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Basilicata
Coordinates: 40°30′N 16°30′E / 40.5°N 16.5°E / 40.5; 16.5
Basilicata (Italian pronunciation: [baziliˈkaːta]), also known as Lucania, is a region in the south of Italy, bordering on Campania to the west, Apulia (Puglia) to the north and east, and Calabria to the south, having one short southwestern coastline on the Tyrrhenian Sea between Campania in the northwest and Calabria in the southwest, and a longer one to the southeast on the Gulf of Taranto on the Ionian Sea between Calabria in the southwest and Apulia in the northeast. The region can be thought of as the "instep" of Italy, with Calabria functioning as the "toe" and Apulia the "heel". The region covers about 10,000 km2 and in 2010 had a population of about 600,000. The regional capital is Potenza. The region is divided into two provinces: Potenza and Matera.
Basilicata covers an extensive part of the southern Apennines, between Ofanto in the north and the Monte Pollino massif in the south. It is bordered on the east by a large part of the Bradano river depression which is traversed by numerous streams and declines to the south eastern coastal plains on the Ionian sea. The region also has a short coastline to the south west on the Tyrrhenian side of the peninsula.
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Cairo
Cairo (
/ˈkaɪroʊ/ KYE-roh; Arabic: القاهرة al-Qāhira, literally "The Vanquisher" or "The Conqueror"), is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Located near the Nile Delta, it was founded in the year 969 A.D. making it 1,043 years old. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life. Cairo was founded by the Fatimid dynasty in the 10th century AD.; but the land composing the present-day city was the site of national capitals whose remnants remain visible in parts of Old Cairo. Cairo is also associated with Ancient Egypt due to its proximity to the ancient cities of Memphis, Giza and Fustat which are nearby to the Great Sphinx and the pyramids of Giza.
Egyptians today often refer to Cairo as Maṣr (Arabic: مصر), the Arabic pronunciation of the name for Egypt itself, emphasizing the city's continued role in Egyptian influence. Cairo has the oldest and largest film and music industries in the Arab World, as well as the world's second-oldest institution of higher learning, al-Azhar University. Many international media, businesses, and organizations have regional headquarters in the city, and the Arab League has had its headquarters in Cairo for most of its existence.
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Egypt
Egypt
i/ˈiːdʒɪpt/ (Arabic: مصر, Miṣr, Egyptian Arabic: [mɑsˤɾ] ; Coptic: Ⲭⲏⲙⲓ, Kīmi ; Sahidic Coptic: ⲕⲏⲙⲉ, Kēme), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: جمهوريّة مصر العربيّة (help·info), is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Covering an area of about 1,010,000 square kilometers (390,000 sq mi), Egypt is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west.
Egypt is one of the most populous countries in Africa and the Middle East. The great majority of its over 81 million people live near the banks of the Nile River, in an area of about 40,000 square kilometers (15,000 sq mi), where the only arable land is found. The large areas of the Sahara Desert are sparsely inhabited. About half of Egypt's residents live in urban areas, with most spread across the densely populated centres of greater Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities in the Nile Delta.
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Italy
Italyi/ˈɪtəli/ (Italian: Italia [iˈtaːlja]), officially the Italian Republic or the Republic of Italy (Italian: Repubblica italiana), is a unitary parliamentary republic in south-central Europe. To the north, it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia along the Alps. To the south, it consists of the entirety of the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia–the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea–and many other smaller islands. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within Italy, while Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. The territory of Italy covers some 301,338 km2 (116,347 sq mi) and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 60.6 million inhabitants, it is the fifth most populous country in Europe, and the 23rd most populous in the world.
Rome, the capital of Italy, was for centuries a political and religious centre of Western civilisation as the capital of the Roman Empire and site of the Holy See. After the decline of the Roman Empire, Italy endured numerous invasions by foreign peoples, from Germanic tribes such as the Lombards and Ostrogoths, to the Byzantines and later, the Normans, among others. Centuries later, Italy became the birthplace of Maritime republics and the Renaissance, an immensely fruitful intellectual movement that would prove to be integral in shaping the subsequent course of European thought.
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RAI
RAI — Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A. (for brevity Rai S.p.A.) known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane, is the Italian state owned public service broadcaster controlled by the Ministry of Economic Development. Rai is the biggest television company in Italy. It competes with three major private television companies, Mediaset, Telecom Italia Media, and Sky Italia.
Rai operates several television channels and radio stations, broadcasting in analog terrestrial (until 2013), in digital terrestrial and in several satellite and IPTV offerings. In 1950, Rai became one of the 23 founding broadcasting organisations of the European Broadcasting Union.
Half of Rai's revenues come from the broadcast licence fee, the other half from advertising. Rai has a relatively high audience share of 42.3%.
Due to their close proximity, Albania, Switzerland, Monaco, Malta, San Marino, Vatican City, Montenegro, Slovenia and Croatia also receive broadcasts.
Unione Radiofonica Italiana (URI) was formed in 1924 with the backing of the Marconi Company following a model adopted in other European countries. URI made its inaugural broadcast — a speech by Benito Mussolini at Teatro Costanzi — on 5 October and regular programming began with a quartet performing Haydn's Opera 7 from the Palazzo Corradi the following evening. At 21:00 CET, Ines Donarelli Viviani announced for the first time: "URI—Unione Radiofonica Italiana Rome station 1RO 425 meters wavelength. To all those who are listening our greetings, good evening."Guglielmo Marconi's S.A. Radiofono—Società Italiana per le Radiocomunicazioni Circolari (Radiofono) held 85% of URI shares and Western Electric's Società Italiana Radio Audizioni Circolari (SIRAC) held the remaining 15%.
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Rome
Rome (/ˈroʊm/; Italian: Roma pronounced [ˈroːma] (
listen); Latin: Rōma) is a city and special comune ("Roma Capitale") in Italy. Rome is the capital of Italy and the capital of Lazio (Latin: Latium). With 2.8 million residents in 1,285.3 km2 (496.3 sq mi), it is also the country's largest and most populated comune and fourth-most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. Between 3.2 and 3.7 million people live in the Rome metropolitan area. The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.
Rome's history spans two and a half thousand years. It was the capital city of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, which was the dominant power in Western Europe and the lands bordering the Mediterranean for over seven hundred years from the 1st century BC until the 7th century AD and the city is regarded as one of the birthplaces of western civilization. Since the 1st century AD Rome has been the seat of the Papacy and, after the end of Byzantine domination, in the 8th century it became the capital of the Papal States, which lasted until 1870. In 1871 Rome became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy, and in 1946 that of the Italian Republic.
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Adam Bielan
Adam Jerzy Bielan ([ˈadam ˈjɛʐɨ ˈbjɛlan], born on 12 September 1974 in Gdańsk, Poland) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie with Poland Comes First. He is Vice-Chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists political grouping.
Bielan sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development. Bielan is a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism, a member of the Delegation for relations with Mercosur and a substitute for the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
Bielan was chairman of the Independent Students' Union from 1996 to 1998. In September 1997, he was elected to the Sejm for Solidarity Electoral Action on the national list: 9 days after his 23rd birthday. The following year, he joined the Conservative People's Party. In 1999, he became vice-chairman of the European Democrat Students, in which capacity he served for one year.
He joined the Right Alliance (PP) when it was formed in 2001, and ran successfully on the Law and Justice (PiS) list at that year's election in Chrzanów. He joined Law and Justice when the PP merged into it in 2002. He was appointed to the European Parliament on Poland's accession on 1 May 2004 and was re-elected at the election in June 2004, representing Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie, which includes Chrzanów.
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Adam Gierek
Adam Gierek (pronounced [ˈadam ˈɡʲɛrɛk]; born on 17 April 1938 in Zwartberg, Limburg, Belgium) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Silesian Voivodship with the Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. He is a son of Edward Gierek.
Gierek is a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education, a member of the Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia and a substitute for the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)
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Adina Vălean
Adina Ioana Vălean (born February 16, 1968) is a Romanian politician and social activist. A member of the National Liberal Party (PNL), part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies on the Justice and Truth list for Călăraşi County (during the 2004 elections), and became a Member of the European Parliament on January 1, 2007, with the accession of Romania to the European Union.
Vălean was born in Ţintea commune, which is currently a part of Băicoi. She graduated from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Mathematics in 1990, working as a school teacher of mathematics in Bucharest until 1997. She joined the Romanian Democratic Convention cabinet as a Head of Department in the Ministry of Youth and Sports (charged with overseeing contacts with non-governmental organizations and county-level Directorates), as well as representative in youth initiatives of the European Union. She was later employed by think tanks (the Romanian Association for Freedom and Development and the Free Initiative Institute). In 2001, she initiated the program Promovarea toleranţei prin dialog interetnic ("Promoting Tolerance through Inter-ethnic Dialog").
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Adrian Severin
Adrian Severin (born 28 March 1954 in Bucharest) is a Romanian politician and Member of the European Parliament.
Adrian Severin started his politics career under the Communist rule, as Instructor (lector) at Ştefan Gheorghiu Academy, the university for Romanian Communist cadres. After the regime change, he became a member of the National Salvation Front and the Democratic Party (which he left in April 1999). Severin was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania between December 12, 1996 and December 29, 1997, as part of the Victor Ciorbea cabinet. He sat in the Chamber of Deputies in June–July 1990 before resigning, and again was a member of that body from 1992 until December 2007, when he resigned.
He is a member of the Social Democratic Party, part of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Romania to the European Union. Previously, Severin served as the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Belarus from 2005 to 2006. He was member of PACE from 1993 till 1997 and from 2003 till 2007.
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Alain Cadec
Alain Cadec (born on June 21, 1953 in Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-du-Nord) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the West France constituency. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
He has been a municipal councillor in Saint-Brieuc since 1995 and he is a member of the governing coalition in the city since 2001. He is also general councillor for the Canton of Saint-Brieuc-Nord since 2001.
In the 2009 European elections, he was the third candidate on the UMP list in the West region and was elected to the European Parliament.
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Alain Lamassoure
Alain Lamassoure (born 10 February 1944 in Pau) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, a member of the delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, and a member of the EPP-ED bureau. He is also a member of the temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007–2013. Lamassoure is a member of the Reconciliation of European Histories Group.
He was in charge of writing parts of the Treaty of Lisbon. Alain Lamassoure is a well-known pro-European. He is member of the European Movement France, which he has been vice-president of, and has a privileged relationship with the diverse European federalist groups.
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Albert Dess
Albert Dess (born on 17 April 1947 in Röckersbühl) is a German politician and member of the European Parliament for Bavaria with the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
He is a substitute for the Committee on International Trade, a member of the delegation for relations with Mercosur and a substitute for the delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Germany)
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Aldo Patriciello
Aldo Patriciello is an Italian politician. He is a member of the European Parliament since May 8, 2006, when he took up a seat vacated after the 2006 Italian general election. He represents the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats within the EPP-ED parliamentary group.
Convicted to four months for illegal financing. He has never been jailed.
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Aleksandrs Mirskis
Aleksandrs Mirskis (Russian: Александр Мирский; Latvian: Aleksandrs Mirskis, born 20 March 1964 Vilnius) is a Latvian politician.
Mirskis was born in Vilnius. He is a graduate in civil engineering from the Polytechnic Institute in Kaunas (1986). Mirskis worked as a building project leader (1986 - 1989, 1990 - 1992), taking one year break for service in the Soviet Army as commander of a radiation reconnaissance unit. Upon ending his service, with the rank of first lieutenant, he resumed his work in construction.
In 1992, Mirskis was made a technical director and seven years later became the general manager of a construction company. He retired from business to become an advisor to the mayor of Riga (2001 - 2005), later being elected to Saeima, the Latvian parliament (2006 - 2009).
Since July 2009 he is serving as 1 of the 9 Latvian MEPs in the European parliament, affiliated with the Socialists and Democrats parliamentary group. Mirskis is a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and a substitute in the Committee on Regional Development.
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Alexandra Thein
Alexandra Thein (born on 5 October 1963 in Bochum) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Free Democratic Party of Germany and a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe parliamentary faction. She grew up in Saarland, studied law in Saarbrücken and Geneva, and has been working in her profession as a lawyer and notary in her chosen home city of Berlin for 20 years. She entered politics with her first run for public office in 2009, when she was elected to the European Parliament.
She sits in the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs as a member and in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs as a substitute member. She is a member of the Delegations for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council and with Iraq and a substitute member of the Delegation for relations with Afghanistan.
See also: European Parliament election, 2009 (Germany)
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Alf Svensson
Alf Robert Olof Svensson (born 1 October 1938) is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament from 2009. Alf was the leader of the Christian Democrats in Sweden between 1973 and 3 April 2004. He was a Member of Parliament from 1985 to 1988 and again from 1991 until his election to the European Parliament in 2009. Between 1991 and 1994 he was Minister for Development Cooperation in the liberal-conservative Cabinet led by Prime Minister Carl Bildt.
Alf Svensson was educated as a teacher, and worked as teacher in Swedish and history at a school in Huskvarna from 1963 to 1973.
He was a member of the Christian Democrats from its foundation in 1964, and was one of the founders of its youth wing, Young Christian Democrats, in 1966, and was its chairman from 1970 to 1973. In 1973 he became the leader of the party, after its first leader Birger Ekstedt had died in 1972.
In the 1985 elections, the Christian Democrats, who had so far not won any parliamentary representation, entered into an election alliance with Centre Party. This gave Alf Svensson a seat in parliament, which made him the first Christian Democrat MP, but he was the only person of his party who received a seat, which was a disappoinment for the party. In the 1988 elections, the alliance had been dissolved, and the Christian Democrats failed to get enough votes to enter the parliament on their own. In the 1991 elections, they managed to get into parliament, and Svensson received a ministerial post in the four-party coalition government under Carl Bildt.
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Alfredo Antoniozzi
Alfredo Antoniozzi (born on 18 March 1956 in Cosenza) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Central with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development, a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America and a substitute for the Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)
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Alfrēds Rubiks
Alfrēds Rubiks (Russian: Альфред Петрович Рубикс; born September 24, 1935 in Daugavpils) is a Latvian Socialist politician and a former leader of the Communist Party of Latvia. Currently he is the Member of the European Parliament from Latvia. In the European Parliament he is a member of European United Left–Nordic Green Left.
He served as the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Riga City Soviet from 1984 to 1990, effectively the last Communist mayor of the city. He was member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from July 1990 until its abolishment in 24 August 1991. As head of the Communist Party of Latvia in 1991 he opposed Latvia's independence from the Soviet Union, and was imprisoned for attempting to overthrow the new democratic government. Despite his incarceration, Rubiks was a candidate in the 1996 election for the President of Latvia, but lost to incumbent Guntis Ulmanis. Rubiks was released in 1997 for good behavior, became chairman of the Socialist Party of Latvia in 1999, and has been elected Member of the European Parliament in the elections of 2009.
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Algirdas Saudargas
Algirdas Saudargas (born April 17, 1948 in Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, USSR (now Lithuania)) is a Lithuanian politician and the signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania. He was the first foreign minister of post-Soviet Lithuania. He was foreign minister from March 24, 1990 to December 12, 1992 and again from December 4, 1996 to October 30, 2000. In 1992, Algirdas Saudargas, together with 9 other Baltic Ministers of Foreign Affairs and an EU commissioner, founded the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) and the EuroFaculty.
He was elected to the European Parliament in 2009.
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Alyn Smith
Alyn Smith (born 15 September 1973) is a Scottish politician, and Scottish National Party Member of the European Parliament for Scotland.
He is also the SNP's agricultural spokesman.
He was born in Glasgow in 1973 and grew up in Scotland and Saudi Arabia.
He returned to Scotland in 1986, and later studied Law and European Law at Leeds University and spent a year studying on the Erasmus Programme at the University of Heidelberg in Germany.
He graduated from Nottingham Law School (a department of Nottingham Trent University) in 1996, and gained a Master's degree in European Studies from the College of Europe in Natolin (class of 1994-1995). He also for one year taught English in India and worked with Scotland Europa [1] in Brussels.
Smith later moved to London where he qualified as a lawyer with commercial law firm Clifford Chance.
Prior to his election he worked on the SNP staff in Holyrood.
He contested Edinburgh West for the SNP at the 2001 general election, coming fourth. At the 2003 Scottish Parliament election, he contested the same seat, again coming fourth.
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Amalia Sartori
Amalia Sartori (born 2 August 1947 in Valdastico) is an Italian politician.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)
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Andreas Mölzer
Andreas Mölzer (born 2 December 1952 in Leoben, Styria) is an Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Freedom Party of Austria.
Andreas Mölzer is of Styrian origin and attended grammar school in Knittelfeld. After serving in the Austrian Army, he studied Law, History and Sociology at the Graz University. He became a member of a Student Corps. From 1979 to 1981 he was assistant at law departments. He left university in 1982 without graduating and became editor-in-chief of the Kärntner Nachrichten newspaper. From 1991 until 1994 he was an elected member of the Bundesrat and president of the Freedom Party's Academy.
From 1999 until 2002, Mölzer was cultural advisor of Jörg Haider, governor of Carinthia. In 2004, Mölzer was elected as only MEP for the Freedom Party. In 2005, he was expelled from the Freedom Party for being a harsh critic of Jörg Haider and his faction, but was readmitted after Heinz-Christian Strache took over the party. Andreas Mölzer is married and has six children. He lives in Carinthia.
