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Javier Solana

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Also known as Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga, Javier Solana Madariaga

Spanish politician

OverviewAI-generated

Javier Solana is an author who has published eight works. He is affiliated with ESADE and the ESADEgeo - Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics. Born on July 14, 1942, he has two children.

His name appears in 587 other encyclopedia articles. On social media, he has 115,008 followers. MusicBrainz classifies him as a group, while Last.fm records ten listeners and ten playcounts for his name.

Synthesized by Vinony from 14 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
8

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Active from
2012

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
10
Total plays
10

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Key facts

Preceded by
Jürgen Trumpf
Succeeded by
Cathy Ashton (Foreign Affairs and Security Policy)
Prime minister
Felipe González
Born
Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga , ( 1942-07-14 ) 14 July 1942 (age 83) , Madrid , Spain
Party
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
Spouse
María de la Concepción Giménez Díaz-Oyuelos
Education
Complutense University , University of Virginia

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Encyclopedic overview

Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga KCMG CYC ( Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko xaˈβjeɾ soˈlana ðe maðaˈɾjaɣa]; born 14 July 1942) is a Spanish physicist and PSOE politician. After serving in the Spanish government as Foreign Affairs Minister under Felipe González (1992–1995) and as the secretary general of NATO (1995–1999), leading the alliance during Operation Allied Force, he was appointed the European Union's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary General of the Council of the European Union and Secretary-General of the Western European Union and held these posts from October 1999 until December 2009.

Background and career as a physicist

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