European Union announces new Commissioners for Climate, Environment and Development
Miguel Arias Cañete is the new EU Commissioner designate for Climate Action and Energy. He is a Spanish politician b etween 2011 and 2014 he served as Minister of Agriculture, Food and Environment in the current Partido Popular government. n politics Arias Cañete served first as a representative in the Parliament of Andalusia from 1982 until 1986, resigning upon being elected to the European Parliament where he served until 1999 and chaired the Agricultural and Regional Politics Committees. He then served in the Spanish Senate from 1993 until 2000 when he was appointed as Minister of Agriculture and Fishing in the governments of José María Aznar . He served as a representative for Cadiz district in the 2004-2008 Spanish congress before being elected at the 2008 election from the Madrid Region district, which he currently represents. [2] After the 2011 G...