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3 unusual facts about Loyola de Palacio


Loyola de Palacio

After leaving the Commission on 21 November 2004, she became a director at the banks BNP Paribas and Rothschild Bank, and at the pharmaceutical company Zeltia.

Her sister, Ana Palacio, was Foreign Minister of Spain from 2002 to 2004, and vice president of the World Bank, Ana collaborated also in the French N. Sarkozy's government, in a field connected to Nuclear Energy, Ana specialized in international law.

Prestige oil spill

The then European Commissioner for Transport, Spaniard Loyola de Palacio, pushed for the ban of single-hulled tankers.



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