Ernest Mühlen is a retired Luxembourg

Luxembourg

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ian politician for the Christian Social People's Party

Christian Social People's Party

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, economist, and financial journalist. He won a place on Luxembourg City's communal council

Luxembourg communal council

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 in 1973. He was a government minister

Minister (government)

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 under Pierre Werner, in the early 1980s, before sitting in the European Parliament

European Parliament

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 as one of Luxembourg's six MEPs

Member of the European Parliament

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 from 1984 until 1989. Mühlen followed this by sitting in the Chamber of Deputies

Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg

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 (1989–1991), and by representing Luxembourg at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

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(1991–1996).