Office: | European Commissioner for Competition |
Term Start: | 6 January 1977 |
Term End: | 6 January 1981 |
President: | Roy Jenkins |
Predecessor: | Albert Borschette |
Successor: | Frans Andriessen |
Office1: | Deputy Prime Minister of Luxembourg |
Term Start1: | 15 June 1974 |
Term End1: | 21 July 1976 |
Primeminister1: | Gaston Thorn |
Predecessor1: | Eugène Schaus |
Successor1: | Bernard Berg |
Birth Date: | 8 April 1923 |
Birth Place: | Rumelange, Luxembourg |
Party: | Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party |
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Battles: | World War II |
Raymond Vouel (8 April 1923 – 12 February 1987) was a Luxembourgish politician who was Deputy Prime Minister in the Thorn-Vouel cabinet, a coalition between Vouel's Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party and Gaston Thorn's Democratic Party. On 21 July 1976, Vouel left the government to join the European Commission as European Commissioner for Competition.
Vouel was born on 8 April 1923 in Rumelange. During World War II he was a member of the French Resistance and later served as a translator for the United States Army. He was also a journalist for the socialist daily newspaper Tageblatt, writing articles on international affairs.[1]
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