Pedro Solbes


Pedro Solbes Mira is a Spanish economist. He was the president of FRIDE, Madrid-based think tank.

Career

While independent in the sense of not affiliated to any party, his various ministerial roles in Spain have always been within Socialist Workers' Party cabinets. Since 1985 to 1991, he was the 3rd Secretary of State for the European Communities. He was agriculture and fisheries minister and finance minister in Felipe Gonzalez's cabinets, also MP representing Alicante for the same party until 1999.
Appointed by Spanish premier José María Aznar Solbes was a European commissioner for economic and monetary affairs in the European Commission presided by Romano Prodi.
Then Solbes served as second vice president and minister of economy and finance in the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero which he held from 2004 to 2009.

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