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Paulo Rangel

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Portugal

Born in Vila Nova de Gaia in 1968, he graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica and is a lawyer by profession.

He is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the Universidade Católica in Porto, where he taught Administrative Law and Constitutional Law and where he teaches Political Science. He has also been a lecturer on the Executive MBA programme at the University of Porto Business School since 2011.

He has been vice-president of the PSD since 3 July 2022.

He was an MEP from 2009 to 2024, elected as a frontrunner in the 2009, 2014 and 2019 European elections.

In the European Parliament, he was a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Committee on Constitutional Affairs. During his last term, he was a member of the Delegation to the Parliamentary Committee on Stabilization and Association between the EU and Montenegro, as well as the Delegation for Relations with Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. He was the author of the report on the European Parliament’s right of legislative initiative, which was adopted in June 2022.

In 2015, he was elected vice-president of the European People’s Party.

He was elected to the Portuguese Parliament in 2005, in the 10th legislature, taking over the presidency of the PSD parliamentary group in June 2008.

He was Assistant Secretary of State to the Minister of Justice in the XVI Constitutional Government, between July 2004 and March 2005.