Hadar Cars
{{Short description|Swedish politician (born 1933)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| image = Hadar Cars in 2018.jpg
| caption = Hadar Cars in 2018
| office = Minister of Commerce and Industry
| term_start = 18 October 1978
| term_end = 12 October 1979
| predecessor = Staffan Burenstam Linder
| successor = Staffan Burenstam Linder
| primeminister = Ola Ullsten
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1933|6|13|df=y}}
| birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden
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| party = Liberals
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Hadar Cars (born 13 June 1933) is a Swedish liberal politician who served as the minister of commerce and industry between 1978 and 1979. He also served in the Swedish Parliament and European Parliament.
Biography
Cars was born in Stockholm on 13 June 1933. He headed the Nordic Liberal Student Council.{{cite book|author=Tor Sellström|publisher=Nordiska Afrikainstitutet|title=Sweden and National Liberation in Southern Africa: Formation of a popular opinion (1950-1970)|year=1999|isbn=978-91-7106-430-1|volume=1|pages=266,478|location=Uppsala|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tftdYTz2Ac4C&pg=PA266}} Cars is a member of the Liberals. He was appointed minister of commerce and industry in October 1978 to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Ola Ullsten. Cars replaced Staffan Burenstam Linder in the post. Cars's tenure ended in October 1979, and he was succeeded by Staffan Burenstam Linder as the minister of commerce and industry.{{cite web|title=Svenska regeringar 1970-2010 – genusdelning av statsrådsposter|url=http://www.diva-portal.se/smash/get/diva2:399563/FULLTEXT01.pdf |website=diva-portal.se|access-date=28 April 2024|pages=28–29|language=sv}}
Cars served at the Parliament between 1985 and 1995.{{cite book|author=James M. Jasper|year=2014|title=Nuclear Politics: Energy and the State in the United States, Sweden, and France|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton, NJ|isbn=978-1-4008-6143-9|page=279
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qSAABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA279|author-link=James M. Jasper}}{{cite web|title=Hadar Cars (FP)
|url=https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/ledamoter-partier/ledamot/hadar-cars_0393108743200|publisher=Swedish Parliament|access-date=31 July 2022
|language=sv}} During his term at the Parliament he was the chairman of the international committee of the Liberals.{{cite news
|author=Pat Sidley|title=Liberal delegation can't see Mandela|date=2 September 1985|url=https://mg.co.za/article/1985-09-02-liberal-delegation-cant-see-mandela/|access-date=31 July 2022|work=Mail & Guardian}} Cars was elected to the European Parliament in 1995 and served there as part of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party until 1999.{{cite web|title=Hadar Cars. 4th parliamentary term|url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/2108/HADAR_CARS/history/4|publisher=European Parliament|access-date=31 July 2022}}
Works and awards
Cars is the author of various articles and books which are concerned with the energy, finance policy and the European Union.{{cite web
|title=Cars, Hadar 1933-|url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/viaf-22110826/|access-date=31 July 2022|publisher=WorldCat Identities}} He received the ribbon of the Order of the Seraphim in 1999.{{cite web|title=Hadar Cars|url=https://www.kungahuset.se/sveriges-monarki/ordnar-och-medaljer/sok-ordens--och-medaljforlaningar/1999/2021-07-09-hadar-cars|publisher=Kungahuset|access-date=31 July 2022
|language=sv}}
References
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Category:20th-century Swedish writers
Category:21st-century Swedish writers
Category:Members of the Riksdag from the Liberals (Sweden)
Category:Ministers for trade of Sweden
Category:Liberals (Sweden) MEPs
Category:Politicians from Stockholm
Category:MEPs for Sweden 1995–1999
Category:Members of the Riksdag 1985–1988