Augosto Santos Silva
 Augosto Santos Silva    ( academic, politician) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | August 20, 1956 Porto, Portugal | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Portuguese | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | • University of Porto • ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Socialist Party (Portugal) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Portuguese politician who attended the 2006 Bilderberg. Later Minister of Defence and Foreign Affairs.
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Augusto Santos Silva is a Portuguese social scientist and politician of the Socialist Party. He was selected to attend the 2006 Bilderberg meeting.
Education
Augusto Santos Silva completed his studies in history at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Porto and received his doctorate in Cultural and Communication Sociology at the ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, in 1992.
Career
Since 1981, Santos Silva has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Porto, and since 1999 he has also been a member of the Academic Council for Social Sciences.
Santos Silva was a member of the National Education Council from 1996 to 1999, and was the Portuguese representative in the Council of Europe's Civic Education project from 1997 to 1999. From 1998 to 1999 he was Rector of the University of Porto.
Silva started his political activity while at university, serving as a member of the Porto committee of the Workers' Revolutionary Union, a Trotskyist group. By 1986, he was a supporter of Mário Soares[1]. Augusto Santos Silva became a member of the Socialist Party (PS) in 1990, a member of the National Party Commission in 1998 and of the party secretariat in 2006. Between 1994 and 1999, Santos Silva was a member of the municipal Parliament of Nevogilde (Porto).
However, Augusto Santos Silva began his real political career first as State Secretary in the Education Administration of Guterres' first cabinet between 1999 and 2000. On April 9, 2000, he became Minister of Education in the same government, and on March 7, 2001, he moved to the Ministry of Culture. After the 2002 parliamentary elections, he represented the Miragaia electoral district in the 2002-2005 legislative period. During this time, Santos Silva headed the PS parliamentary party committees on culture, science and higher education. After the victory of the Socialist Party in the 2005 parliamentary elections, Prime Minister José Sócrates appointed Augusto Santos Silva as the new Minister of Parliamentary Affairs.[2]
From 2009 to 2011, Silva was Minister of Defense.
António Costa, who was appointed Prime Minister in 2015, appointed Silva as Minister of Foreign Affairs, until the government reshuffle in March 2022. In the period from January 1, 2021 to June 30, 2021, he was also the Chairman of the Council of the European Union.
In 2020, Santos Silva categorically ruled out joining the so-called 17+1 group of eastern and south-eastern European countries that co-operate on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), saying this was "not Portugal’s geopolitical space".[3]
On March 29, 2022, he was elected by parliament as the new parliament president with 156 of the 230 votes.
In addition to his work as a politician, Augusto Santos Silva is very often involved in journalistic areas. Between 1978 and 1986 he was a collaborator of the cultural section of the Jornal de Notícias. Between 1997 and 1998 he was a chronicler of the news magazine Rádio Jornal of the radio station TSF. From 1992 to 1999 and from 2002 to 2005 he was a columnist for Público. He is also the author of numerous sociological and educational works.
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2006 | 8 June 2006 | 11 June 2006 | Canada Ottawa | 54th Bilderberg, held in Canada. 133 guests |
References
- ↑ https://www.publico.pt/politica/noticia/o-principe-que-nenhum-lider-do-ps-ousou-dispensar-1716501?page=-1
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20081028024505/http://dossiers.publico.clix.pt/noticia.aspx?idCanal=1409&id=1217395
- ↑ Peter Wise (January 20, 2020), Lisbon rebuffs claims Portugal is China’s ‘special friend’ in EU Financial Times.