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Andreas Schwab
Andreas Schwab (b. 9 April 1973, Rottweil) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Baden-Württemberg. He is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party.
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Andrew Brons
Andrew Henry William Brons MEP (born 3 June 1947, London) is a British politician. Long active in far right politics in Britain, he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for Yorkshire and the Humber for the British National Party (BNP) at the 2009 European Parliament election. He was previously the leader of the National Front during the 1980s.
Brons was born in Hackney, East London, spending his early childhood in Sidcup, on the outskirts of London, before his family moved to Harrogate when he was 11. He attended at Harrogate Grammar School until the age of 16, when he left to join the civil service, where he remained for 16 months before following part-time A Levels in law and economics at Harrogate College. He studied politics at the University of York, graduating in 1970.
After graduation, Brons started work as a lecturer at Harrogate College in 1970, continuing to work there until 2005, lecturing in A Level Law and Government and Politics. He has two daughters.
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Andrew Duff
Andrew Duff OBE (born 25 December 1950 in Birkenhead, Cheshire) is a Liberal Democrat politician, president of the Union of European Federalists, and a Member of the European Parliament for the East of England region of the UK.
He initially stood in the 1984 European Parliament election, finishing third with 22.5% of the vote. In the 1989 election he polled 8% of the vote, coming fourth, then in the 1994 election he came third with 20%. The constituencies were largely representing Cambridgeshire and at times parts of Bedfordshire. With the electoral change to regional party-list proportional representation, he was first elected in the 1999 European Parliament election when the Liberal Democrats won 12% of the regional vote, and retained his seat in the 2004 and 2009 elections when they won 14% of the regional vote.
Since October 2008 Andrew Duff is president of the Union of European Federalists (UEF). On 15 September 2010 Duff together with UEF initiated the Spinelli Group, which was founded to reinvigorate the strive for federalisation of the European Union (EU). Other prominent supporters are: Jacques Delors, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Guy Verhofstadt, Elmar Brok.
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Andrzej Grzyb
Andrzej Grzyb (born August 23, 1956 in Siedlików) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 7986 votes in 36 Kalisz district, candidating from Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe list.
He was also a member of PRL Sejm 1989-1991, Sejm 1993-1997, and Sejm 2001-2005.
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András Gyürk
András Gyürk (born on 2 December 1972 in Budapest) is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Hungarian Civic Party, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Development.
Gyürk is a substitute for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. Gyürk is also a member of the Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and the EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, substitute for the Delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula and the Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly.
He is married, has two children.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Hungary)
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Angelika Niebler
Angelika Niebler (born on 18 February 1963 in München) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Bavaria with the Christian Social Union in Bavaria and the Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party. She sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, and its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
She is a substitute for the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and a member of the Delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen.
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Anja Weisgerber
Anja Weisgerber (born on 11 March 1976) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Bavaria with the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
She is a substitute for the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, a member of the Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly and a substitute for the Delegation to the EU–Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee.
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Anna Hedh
Anna Hedh (born 18 March 1967 in Uppsala) is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
She is also a substitute for the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, and a member of the delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council.
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Anna Ibrisagic
Anna Ibrisagic, born 23 May 1967 in Sanski Most, Bosnia and Herzegovina, is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Moderate Party, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.
She is also a member of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, a substitute for the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
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Anna Záborská
Anna Záborská (born June 7, 1948 in Zürich) is a Slovak Member of the European Parliament. She was elected on the Christian Democratic Movement ticket and sits with the European People's Party group.
Záborská was the Chairwoman of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality during the 6th legislature.
Anna Záborská, along with Tiziano Motti, authored written declaration 29, which asked the Council and the Commission to extend Directive 2006/24/EC in order to monitor search engine traffic under the pretexts of implementing an "early-warning system" for pedophilia.
She is pro-life. On January 24th, 2011, she spoke at the March for Life held in Washington, D.C. addressing Eastern Europe's declining population and improving living conditions for women. (app. from 1:35:00)
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Anne Delvaux
Anne Delvaux is a Belgian politician and a member of the cdH. She was elected as a member of the Belgian Senate in 2007.
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Anne Elisabet Jensen
Anne Elisabet Jensen (born on 17 August 1951 in Kalundborg) is a Danish politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Venstre, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets.
She is a substitute for the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and the Committee on Transport and Tourism.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Denmark)
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Anneli Jäätteenmäki
Anneli Tuulikki Jäätteenmäki, Master of Laws (born 11 February 1955 in Lapua) was the first female Prime Minister of Finland, in office from 17 April 2003 to 24 June 2003.
She worked as a lawyer from 1981 until 1987, when she was elected to the Finnish Parliament (Eduskunta). Jäätteenmäki was Minister of Justice from 1994 to 1995. She was chairwoman of the Centre Party of Finland from 18 June 2000 to 5 October 2003, although the first year was as acting leader during Esko Aho's sabbatical leave to lecture at Harvard University.
After eight years in opposition, she led the Centre Party of Finland to a narrow victory over the formerly largest party, the Social Democratic Party of Finland, in the parliamentary elections of 2003. According to the new constitution, which was in effect for the first time after this election, she was thereby given the first opportunity to form a new Cabinet. After successful coalition negotiations with the Social Democrats and the Swedish People's Party, she came to head a coalition cabinet which chiefly continued on the lines of its predecessor, Paavo Lipponen's second Cabinet, but introduced new measures to stimulate the economy, including tax cuts.
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Antonia Parvanova
Antonyia Parvanova (Bulgarian: Антония Първанова; born 26 April 1962 in Dobrich) is a Bulgarian politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the National Movement Simeon II, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union.
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Antonio Cancian
Antonio Cancian (Mareno di Piave, 2 July 1951) is an Italian politician and entrepreneur from Veneto.
A long-time Christian Democrat active in local government, Cancian was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in the 1992 general election. After 15 years out of active politics, he stood in the 2009 European Parliament election for The People of Freedom and was easily elected.
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Arlene McCarthy
Arlene McCarthy (born October 10, 1960, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a Member of the European Parliament for North West England for the Labour Party.
McCarthy graduated from South Bank Polytechnic (now London South Bank University) in 1983 with B.A. (Hons) proceeding to attend the Free University of Berlin and then later attending the University of Manchester to conduct Ph.D. studies.
After completing studies McCarthy was employed as a lecturer in International Politics and Regional Studies at the Free University of Berlin, and was also employed at the European Parliament working for the Socialist Group.
Upon returning to Britain McCarthy worked as the Principal European Liaison Officer at Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council, until her election to the European Parliament.
First elected in 1994, McCarthy was re-elected in 1999 to represent the newly formed North West England constituency. Having represented the same constituency since, she was top of the list of candidates from the Labour Party at the 2009 European elections.
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Arnaud Danjean
Arnaud Danjean (born 11 February 1971 in Louhans, Saône-et-Loire) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the East constituency. He's a former intelligence operative.
As a member of the French foreign intelligence agency DGSE between 1995 and 1996, he carried out many missions in Sarajevo, Bosnia; notably during the Siege of Sarajevo. He later was, between June 1996 and September 1998, a permanent member of the French embassy in Sarajevo. Upon his return to France in 2000, he was awarded the National Order of Merit, at only 29. He later served as an adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
In the French legislative election, 2007, he ran against Socialist incumbent Arnaud Montebourg in Saône-et-Loire's 6th constituency. Despite a favourable first round, where he won 44% of the vote against 41.3% for Montebourg, Montebourg defeated him in the runoff (a more favourable climate for the left nationwide) by 400 votes.
In the 2009 European elections, he was the third candidate on the Union for a Popular Movement list in the East region, and was elected to the European Parliament.
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Ashley Fox
Ashley Peter Fox (born 15 November 1969) is a British solicitor and politician who is currently a Member of the European Parliament, representing South West England for the Conservative Party and the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) political group.
He was born in Sutton Coldfield, son of Clive and Diana Fox
Educated at The King's School, Worcester, Ashley studied law at Bristol Polytechnic before working for a year as an English assistant in France. He took his solicitors finals at Chester College of Law. After completing his articles, he qualified as a Solicitor in 1994.
Before being elected as a MEP Ashley Fox worked for 15 years as a Solicitor in Bristol, specialising in Insurance Litigation. He was a Partner at Badhams Thompson and an Associate at Morgan Cole.
From 1998 -2000 Ashley was Chairman of Bristol West Conservative Association. He stood as the Conservative candidate for Bath at the General Election in 2001. In 2002 he was elected as Councillor for Westbury-on-Trym on Bristol City Council, a position he held for 8 years.
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Astrid Lulling
Astrid Lulling (born 11 June 1929 in Schifflange) is a politician in Luxembourg, and a Member of the European Parliament (1965–1974 and since 1989) for the Christian Social People's Party, part of the European People's Party.
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Axel Voss
Axel Voss (born 7 April 1963 in Hameln) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament. He was elected on the CDU ticket and sits with the European People's Party group.
From 1983 to 1990 Axel Voss studied law at the Universities of Trier, Munich, Freiburg and Paris. In 1990 he got his first Staatsexamen (a German government licensing examination) specialising on European and international law. After a traineeship at the Supreme Provincial Court of Appeal in Koblenz he finished his second Staatsexamen specialising on European law and international relations. From 1994 he worked as a lawyer and was Citizens' adviser of the European Commission at the regional Commission Representation in Bonn. From 2000 to 2009 he taught European affairs at the RheinAhrCampus in Remagen of the University of Applied Sciences Koblenz.
Axel Voss is married and has two daughters.
Axel Voss is a member of the German CDU and was chair of the Bonn affiliation from 2004 to 2009. Since 2005 he is deputy district chair of the CDU in the Middle Rhine area.
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Bairbre de Brún
Bairbre de Brún (born 10 January 1954) is an Irish politician and former Member of the European Parliament, representing Northern Ireland.
Born in Terenure, Dublin on 10 January 1954, de Brún began her political career as a member of the National Committee Against the H-Blocks & Armagh Gaol in the late 1970s and early 1980s, focusing heavily on the treatment of women in Armagh Gaol. Bairbre de Brún became an early member of Sinn Féin's Ard Chomhairle (English: High Council) and in 1998 became an MLA in the regional government, representing West Belfast. She was Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety.
By profession, de Brún was a teacher and taught in the Irish-medium education sector in west Belfast. She was also a French and German teacher and is noted for her devotion to the Irish language.[citation needed] She has lived in the Andersonstown area of Belfast since the early 1980s. She is a fluent Irish speaker and an expert in human rights and equality issues. De Brún is also a member of the Sinn Féin negotiating team and traveled internationally on numerous occasions to promote the Irish peace process.
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Barbara Matera
Barbara Matera (born 9 December 1981) is an Italian television announcer, actress and MEP for the centre-right The People of Freedom (PdL) party.
Matera was born on 9 December 1981 in Lucera in the Province of Foggia, in the Apulia, southern Italy. She studied Educational Sciences from the University of Rome La Sapienza, without graduating.
In 2000, she was a contestant in the Miss Italia beauty contest. Later, in September 2003, she became an announcer for Rai Uno, the primary television station of RAI, Italy's state-owned national public service broadcaster. She remained with RAI until 2007.
In 2003, she appeared in the film Ma che colpa abbiamo noi, directed by and starring Carlo Verdone. In 2007, she starred in the role of a journalist in the Rai Uno miniseries La terza verità, directed by Stefano Reali. Thereafter, she held the role of Francesca Rossini on the seventh season of Carabinieri, broadcast on Canale 5, and guest starred in an episode of Don Matteo. In 2009, she appeared in the Canale 5 television film Due mamme di troppo, directed by Antonello Grimaldi.
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Barbara Weiler
Barbara Weiler (born on 17 September 1946 in Düsseldorf) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
She is a substitute for the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with Japan.
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Barry Madlener
Barry Madlener (born January 6, 1969) is a Dutch politician of the Party for Freedom (PVV). He is the Parliamentary leader of the Party for Freedom in the European Parliament since July 14, 2009. He was a Member of the House of Representatives from November 30, 2006 until July 14, 2009.
Madlener grew up in the village of Oostvoorne. After graduating from high school he became a real estate agent and spent a number of years selling commercial real estate. On March 14, 2002 he was inaugurated as a member of the Municipality Council of Rotterdam for Leefbaar Rotterdam. Together with Kay van der Linde he was also involved in establishing the Livable Netherlands political party.
At the Municipality Council elections in 2002, Madlener was listed eleventh on the list of Leefbaar Rotterdam, the local party whose leader Pim Fortuyn was assassinated later that year. Madlener was considered a confidant of Pim Fortuyn.
The party won 17 seats in these historical elections on March 6, 2002. As Council Member Madlener held the city's infrastructure portfolio. In that function he was an outspoken supporter of the construction of a campus at the Erasmus Universiteit.
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Bart De Wever
Bart Albert Liliane De Wever (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbɑrt də ˈʋeːvər]; born in Mortsel, 21 December 1970) is a Flemish politician and since 2004 has been the president of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), a Flemish party that strives for an independent Flanders in a united Europe. He has also been a member of the Flemish parliament since 2004. He played a prominent role in the 2007 Belgian government formation and led his party to victory in the 2010 Belgian federal elections, after which the N-VA became the largest party in both Flanders and the whole of Belgium.
De Wever attended the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), graduating with a licentiate (which is the equivalent of the master's degree) in history. During his student years he was a member of the Liberaal Vlaams Studentenverbond (LVSV, Liberal Flemish Students' Union), the Katholiek Vlaams Hoogstudentenverbond (KVHV, Catholic Flemish Students' Union) of Antwerp and Leuven. He is also the former editor in chief of Tegenstroom (magazine of KVHV-Antwerp) and Ons Leven (magazine of KVHV-Leuven). Professionally, he was engaged as a scientific assistant working on the 'Nieuwe Encyclopedie van de Vlaamse Beweging' (New Encyclopedia of the Flemish Movement), in which he wrote articles about Taal Aktiekomitee, Vlaams Blok and Vlaamse Militanten Orde (Flemish Militants Order), among other topics.
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Bart Staes
Bart Hubert Wilfried Marcel Staes (born on 7 August 1958 in Izegem) is a Belgian politician and a Member of the European Parliament for Flanders. He is a member of Groen!, part of the European Greens. He sits in a transnational delegation together with MEPs for the GreenLeft. He started his career as a Bachelor Dutch-English-economics and became a politician later on. He lives in Antwerp. He started his political career in the Volksunie, which later became Spirit. 2002, Bart Staes made, because of the cartel sp.a-Spirit, the move to the ten-called Agalev (later Groen!). As from 1999, he's ininteruptedly a member of parliament of Europe of firstly Volksunie, later Spirit and now Groen!. He is especially interested in environment and peace movements.
His political career started with membership of the Volksunie, with the collapse of that party in 2002 he joined Groen!.
Staes was first elected into the European Parliament in 1999 and was reelected, as only member from his party, in 2004 and 2009. He currently sits on the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
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Bas Eickhout
Bas Eickhout (October 8, 1976 in Groesbeek) is a Dutch politician for the GreenLeft. He has been elected to the European Parliament in the 2009 election.
Eickhout attended high school at the Cobbenhagen College in Tilburg. Between 1994 and 2000 he studied chemistry and environmental science at the Radboud University. During his studies he was an intern at the science store Nijmegen and in the United States. He also chaired the Nijmegen Association of Chemistry Students Sigma and he was a member of the Nijmegen University Council.
Since 2000 he worked as a researcher at the Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment. He worked on several projects which had to do with transnational environmental problems such as climate change. He also co-authored the IPCC report on climate change. He also was the organizations spokesperson on the sustainability of biofuels.
Since the 1990s Eickhout has been active in the GreenLeft, he co-authored the 2006 election manifesto and he was a candidate in the 2004 European Parliament election (#6, the party got only two seats). Between 2008 and 2009 he was a member of the committee-Van Ojik which wrote the new party platform. Moreover he is a member of the GreenLeft delegation to the European Green Party.
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Bendt Bendtsen
Bendt Bendtsen (born 25 March 1954) is a Danish Member of the European Parliament. He was the leader of the Conservative People's Party from 1999 to 2008. He was the Minister of Trade and Industry from 2001 to 2008 under Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
Bendtsen was born in Odense. Before being elected to the Folketing, he worked in the police in Odense; he became a member of the Odense City Council in 1989, and he was Vice-Chairman of the Odense Criminal Police Association from 1989 to 1992. He was a temporary member of the Folketing for the Conservative Party, representing Funen County constituency, from 5 April to 24 April 1994, and he was subsequently elected as a Conservative member of the Folketing from Funen County constituency in the parliamentary election held on 21 September 1994. He has remained a member of the Folketing since 1994; in the November 2007 parliamentary election he was elected from the Funen greater constituency.
He was the Conservative Party's social policy spokesman from 1994 to 1995, its labour market spokesman from 1995 to 1998, and its legal policy spokesman from 1998 to 1999. He became the political leader of the Conservative Party on 5 August 1999 and became the party's Chairman in November 2000. Following the November 2001 parliamentary election, he became Minister for Economic and Business Affairs and Minister for Nordic Cooperation on 27 November 2001 in the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen I. He left the post of Minister for Nordic Cooperation on 18 June 2002, but remained Minister for Economic and Business Affairs. He retained the latter post in the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen II (2005) and III (2007). On 9 September 2008, he tendered his resignation as leader of the party, which then elected Lene Espersen as leader, also resigning from his post as minister.
