Translation of "State Secretary " (English → French) :

The state secretary position in Sweden is the top executive civil servant serving directly with the ministers – executing their decisions and taking care of the day to day management of the ministries. Most recently I served as state secretary to Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.

From 1999 to 2002 I was, first, Private Secretary to a State Secretary and then became Private Secretary and Head of the Minister’s Office.

A private prosecution has been brought against Mr Hans-Peter Martin in the Vienna Regional Criminal Court on 6 June 2007 by Merkur Treuhand Wirtschaftstreuhand- und Steuerberatungs Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung for commercial defamation pursuant to Section 152 of the Austrian Criminal Code on the ground that, both on his website www.hpmartin.net and in APA-OTS press release OTS0189 5 11 0473 NEF0006 in connection with the accusations against him (by the EU anti-fraud authority OLAF) of improper use of the secretarial assistance allowance for staff, he had claimed that it had been established after a comprehensive, detailed investigation that he had in no way improperly used EU monies and that fault had been found only with a formal ...[+++]error on the part of his accounts manager at the time, Mr Christoph Matznetter, a tax adviser now State Secretary for Finance in the Austrian Government, who, according to Mr Martin, had incorrectly charged three staff computers and two telephone bills to the secretarial assistance allowance instead of to the office expenses allowance.

I would finally like to stress – as the High Representative did previously – that tomorrow the Spanish Foreign Minister, Mr Piqué, as President-in-Office of the European Union, and the High Representative, Mr Solana, are going to meet in Madrid with the United States’ Secretary of State Powell, the Russian Federation’s Foreign Minister, Mr Ivanov, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr Kofi Annan, in order to analyse the situation and seek solutions to this crisis, in yet another effort by the Spanish Presidency to coordi ...[+++]nate the efforts of the international community in this respect.

During the last few days and weeks, the negotiations have been – at least in my view – talk about very minor matters, as nearly each one of the finance ministers of the Member States and even their state secretaries handle certainly much larger sums on their own. In so saying, I do not want to criticise the country holding the presidency, which has certainly done everything necessary to achieve harmony.

In most of the Länder there are women's ministries or positions occupied by a state secretary for Women Issues.