Albert Coppé

Albert Coppé
Coppé in 1967
European Commissioner for Social Affairs, Transport and Budget
In office 1 July 1970 – 6 January 1973
President	Franco Maria Malfatti Sicco Mansholt
Preceded by	Lionello Levi Sandri (Social Affairs, Personnel and Administration) Victor Bodson (Transport) Himself (Budgets, Credit, Investment, Press and Information)
Succeeded by	Patrick Hillery (Social Affairs) Carlo Scarascia-Mugnozza (Parliamentary Affairs, Environmental Policy and Transport)
European Commissioner for Budget, Credit, Investment, Press and Information
In office 2 July 1967 – 1 July 1970
President	Jean Rey
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Himself (Social Affairs, Transport and Budget) Wilhelm Haferkamp (Economics, Finance, Credit and Investments)
President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community Acting
In office 1 March 1967 – 2 July 1967
Preceded by	Rinaldo Del Bo
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Personal details
Born	(1911-11-26)26 November 1911 Bruges, Belgium
Died	30 March 1999(1999-03-30) (aged 87) Tervuren, Belgium
Political party	Christian Democratic and Flemish

Albert Coppé (26 November 1911 – 30 March 1999) was a Belgian and European politician and economist.

Biography

Born in Bruges on 26 November 1911, Coppé was a founding member of the CVP party and served in the European Commission as Commissioner for Social Affairs, Transport & Budget under the Malfatti & Mansholt Commissions. He also led an interim High Authority in the European Coal and Steel Community in 1967.

Coppé died in Tervuren on 30 March 1999.

See also

• High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community

External links

• The private papers and some interviews (INT550, INT613 and INT028) of A. L. Coppé are deposited at the Historical Archives of the EU in Florence
• Albert Coppé in ODIS – Online Database for Intermediary Structures Archived 28 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine