Alfonso Dastis

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In this
Spanish name, the first or paternal surname
is Dastis and the second or maternal family name is Quecedo.
José Manuel García-Margallo
Succeeded byJosep Borrell
Ambassador of Spain to Italy
Assumed office
7 September 2018
Preceded byJesús Gracia Aldaz
Ambassador of Spain to the Netherlands
In office
26 June 2004 – 31 December 2011
Ambassador Permanent Representative of Spain to the European Union
In office
21 December 2011 – 4 November 2016
Preceded byLuis Planas
Succeeded byJuan Pablo García-Berdoy
Personal details
Born
Alfonso María Dastis Quecedo

(1955-10-05) 5 October 1955 (age 68)
CEU San Pablo University
Complutense University

Alfonso María Dastis Quecedo (born 5 October 1955) is a Spanish diplomat, who served as

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain from 2016 until 1 June 2018, when a vote of no-confidence against Mariano Rajoy ousted the government. Prior to becoming Minister he held several positions within the Spanish Diplomatic Corps. He is the current Ambassador of Spain to the Republic of Italy.[1]

Education

Dastis studied law at the

CEU San Pablo University in the 1970s, then attended the public Complutense University of Madrid.[2] He embarked on a doctoral thesis on the freedom of establishment of insurance companies, but abandoned it in 1983.[2]

Career

Alfonso Dastis in 2017

Dastis entered the Diplomatic Corps in 1983.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and to international institutions, such as in the Spanish Embassy to the UN, the Minister's Staff, and the Prime Minister's Office. In 2002, he was named Secretary General for European Affairs.

Between 1987 and 1989, Dastis worked as a law clerk for one of his former professors, Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias, Spain's first judge at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and a subsequent president of that court.[2]

As Spain's legal adviser at the United Nations, Dastis deputised occasionally for Spain's ambassador in 1993-94 when Spain held a seat on the United Nations Security Council and cast Spain's vote at the Security Council meeting that accepted the Czech Republic and Slovakia as members after they had split.[2] Dastis was EU adviser to

common foreign and security policy (CFSP) subject to the jurisdiction of the ECJ.[3]

Dastis attained the rank of

second Rajoy government
.

During the

1 October Catalan independence referendum were fake, and defended the actions of the Civil Guard and National Police.[4][5]

Personal life

Dastis is married to a lawyer. He is a keen golfer.[2]

See also

References

  1. Europa Press
    (in Spanish). Madrid. 7 September 2018. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  2. ^
    European Voice
    . Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  3. European Voice
    . Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  4. ^ Spanish minister: police violence videos against Catalonia referendum supporters are 'fake news
  5. ^ Spain FM: 'Many police violence pictures fake' - BBC News

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Political offices
Preceded by
José Manuel García-Margallo
Minister of Foreign Affairs

2016–2018 		Succeeded by
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