Sicco Mansholt
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Sicco Leendert Mansholt was a Dutch farmer, politician and diplomat of the Social Democratic Workers' Party and later the Labour Party, who served as the fourth president of the European Commission fr
Mansholt in 1962
United States Ambassador to the Netherlands Stanley Hornbeck, former President of the United States Herbert Hoover and Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Supplies Sicco Mansholt at Airport Schiphol on 8 April 1946.
The president of the European Commission, also known as president of the College of Commissioners, is the head of the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union. The president of
Sicco Mansholt
…was a Dutch farmer, politician and diplomat of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later the Labour Party (PvdA), who served as the fourth president of the European Commission from 1 March 1972 until 5 January 1973. Mansholt worked as a farmer in Wieringermeer from 1937 until 1945. In 1940, during World War II, he joined the…
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Headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels (Berlaymont building)
Walter Hallstein, the first president of the Commission
President Mansholt opened the first enlargement talks with Denmark, Ireland, Norway and the United Kingdom