Santer Commission

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The Santer Commission was the 19 member European Commission headed by Jacques Santer that held office from 1995 until 15 March 1999, before it's term expired. In contrast to the successful Delors Commission it replaced, the Santer Commission is notorious in being the only Commission forced to resign en mass due to allegations of corruption.

The allegations centred around Édith Cresson, a former French Prime Minister who was in charge of the Research, Science & Technology and portfolio. She appointed her friend and dental surgeon as a personal advisor and was found guilty of not reporting failures in a youth training programme from which vast sums went missing.

After the European Parliament threatened to throw out the Commission, the entire body resigned to be replaced by the interim Marín Commission and then the Prodi Commission later that year.

Contents 1 Membership 1.1 Summary by political leanings 2 See also 3 References

[edit] Membership

Portfolio	Member state	Office-holder	Party Affiliation
President	Luxembourg	Jacques Santer	CSV
Vice-President and Commissioner for External Affairs	United Kingdom	Leon Brittan	Conservative
Vice-President and Commissioner for Relations with the Southern Mediterranean, Latin America & the Middle East	Spain	Manuel Marin	PSOE
Commissioner for the Internal Market	Italy	Mario Monti	?
Commissioner for Agriculture & Rural Development	Austria	Franz Fischler	OVP
Commissioner for Competition	Belgium	Karel van Miert	SP
Commissioner for Economic & Financial Affairs	France	Yves-Thibault de Silguy	unknown
Commissioner for Employment & Social Affairs	Ireland	Pádraig Flynn	Fianna Fáil
Commissioner for Consumers Policy & Consumer Health Protection	Italy	Emma Bonino	Transnational Radical Party
Commissioner for the Environment	Denmark	Ritt Bjerregaard	SD
Commissioner for Industrial affairs, Information & Telecommunications Technologies	Germany	Martin Bangemann	FDP
Commissioner for Transport	United Kingdom	Neil Kinnock	Labour
Commissioner for Energy & Tourism	Greece	Christos Papoutsis	PASOK
Commissioner for Immigration, Justice & Home Affairs	Sweden	Anita Gradin	Swedish Social Democratic Party
Commissioner for Budget, Personnel & Administration	Finland	Erkki Liikanen	SDP
Commissioner for Regional Policy	Germany	Monika Wulf-Mathies	SPD
Commissioner for Research, Science & Technology	France	Édith Cresson	PS
Commissioner for Relations with Central & Eastern Europe	Netherlands	Hans van den Broek	CDA
Commissioner for Relations with African, Caribbean & Pacific countries	Portugal	João de Deus Pinheiro	PSD
Commissioner for Relations with the European Parliament, Culture and Audiovisual Policy	Spain	Marcelino Oreja	PP

[edit] Summary by political leanings

The colour of the row indicates the approximate political leaning of the office holder using the following scheme:

affiliation	number of commissioners
right leaning / conservative	7 (seven)
liberal	9 (nine)
left leaning / socialist	2 (two)
unknown / independent	1 (one)

[edit] See also

• Resignation of the Santer Commission
• Delors Commission
• Prodi Commission
• Barroso Commission

[edit] References

• EU Press release, 1994, "Division of portfolios in the new Commission", Retrieved Mar. 25, 2005.

Preceded by Delors Commission

European Commission

Succeeded by Marín Commission (interim), Prodi Commission

European Commissions
Hallstein (1958), Rey (1967), Malfatti (1970), Mansholt (1972), Ortoli (1973), Jenkins (1977), Thorn (1981), Delors (1985), Santer (1995), Marín (1999), Prodi (1999), Barroso (2004)