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Bernadette Vergnaud
Bernadette Vergnaud (born 16 September 1950 in Montluçon, Allier) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the west of France. She is a member of the Socialist Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
She is also a substitute for the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, the delegation for relations with Mercosur, the delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries, and the delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly.
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Bernd Lange
Bernd Lange (b. November 14 , 1955 in Oldenburg) is a German politician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany.He was a member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 2004. Since July 2009 he is again a member of the European Parliament within the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats in the European Parliament.
Lange grew up in Varel. He studied Protestant theology and political sciences at the University of Göttingen, where he earned a degree in theology as well as a High School teacher certificate. From 1983 to 1994 he worked at the High School (Gymnasium) in Burgdorf. Between 2004 and 2009 Bernd Lange worked as the head of the "Economy, Environment and Europe"-department at the German Trade Union Federation, the DGB in Lower Saxony. He is married, and has one daughter.
When Bernd Lange entered the European Parliament in 1994, he was a member of the Environment Committee and a substitute member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. During this time, he was significantly involved in the introduction of the European Emission Control legislation. Since his reelection in 2009, he is a member of the Committee on International Trade and a substitute member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. He is also member of the Interparliamentary Delegation for relations with South Africa. From 2000 to 2004 he was one of the Co-Chairmen of the "Forum for the Automobile and Society" - a role that he resumed in 2009. Bernd Lange was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Since June 15, 2010, he is the European Parliament's rapporteur for European industrial policy.
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Bernd Posselt
Bernd Posselt (born June 4, 1956) is a German politician (CSU) and a son of expellees.
Posselt was born in Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg. He has been a Member of the European Parliament since 1994. In 1998 he became president of the Paneuropa-Union Deutschland, the German branch of the International Paneuropean Union.
Posselt is the leading German advocate of the rights of those Germans whose ancestors lived in the Sudetenland district of Bohemia as well as Moravia and who were expelled by the Potsdam conference and the governments in Central and Eastern Europe after the Second World War. His main goal - and the principal aim of the Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft that he has led since 2000 - is to revoke the so-called Beneš decrees, as well as other acts of the post-war expulsions that were meant to punish the German population in the Sudetenland as a whole for its prevailing support of Nazism.
Posselt is respected in the Sudeten German community and in his home state of Bavaria. The conservative Bavarian government has often supported the Sudeten German community, and was among those demanding that the Czech Republic should repeal the Beneš decrees before being allowed into European Union. No politician in the Czech Republic is willing to negotiate with Posselt.[citation needed]
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Bernhard Rapkay
Bernhard Rapkay (born on 8 January 1951 in Ludwigsburg) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, a member of the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
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Bill Newton Dunn
William "Bill" Newton Dunn (born 3 October 1941 in Greywell, Hampshire) is a British politician. He is a Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands for the Liberal Democrats.
He attended the independent Marlborough College in Wiltshire from 1955-9, then gained a Diploma from the University of Paris (the Sorbonne) in 1960. He completed an MA in Natural Sciences (Physics and Chemistry) in 1963 at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He gained a tri-lingual MBA from the INSEAD Business School at Fontainebleau, which no doubt fuelled his interest in European matters where he studied from 1965-6. From 1963-79, he worked in industry.
He was a Conservative Party MEP from 1979 to 1994 for Lincolnshire. After a spell out of the Parliament, he was re-elected a Conservative MEP for the East Midlands in 1999. He defected to the Liberal Democrats in 2000 because he felt that the Conservatives were increasingly negative towards the prospect of Britain playing a leading role in Europe.
Newton Dunn was elected as a Lib Dem MEP for the first time in the European elections, 2004. He claims to have the highest attendance record of all the UK MEPs.
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Bogusław Liberadzki
Bogusław Liberadzki (pronounced [bɔˈɡuswaf libɛˈrat͡ski]; born 1948 in Sochaczew) is a Polish economist and politician, member of the European Parliament (elected on 13 June 2004).
Bogusław Liberadzki is a professor of economic sciences. He holds the Chair of Transportation at the Warsaw School of Economics in Warsaw (Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie - SGH) and is also a professor in the Maritime Academy in Szczecin (Akademia Morska w Szczecinie). He has a wife, Grażyna and two sons (identical twins) - Kamil (MA) and Marcin (PhD), both working at the Department of Banking of the SGH.
He was an undersecretary (viceminister) in the Ministry of Transportation and Maritime Economy 1989-1993 and the minister in years 1993-1997. Since 1997 he has been an MP (member of Sejm, lower house of Polish parliament) representing Democratic Left Alliance. Since 2003 he was permanent observer in European Parliament and on 1 May, 2003 he was appointed a MEP. He is a member of two commissions: regional politics, transport and tourism, and also the commission of industrial development and budget.
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Bogusław Sonik
Bogusław Sonik (born on 3 December 1953 in Kraków) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the MP & SW with the Platforma Obywatelska, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
Sonik is a substitute for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, a member of the Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya) and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries.
As a student in the 1970s he became active in anti-communist opposition. He was a member of Beczka, a university chaplaincy run by the Dominicans. He also cooperated with Komitet Obrony Robotników (Committee for the Protection of Workers). Following the death of his friend Staszek Pyjas he and his other friends from the opposition founded Studencki Komitet Solidarności. (Student Committee of Solidarity) 1980 saw his active participation in the creation and organization of the Independent Trade Union Solidarity. He was the vice-president of the Małopolska region Solidarity management until 1982. He was the chairman of the Małopolska region delegation to the 1rst National Assembly of the Independent Solidarity Trade Union. He was interned on the first day of martial law. in 1983 he started working in ZNAK publishing house and was one of the founders of a socio-cultural magazine called Arka published in the underground press.
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Boris Zala
Boris Zala is a Slovak social democratic politician, a member of Slovak parliament and the current Chairman of the parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee. He is also Assistant Professor at Constantine the Philosopher University (UKF) in Nitra and Chair of the Political Science and European Studies Department at UKF’s Faculty of Philosophy.
Zala graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Comenius University in Bratislava in 1979. After graduation he proceeded with his study of philosophy and received his PhDr degree (1981) and CSc degree (1995) from the same university. In 1981 he worked as journalist at Slovak Radio but was forced to quit the job due to political persecution and seek employment in various manual worker professions before he eventually managed to get a research job at the Social Development and Labour Research Institute in Bratislava in 1984. In 1990 he became head of the Secretariat of the Speaker of Slovak parliament and Lecturer in Philosophy at Comenius University, Bratislava. Since 2000 he has been Chair of the Political Science and European Studies Department at UKF’s Faculty of Philosophy in the western Slovakian city of Nitra. He is author of six philosophy, political science and history monographs and has written dozens of research studies and papers dealing with social science issues. As a media analyst and political commentator he wrote hundreds of political analyses for the Slovak press and participated in or co-authored a number of media projects in Slovak Television (STV) and Slovak Radio (SRo). In 1988-89, Zala took active part in organising protest activities against the Communist regime and was one of the co-founders of Public Against Violence (VPN) – a broad civic movement established by democratic activists with the view of putting the country back on democratic track within the framework of the Velvet Revolution of 1989.
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Brian Crowley
Brian Crowley (born 4 March 1964) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South constituency. He was co-president of the Union for Europe of the Nations group in the European Parliament in which Fianna Fáil sat until it joined the ELDR and, by extension, ALDE. He is a wheelchair user following an accident at sixteen years of age.
Crowley was born in Dublin in 1964. He received a diploma in law in 1993 from University College Cork, and the following year he was nominated by the Taoiseach Albert Reynolds to the 20th Seanad Éireann. At the 1994 European Parliament election he was elected to the European Parliament for the Munster constituency. He has retained his seat at the three subsequent elections. He was a member of Ireland's Council of State from 1997 to 2004.
He is a member of the European Parliament's Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) group in the European Parliament, which comprises 103 MEPs from 22 Member States. Crowley is a member of the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and the delegation for relations with the United States. Crowley also serves as a substitute member of the Committee on Legal Affairs.
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Brian Simpson
Brian Simpson (born February 6, 1953 in Leigh) is a Member of the European Parliament for the Labour Party for North West England.
He was a member of the European Parliament from 1989 until 1999 representing Cheshire East and from 1999 until 2004 representing the North West Region, when European Elections switched from First Past the Post to the List System. He lost his seat at the 2004 European Parliamentary Elections. He returned to the European Parliament in September 2006 and was re-elected again in 2009.
He is currently the President of the European Parliaments Transport and Tourism Committee after serving as the Socialist Group Spokesperson on that Committee for many years.He is also a substitute member and Labour spokeperson on the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. He is also a full member of the European Parliament Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand as well as a substitute on the Delegation for relations with the Andean Community.
In the Committee on Transport and Tourism he has worked as the Socialist Group shadow draftperson on the European Commission proposals on the full accomplishment of the internal market of Community postal services, safety on the Community's railways, and is accepted as being one of the senior members of that Committee dealing with Civil Aviation matters. In 2010 he was voted Transport MEP of the year by Parliament Magazine.
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Britta Thomsen
Britta Thomsen (born 23 January 1954 in Aalborg) is a Danish politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Social Democrats, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.
She is also a member of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, a substitute for the Committee on Development, and vice-chair of the delegation for relations with South Africa. She recently backed up the Manifesto of the Spinelli Group.
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Bruno Gollnisch
Bruno Gollnisch (born 28 January 1950 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French academic and politician, a member of the National Front (FN) far-right party, and a member of the European Parliament. He was chairman of the European Parliamentary group 'Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty' in 2007, which was dissolved in November 2007 following the defection of the Greater Romania Party. He is therefore a Non-Inscrit. Gollnisch has also been the executive vice-president of the FN since 2007. He is a councillor of the Rhône-Alpes région of France. Because of his public comments, and his position in the National Front he is a controversial figure in France.
Bruno Gollnisch studied law, political science and far-eastern languages with the view to becoming a diplomat. He met Jean-Marie Le Pen while studying at Nanterre university. He also became a reserve officer in the French Navy.
In 1971-1973 he was granted degrees in Japanese and Malaysian-Indonesian by the INALCO. In 1973, he was awarded a degree in political sciences at Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). He did a masters (DEA) in public law in 1973. In 1974, he began doctoral studies in Law at Kyoto University (Japan). In 1978, he obtained a doctorate in law in Paris. Since 1980, he has been an attorney at the bar of Paris.
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Burkhard Balz
Burkhard Balz (born 14 July 1969 in Lemgo) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament. He was elected on the CDU ticket and sits with the European People's Party group.
He is member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON), the Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (CRIS) and the Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). In addition he is substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) and the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China.
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Béla Glattfelder
Béla Glattfelder (born on 4 May 1967 in Budapest) is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Hungarian Civic Party, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade.
Glattfelder is a substitute for the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on Fisheries. Glattfelder is also a member of the Delegation for relations with Mercosur.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Hungary)
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Carl Haglund
Carl Christoffer ”Calle” Haglund (born on 29 March 1979 in Espoo) is a Finnish politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Swedish People's Party.
See also: European Parliament election, 2009 (Finland)
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Carl Schlyter
Carl Schlyter (born 7 January 1968 in Danderyd, Stockholm County) is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Green Party, which is part of the European Greens, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He is a member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
He is also a substitute for the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on Fisheries, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
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Carlo Casini
Carlo Casini (b. 4 March 1935, Florence) is an Italian politician. He has been a member of the European Parliament since May 8, 2006, when he took up a seat vacated after the 2006 Italian general election. He represents the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats within the EPP-ED parliamentary group. He was previously an MEP from 1984 to 1999.
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Carlos Coelho
Carlos Coelho (born May 20, 1960 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party–People's Party coalition; part of the European People's Party–European Democrats group.
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Carmen Fraga Estévez
Carmen Fraga Estévez (born on 19 October 1948 in León) is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament with the People's Party. She is a member of the Bureau of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and its Committee on Fisheries. She is the daughter of Manuel Fraga - a politician actively involved in Franco's dictatorship.
She is also a member of the Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya).
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Spain)
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Caroline Lucas
Caroline Patricia Lucas (born 9 December 1960) is a British Green Party politician, the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales (a post she took up in 2008 and will step down from in September 2012), and the first and only Green Member of Parliament (MP) in the UK. She was elected for Brighton Pavilion at the 2010 general election, and was a Member of the European Parliament for South East England from 1999 to 2010. As a result of the restrictions regarding dual mandates, she had to give up her seat in European Parliament to take up her seat in the House of Commons. Keith Taylor succeeded her in this position.
She is noted for campaigning and writing on green economics, localisation, alternatives to globalisation, trade justice, animal welfare and food. In her time as a politician and activist, she has worked with numerous NGOs and think-tanks, including the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), Oxfam and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Lucas was born in Malvern in Worcestershire, to middle class and Conservative-voting parents. Her father ran a small central heating company.
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Catherine Bearder
Catherine Zena Bearder (b. 14 January 1949, Broxbourne) is a Liberal Democrat politician and MEP for South East England.
She was the second placed Liberal Democrat candidate for the European Parliament in the South East region of England. Replacing Emma Nicholson MEP, she was placed behind Sharon Bowles MEP on the party list for the 2009 European elections. Bearder was elected to the European Parliament on 4 June 2009, and took her seat on 14 July.
A former Lib Dem councillor in Cherwell and on Oxfordshire County Council, twice European candidate and parliamentary candidate for Banbury in 1997 and Henley in 2001, Catherine has been an active Liberal Democrat for many years. She is also vice-chair of the Lib Dem European Group and vice-president of the Green Liberal Democrats.
Married to Professor Simon Bearder, a zoologist at Oxford Brookes University. They have three sons, Timothy, Ian and Peter.
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Catherine Grèze
Catherine Grèze (born 1960) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the South-West France constituency.
She is a member of Europe Écologie–The Greens in the Midi-Pyrénées region since 1985 and participate in the Global Greens organization.
In the 2009 European elections, she was the second candidate on the Europe Écologie list in the South-West region, behind José Bové, and was elected to the European Parliament due to the list's surprisingly high 15.82% of the vote in the constituency. She signed the Spinelli Group Manifesto in favour of a Federal Europe.
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Catherine Soullie
Catherine Soullie (born 18 July 1954 in Cite d'Aunis) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the Massif Central-Centre constituency.
In the 2009 European elections, she was the fourth candidate on the Union for a Popular Movement list in the Massif Central-Centre region - which made her election quasi-impossible in the 5-seat constituency. However, Brice Hortefeux, then-Minister of Labour, third candidate on the list, was elected due to the UMP's surprisingly good result. However, he preferred to continue in the government and Soullie, as fourth candidate on the list, replaced him.
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Catherine Stihler
Catherine Stihler (born 30 July 1973) is a British Labour Party politician. She has been a Member of the European Parliament for Scotland since 1999, being re-elected in 2004 and 2009. She is currently the only female MEP representing Scotland.
Born as Catherine Dalling Taylor, Stihler was educated at Coltness High School, later going on to the University of St Andrews where she gained an MA with joint honours in International Relations and Geography and a postgraduate MLitt in International Security Studies.
While at St Andrews she was elected President of the Students' Association, serving from 1994 to 1995. She also served on the Scottish Executive Committee of the Labour Party from 1993 to 1995 and was the Young Labour delegate to the National Executive Committee from 1995 to 1997. While a postgraduate student she stood in the Angus constituency at the 1997 general election.
In March 2006 she had her first child, Alexander, with her husband David (whom she met while at university). Catherine and David's second child, Andrew, was born in 2011.
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Catherine Trautmann
Catherine Trautmann (born on 15 January 1951 in Strasbourg) is a former Minister of Culture of France and now Member of the European Parliament for the East of France.
She was elected as mayor of Strasbourg in 1989, re-elected in 1995, then defeated in 2001.
She is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists and sits on the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.
She is a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education and also a member of the Delegation for relations with Canada.
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Cecilia Wikström
Cecilia Wikström (born 17 October 1965 in Svanstein, Övertorneå, Norrbotten County) is a Swedish Liberal People's Party politician. Wikström is currently a member of the European Parliament. She is also a vicar in the Church of Sweden and the author of several books.
Cecilia Wikström got her Master of theology at the Department of Theology at Uppsala University in 1993. She has had various positions in the Church of Sweden, such as Parish Pastor, Student Pastor, Pastor for Prisoners and Cathedral Canon of the Uppsala Cathedral.
Between 2002 and 2009, Cecilia Wikström was a member of the Swedish Parliament for the Swedish Liberal Party. She was Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Cultural Affairs and member of the Committee on External Affairs. Wikström has been very engaged in questions relating to freedom of expression, in Sweden as well as in other countries. In 2009 Wikström run for the elections to the European Parliament on June 7. She was the third name on the Swedish Liberal Party's list and was elected to represent the party in the European Parliament. Hence, she left her post in the Swedish Parliament in July 2009.
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Charles Goerens
Charles Goerens (born 6 February 1952 in Ettelbruck) is a politician from Luxembourg.
He studied agricultural science before he was first elected to the northern district constituency as a member of the Democratic Party in 1979. From 1989 until 1994 he was its chairman.
Goerens was a member of the European Parliament from 1982 to 1984, from 1994 to 1999, and again from 2009 to present.
