25 febbraio 2002
Tags : Franz Fischler
Fischler Franz
• . Nato ad Absam (Austria) il 23 settembre 1946. Politico. Dal 1995 al 2004 Commissario europeo per l’Agricoltura. «A few years ago Franz Fischler astonished the dignitaries at a European farm ministers’ meeting in Biarritz by tramping through the lobby of a posh hotel in a tiny swimming costume after a bracing dip in the Atlantic. It was an impressive act of bravado from the Union’s amply-proportioned agriculture commissioner. [...] Despite his jovial manner and background in Austria’s conservative mainstream, he is not just a straightforward Tyrolean farmer; his bluff exterior hides a shrewd political brain. When Austria was virtually isolated in EU politics after the far-right Freedom Party joined the government in 2000, Mr Fischler said just the right things to preserve his political viability both in Brussels and in conservative circles in Vienna. [...]» (’The Economist” 4/7/2002).