Enrique Barón Crespo

Infobox_President | name =Enrique Barόn Crespo


order =20^st President of the European Parliament
5^th of the Elected Parliament
term_start =1989
term_end =1992
vicepresident =
predecessor =Charles Henry Plumb
successor =Egon Klepsch
birth_date =Birth date and age|1944|3|27|mf=y
birth_place =Madrid, Spain
death_date =
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party =PSOE, PES
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Enrique Barόn Crespo (born March 27, 1944, Madrid) is a Spanish politician and lawyer. He is a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and sits with the Party of European Socialists group in the European Parliament.

Barón Crespo graduated in law from the University of Madrid and in business at ESSEC in Paris, in 1965. As a practising lawyer, he specialised in labour law, and acted for defendants in political cases (1970–1977).

He was a Deputy in the Cortes (1977–1986) and was Minister of Transport, Tourism and Communications (1982–1985).

After election to the European Parliament he was President of the European Parliament (1989–1992), and was PES Group chairman from 1999 to 2004. He was Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (1992–1995) and is currently Chairman of the Committee on International Trade.

Barόn Crespo is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Global Panel Foundation and the Advisory Board of think tank Gold Mercury International, London, UK.

External links

* [http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public/yourMep/view.do?name=Baron+Crespo&partNumber=1&language=EN&id=1352 European Parliament: Your MEPs]
* [http://www.europarl.es/diputados/diputado.php?id=5 European Parliament Office in Spain]