He served as Minister for Cooperation, Humanitarian Action, and Defence in the government of Jean-Claude Juncker from 7 August 1999 until 31 July 2004. He also briefly served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 20 July 2004 until 31 July 2004. He lost these posts when Juncker had to form a new coalition government after the 2004 parliamentary elections.
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Charles Tannock
Dr Timothy Charles Ayrton Tannock ( born in Aldershot, Hampshire) is a British politician, psychiatrist, and Member of the European Parliament for London for the Conservative Party. He was first elected to the European Parliament in 1999. He was Vice-President of the Human Rights Subcommittee of the Parliament 2004–07 and Vice-President of the EU-Ukraine PCC delegation 2004-09. He is currently Vice-President of the EP Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, UK Conservative Foreign Affairs Spokesman, ECR Co-ordinator (Spokesman) on the Foreign Affairs Committee. He is also the current President of the Friends of Taiwan Group and adviser to the UK Overseas Territory Association in the European Parliament, and was Vice-Chairman of European Friends of Israel 2006–11. He was appointed a Commissioner for Human Rights of the British Conservative Party in 2011. Tannock was educated at Bradfield College, before going up to Balliol College, Oxford. Before being elected to Parliament, he was a consultant psychiatrist at University College Hospital. He was assistant Research Secretary of the Bow Group from 1989 to 1990, publishing Bow Group papers and made several contributions to the scientific literature particularly in the field of chronic fatigue syndrome and anxiety disorders as a medical researcher. Dr Tannock is married with three children.
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Chris Davies
Christopher Graham Davies (born 7 July 1954) is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom. He is a former Member of Parliament, and since 1999 he has been a Member of the European Parliament.
Davies was born in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire. His father was a doctor, and his mother a nurse. He was educated at Cheadle Hulme School (1965–72), at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (1972–75, reading history) and from 1975 to 1977 at the University of Kent, Canterbury.
He became the MP for Littleborough and Saddleworth after a by-election in 1995, but the seat was abolished by the time of the 1997 General Election. Davies contested Oldham East and Saddleworth at this election but lost to Phil Woolas of Labour.
He was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for the North West England constituency in 1999.
Due to controversy over the tone of a series of emails he exchanged with a pro-Israeli constituent, Davies was forced to resign as leader of the Liberal Democrats group in the European Parliament. Davies now serves as the Liberal Democrat spokesman on the environment and public health in the European Parliament.
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Christa Klaß
Christa Klaß (also spelled Christa Klass) (born 7 November 1951) is a German politician. In 1975, she became a qualified master in Winemaking and is since a self-employed wine-grower.
As Member of the European Parliament for Rhineland-Palatinate since 1994, the member of the conservative German Christian Democratic Union is part of the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats.
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Christel Schaldemose
Christel Schaldemose (born 1967) is a Danish politician and a member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) and the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT).
She lives in Copenhagen with her husband and 3 children (born 1996 to 2003). She has a masters in history from the University of Southern Denmark.
She has worked professionally with adult education and popular enlightenment on national and regional level. Her previous job was secretary general of the Danish Adult Education Council.
Schaldemoseworks with consumer, cultural and educational policy.
On 4 May 2008, she launched the citizen's initiative Females in front together with MEPs from other EU countries. The campaign demands that at least one woman is appointed to one of the four top positions in the EU to be filled in 2009.
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Christian Ehler
Jan Christian Ehler (born 17 August 1963) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Brandenburg. He is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party.
Managing Director, Biotech GmbH - biotechnology centre Hennigsdorf (since 2000) Managing director, Projektgesellschaft Bahnerprobungs- und Technologiezentrum (special testing and technology company) Berlin/Brandenburg GmbH (GBT) (1998–2000) Member of staff, project head and subsequently Managing Director of the Aigner group of companies (1992–1997) Assistant to the managing director, ddp/ADN (1990–1991)
1992/1993 PhD of political science in the field of the "US commercial policy" at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich 1986-1991 Studies in the field of journalism, political science and macroeconomics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU) Traineeship at the German Journalist School Munich 1989/1990 Studies in the field of macroeconomics at the American University Washington D.C., research associate for the Committee on Financial Affairs of the US - Congress 1984 Abitur (Diploma) at the public school Marquartstein Bavaria
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Christian Engström
Lars Christian Engström (born 9 February 1960) is a Swedish computer programmer, activist and politician. He is deputy chairman of the Swedish Pirate Party. Engström was elected a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the 2009 election.
Christian Engström was born in Högalid, Stockholm. He graduated from Stockholm University in 1983 with a degree in mathematics and computer science. While studying, Engström worked as a tutor at the university, teaching object-oriented programming in Simula. From 1978 he also worked part-time as a programmer at a small company which specialized in phonetic similarity searches for trademark names. After finishing his studies he started working full-time at the company. He became a partner in the firm in 1987 and in 1991 he became vice president. In 1997 the company was sold to the leading European trademark search house CompuMark. Engström stayed on in a similar capacity as before until 2001, when he left the company to set up his own consultancy firm Glindra AB.
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Christine de Veyrac
Christine de Veyrac (born 6 November 1959 in Toulouse) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France. She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism.
She is a substitute for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, a member of the delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Israel.
She used to be the parliamentary attaché of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
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Christofer Fjellner
Gustav Christofer Ingemar Fjellner (born 13 December 1976 in Västerås) is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Moderate Party, part of the European People's Party - European Democrats group.
He sits on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade and its Committee on Budgetary Control. He is also a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, a member of the delegation for relations with Belarus, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Iran.
He gained national prominence as chairman of the Moderate Youth League from 2002 to 2004.
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Christophe Béchu
Christophe Béchu (born 11 June 1974 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire) is a French politician, President of the General Council of the Maine-et-Loire department since 2004 and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election to 2011 for the West France constituency. A former member of DL, he is now a member of the leading centre-right Union for a Popular Movement.
He has represented the Canton of Angers-Nord-Ouest since 2001, and was re-elected there during the French cantonal elections, 2008. However, he was narrowly defeated by the incumbent PS mayor of Angers, Jean-Claude Antonini, in the 2008 municipal elections.
In 2009, the UMP selected him to lead the UMP list in the West constituency ahead of the 2009 European elections. He was elected to the European Parliament as a result. His list won 27.16% of the vote and three MEPs. He resigned in January 2011. He losted the regional election of 2010 to become president of Pays-de-la-Loire region, but was elected regional councillor. In September 2011, he was elected senator of Maine-et-Loire, he resigns from regional council of Pays-de-Loire.
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Ciriaco De Mita
Ciriaco Luigi de Mita (Italian pronunciation: [tʃi'riːako luˈiːʤi de ˈmiːta]; born 2 February 1928) is an Italian politician. He served as the 47th Prime Minister of Italy from 1988 to 1989 and is currently Member of the European Parliament.
De Mita was born in Nusco, in the Avellinese hinterland.
As a young man he joined the Christian Democracy and entered politics. He rose through the ranks of the party, becoming a member of its council in 1956, a member of Parliament in 1963 and a member of the Italian cabinet in 1973. During the next decade he served as Minister of Industry and then as Minister of Foreign Trade.
De Mita became chairman of the party in 1982 at a time when its power was declining. He was reelected in 1986 with 60% support from the party. The Christian Democrats did well in the elections of 1987. De Mita waited a year to become Prime Minister, and then served as Prime Minister for a year, maintaining the party chairmanship. At the beginning of that service, on 16 April 1988, in Forlì, Red Brigades killed Senator Roberto Ruffilli, an advisor of de Mita.
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Claude Moraes
Claude Moraes is a Member of the European Parliament for the Labour Party. Claude Moraes is the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in Europe (the European Parliamentary Labour Party, or EPLP) one of eight MEPs representing London.
Moraes grew up in Scotland, having moved to the United Kingdom with his parents at the age of six from India. He studied Scots law and English Law, Administrative Law and International Law at the University of Dundee, London University (Birkbeck College) and the London School of Economics.[citation needed]
Prior to holding elected office, he attained a national profile as the director of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants - a UK based independent legal NGO specialising in refugee and migration issues. Moraes was also a Commissioner for Racial Equality and became a regular media commentator and campaigner on migration issues.
He also helped organise legal challenges in the High Court, Court of Appeal, and in Europe. He was also House of Commons adviser to John Reid MP and Paul Boateng MP, and was a national officer at the TUC and a representative to the European TUC. He has written widely on migration and human rights issues and is a co-author of the Politics of Migration (Blackwells).[citation needed]
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Claude Turmes
Claude Turmes (born 26 November 1960 in Diekirch) is a Luxembourgish politician and Member of the European Parliament for Luxembourg's Green Party, part of the European Greens.
Turmes served as rapporteur on the 2008 draft EU Renewables Directive.
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Clemente Mastella
Mario Clemente Mastella (born 5 February 1947) is an Italian politician. He is currently leader of Popular-UDEUR, a minor centrist Italian party. He was Minister of Labour in the Berlusconi government from 10 May 1994 to 17 January 1995, and Minister of Justice in the Prodi government from 17 May 2006 to 17 January 2008. In addition Mastella is also mayor of his native town, Ceppaloni.
Mastella was born in Ceppaloni, province of Benevento.
A former long-time member of the Christian Democracy party and Member of Parliament since 1976, after the break-up of his party in 1994 Mastella founded a new party, called Centro Cristiano Democratico, together with Pierferdinando Casini. After the victory of Silvio Berlusconi in the 1994 elections, he was successively appointed as Minister of Labour.
In 1998, after the fall of Romano Prodi's first government, Mastella decided to follow Francesco Cossiga, lifetime senator and former Italian Republic President. He left his party to found the Cristiano Democratici per la Repubblica, then Unione Democratici per la Repubblica. This new political party, which supported the new centre-left government led by Massimo D'Alema, lasted only one year however; in 1999, Mastella took over the leadership of UDEUR (then Popular-UDEUR).
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Corina Creţu
Corina Creţu (born June 24, 1967) is a Romanian politician and journalist, former Spokersperson for the President of Romania during Ion Iliescu's time in office. Elected to the Senate for the Social Democratic Party (PSD) in 2004, she became a Member of the European Parliament (sitting among the Party of European Socialists group) on January 1, 2007, following the accession of Romania to the European Union. She is a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
Born in Bucharest, Creţu graduated from the Academy of Economic Studies' Faculty of Cybernetics (1989), and worked as an economist for factories in Blaj and Bucharest until 1990. After the latter date, she was employed as a commentator on current events by the newspapers Azi, Curierul Naţional, and Cronica Română. She worked for President Iliescu's Spokesperson Office during two separate mandates (in 1992-1996 and in 2000-2004); between 2000 and 2004, Creţu was Presidential Advisor (with the rank of Minister), Presidential Spokesperson and Head of the Public Communication Department. In 2002, she was also selected by President Iliescu for the Board of the Romanian Television Company, and confirmed by a vote in Parliament.
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Corinne Lepage
Corinne Dominique Marguerite Lepage, also known as Corinne Lepage (born 11 May 1951) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the North-West constituency.
A former minister of the Environment, she is the founder and President since 1996 of the Citizenship, Action, Participation for the XXIst Century Party (CAP 21). She was also co-founder and Vice-President of the centrist Mouvement démocrate until March 2010, when she announced that she was leaving the movement.
She is also the founding member of the CRII-VIE, the Association for the Study of the Impact of Genetic Techniques upon the Living.
Lepage was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, in the department of Hauts-de-Seine. She attended Sciences-Po in Paris, where she obtained her law diploma; she started practising law in 1975. At the same time, she was appointed Maître de conférences (Note: the equivalent of a university lecturer), and later a Professor at Sciences-Po and Paris II from 1982 to 1986, and then at the Université de Paris at Val-deMarne from 1984 to 1990. She has taught at the Université de Paris at St.-Quentin-en-Yvelines since 2005. She is married and the mother of two children.
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Corneliu Vadim Tudor
Corneliu Vadim Tudor (Romanian pronunciation: [korˈnelju vaˈdim ˈtudor]; born November 28, 1949 in Bucharest) is leader of the Greater Romania Party ('Partidul România Mare'), writer, journalist and a Member of the European Parliament. He was a Romanian Senator from 1992 to 2008.
A controversial, essentially populist, political figure, he is known for his strongly nationalist and xenophobic views, the theatrics of which often accompany his rhetoric, and his reliance on the denunications of political opponents (so far, a tactic which several civil lawsuits have ruled slanderous). He is most commonly referred to as "Vadim", many times understood as a family name (although it is clearly not shared with his relatively well-known brother, former Army officer and fellow Party member Marcu Tudor).
A disciple of the writer Eugen Barbu (who was an unofficial trusted advisor to Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu), Tudor was energetic in his praise (in both prose and poetry) of the longtime communist dictator prior to Romania's 1989 revolution.
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Cristian Buşoi
Cristian Silviu Buşoi (born March 1, 1978) is a Romanian physician and politician. A member of the National Liberal Party (PNL), he was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Timiş County from 2004 to 2007, and has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2007.
In 2006 he married Georgiana, then a notary's intern.
He was born in Drobeta-Turnu Severin and, following secondary studies completed in 1997 at the city's Traian Theoretical College, in 2003 he graduated from the Medicine Faculty of the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest. The following December, he became a resident. In 2004, he also began work on two doctorates: one in Endocrinology at his alma mater, and one in Public Health and Health Management at the Victor Babeş University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Timişoara. Since 2007, he has been a lecturer at the latter institution, in the same field. In 2005, he received a degree from the Carol I National Defence University, and in 2007 he completed studies at the Law Faculty of Titu Maiorescu University.
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Cristian Preda
Cristian Preda (born October 26, 1966) is a Romanian political science professor, and author of several books in this field. He is currently a Member of the European Parliament, representing Romania.
Cristian Preda was born in Bucharest, Romania. He graduated as a valedictorian the Philosophy Faculty at Bucharest University in 1991. In the same year, he obtained his D.E.A. (advanced studies diploma) in History of Philosophy at University Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne, with notation "very good".
He continued his graduate studies with master, doctoral and postdoctoral studies funded by French Government, Erasmus Programme, Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie and New Europe College. In 1998 he obtained the title of Doctor in Political Science from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris with "summa cum laude, with the felicitations of the jury in unanimity". From 1992, he teaches at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest. In present, he is a full tenure professor and dean on the Faculty. From 2005, he is also a doctoral supervisor in Political Sciences.
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Cristiana Muscardini
Cristiana Muscardini (born on 6 November 1948 in Cannobio) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for North-West with People of Freedom (previously Alleanza Nazionale and MSI), former Co-president of the Union for a Europe of Nations, now member of the Group of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade. She is a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
In 2010 Muscardini joined the dissident group Future and Freedom of Chamber president Gianfranco Fini which is expected to leave the official Berlusconi party People of Freedom. She is regional coordinator in Lombardy for the pro-Fini Generation Italy foundation.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)
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Csaba Tabajdi
Csaba Sándor Tabajdi (born June 26, 1952 in Kiskunfélegyháza) is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Hungarian Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. He is member of the European Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, the Committee on Petitions, as well as the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China and a substitute member of the Committee on Environment and Public Health and the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.
He went to primary school in the Southern Hungarian village of Szank, and did his secondary school in Kiskunfélegyháza. In 1974, he got his degree in international relations at the Karl Marx University of Budapest. In 1974-75 and later in 1981-83 he was an administrator in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary. During these years, he was cultural attaché of the Hungarian Embassy in Moscow for 7 years.
In 1983-89 he worked for the foreign affairs department of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party as a deputy head of the department from 1986 onwards. In 1989-90 he led the Secretariat of the College of National and Ethnic Minorities for the Council of Ministers.
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Csaba Őry
Csaba Őry (born on 12 May 1952 in Budapest) is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Hungarian Civic Party, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
Őry is a substitute for the Committee on Development and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Hungary)
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Csanád Szegedi
Csanád Szegedi (born on 22 September 1982 in Miskolc) is a Hungarian nationalist politician and elected Member of the European Parliament with the Jobbik - Movement for a Better Hungary.
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Czesław Siekierski
Czesław Adam Siekierski (born on 8 October 1952 in Stopnica) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the MP & SW with the Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
Siekierski is a substitute for the Committee on Fisheries and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)
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Daciana Sârbu
Daciana Octavia Sârbu (born January 15, 1977) is a Romanian politician, lawyer, and Member of the European Parliament. Affiliated with the Social Democratic Party (PSD), part of the Party of European Socialists, she became a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Argeş County following the 2004 elections, and became an MEP on January 1, 2007, with the accession of Romania to the European Union. She is the daughter of Ilie Sârbu, a PSD member who served as Minister of Agriculture in the Adrian Năstase cabinet and holds the same position in the Emil Boc cabinet.
Born in Arad, Sârbu graduated from Law School at the West University of Timişoara, where she was awarded a Master's Degree in Commercial law (2003). She also graduated from the National College of Defense in 2002, and later opened a law practice.
In 1996, Sârbu joined the PSD (known as PDSR at the time), and in 2001 became an Adviser for the Controlling Body of the Romanian Premiership in the Năstase cabinet. She withdrew from this office in 2003, and became a State Secretary in the Ministry of Education and Research, later serving as Head of the National Authority for the Youth. In her party, she became one of the leaders of the youth and women's wings, taking part in the International Union of Socialist Youth structures, and attending its Congress of 2004.
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Damien Abad
Damien Abad (born 5 April 1980 in Nîmes, Gard) is a Member of the European Parliament, representing South East France. Aged 29, he is the youngest MEP from France.
