Antonio Vitorino participated in 1978 in the creation of the Union of the Left for Socialist Democracy (UEDS). In the legislative elections of 1980, he postulates in the district of Porto on the list of the Front Republican and Socialist (FRS), a coalition including the PS and the UEDS and is elected deputy to the Assembly of the Republic to the 23 years old. In 1981, he obtained a law degree at the University of Lisbon. He teaches there from the following year.
He was re-elected to the early parliamentary elections of 1983. He was then appointed Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs at the age of 26 in the grand coalition government of Mário Soares. In 1985, he was elected to the Braga district, and took the chair of the parliamentary committee on constitutional affairs.
In 1986, he became deputy secretary of the governor of Macao. In parallel, he obtained a master’s degree in law and political science. He finds the Assembly of the Republic in 1987, representing the district of Guarda. When the constitutional court was re-elected in the summer of 1989, he was elected Constitutional Judge at the age of 32, on the proposal of the Socialist Party.
He resigned on March 10, 1994, to apply for the European elections at the top of the socialist list. He thus reaches the European Parliament and takes the chair of the Civil Liberties Committee.
In the parliamentary elections of 1995, he is reelected deputy, in the district of Setúbal. On October 30, António Vitorino was appointed 38-year-old Minister of the Presidency and Minister of National Defense of the 13th Constitutional Government, Prime Minister António Guterres.
In 1999, he became European Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) in the Prodi Commission.
A lawyer by profession, he was vice-president of Portugal Telecom International, a member of the board of directors of Siemens Portugal, president of the Res Publica Foundation – close to the PS – and a political commentator on RTP 1.
Antonio Vitorino was president of the Jacques Delors Institute between 2010 and 2016.
In June 2018, António Vitorino is elected Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
Free movement of Europeans – Taking stock of a misunderstood right
Repair and Prepare: Growth and the Euro after Brexit
Managing a successful UK-EU divorce, arousing the desire for Union
The EU and our collective security: stronger together!
Increasing positive signals and acting at the source
EU security: a matter of political urgency
The EU-UK Agreement: much ado about (almost) nothing?
Schengen’s stress test: political issues and perspectives
“Schengen”: a race against the time or a fools’ game?
“Shared sovereignty for monitoring borders already shared”
Schengen is dead? Long live Schengen!
After the Greek deal: why it is urgent to complete EMU
The EU and Greece: Changing frames and pursuing the Odyssey
On asylum and the euro: displaying solidarity is in our own interest
António Vitorino on the refugee crisis and migration management issues
Erasmus Pro: for a million “young European apprentices” by 2020
A catalyst role for the Union
“Schengen”, terrorism and security
The EU needs a fresh boost… Fast!
Free movement of people: António Vitorino clarifies the debate
A new road map for the EU
A dual horizon: emerging from the crisis and addressing international challenges
Reforming Europe’s governance
The Commission reform: between efficiency and legitimacy
A new president, for what purpose?
Post-election EU: Ask for the programme!
Engaging Europe in the world
Europe: union is an opportunity and a struggle!
Making more of our interdependence
Freedom of movement in the EU: like the air that we breathe?
European Commission and Parliament: what relations?
European elections: full steam ahead!
Europeans and the use of force
Germany and the EU : a new cycle?
Averting two pitfalls: illusion and inertia
The European Energy Community is now !
EU budget: the path to an agreement
EU and growth: three pacts rather than one
Is the stupidity pact still stable?
The EU budget: taking a second look
Germany, France, EU: acting together
The Nobel Prize, then what?
What future for the EU and its Court of justice?
The euro zone, core of a political union
Jacques Delors’ “Triptych”: current situation and prospects
The interim report on the EMU is encouraging
Which Institutions for the Euro Area?
“Germany strongly evolved during the crisis”
“The Spanish situation leads us to the banking union”
Completing the Euro: A road map towards fiscal union in Europe
The European “Fiscal Compact”: a goal or a starting point?
Seminar on the Community Method. Elements of Synthesis
Stability and growth: perfecting the new European pact
The EU and the Arab Spring: a vision for our neighbours
The Community Method: Historical Evolutions and Political Challenges
The ‘TSCG’: much ado about nothing?
Maastricht: The Five Pillars of Wisdom
European Union’s response to the Arab Spring: Building a true pole of influence with all our neighbours
The euro, words and facts
President Barroso’s Road Map
MÉDIAS
MEDIAS
“Pourquoi nul ne peut s’abstenir”, the call from E.Letta, Y.Bertoncini and other personalities in Huff Post
Our report “Repair and prepare: growth and the euro after Brexit” in Géopolis
Our report “Repair and prepare: growth and the euro after Brexit” in Financial Times
Our report “Repair and prepare: growth and the euro after Brexit” in Deutsche Welle
Our report “Repair and prepare: growth and the euro after Brexit” in Les Echos
Our report “Repair and prepare: growth and the euro after Brexit” in Il Sole 24 Ore
