Robert Lemaignen (15 March 1893 – 3 April 1980) was a right-wing French

European Commissioner A European Commissioner is a member of the 27-member European Commission. Each member within the Commission holds a specific portfolio. The commission is led by the President of the European Commission. In simple terms they are the equivalent ...

. He was appointed as one of the first French European Commissioners on the first

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from 1958 to 1962. He did not remain a member of the second Hallstein commission and was succeeded as commissioner by

Henri Rochereau Henri Rochereau (25 March 1908, in Chantonnay, Vendée – 25 January 1999, in Paris) was a French politician and European Commissioner. Henri was the son of Victor Rochereau, a National Assembly of France ''député'' (deputy) for the Vendée ...

. Lemaignen had responsibility for

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. Lemaignen had previously been the vice-president of the French employers federation (with extensive African experience).

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NATIONAL BANK OF BELGIUM, August 2004 Working Paper on Macroeconomic and Monetary policy-making at the European Commission 1957 to 1969

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