President of the Young Centrists, Abad suffers from Arthrogryposis, and until his election worked for the New Centre group in the National Assembly on fiscal and budget issues.
In 2007, he was candidate in Yvelines' 5th constituency, where he won 3.17% of the vote, and in 2008 he was elected to the Municipal Council of Vauvert.
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Dan Jørgensen
Dan Jørgensen (born June 12, 1975) is a Danish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democrats, part of the Party of European Socialists. Dan is head of the Danish delegation of Social Democrats in the European Parliament.
Dan grew up in Morud on the Danish island of Funen, attended high school at Nordfyns Gymnasium, and university at the University of Aarhus, from which he holds a Master's degree in Political Science. He also studied Political Science at the University of Washington. Dan is a former chairman of LGBT Danmark and is a spokesperson for the gay community in Denmark.
Dan was elected in 2004 with 10.350 personal votes and re-elected in 2009 with 233.266 personal votes.
Dan has been the vice-chair of the committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety since 2004, and is a substitute on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. He is a member of the Delegation for relations with Iran and a substitute on the Delegation for relations with the United States.
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Daniel Caspary
Daniel Caspary (born 4 April 1976 in Karlsruhe) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Baden-Württemberg. He is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party.
Caspary is married and is father of two children.
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Daniel Hannan
Daniel John Hannan (born 1 September 1971) is a British journalist, author and politician who is a Member of the European Parliament, representing South East England for the Conservative Party. He is also the Secretary-General of the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (AECR). An advocate of localism and a Eurosceptic, Hannan earned worldwide fame for a speech in the European Parliament criticising Gordon Brown.
After stints as a speech-writer for Michael Howard and William Hague, Hannan was elected to the European Parliament at the 1999 election. He led the campaign to withdraw the Conservative Party from the EPP–ED, and was expelled from the group in 2008. Hannan joined the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) with his Conservative colleagues when it was formed in 2009 and became Secretary-General of its sister Europarty, the AECR. He currently serves on the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and the delegation to the ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. He is also President of the Young Britons' Foundation.
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Daniël van der Stoep
Daniël Teunis van der Stoep (born 12 September 1980, Delft) is a Dutch politician. He was elected to the European Parliament for the Party for Freedom at the 2009 election. He resigned as an MEP on 17 August 2011, having caused a car crash when driving under the influence, and was replaced by Auke Zijlstra. He was returned to the European Parliament on 14 December 2011, after the Treaty of Lisbon expanded the Parliament by eighteen MEPs. It was initially disputed Patricia van der Kammen should be elected. However, the PVV did not allow him to rejoin their delegation, and now sits as an independent.
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Danuta Jazłowiecka
Danuta Jazłowiecka (born May 19, 1957 in Opole) is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 14248 votes in 21 Opole district, candidating from Platforma Obywatelska list. On June 2009 she was elected to European Parliament from Platforma Obywatelska list. She joined Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) in European Parliament
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David Casa
David Casa (born 16 November 1968 in Valletta) is a Maltese politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Nationalist Party, which is part of the European People's Party.
David Casa, currently a Member of the European Parliament, is also a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, the Committee on Fisheries, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America and a substitute member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
David Casa has also been appointed as reporter for the Fisheries Fund.
In addition to this, David Casa is a shadow member of the joint Parliamentary Committee for Turkey. He participates in several intergroups established by the European Parliament, these consist of - Commonwealth - Sustainable Development - Small Islands - Pensions.
David Casa was vital for the setting up of the informal Mediterranean intergroup. The role of the Mediterranean intergroup is to give a Mediterranean dimension to policies deriving from the European Parliament.
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Dennis de Jong
Dennis de Jong (born 22 May 1955, Delft) is a Dutch politician.
De Jong studied law in Rotterdam. He worked for Netherlands government. Since 2009 De Jong is a member of European Parliament. De Jong is openly homosexual and lives together with Kees Vrijdag in Rotterdam.
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Derek Clark
Derek Roland Clark (born 10 October 1933 in Bristol) is a British politician, and Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands region. He is a member of the United Kingdom Independence Party, first elected in 2004, and subsequently re-elected in 2009.
He is a retired science teacher.
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Derek Vaughan
Derek Vaughan (* May 2, 1961 in Neath) was elected as Labour Party Member of the European Parliament for Wales in the 2009 European Parliament election.
Vaughan was born in Aberfan and studied politics and history at Swansea University. He has served as a full time trades union official, and is a member of the TGWU section of Unite. He was also leader of the Welsh Local Government Association from 2005 to 2008 and deputy leader from 2008 to 2009.
He was elected to Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council in 1995. He became leader of the Labour group, and leader of the council, in 2004.
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Derk Jan Eppink
Derk Jan Eppink (born 7 November 1958) is a Dutch journalist, politician in Belgium, and former cabinet secretary for European Commissioners Bolkestein (1999–2004) and Kallas (2004–2007). In 2009, he was elected to the European Parliament for List Dedecker and sits on the European Conservatives and Reformists Group Executive.
Eppink was born in Steenderen, Gelderland. He studied Dutch law at the VU University in Amsterdam (1977–1981) and thereafter European law and International Politics at the University of Amsterdam. In 1984 he moved to Brussels to become trainee at the European Commission. Thereafter he worked for 3 years as assistant to Members of the European Parliament.
In 1987, Derk Jan Eppink joined the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad where he was assigned to the foreign desk. He covered South Africa, worked as correspondent in Poland and became political editor reporting on Dutch politics in The Hague. In 1995, he moved to the Flemish newspaper De Standaard where he reported on Belgian politics. He wrote two books on his experiences in Belgian politics: Vreemde Buren (Odd neighbors), Avonturen van een Nederbelg (Adventures of a Nederbelg). He was noted for his right-wing views.
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Diana Wallis
Diana Paulette Wallis (born 28 June 1954 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire) was a British Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber. Wallis was first elected in 1999 and re-elected in 2004 and in 2009. She resigned her seat in January 2012.
Wallis read History at the University of London, graduating as a BA. She further studied at the University of Kent, where she obtained the degree of Master of Arts (MA). Before being elected to the European Parliament she practised as a solicitor in London and Hull and was a Councillor on Humberside County Council and East Riding Unitary Council.
Wallis was elected Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the European Parliament 2000–2004 and then following the resignation of Chris Davies MEP she was re-elected Leader in 2006 a post she held till January 2007. She then became the first British female of any political persuasion in twenty years to be elected to the post of Vice President of the European Parliament, as well as being the first British Liberal Democrat to do so. As a member of Parliament's Bureau, her particular responsibility is for transparency and access to documents, the Arctic and high north, Question Time (jointly with another Vice-President) and the Academy of European Law.
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Diane Dodds
Diane Dodds (born 16 August 1958) is a Democratic Unionist Party politician from Northern Ireland, and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Northern Ireland constituency.
Dodds was born into a farming family in Rathfriland, County Down where she attended Banbridge Academy before moving on to study at Queen's University Belfast. While studying, she met her future husband and future DUP politician for North Belfast Nigel Dodds.
Dodds qualified as a teacher and taught history and English in Laurelhill High School, Lisburn. In 2003, she was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly to represent Belfast West. She was the first Unionist elected to a regional assembly from West Belfast in more than 20 years (the last being Thomas Passmore to the 1982-6 Assembly). Her strongest support base during the election campaign was in the Shankill Road area of the constituency.
Following her election to the Assembly, Dodds contested the Court District Electoral Area in the 2005 Local Government Elections. On that occasion she polled in excess of three electoral quotas and her surplus votes enabled the election of two running mates. In that election, she polled more votes than any other local government candidate in Northern Ireland. Despite increasing her vote from the 2003 Assembly election, she narrowly lost her seat to Sinn Féin in 2007. {
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Dirk Sterckx
Dirk Jozef Maria Sterckx (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈstɛrks]), born on 25 September 1946 in Herent, is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Flanders with the Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten, Member of the Bureau of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries and its Committee on Transport and Tourism.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Belgium)
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Dominique Baudis
Dominique Baudis (born 14 April 1947 in Paris) is the French ombudsman. Formerly a journalist, politician and Mayor of Toulouse, he had been a member of DL and later of the leading centre-right Union for a Popular Movement.
A journalist, he was a foreign correspondent for TF1 in the Middle East from 1976 to 1977. He was news anchor on TF1 from 1977 to 1980 and from 1980 to 1982 on FR3.
A member of the CDS (a member of the centre-right UDF, he was elected to replace his father, Pierre Baudis as mayor of Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) in the French municipal elections, 1983. In 1984, he was elected to the European Parliament, in 1986 he became President of the Regional Council of the Midi-Pyrénées, also in 1986 he was elected to the French National Assembly representing Haute-Garonne's 1st constituency. He won re-elected in 1988, 1993 and 1997.
He led the UDF-RPR list in the 1994 European election.
In 2001, Jacques Chirac appointed him President of the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA), a post which he held until 2007, when Chirac appointed him President of the Arab World Institute.
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Dominique Riquet
Dominique Riquet (born 18 September 1946 in Valenciennes, Nord) is a French politician who is a Christian Democrat Member of the European Parliament and mayor of Valenciennes elected in the 2009 European election for the North-West constituency. He is a member of the Radical Party, a party affiliated with the Union for a Popular Movement.
In 2009, the UMP selected him to lead the UMP list in the North-West constituency ahead of the 2009 European elections. His list won 24.22% and he was easily elected to the European Parliament.
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Dominique Vlasto
Dominique Vlasto (born 14 August 1946 in Marseille) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-east of France. She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.
She is a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism, and a member of the delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly.
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Doris Pack
Doris Pack (born 18 March 1942, Schiffweiler) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament (since 1989). She served as a member of the Bundestag 1974–1983 and 1985–1989. She is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party. Pack is the chair of the EU Committee on Culture and Education (since 2009).
She is chair of the Franco-German Foundation for Cultural Cooperation, President of the European Children's Book Fair Association, member of the ZDF Television Council, President of the Saar Adult Education Association, Vice-President of the European Movement on the Saar. She also is President of Women in the EPP and Executive Member of the European People's Party. She was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and of the Assembly of the Western European Union (1981-1983 and 1985-1989). She is Chairwoman of the Advisory Board of A Soul for Europe.
She graduated from teaching college in 1965 and worked as a teacher in primary schools until 1974. From 1983 to 1985, she was employed by the Saarland Ministry of Education.
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Edit Bauer
Edit Bauer (born on 30 August 1946 in (Somorja Šamorín) is a Slovak politician of Hungarian ethnicity and Member of the European Parliament with the Magyar Koalíció Pártja, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
Bauer is a substitute for the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Slovakia)
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Edit Herczog
Edit Herczog (born in Budapest May 5, 1961) is a member of the Hungarian Socialist Party and the European Parliament.
Edit Herczog has been a member of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party, and of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) since 1989. She was elected as a MP in 1998 and also in 2002 in Fejér county. She became member of the national presidency of the MSZP in 2007. She worked her way up the bureaucracy of the MSZP, through the Procedural Committee, in the Committee of the European Integration Affairs between 1998–2002 and in the Committee of Foreign Affairs and of Environmental Protection since 2002.
Herczog was a member of the Hungarian delegation of the European Commission since 1999. Being leader of the female committee of the socialist group in Strasbourg she was also a member of the group leadership. She took part in the work of the Hungarian-English and Hungarian-American branch of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, as vice-president.
Edit has been a member of the European Parliament since May 2004. Her committee work included the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, Delegation for relations with Canada and the EU-EEA. She was a substitute for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and for the Committee on Budgetary Control. She was also member of the Small and Medium Enterprises Working Group and the Lisbon Strategy Working Group. She is a Presidency member of the following European organizations: European Energy Forum, European Internet Foundation, Forum for the Future of Nuclear Energy, Cangaroo Group, and the European Parliament-Business Forum.
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Edite Estrela
Edite de Fátima Santos Marreiros Estrela , GCIH (born Belver; 28 October 1949) is a Portuguese politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Socialist Party; part of the Party of European Socialists.
She is a former Mayor of Sintra from 1994 and 2002 and teacher of literature.
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Eduard Kukan
Eduard Kukan (born 26 December 1939) served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia from 1998 to 2006. He was a candidate in the presidential election held on 3 April 2004, and although pre-election polls had suggested he would come in first, he actually came in third behind former prime minister Vladimír Mečiar and Ivan Gašparovič, thus preventing him from contesting the run-off. He was elected member of European parliament in 2009 election.
Kukan graduated from The Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1964, where he has also gained an excellent command of the Swahili language. After graduation he received a Doctorate in Law from the Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague.
Since then his employments have included:
Eduard Kukan is married and has two adult children. In addition to his native tongue and Swahili, he speaks English, Russian, and Spanish. In 1993, he was awarded an honorary law degree by the Upsala College in New Jersey, U.S..
Kukan is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Global Panel Foundation.
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Edvard Kožušník
Edvard Kožušník (born 30 January 1971) is a Czech politician. He serves as Member of the European Parliament and is the former Chief of Staff to the President of the Senate Přemysl Sobotka. He was a Civic Democratic Party candidate for European Parliament election in 2009 and received the seventh largest number of preference votes in the party.
Kožušník is a graduate of a high school and is currently studying at a university.
He is fluent in Spanish, English, German, Russian and Bulgarian. His wife is Spanish and they've two children. His hobby is beach tennis.
Kožušník was one of the key people in charge of launching one of the first Czech governmental think-tank eStat.cz. Nowadays, he's begun a campaign for abolishing concessionary fees in the Czech Republic.
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Edward Scicluna
Edward Scicluna (b. October 12, 1946 in Naxxar, Malta) is an economist and a Member of the European Parliament elected on behalf of the Maltese Labour Party and sitting with the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.
Scicluna holds a Diploma in social studies from the University of Oxford (1972) and degrees in economics from the University of Malta (BA, 1975) and the University of Toronto (MA, 1976 and PhD, 1982). Between 1981 and 1990 he was professor and head of the Department of Economics at the University of Malta where he still holds a lectureship post.
He has held a number of posts in the public and private sector. He served as Chairman of the Malta Council of Economic and Social Development (MCESD) (1999–2003) and of the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) (1997–99), an Electoral Commissioner (1987–93), a Director of the Central Bank of Malta (1996–2003) and a member of Malta's National Euro Change-over Committee (NECC) (2005–2008). He was often selected by the Malta Broadcasting Authority to chair broadcast political debates. In the private sector he was Chairman of the HSBC Malta Bond Fund (since 2002) and of CWG plc and director of MIB Ltd.
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Elena Băsescu
Elena Băsescu, sometimes referred to as EBA, (born 24 April 1980 in Constanța) is a Romanian politician, secretary general of the youth wing of Romania's Democratic Liberal Party, and a Member of the European Parliament. She is the youngest daughter of Traian Băsescu, the current President of Romania. She was formerly a model, and entered politics in 2007. She has a degree in economics.
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Eleni Theocharous
Eleni Theocharous (Greek: Ελένη Θεοχάρους) (born in Ano Amiantos, Limassol District, Cyprus on June 24, 1953) is an elected Member of the Cyprus House of Representatives from 2001 to 2009 and a member of the Democratic Rally (DISY). In the European parliament election, 2009, she was elected as 1 of the 6 Cypriot MEPs.
Eleni Theocharous received her degree from the Faculties of Medicine and Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and continued to postgraduate studies in paediatric surgery in Manchester and Paris. She received her Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree from the Democritus University of Thrace and later continued postdoctoral studies in Boston (B.C.E.T.S.). She is a member of the American Trauma Academy.
At the parliamentary elections of 27 May 2001 she was elected Member of the House of Representatives standing as a DISY candidate in Limassol and was re-elected at the parliamentary elections of 21 May 2006. She was deputy chairwoman of the House Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and of the House Standing Committee on Health Affairs. She is currently a chairwoman of the House Standing Committee on Health Affairs and a member of the House Standing Committee on the Environment, of the House Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and of the House Standing Committee on Human Rights. She is also a member of the delegation of the House to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.
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Elisa Ferreira
Elisa Ferreira, GCC (born October 17, 1955 in Porto) is a Portuguese politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Socialist Party; part of the Party of European Socialists.
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Elisabeth Jeggle
Elisabeth Jeggle (born 21 July 1947) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Baden-Württemberg. She is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party.
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Elisabeth Köstinger
Elisabeth Köstinger (born 22 November 1978 in Wolfsberg, Carinthia, Austria) is a Austrian member of the European Parliament and sits on the committee for the Agriculture and Rural Development. She is also a substitute for the committee on International Trade. Se is a member of the Austrian People's Party of Austria and in the European Union she is part of the European People's Party.
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Elisabeth Schroedter
Elisabeth Schroedter (b. 11 March 1959, Dresden) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Alliance '90/The Greens, part of the European Greens.
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Elisabetta Gardini
Elisabetta Gardini (Padua, 3 June 1956) is an Italian actress and politician from Veneto.
A popular actress and RAI host close to Christian Democracy, Gardini was an unsuccessful candidate for Patto Segni in the 1994 general election. In 2004 she was appointed spokesperson of Forza Italia, with which she was elected to the Regional Council of Veneto in 2005 and to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 2006. In 2008 Gardini entered the European Parliament, replacing Renato Brunetta, and after the 2009 election she was returned for a full five-year term.
