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Anastassios (Tassos) Haniotis

Member of the Cabinet
European Commission Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries
130 Rue de la Loi
B-1049 Brussels, Belgium
+32-2-29-55-401 fax
kabinett-fischler@cec.eu.int

Tassos Haniotis became a member of the cabinet of Dr. Franz Fischler, commissioner of Agriculture, Rural Development, and Fisheries of the European Commission, in August 2000. His main areas of responsibility are the common market organizations of the Common Agricultural Policy and the agricultural budget. He previously served four years as the agricultural counselor of the European Commission Delegation in the United States. Dr. Haniotis joined the Commission in 1989 and from 1990 until his arrival in the United States was responsible for developing medium-term forecasts and quantitative analyses for European Union agriculture.
He holds M.S. (1984) and Ph.D. (1987) degrees in agricultural economics from the University of Georgia, and a B.A. (1980) in economics from the Athens School of Economics and Business Science in his native Greece. He also spent six months as a visiting fellow at the Centre for European Agricultural Studies, Wye College, University of London (1988), where he studied European Union-United States agricultural trade relations in the Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations.

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