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Raymond Vouel
Raymond Vouel
	Official portrait, 1976
European Commissioner for Competition
	In office; 6 January 1977 – 6 January 1981
President	Roy Jenkins
Preceded by	Albert Borschette
Succeeded by	Frans Andriessen
Deputy Prime Minister of Luxembourg
	In office; 15 June 1974 – 21 July 1976
Prime Minister	Gaston Thorn
Preceded by	Eugène Schaus
Succeeded by	Bernard Berg
Personal details
Born	Jean-Baptiste Raymond Vouel; 8 April 1923; Rumelange, Luxembourg
Died	12 February 1987 (aged 63)
Party	Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party
Military service
Allegiance	Free France; United States;
Branch/service	French Resistance; United States Army;
Battles/wars	World War II

Jean-Baptiste Raymond Vouel^[1] (8 April 1923 – 12 February 1987) was a Luxembourgish politician who was Deputy Prime Minister in the Thorn-Vouel cabinet, a coalition between Vouel's Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party and Gaston Thorn's Democratic Party. On 21 July 1976, Vouel left the government to join the European Commission as European Commissioner for Competition.

Vouel was born on 8 April 1923 in Rumelange. During World War II he was a member of the French Resistance and later served as a translator for the United States Army. He was also a journalist for the socialist daily newspaper Tageblatt, writing articles on international affairs.^[2]