Born and raised in
Coimbra, Fausto Correia earned a degree in law from the
University of Coimbra. In his early years, Correia worked as a journalist, He also became a member of the
Grand Orient of Portugal. He also served as chairman of the
Associação Académica de Coimbra - O.A.F. (in 1995), the major football club of Coimbra, and
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, the state-managed public radio network of Portugal. As a member of the
Portuguese Government headed by Prime-Minister
António Guterres, in the early 2000s Correia played a major part in the establishment of the
Loja do Cidadão (The Citizen's Shop), a one-stop-shop intended to improve quality in
public services, and aimed to develop a new philosophy of more efficient and modern public service throughout the major cities of Portugal. He was elected as a candidate of the Socialist Party to the
European Parliament in the
2004 European Parliament elections. He continued to live and work in Belgium as a member of the European Parliament for the rest of his life. ==Death==