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Angel Viñas, [Fonds], 1975-2004

Selective bibliography: Viñas, Angel. La Alemania nazi y el 18 de Julio: antecedentes de la intervención alemana en la guerra civil española. Madrid: Alianza, 1974; Viñas, Angel. El oro español en la guerra civil. Madrid: Instituto de Estudios Fiscales, 1976; Viñas, Ángel. El oro de Moscú: alfa y omega de un mito franquista. Barcelona: Grijalbo, 1979; Viñas, Angel [et al.]. Política comercial exterior en España: 1931-1975. Madrid: Banco exterior de España, Servicio de estudios economicos, 1979; Viñas, Ángel. Los pactos secretos de Franco con Estados Unidos: bases, ayuda económica, recortes de soberanía. Barcelona: Grijalbo, 1981; Viñas, Angel. Franco, Hitler y el estallido de la guerra civil: antecedentes y consecuencias. Madrid: Alianza, 2001; Viñas, Angel. En las garras del aguila: los pactos con Estados Unidos, de Francisco Franco a Felipe González (1945-1995). Barcelona: Crítica, 2003. Viñas, Ángel. Al servicio de Europa: innovación y crisis en la Comisión Europea. Madrid: Editorial Complutense, 2005; Viñas, Ángel. La soledad de la República: el abandono de las democracias y el viraje hacia la Unión Soviética. Barcelona: Crítica, 2006; Viñas, Angel. El escudo de la República: el oro de España, la apuesta soviética y los hechos de Mayo de 1937. Barcelona: Crítica, 2007; Las políticas comunitarias: una visión interna. Madrid: Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio, 2006; Viñas, Angel. El honor de la República: entre el acoso fascista, la hostilidad británica y la política de Stalin. Barcelona: Crítica, 2009Descriptions are the property of the European University Institute (Historical Archives of the European Union), but can be freely used provided that reference is made to the source. Described by Mary Carr

Angel Viñas began University in Hamburg studying German Language and Literature but soon switched to Political Economy. He subsequently attended the Free University of Berlin and also Glasgow University. He graduated with first class honours from the University of Madrid (Complutense) in 1966. He also won the prestigious National Prize for the best academic curriculum.He entered the Spanish economic foreign service in 1968. After a brief spell on the staff of the IMF, he was assigned to the Spanish Embassy in Bonn in 1971. His research activity led to a doctoral thesis on the origins of Hitlerś intervention in Spain for which he obtained first class honours in 1973 and a "prix extraordinaire" in 1974. He was appointed an executive adviser to the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs with responsibility for the NATO dossier and for the creation of a policy planning staff. After the NATO referendum in 1986 he was in charge of promoting relations between the European Community and Latin America. From 1987 to 1997 he was an official at the European Commission as a Director for Relations with Latin America and Asia (1987), and head of the Commission Delegation to the United Nations (1991). On his return to Brussels in 1997 he was given the post of Director for Multilateral Political Relations and Human Rights. He left the Commission in 2001 and rejoined the Complutense University and later on the Spanish economic foreign service. He served as a Counsellor for Economy and Trade at the Spanish Permanent Representation to the EU until August 2007 when he retired.

Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU), Angel Viñas (AV)

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Documentation annexed to the fonds covers the following subject areas: Latin America, developing countries and ACP, EU policy and European Commission, EU foreign relations, human rights and democracy, foreign policy and security.

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