Íñigo Méndez De Vigo y Montojo (born on 21 January 1956 in Tetuan, Morocco) is a Spanish politician, Minister for European Affairs since December 2011, having served as a Spanish Member of the European Parliament with the People's Party since 1992, and Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party.

In 2009 he was named President of the College of Europe.

He was born on 21 January 1955 in Tetuan (Morocco), then under Spanish Protectorate, where his father had been posted as an Infantry Lieutenant. On his mother's side he is the grandson of Spanish novelist Carmen de Icaza, from whom he inherited the title of Baron of Claret in 1980.

He completed his schooling at the German School of Madrid, as well as language studies in French at the Académie française and in English at the British Institute School. He graduated in law at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1978.

Following the completion of his military service as an Alférez, he became a Legal adviser to the Cortes Generales in 1981 after passing the public examination.

Vigo (Galician: [ˈbiɣo], locally: [ˈbiħo] or [ˈbixo]; Spanish: [ˈbiɣo]) is a city and municipality in north-west Spain, in Galicia, situated on the ria of the same name on the Atlantic Ocean.

The city of Vigo has 297,124 inhabitants, with an extended metropolitan population of 468,654, making it the 14th-largest metropolitan area of Spain.

In 2010 there were 16,735 foreigners living in the city, representing a 5.6% of the total population. The main nationalities are Portuguese (16%), Brazilians (11%) and Colombians (7%).

By language, according to 2008 data, 7% of the population speak always in Galician, 43% speak always in Spanish and the rest use both interchangeably. This makes Vigo the least Galician-speaking city in Galicia.

The urban area of Vigo is built over both a hill-fort (Castro) and a Roman settlement. It is generally accepted that the name Vigo is derived from the Latin word vicus.

The standard pronunciation of Vigo in both Galician and Spanish is [ˈbiɣo].

During the Middle Ages the small village of Vigo was part of the territory of Portuguese speaking neighbouring towns, particularly Tui, and suffered several Viking attacks. However, the number of inhabitants was so small that, historically, Vigo was not considered to be a real village until around the 15th century, when the earliest records began.