1. Erhard Busek was an Austrian politician from the Christian-conservative People's Party.
24 Facts About Erhard Busek
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Erhard Busek was coordinator of the South-Eastern Cooperative Initiative and chairman of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe.
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From January 2002 until June 2008 Erhard Busek served as Special Co-ordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, the final person to hold the position.
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Erhard Busek earned his Doctor of Laws at the University of Vienna in 1963.
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Erhard Busek began his professional career in 1964 as legal adviser to the association of the parliamentarians of the Austrian People's Party.
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Erhard Busek then served as Secretary General of the Austrian Federation for Trade and Commerce.
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Erhard Busek was succeeded as secretary-general by Sixtus Lanner in 1976.
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Erhard Busek gained additional experience in administration between 1968 and 1976 while with a publishing firm in the economic field.
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Erhard Busek was City Councilor and was elected Deputy-Mayor of Vienna in 1978, a position he held until 1987.
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Erhard Busek was appointed Minister for Science and Research in April 1989.
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From 1994 until May 1995 Erhard Busek was Minister for Education.
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Erhard Busek was elected Chairman of the Austrian People's Party in 1991 and served as Vice-Chancellor of Austria in the government of Chancellor Franz Vranitzky from 1991 to 1995.
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However, both Vranitzky and Erhard Busek negotiated to continue their coalition and to lead Austria into the European Union in 1995.
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At the April 1995 party congress, Wolfgang Schussel took over the OVP chairmanship in a coup succeeding Erhard Busek and replacing the party's ministers in the governing coalition.
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In early 2000 Erhard Busek was appointed Special Representative of the Austrian Government on EU Enlargement by Chancellor Wolfgang Schussel.
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From January 2002 until June 2008, Erhard Busek was the Special Co-ordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, succeeding Bodo Hombach in this Brussels-based position.
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In 2009, Erhard Busek served as an adviser to the Czech EU presidency.
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Erhard Busek has delivered many lectures on domestic and foreign topics and has participated in many conferences in Austria and abroad.
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Erhard Busek received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Krakow, of Bratislava, of Brasov and Czernowitz, of Liberec and the Webster-St Louis University Vienna.
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Erhard Busek was vice-chancellor of the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg, Visiting Professor at Duke University, NC, USA, and at the University of Agriculture in Vienna.
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Erhard Busek was teaching at the University Innsbruck and the University of Vienna.
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Since 2008, Erhard Busek has been advising the Economic Initiative for Kosovo on promoting foreign direct investments in Kosovo.
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Erhard Busek has received awards and decorations from Poland, Hungary, Italy, Bulgaria, Liechtenstein, Romania, the Czech Republic and Slovenia.
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Erhard Busek was Honorary Senator of the Medical University of Innsbruck and was laureate of the Corvinus-Prize of the Europa Institute Budapest.