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Elmar Brok
Elmar Brok (born 14 May 1946, Verl, Westphalia) is a German Member of the European Parliament and the current Chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs. He was elected on the CDU ticket and sits with the European People's Party group. An MEP since 1980, he has held many leadership positions in German and European politics. As a member of the Convention on the Constitution for Europe and in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Mr Brok contributed crucially to the Constitution of the European Union.
Brok studied law and politics in Germany and at the Centre for European Governmental Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Formerly, he worked as a radio journalist and newspaper correspondent.
He has held numerous leadership positions for the Christian Democratic Party in Germany, including Deputy Federal Chairman of the Junge Union (CDU youth section) (1973–1981), Chairman of the CDU Federal Committee on Foreign and Security Policy (1989–1999), CDU District Chairman of Ostwestfalen-Lippe (since 1996), Secretary of the CDU Land Executive of North Rhine-Westphalia (since 1996), Chairman of the CDU Federal Committee on European policy (since 1999), Assistant Chairman of the International Democrat Union (since 1991), Deputy Chairman of the European Union of Christian Democratic Workers (since 1991), and Chairman of the European Union of Christian Democratic Workers.
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Emilie Turunen
Emilie Turunen (born on 13 May 1984 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is, as of 2009, the youngest member of the European Parliament. She has represented the Danish constituency since the 2009 European election and is a member of the European Green Party (Danish member party is Socialistisk Folkeparti).
Turunen graduated from Roskilde University in Social Science and Working Life Studies and lives with her boyfriend in northwest Copenhagen. Before being elected she was in charge of the Youth of the Socialist People's Party and worked with the Danish Social Forum.
After being elected to the European Parliament, Turunen has become vice-chairperson of the Green-Free Alliance group, a member of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee, a member of the delegation to south east Asia. She is also a substitute on the Employment and Social Affair Committee, the Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis and the delegation to Iran. She is particularly active against the trafficking of women. Turunen is also the youngest MEP of the 7th European Parliament.
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Emine Bozkurt
Emine Bozkurt (born 9 August 1967 in Zaandam, North Holland) is a Dutch politician of Turkish descent and Member of the European Parliament since 2004. She is a member of the Labour Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
She is also a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education and a member of the delegation to the European Union–Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee.
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Emma McClarkin
Emma McClarkin (born 9 October 1978 in Stroud, Gloucestershire) is a British politician, and Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands region for the Conservative Party.
Emma was brought up in Stroud and attended her local grammar school, Stroud Girls High School. She graduated from Bournemouth University with a degree in Law and went on to work as a Legal Clerk in a law firm.
Having been a member of the Conservative Party from an early age, after working in the Law she decided it was time to become more involved, and worked for the Party in the East Midlands Region both as Press Officer to the Conservative Party's East Midlands MEPs and as Political Advisor to Roger Helmer MEP in the European Parliament in Brussels.
Immediately prior to being elected, Emma worked for the Rugby Football Union as their Government Relations Executive.
Emma McClarkin was first elected at the European election, 2009 as a Conservative Party MEP making her, at the age of 30, the youngest British MEP.
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Enikő Győri
Enikő Győri (born on 17 July 1968 in Budapest) is a Hungarian politician and elected Member of the European Parliament with the Hungarian Civic Party, part of the European People's Party.
She left the European Parliament as per 31 August 2010 to take up a position as State Secretary for European Affairs in her native Hungary.
She earned her degree at the University of Economics, Budapest, Faculty of International Relations in 1992, PhD in 2000. In 1997 she participated at the course offered by École National d’Administration (ENA).
She undertook traineeships in the United States, Belgium, France, Mexico and Spain. Traineeship at the French National Assembly (1998), at the Council of Europe (1998), and at the European Commission (1995).
Languages spoken: English, Italian, Spanish (excellent), French (intermediate).
Minister of State for European Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2010-2011).
Member of the European Parliament (2009-2010), member of the Economic and Monetary Committee.
Head of EU Staff of Fidesz Political Group in the Hungarian National Assembly (2003-2009).
Ambassador of the Hungary to Italy (1999-2003).
Adviser on EU affairs of the Hungarian National Assembly (1992-1999).
Lecturer at ELTE University in Budapest (2004-2009) and Eszterházy Teachers’ College in Eger (1995-1998).
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Ernst Strasser
Ernst Strasser is a former Austrian People's Party politician and Federal Minister of the Interior in Austria (2000 - 2004), and was a Member of the European Parliament (2009-2011). He resigned because of the 2011 Cash for Laws Scandal.
Strasser was Federal Minister of the Interior of Austria between 2000 and 2004.
Strasser has been the president of the Austro-Russian Friendship Society (Österreichisch-Russische Freundschaftsgesellschaft) since 2003.
Between 2005 and 2008 Strasser was Managing Partner at VCP Energy Holdings, a subsidiary of Vienna Capital Partners. He took care of "energy projects in the new EU member countries in Eastern Europe" and reportedly enjoyed a salary of 500,000 euros per year.
Like Strasser, his cabinet secretary Christoph Ulmer is also a senior member of the Austro-Russian Friendship Society and went to become Executive Director of CE-Oil Gastrading AG, an energy company owned by Vienna Capital Partners.
He led his party in the 2009 European Parliament election. He was a Member of the European Parliament between 2009 and 2011.
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Estelle Grelier
Estelle Grelier (born 22 June 1973 in La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the North-West constituency. She is a member of the Socialist Party.
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Esther de Lange
Esther de Lange (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɛs.tər də ˈlɑŋə]) (19 February 1975 in Spaubeek) is a Dutch politician for the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).
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Eva Joly
Eva Joly (French pronunciation: [eva ʒɔli]; born Gro Eva Farseth, 5 December 1943) is a Norwegian-born French magistrate («Juge d'instruction») and politician for Europe Écologie–The Greens. She represented this party as a candidate for the presidency of France in the 2012 elections.
Born in Grünerløkka, Oslo, she moved to Paris at 20 to work as an au pair. There she married the son of the family that employed her, Pascal Joly (now deceased) and adopted her middle name 'Eva', which is easier to pronounce in French.
Working as a secretary, she took her legal education at night school and became a magistrate when she was 38. Joly specialised in financial affairs, and in 1990 she joined the High Court of Paris as an investigating judge.
Here she quickly made a mark with her tireless crusade against corruption, in particular taking on, among others, former minister Bernard Tapie and the bank Crédit Lyonnais. Her most famous case, however, was that of France’s leading oil company – Elf Aquitaine. In the face of death threats, she carried on the case to uncover several cases of fraud, leading to the conviction of tens of persons involved in the oil business. In 2001, she received for this work the award for integrity from the non governmental organisation Transparency International.
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Evelyne Gebhardt
Evelyne Gebhardt (born 19 January 1954 in Paris) is a German politician. Since 1994 she has been a Member of the European Parliament representing the SPD. Her main interests are bio-ethics, consumer protection and citizens' rights.
Ms Gebhardt studied at the University Paris Diderot, the University of Tübingen and the University of Stuttgart, studying linguistics, political science and political economy. She subsequently worked as a freelance translator, and moved to Germany in 1975. Since 1992 she has been Chair of the Working Group of Social-Democratic Women. In 1999, she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit (with ribbon).
Evelyne Gebhardt is a member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and of the Delegation for Relations with the People's Republic of China. She is also a substitute member for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula.
She is best known for her role in shaping the controversial Services Directive in 2005 and 2006. The directive had aimed at opening up the European Single Market to competition amongst service providers but was, after much political pressure from mostly western and southern EU countries, subsequently watered down by the European Parliament. Evelyne Gebhardt was parliamentary rapporteur for the directive and played an important role in facilitating an agreement with the European People's Party which allowed Parliament to pass the directive with a huge majority and thereby forcing EU governments to follow their line.
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Evgeni Kirilov
Evgeni Zahariev Kirilov (Bulgarian: Евгени Захариев Кирилов) (born 26 January 1945 in Lubichevo, Targovishte Oblast) is a Bulgarian politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Coalition for Bulgaria, part of the Party of European Socialists, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union.
On May 20, 2010, the European Parliament in Strasbourg, adopted the resolution on "The need for an EU Strategy for the South Caucasus" on the basis of the report by Evgeni Kirilov. The resolution states in particular, that "the occupied Azerbaijani regions around Nagorno-Karabakh must be cleared as soon as possible".
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Evžen Tošenovský
Evžen Tošenovský (born 26 February 1956) is a Czech politician. He was elected Member of the European Parliament in the 2009 European Parliament election receiving the largest number of preference votes.
Tošenovský graduated from the Technical University of Ostrava in 1981. In 1993, he was elected mayor of Ostrava and remained in the office until 2000. From 2000 to 2008, Tošenovský served as governor of Moravian-Silesian Region.
He's married and has two children. Tošenovský is also a recipient of numerous awards and decorations. In 2002, he was promoted to the rank of knight of the Légion d'honneur.
Media related to Evžen Tošenovský at Wikimedia Commons
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Filip Dewinter
Philip Michel Frans "Filip" Dewinter (born 11 September 1962) is a Flemish politician in Belgium. He is one of the leading members of Vlaams Belang, a right-wing Flemish nationalist and secessionist political party. This party is the ideological and juridical successor of the Vlaams Blok, which, lacking legal personality, was indirectly condemned and fined for racism in 2004 in a trial against three moral persons that constituted the Blok's financial hardware. Together with Hugo Coveliers of the VLOTT party, Dewinter formed a list cartel for the city elections of Antwerp on 8 October 2006.
His father was studying medicine at the Leuven University during the Second World War, when he had to hide, as the threat of being deported by the Germans increased. He was nevertheless arrested and already after a few months of imprisonment in Bruges, had been deported to Germany to work in a munitions factory. He returned, after the war, sick and emaciated and unable to take up his studies again.
Dewinter’s grandfather on mother's side, was a resistance fighter who had been very active in the resistance group, the Witte Brigade (White Brigade), in Blankenberge.
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Filip Kaczmarek
Filip Andrzej Kaczmarek (born on 22 November 1966 in Poznań) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament
Filip Kaczmarek was born in Poznań, graduated from the History Department at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and in 2005 earned a PhD in Political Sciences at Adam Mickiewicz University. His wife Beata Machowska-Kaczmarek is a journalist and his son Ignacy is a junior high student.
In the beginning of the 90’s he was the Chairman of the National Coordination Committee for the Independent Students’ Union at Adam Mickiewicz University. In 1994 Filip Kaczmarek took part in the foundation of the Young Democrats Association. As a member of the Sejm of first tenure (1991–1993) he was inter alia a member of the Parliamentary Committee on the Europe Agreement. In 2001 Filip Kaczmarek took part in founding the Civic Platform in Poznań. He was also a co-founder of the Civic Platform Councillors Club of Poznań City Council and the Civic Platform structures in Poznań. From 1998 to 2002 Filip Kaczmarek was the Councillor and Deputy Leader of Poznań City Council. In 2003 he created the European Funds Bureau in Poznań City Council becoming its first director. Since 2010 he is the head of Civic Platform in Poznań.
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Filiz Husmenova
Filiz Hakaeva Hyusmenova (Bulgarian: Филиз Хакъева Хюсменова Turkish: Filiz Hüsmenoğlu; born 10 June 1966 in Silistra) is a Bulgarian politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union. Hüsmenova is of Turkish ethnic origin.
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Francesco Speroni
Francesco Enrico Speroni (born on 4 October 1946 in Busto Arsizio) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the North-West Italy constituency, first elected in the 2004 European Parliament election. He sits as a member of the Lega Nord and he co-chairs the Europe of Freedom and Democracy group.
Speroni sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs and is a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee.
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Frank Vanhecke
Frank Arthur Hyppolite Vanhecke (born 30 May 1959 in Brugge) started his career in Belgian politics as a student by joining the Jong Studentenverbond and later the Nationalistische Studentenvereniging. He gave up his membership of the Volksunie in 1977 after it acceded to a much-debated package of federal reforms. Vanhecke subsequently joined the Vlaams Nationale Partij, the predecessor of the Vlaams Blok.
Quickly climbing the party ranks, he became responsible for the party's press and media communication in 1986 and worked from 1989 as a personal assistant to Karel Dillen in the European Parliament, until he was elected to a Parliamentary seat himself in 1994. After a short term in the Belgian Senate, Vanhecke returned to European politics after the elections in 2004.
Vanhecke sits on its Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, and is a substitute for the Committee on Development and a member of the Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee. His voting record in the European Parliament shows his clear pro-life stance.
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Franziska Brantner
Franziska Katharina Brantner (born 24 August 1979, Lörrach) is a German member of the European Parliament (MEP). She is in The Greens–European Free Alliance group and is a member of the Foreign Affairs committee and the delegation for relations with Israel.
Brantner grew up in Neuenburg/Rhein. After graduating from the bilingual "Deutsch-Französisches Gymnasium" in Freiburg im Breisgau and gathering her first international experiences working at the offices of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Tel Aviv and Washington D.C. she studied political science with focus on International Affairs and European Policy at the elite university Sciences Po in Paris and School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University in New York City, where she graduated in 2004.
Currently, she is finishing her dissertation, entitled "The reformability of the United Nations", at the University of Mannheim where she used to be a research associate at the department for Political Science II of Prof. Dr. Thomas König with a lectureship for International Policy. From 2006 to 2007 she worked as a research associate at the European Studies Centre of St Antony's College, Oxford.
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François Alfonsi
François Alfonsi (born 1953 in Ajaccio, Corse) is a French politician, Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the South-East France constituency and Mayor of Osani.
Alfonsi has been a Corsican nationalist since the 1970s, and was elected in 1987 to the Corsican Assembly. He has been Mayor of Osani since 2002. He is currently a member of the Party of the Corsican Nation (PNC).
In the 2009 European elections, he was the second candidate on the Europe Écologie list in the South-East region, and was elected to the European Parliament. He is the second Corsican nationalist after Max Simoni (Green, 1989–1994) to be elected to the European Parliament.
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Françoise Castex
Françoise Castex (born on 7 February 1956 in Agadir) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the South West of France with the Socialist Party, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade.
She is a substitute for the Committee on Development and the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. She is also a member of the Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (France)
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Françoise Grossetête
Françoise Grossetête (born 17 May 1946 in Lyon) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the South-East of France. She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement; part of the European People's Party.
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Frieda Brepoels
Frederika Marie Joseph (Frieda) Brepoels (born on 7 May 1955 in Mopertingen) is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Flanders with the N-VA, part of the European Free Alliance and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
She is a substitute for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, a member of the Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Belgium)
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Frédérique Ries
Frédérique Ries (born on 14 May 1959 in Balen) is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the French Community of Belgium with the MR/MCC/PRL, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
She graduated in Economics and mastered in Journalism at the University of Liège, in 1981.
She was Commercial Director at Radio FM56 from 1981 to 1984. In 1984, she is hired at RTL (Radio Télévision Luxembourg) first in Luxembourg, as a Producer and TV Presenter from 1984 to 1987, then in Brussels where she edits and presents the news from 1987 to 1998.
In 1999, Frédérique Ries joins the MR (PRL back then) to become a candidate on the European elections list. Elected Member of the European Parliament since 1999, she follows particularly health, environment and food safety issues.
Re-elected in June 2009 with more than 116,000 votes, she is the 5th French-speaking political personality through all political parties in Belgium.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Belgium)
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Gabriele Albertini
Gabriele Albertini (born on 6 July 1950 in Milan) is an Italian politician, former Mayor of Milan and incumbent Member of the European Parliament for North-Western Italy with The People of Freedom, part of the European People's Party, and sits in the European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, a vice-chair of the Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the United States.
See also: European Parliament election, 2009 (Italy)
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Gabriele Zimmer
Gabriele Zimmer (called Gabi; born 7 May 1955 in Berlin, GDR) is a German communist politician.
She has been a member of the East German communist party, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and its successors, continuously since 1981. The party was renamed SED-PDS in 1989, PDS in 1990, Die Linkspartei.PDS in 2005 and Die Linke in 2007. She was chairwoman of then-PDS from 2000 to 2003. From 1990 to 1998, she was chairwoman of the PDS at the regional level in Thuringia. Since October 1990 she has been a member of the regional Parliament in Thuringia.
Other political functions:
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Gad Lerner
Gad Lerner (born 7 December 1954 in Beirut, Lebanon) is an Italian journalist and writer.
A member of the Jewish community, he began his news career in 1976, writing for the ultra-leftist daily Lotta Continua, belonging to the eponymous political entity, becoming its deputy director. He then worked for the Genoan daily Il Lavoro, as well as for Radio Popolare, the communist newspaper Il Manifesto and the weekly newsmagazine L'Espresso.
Notoriety and success came when he started working for television broadcasts on Rai Tre, among which Profondo Nord and Milano, Italia. His reporting coincided with the infamous years of bribery scandals, known as Tangentopoli (Italian for Bribesville), and the ascent of the Lega Nord separatist political movement - Lerner successfully portrayed in his shows the deep changes the country was experiencing.
He later served as director deputy director of the national newspaper La Stampa and briefly as director of news broadcasts for TG1 and Rai Uno. He publicly resigned after a selection of pornographic footage was mistakenly aired on prime time during his news broadcast, TG1. Along with his resignation, he revealed that a politician from National Alliance, Mario Landolfi, who also was the president of the parliamentary commission of vigilance regarding the public TV broadcasting service, asked him to favour an acquaintance of his in the TG1.
