on the occasion of the arrest of a part of the Viennese of artist collective Volxtheaterkarawane following the protests overshadowed by substantial Polizeigewalt against the G8-Gipfel, which took place in July 2001 in Genova. Thus it passed allegedly loading evidence on, which proved however later than groundless, as well as a police reservation to the Italian authorities. After the lost presidency election Ferrero Waldner for the passing on of police reservations apologized to the Italian law and calls the affair "trailer in its career".

It is church married since 2003 in second marriage with the Spaniard Francisco Ferrero Campos. In order to make possible, it let this cancel the first, for many years lasting, catholic trusted marriage.

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• European Union commission Barroso (English)
• Material collection to VolxTheaterKarawane and Ferrero Waldner

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