What is Marcelino Oreja, 1st Marquis of Oreja?
[[File:Marcelino Oreja 2014 - UNED Homenaje a Adolfo Suárez (cropped).jpg|thumb|Marcelino Oreja Aguirre]] '''Marcelino Oreja y Aguirre, 1st Marquis of Oreja''' (born 13 February 1935) is a Spanish lawyer, diplomat and politician. He was a member of the [[People's Party (Spain)|People's Party]]. He was Foreign Minister of Spain between 1976 and 1980. Between 1984 and 1989 he was [[Secretary General of the Council of Europe]]. In 1989 he became member of the [[European Parliament]] and he was until 1993. In 1994 he was appointed [[European Commissioner for Transport]] and Energy and then [[European Commissioner for Institutional Relations and Communication Strategy]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Commission Member Biographies |work=[[Independent Commission on Turkey]] |year=2009 |url=http://www.independentcommissiononturkey.org/members-bios.html |access-date=2 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090913101745/http://www.independentcommissiononturkey.org/members-bios.html |archive-date=13 September 2009 |publisher=[[British Council]] and the Open Society Foundation–Turkey}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Oreja, Marcelino}} [[Category:1935 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:MEPs for Spain]] [[Category:People from Madrid]] [[Category:Spanish lawyers]] {{bio-stub}}