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Gaston Franco
Gaston Franco (born 4 February 1944 in Roquebillière, Alpes-Maritimes) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the South-East France constituency.
Franco represented Alpes Maritimes' 5th constituency in the National Assembly as a member of the Rally for the Republic between 1993 and 1997. In addition, he is Mayor of Saint-Martin-Vésubie since 1989 and represented the Canton of Saint-Martin-Vésubie in the General Council until he resigned in 2008 to join the cabinet of the Mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi.
In the 2009 European elections, he was the fourth candidate on the Union for a Popular Movement list in the South-East region, and was elected to the European Parliament.
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Gay Mitchell
Gabriel "Gay" Mitchell (born 30 December 1951) is an Irish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency since 2004. He is a member of Fine Gael, part of the European People's Party, and a former Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South–Central constituency from 1981–2007. He was defeated by Enda Kenny in the 2002 Fine Gael leadership election. Mitchell was the Fine Gael candidate at the 2011 Irish presidential election.
Gabriel "Gay" Mitchell was born in Inchicore, Dublin in 1951. Gay Mitchell’s mother, Eileen, was left a widow with nine children whom she supported by working as an office cleaner. He was educated at St. Michael's Congregation of Christian Brothers, Emmet Road Vocational School, Dublin Institute of Technology, College of Commerce, Queen's University Belfast. His brother, Jim Mitchell, was a long-serving Fine Gael TD and former government minister.
He first became involved in politics in 1979 as a member of Dublin City Council. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fine Gael TD in the 1981 general election for the Dublin South–Central constituency. Since then he has served as a Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach and the Department of Foreign Affairs with special responsibility for European Affairs. He was the Irish Representative on the Reflection Group which prepared the Amsterdam Treaty.
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Geoffrey Van Orden
Geoffrey Charles Van Orden MBE (born 10 April 1945) is a British politician and former soldier. He is currently Member of the European Parliament for the East of England region for the Conservative Party. He was first elected to the European Parliament in 1999.
Van Orden was born in Waterlooville, Hampshire in 1945. He attended the Mons Officer Cadet School and was commissioned into the Intelligence Corps in 1964. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1966, Captain in 1970, Major in 1977, Lieutenant-Colonel in 1983, Colonel in 1988, and Brigadier in 1991. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) aged just 27.
He served worldwide as part of the British Army from 1964 to 1985. In 1985 he became an instructor at the German Armed Forces Staff College in Hamburg (1985–88) and was later the Chief of Staff of the British Army in the British sector of Berlin (1988–90). In 1990 he worked as part of the Assessment Staff for the Joint Intelligence Committee in London. From 1991 to 1994 he served as the Executive Secretary of International Military Staff at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, his final military appointment.
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Georgios Papastamkos
Georgios Papastamkos (Greek: Γεώργιος Παπαστάμκος) (born 5 March 1955, Platanorrevma, West Macedonia) is a Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament for New Democracy; part of the European People's Party.
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Gerard Batten
Gerard Joseph Batten (born 27 March 1954, London) is a Member of the European Parliament for London for the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). He was first elected in 2004.
He sits as a member of the Independence and Democracy Group. He was a founder member of UKIP in September 1993. He was the first Party Secretary from 1994 to 1997. He has fought local elections, a by-election, a European election, and two general elections as a UKIP candidate. As well as his seat in the European Parliament he is a member of UKIP's National Executive Committee.[citation needed]
Batten was appointed a member of the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Security and Defence in July 2004, and shortly afterwards was also appointed UKIP's official spokesman on Security and Defence. In this role, he has attacked the Labour government's plans to introduce Identity Cards.
Before becoming an MEP he was a salesman for British Telecom for 28 years. At the 2007 UK Independence Party conference, he was selected as the party's candidate to contest the London mayoral election, 2008. He stood in the 2009 UKIP leadership election, coming second.
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Gesine Meißner
Gesine Meißner (or Meissner; born 22 February 1952 in Uelzen) is a German politician for the Free Democratic Party.
She was elected to the Lower Saxon Landtag in 2003, and has been re-elected in 2008. In 2009 she was elected to the European Parliament.
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Giancarlo Scottà
Giancarlo Scottà (Vittorio Veneto, 11 April 1953) is an Italian politician from Veneto.
A member of Liga Veneta-Lega Nord, Scottà was Mayor of Vittorio Veneto from 1999 to 2009. In 2009 he was elected to the European Parliament.
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Gianluca Susta
Gianluca Susta (b. 10 April 1956, Biella) is an Italian politician. He is a member of the European Parliament since May 8, 2006, when he took up a seat vacated after the 2006 Italian general election. He represents the Margherita within the ALDE parliamentary group. He took a pro-European stance by signing the Spinelli Group Manifesto.
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Gianni Vattimo
Gianteresio Vattimo, also known as Gianni Vattimo (born January 4, 1936) is an internationally recognized Italian author, philosopher, and politician. Many of his works have been translated into English.
Vattimo was born in Turin, Piedmont. He studied philosophy under the existentialist Luigi Pareyson at the University of Turin, and graduated in 1959. After studying with Karl Löwith and Hans-Georg Gadamer in Heidelberg he returned to Turin where he became assistant professor in 1964, and later full professor of Aesthetics in 1969. While remaining at Turin, becoming Professor of Theoretical Philosophy in 1982, he has been a visiting professor at a number of American Universities.
After being active in the Partito Radicale, the short-lived Alleanza per Torino, and the Democrats of the Left, Vattimo joined the Party of Italian Communists. Between 1999 and 2004 he was a member of the European Parliament.
He is openly gay and an avowed Catholic "who welcomes God's death."
Vattimo added his name to a petition released on February 28, 2009 calling on the European Union to unconditionally remove Hamas from its list of terrorist organizations and grant it full recognition as a legitimate voice of the Palestinian people.
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Gigi Becali
George Becali (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈd͡ʒe̯ord͡ʒe beˈkali], commonly known in Romania as Gigi Becali; born 25 June 1958) is a controversial Romanian politician and businessman, mostly known for his involvement in the Steaua Bucureşti football club.
He has been a Member of the European Parliament since June 2009.
He was born in an Aromanian family in Zagna, Vădeni, Brăila County, as his family had been deported to the Bărăgan by the Communist authorities because of their associations with the pre-WWII fascist Iron Guard.
During childhood and adolescence, Becali was a supporter of Dinamo Bucharest. His cousins Victor Becali and Ioan Becali are football agents involved in Romanian football mainly for Dinamo Bucharest. In 1994, he married Luminiţa, 11 years his junior; the couple have three daughters: Teodora (b. 1995), Alexandra (b. 1996) and Cristina (b. 2001).
After the 2005 floods, he used $4 million of his personal money to fund the reconstruction of about 200 houses in the Vulturu village (Vulturu commune, Vrancea county) that was destroyed by the overflow of the Siret river. However, he is still the legal owner of the 200 houses. Subsequently the villagers wanted to rename it Vulturu Becali (Becali Vulture) in his honor.
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Giles Chichester
Giles Chichester (born 29 July 1946) is a British Conservative Party politician, and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South West England and Gibraltar. He was elected as a temporary Vice President of the European Parliament on 6 July 2011 to replace Silvana Koch-Mehrin who had resigned over plagiarism allegations.
Chichester was born in London. Since 1969 worked in family business Francis Chichester Ltd (publishers of maps, guides and educational wallcharts), founded by his father Sir Francis Chichester KBE.
He was MEP for Devon and East Plymouth from 1994 to 1999 and has represented South West England in the European Parliament since 1999. On 23 July 2004 he was elected chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.
He is a former Chairman of the Carlton Club Political Committee and is chairman of his family business publishing maps.
Chichester describes himself as a “climate change sceptic”.
On 5 June 2008, Chichester stepped down as Leader of the Conservative MEPs, after it was alleged that since 1996 he had wrongly sent European parliamentary funds for secretarial and office services through his family business of which he was a paid director. He insists the contract was accepted by the EU Parliament 1999 and in 2004, he transferred money for his political staff through the company as an easier means of administration. The European Parliament suggested that a change in the Financial Regulation in 2003 meant this arrangement constituted a potential conflict of interest.
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Gilles Pargneaux
Gilles Pargneaux (b. 24 March 1957 in Harcigny) is a French politician, Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the North-West constituency and leader of the PS federation in Lille. He is close to the leader of the PS, the Mayor of Lille Martine Aubry.
In 2009, the PS selected him to lead the PS list in the North-West constituency ahead of the 2009 European elections. His list won 18.09% and two seats, so he was elected to the European Parliament.
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Giorgos Papanikolaou
Georgios Pavlou Papanikolaou is a member of the European Parliament, in the group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats). He was elected for the period 2009-2014, in the European Elections that took place on the 16th of July in 2009 all over the European Union.
Georgios Papanikolaou, born in Athens (15 August, 1977), apart from a successful lawyer in Athens, Greece, was the president of the youth branch of the political party "New Democracy" in Greece from 2004 to 2009.
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Giorgos Toussas
Giorgos Toussas (Greek: Γιώργος Τούσσας) (born 8 September 1954) is a Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Communist Party of Greece; part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left. He was born in Koilada.
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Glenis Willmott
Glenis Willmott (born 4 March 1951) is a British politician, currently leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party (EPLP) and Labour member of the European Parliament for East Midlands.
Willmott was born in the mining village of Horden, County Durham, but moved to Mansfield with her family at the age of 10. She was educated in Mansfield and at Trent Polytechnic where she obtained an HNC in medical science. She worked as a medical scientist for the National Health Service at King's Mill and Mansfield Hospitals from 1969 to 1990. She was chair of Mansfield Constituency Labour Party and a member of Nottinghamshire County Council from 1989 to 1993, and worked as an assistant to Alan Meale (Member of Parliament for Mansfield) from 1987 to 1990.
In 1990 she became political officer for the GMB trade union Midland and East Coast region. She served as chair of the East Midlands Regional Labour Party and was second on the Labour Party list for the European Parliament in the 2004 elections to the European Parliament in East Midlands.
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Godfrey Bloom
Godfrey Bloom (born 22 November 1949 in London) is a Member of the European Parliament for Yorkshire and the Humber for the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). He was first elected in 2004, and re-elected in 2009.
Before becoming an MEP, Bloom worked as a financial economist.
Godfrey Bloom is the president of the European Alliance for Freedom, a eurosceptic pan-European political party.
In 2004, Bloom's election to the Yorkshire and the Humber seat was the UKIP's first seat in the region in the European elections.
A few weeks after his appointment to the European Parliament's Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality on 20 July 2004, Bloom told an interview in Strasbourg that, "No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age. That isn't politically correct, is it, but it's a fact of life. The more women's rights you have, it's actually a bar to their employment." Around the same time, he was reported[by whom?] as commenting, "I just don't think [women] clean behind the fridge enough" and that "I am here to represent Yorkshire women who always have dinner on the table when you get home."
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Graham Watson
Sir Graham Robert Watson (born 23 March 1956) is a European politician from the United Kingdom. He has served as a Member of the European Parliament for South West England since 1994 and was the leader of the Group of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party 2002–2004 and the first leader of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe 2004–2009. Since 2011, he is the President of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.
Graham Watson was born in Rothesay on the Isle of Bute (Scotland, United Kingdom). His father was an officer in the Royal Navy and his mother a teacher. Watson was educated at the City of Bath Boys' School, where he played violin in the school orchestra. He later returned to Scotland to attend Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh where he graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Arts in modern languages. This allowed him to work as an interpreter between 1979 and 1980, he now speaks four European languages. After 1980 he worked as an administrator at Paisley College until 1983.
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Gunnar Hökmark
Anders Gunnar Hökmark (born 19 September 1952 in Ystad) is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Moderate Party; part of the European People's Party.
Hökmark is Vice Chairman of the EPP Group, the largest group in the European Parliament with 265 members. He is the leader of the Swedish delegation to the EPP and active in the Committee of Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Committee of Industry, Energy and Research. He is a member of the Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis as well as the Special Committee on the Policy Challenges and Budgetary Resources for a Sustainable European Union after 2013.
Hökmark is the Chairman of the Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee and active in the Delegation to the EURONEST Parliamentary Assembly. He is Chairman of the European Friends of Israel and the Sweden-Israel Friendship Association. Hökmark is a member of the Reconciliation of European Histories Group and affiliated with the Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism. He co-sponsored the European Parliament resolution of 2 April 2009 on European conscience and totalitarianism.
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Guy Verhofstadt
Guy Verhofstadt (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɣiː vərˈɦɔfstɑt] ( listen); born Guy Maurice Marie Louise Verhofstadt, 11 April 1953) is a Belgian politician, who served as the 47th Prime Minister of Belgium from 1999 to 2008. Since 2009, he has served as a Member of the European Parliament and leader of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
Born in 1953 in Dendermonde, he became president of the Flemish Liberal Student's Union (1972–1974) while studying law at the University of Ghent. He quickly became the secretary of Willy De Clercq, who was at that time the president of the Flemish liberal party (Party for Freedom and Progress, PVV). In 1982, at age 29, he became president of the party. In 1985 he was elected into the Chamber of Deputies, and became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Budget under Prime Minister Wilfried Martens. Because of his economic views and his young age, he became known as "Baby Thatcher". Another nickname from that era is "da joenk", a Brabantian dialect expression meaning "that kid" (in a pejorative sense, referring to his rather iconoclastic and immature style).
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György Schöpflin
György Schöpflin (also known as George Schöpflin) (born on 24 November 1939 in Budapest) is a Hungarian academic and politician. He is a Member of the European Parliament for Fidesz and the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. Schöpflin is a substitute member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, and a member of the Reconciliation of European Histories Group.
Formerly Jean Monnet Professor of Politics at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, he has published extensively on questions of nationhood, identity and political power.
Schöpflin lived in the UK from 1950 to 2004, gaining his secondary education certificate in Scotland, followed by an MA in 1960 and an LLB in 1962 at the University of Glasgow, and a Certificate of Advanced European Studies from the College of Europe, Bruges, in 1963. He then worked at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London from 1963-67, followed by a spell at the BBC until 1976. He then returned to academia at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, becoming Jean Monnet Professor of Politics in 1998. In 2004, he was elected a Member of the European Parliament. He is currently also teaching at the Forlì Branch of the University of Bologna.
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Göran Färm
Göran Färm is a PES Member of the European Parliament for Sweden. He was born on 17 October 1949 in Stockholm. His national party is the Swedish Social Democratic Party and sits on the Committee on Budgets. He is also part of the delegation for South East Europe.
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Hannu Takkula
Hannu Takkula (born on 20 November 1963 in Ristijärvi) is a Finnish politician and Member (MEP) of the European Parliament (EP) with the Centre Party of Finland.
He was elected in the 2004 EP election. In the period 2004-2009 he sat on the EP's Committee on Culture and Education. Takkula was a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism, a member of the Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with Israel.
After his re-election in the 2009 EP election, Takkula announced on 22 June 2009 that he was leaving the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), the EP group to which the Centre Party of Finland belongs, for the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group. This group includes the Conservatives, Law and Justice and the Civic Democratic Party, and is currently EP's fourth largest bloc. He did so after a disagreement with the Centre Party management. However, two days later he stated he had changed his mind and would remain in ALDE.
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Hans van Baalen
Johannes Cornelis "Hans" van Baalen (born June 17, 1960) is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). He has been a Member of the European Parliament for the Netherlands since July 14, 2009. He was a Member of the House of Representatives from September 28, 1999 until May 23, 2002 and from January 30, 2003 until July 14, 2009. He has been the President of the Liberal International since 2009.
Van Baalen was born in Rotterdam and went to high school in Krimpen aan den IJssel. He then studied law at Leiden University, where he was a member of the Minerva fraternity and the 'Pro Patria' student guard.
Van Baalen has been a member of the VVD since 1986. He was international secretary for the VVD party bureau from 1993 to 1998 and was an MP from 1999 until 2002. He was again made an MP in 2003. Before his political career he worked as a journalist and also with the public relations department of Deloitte Consulting. In the Dutch House of Representatives, Van Baalen was a member of the Foreign Affairs commission, European Affairs commission and the Defense commission. Since the elections of 2009, he is a member of European Parliament and faction leader of the Dutch VVD Delegation, and is generally seen as one of the party's "heavy-weights."
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Harlem Désir
Harlem Désir (born 25 November 1959 in Paris) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France since 1999. He is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
Harlem Désir is member of the Capital Tax, Fiscal Systems and Globalisation Intergroup of the European Parliament, to whom was presented Denis Robert and Ernest Backes's book, Revelation$, in March 2001 [1].
He was the first president of the French anti-racist organisation SOS Racisme between 1984 and 1992.
On 30 June 2011, he was appointed Delegate First secretary of the Socialist Party (France) during the candidature of Martine Aubry for the Socialist Party primary, who started her campaign for presidential election of 2012 on 28 June 2011.
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Heide Rühle
Heide Rühle (help·info) (born 5 November 1948 in Heilbronn) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Alliance '90/The Greens, part of the European Greens.
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Helga Trüpel
Helga Trüpel (b. 21 July 1958, Moers) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Alliance '90/The Greens, part of the European Greens.
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Helmut Scholz
Helmut Scholz was a Hauptsturmführer (Captain) in the Waffen SS during World War II who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oakleaves.
Scholz was born on the 12 July 1920, at Grottkau, Upper Silesia. He volunteered to join the SS in December 1937 and was assigned to the 3rd Company, SS Standarte Germania, and transferred to the SS Standarte Der Führer, in 1938.
He was selected for officer training and sent to the SS-Junkerschule, at Braunschweig being promoted in September 1939 to Unterscharführer (Sergeant).
He took part in the Battle of France in 1940 and was then transferred to the 1st Company, SS-Regiment Wiking and from June 1941 was involved in the invasion of Russia, Operation Barbarossa.
On 1 November 1941 he returned to the SS-Junkerschule and on 20 April 1942 made an SS-Oberjunker until June 1942 when he was promoted to Untersturmführer and given command of a platoon in the III.Btn/SS Regiment Nordland which was serving in Russia.
In 1943 he joined the 49th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment De Ruyter and in March 1944 was the commander of the 7th Company, 49th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment De Ruyter, 23rd SS Panzer Grenadier Division Nederland.
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Henri Weber
Henri Weber (born 23 June 1944) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France. He is a member of the Socialist Party (PS), which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education.
Weber was born in Leninabad, Soviet Union. He was an activist in the May 1968 uprising and was a leading member of the Trotskyist Revolutionary Communist Youth (JCR) and Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) before joining the PS.
He is also a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, a member of the delegation to the EU–Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Japan.
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Herbert Reul
Herbert Reul (b. 31 August 1952 Langenfeld, Rhineland) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for North Rhine-Westphalia. He is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party.
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Hermann Winkler
Hermann Winkler (born 22 April 1963 in Grimma) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament. He was elected on the CDU ticket and sits with the European People's Party group. From 2004 to 2007 he was Cabinet Minister and Head of the State Chancellery of Saxony.
After his Abitur, Hermann Winkler entered the Technical University of Magdeburg to study mechanical engineering and graduated as Dipl.-Ing.. From 1988 to 1990 he worked as Engineer in the VEB Chemieanlagenbau Leipzig-Grimma.
He was President of the Saxony Regional Sport Association (1998–2004).
He is married and has two daughters.
In 1988, Hermann Winkler joined the Christian Democratic Union (East Germany).
He was chair of the Grimma Christian Democratic Union Municipal Association from 1990 to 1999, member of the CDU District Council of the Muldentalkreis from 1990 to 2007 (2005 to 2007 as chair) and is District Chair of the Leipzig CDU since 2007.
In addition he was regional chair of the Youth Section of the CDU in Saxony (1992–1995) and Secretary-General of the Saxony CDU from 1998 to 2004.
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Holger Krahmer
Holger Krahmer (born on 16 October 1970 in Leipzig) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Free Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development and a member of the Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
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Horst Schnellhardt
Horst Schnellhardt (born 12 May 1946) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Saxony-Anhalt. He is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party.
He is the author and the namesake of the "Schnellhardt compromise" aimed at the defusing of the "vodka war".
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Hynek Fajmon
Hynek Fajmon (born 17 May 1968 in Nymburk) is a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Civic Democratic Party, part of the European Democrats and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, a member of the delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China, and a member of Committee on Budgets.
On 27 September 2007, he published an article expressing a favorable view of the U.S. radio detecting base, at the time a very controversial topic in the Czech Republic.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Czech Republic)
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Hélène Flautre
Hélène Flautre (born July 29, 1958 in Bapaume) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the North West of France. She is a member of the Europe Écologie–The Greens, part of the European Greens. She was first elected in 1999.
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Ian Hudghton
Ian Stewart Hudghton (born 19 September 1951) is a Scottish politician, and has been a Scottish National Party Member of the European Parliament for Scotland since 1998, when he won his seat in a rare European Parliamentary by-election, after the death of sitting SNP MEP Allan Macartney.
Since the 2004 European elections, he has led the currently seven-strong European Free Alliance Group in the Parliament, which retains its own identity within the joint Green-European Free Alliance Group.
He is a member of the Fisheries, Internal Market and Consumer Protection, and Transport and Tourism committees.
Before becoming an MEP he had been a successful election agent for John Swinney and Allan Macartney, a District and Regional Councillor and the first elected leader of the unitary Angus Council after its foundation in 1995/6.
In September 2005 Hudghton was elected as President of the SNP, following the retirement of Winnie Ewing.
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Ilda Figueiredo
Maria Ilda da Costa Figueiredo (born 30 October 1948 in Troviscal) is a Portuguese politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Portuguese Communist Party; part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group.
She was born on 30 October 1948 in Troviscal, Oliveira do Bairro.
She is a substitute for the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee.
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Ildikó Pelczné Gáll
Ildikó Pelczné Gáll (née Gáll; born on 2 May 1962 in Szikszó) is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Hungarian Civic Party, part of the European People's Party.
She graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Heavy Industry in Miskolc. She studied at post-graduate in economics, has acquired rights and tax consultant auditor. She worked as a university lecturer, received a doctoral degree.
In 2005 she became a member of the national authorities of Fidesz. In 2006 she was elected deputy to the National Assembly. She was Vice-President of the fraction of Deputies of her group, and from July 2009 to May 2010 she served as Deputy Speaker of the Parliament.
In the 2010 national elections, she gained re-election. Soon after, but not to mandate, going to work to the European Parliament, when replaced Pál Schmitt.
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Iliana Ivanova
Iliana Naidenova Ivanova (Bulgarian: Илиана Найденова Иванова, born on September 14, 1975 in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian politician and economist, currently serving as Member of the European Parliament. She graduated from foreign language high school "Romain Rolland" in her hometown where she studied French and English. In 1998 she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in International Economic Relations from the Economic University in Varna. In 2004 Iliana Ivanova defended her master’s thesis in International Finance at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona.
She gained diverse experience from working at American financial and banking institutions. Before that, Iliana Ivanova worked as a coordinator International Financial institutions in the "Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture and Food".
Iliana Ivanova was a municipal councillor from GERB’s voting list in the Municipality of Sofia (2007-2011 mandates). She was elected MEP at the European Parliament elections on 7 June 2009.
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Iliana Yotova
Iliana Malinova Yotova (Bulgarian: Илиана Малинова Йотова) (born on 24 October 1964 in Sofia, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian member of the European Parliament. She sits on the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and is a substitute for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. In Bulgaria, Yotova is part of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and is part of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament. She speaks Bulgarian, English and French.
Yotova holds a Master's degree in Bulgarian Philology from the University of Sofia. She has specialized at the National School of Administration (Ecole Nationale d’Administration - ENA), France, and Centre for European Studies, Strasbourg.
At Bulgarian National Television. Yotova worked as a reporter, editor, director and presenter of news and current affairs programmes. She was an MP in the 40th National Assembly of Bulgaria.
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Indrek Tarand
Indrek Tarand MEP (born February 3, 1964, Tallinn) is an Estonian politician, reserve officer, civil servant, journalist and historian.
Tarand has served as an advisor to the Prime Minister of Estonia and as the Secretary General of the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Tarand is the eldest son of Andres Tarand. His mother Mari Tarand is a well-known linguist and the elder sister of Juhan Viiding.
He studied history at the University of Tartu. As a student during the Soviet occupation, he was expelled in his first year for lighting candles with his fellow Estonian patriots on the grave of Julius Kuperjanov, an Estonian military commander. Tarand was forced to the Soviet military service and after that he finished the university in 1991.
In 2005, Tarand caused a scandal at a soccer game by wearing a shirt that bore the names of some former Communist Party members, including Estonian president Arnold Rüütel and Prime Minister Andrus Ansip with the words Kommarid ahju! ("Commies to the oven!") This was one of the reasons that caused defense minister Jaak Jõerüüt to resign.
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Inese Vaidere
Inese Vaidere (born September 3, 1952 in Jelgava) is a Latvian politician, serving as a Member of the European Parliament (since 2004).
She was formerly Vice-Mayor of Riga and member of the Saeima. She was elected to the European Parliament in 2004 for the For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK list; part of the Union for a Europe of Nations group. In 2009, she was elected from the Civic Union (Latvia) list; part of the EPP group.
She is a signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.
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Ingeborg Gräßle
Ingeborg Grässle (b. 2 March 1961, Heidenheim) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Baden-Württemberg. She is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party.
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Ioannis Kasoulidis
Ioannis Kasoulides is a Cypriot politician and member of European Parliament. He is member of European People's Party and Democratic Rally (Major political party of the Republic of Cyprus.) He was elected as member of Cyprus Parliament on 1991 and also served as minister of the government of Cyprus for the period 1993-2003.
Ioannis Kasoulides is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy.
He was born on 10th of August, 1948 in Nicosia. He is married with Mme Droushiotou Emy and has one daughter named Joanna.
Kasoulides studied medicine at the University of Lyon in France and specialised in geriatrics in London. He founded and served as the first chairman of the Federation of Cypriot Students Unions in France.
Ioannis Kasoulides served the centre-right wing party, Democratic Rally, from various posts, including the post of the President of the Youth Organization of the Party.
In 1991, he was elected as an MP in the House of Representatives of Cyprus and in March 1993 he was appointed by the President Glafkos Clerides as the Government's Spokesman where he served until April 1997, when he was appointed Foreign Minister until the end of term of Clerides administration in 2003. As Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ioannis Kasoulides led the diplomatic attempt that marked the beginning, the process and the completion of the process of integration of Cyprus in the E.U.
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Ioannis Tsoukalas
Ioannis Tsoukalas (Greek: Ιωάννης Τσουκαλάς) is a Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament for New Democracy; part of the European People's Party.
Born and educated in Thessaloniki, where he also started his professional carrier, he graduated in Physics in 1973 and obtained his PhD in 1975 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He carried out postdoctoral research in the UK (University of Liverpool), France (Grenoble Institute of Technology), Germany (TU Braunschweig) and USA (MIT, Boston University), focusing on the field of solid state physics and technological materials.
In 1984-1995 he held the position of professor at the Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, serving as its chairman in 1984-89. From this position he was responsible for the installation of the first LAN at the university campus, covering 26 buildings, in 1991-93. He was also the first chairman of the university's Department of Computer Science in 1995-99, and continued teaching there until 2008. He also served as president of the Ethics Committee of the Aristotle University in 1995, president of the university's International Relations Committee (1997-1998) and as vice-president of the Research Committee (1999-2004). In addition, in 1998-2004 he held the post of Secretary for Informatics and New Technologies for the conservative New Democracy party, and was General Secretary for Research and Technology at the Ministry of Development in the New Democracy cabinet from 2004 to 2008. From September 2008 he is Professor Emeritus at the Aristotle University.
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Iosif Matula
Iosif Matula (born August 23, 1958) is a Romanian engineer and politician. A member of the Democratic Liberal Party (PD-L), he has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2009.
He was born in Tămaşda, Bihor County, and following secondary studies at the Theoretical High School in Chişineu-Criş from 1973 to 1977, from that year until 1980 he was a worker, receiver and distributor at the Dacia service station in Arad. From 1980 to 1985, he studied at the Chemical Technology Faculty of Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, receiving the diploma of a chemical engineer. From 1985 to 1991 he worked as such at the Salonta division of an Oradea wood preparation company, in the laboratory and production sections. From 1991 to 2008, he was a teacher at the Chişineu-Criş Theoretical High School. Meanwhile, Matula continued his education, in particular studying Chemistry and Physics at Babeş-Bolyai from 1997 to 2001 and earning a license to teach those subjects; and earning a master's degree in Economics, with the specialty of management and finance in public administration, from the Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad in 2007.
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Isabella Lövin
Isabella Lövin (born 3 February 1963) is a Swedish politician, author, and journalist. She became one of the Green Party's two Members of the European Parliament after the 2009 election. Her area of interest is fisheries questions. Lövin has been awarded with Stora Journalistpriset for her work in the field of journalism, particularly her articles about fishery.
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Isabelle Durant
Isabelle A.J. Durant (born 4 September 1954) is a Belgian politician, member of the Ecolo party. On 15 September 2010 Durant supported the new initiative Spinelli Group in the European Parliament, which was founded to reinvigorate the strive for federalisation of the European Union (EU). Other prominent supporters are: Jacques Delors, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Guy Verhofstadt, Andrew Duff, Elmar Brok.
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Ismail Ertug
Ismail Ertug,is a German politician, born on 5th of December 1975 in Amberg.
After graduation Mr Ertug studied Industrial Business Management and worked in the national insurance system afterwards. Between 2002 and 2005 he studied health insurance company operation management in Hersbruck.
Ismail Ertug worked later in the customer consulting service of the AOK (State Health Insurance) in Amberg until 2007. He then performed his study in the strategic sales consultancy service in the headquarters of the AOK in Nürnberg, Bayern from 2007 to 2009.
Mr Ertug is a Member of the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany) since 1999. In the 2009 elections he was elected as Member of the European Parliament, where he represents his constituency (East Bavaria). He is a Member of the Committee for Transport and Tourism and a Substitute in the Committee for Agriculture. Furthermore he is a Member of the Delegation in relations with Israel and the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee.
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Iuliu Winkler
Iuliu Winkler (born March 14, 1964) is a Romanian engineer, economist and politician. A member of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), he was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Hunedoara County from 2000 to 2004. In the Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu cabinet, he was Minister-Delegate for Commerce from December 2004 to April 2007, and Minister of Communications and Information Society from July to December 2007. Since that time, he has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
He was born to ethnic Hungarian parents in Hunedoara and holds two undergraduate diplomas. He obtained the first in 1988 from the Electrical Engineering Faculty of the Traian Vuia Polytechnic Institute of Timişoara, with a specialty in electronics and telecommunications. He received the second in 2001 from the Science Faculty of the University of Petroşani, in finance and insurance. From 1988 to 1992, Winkler worked as an engineer at a telecommunications assembly factory in Hunedoara, including as coordinating metrologist from 1990. From 1993 to 1998 he was the delegate for a private property fund. From 1996 to 1999 he was director of development at a Hunedoara construction firm.
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Iva Zanicchi
Iva Zanicchi (born in Ligonchio, Reggio Emilia on January 18, 1940) is an Italian pop singer.
Iva Zanicchi's career began in 1962 at the Castrocaro Festival of New Voices, where she earned third place. She won the Sanremo song festival in 1967 with Non pensare a me, in 1969 with Zingara and again in 1974 with Ciao cara, come stai?. In 1969, she represented Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest in Madrid with Due Grosse Lacrime Bianche, where she finished 13th. A concert at the Paris Olympia and a tour (United States, Canada, South America and the Soviet Union) followed. Iva later also toured Australia and Japan.
From 1987 to 2000 Iva hosted the very popular game show Ok, il prezzo è giusto!, the Italian version of The Price is Right as the only female host in the history of the game show worldwide.
In 2004 she was one of Forza Italia's candidates at the European Parliament elections, polling nearly 35,000 but not enough to be elected. However, as the highest-polling among the candidates failing to be elected, Iva took up her seat in Strasburg in May 2008, representing Forza Italia, when EuroMP Mario Mantovani left to become a PdL senator. She was confirmed in her post at the European elections of June 2009.
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Ivari Padar
Ivari Padar (born 12 March 1965 in Navi, Võru Parish, Võru County) is an Estonian politician, former Minister of Finance and former chairman of the Estonian Social Democratic Party. He was Deputy Mayor of Võru from 1993 to 1994, Executive Chairman of the Võru Farmers Union from 1994 to 1995, and Assistant to the Chancellor at the Finance Ministry from 1995 to 1997. He was Minister of Agriculture from 1999 to 2002, Chairman of Võru City Council from 2002 to 2005, and a member of the Riigikogu from 2003 to 2007. In April 2007 he became Minister of Finance. He led the Social Democratic Party from 2003 to 2009. In 2009 he was elected Member of the European Parliament.
He is a member of the Reconciliation of European Histories Group.
Judoka Martin Padar is Ivari Padar's cousin.
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Ivars Godmanis
Ivars Godmanis (born 27 November 1951) is a Latvian politician and currently 1 of the 8 Latvian MEPs in the European parliament. He was the first Prime Minister of Latvia after the country became independent from the Soviet Union, and he became a Prime Minister for the second time in December 2007.
Godmanis served as Prime Minister from 1990 to 1993, focusing primarily on Latvia's difficult economic transition from a communist to a capitalist economy. In 1995 Godmanis was awarded with the Order of the Three Stars. He later served as the Finance Minister from 1998 to 1999. He was originally associated with the Latvian Popular Front, but after the Front ceased to exist he moved to the Latvian Way party. In November 2006, following elections in which the Latvian Way in coalition with Latvia's First Party returned to Parliament, Godmanis became the Minister of the Interior.
On 14 December 2007, Godmanis was nominated as Prime Minister by President Valdis Zatlers. He was approved by the parliament on 20 December, with 54 votes in favor and 43 in opposition.
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Ivaylo Kalfin
Ivaylo Georgiev Kalfin (Bulgarian: Ивайло Георгиев Калфин, born 30 May 1964) is a Bulgarian politician. A three-term deputy, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria and Deputy Prime Minister from 2005 to 2009. He is currently a member of European Parliament.
Born in Sofia, Kalfin received his higher education at the University of National and World Economy (1983–1988) and the Loughborough University (1998–1999). His foreign language skills include English, French, Russian and Spanish. He is married and has a daughter.
Kalfin founded the Social Democrats National Movement and served as the deputy president of the Common Parliamentary Committee Bulgaria-European Union between 1995 and 1998. A deputy in the 37th (1994-1997), 38th (2000-2001) and 40th (since 2005) National Assembly of Bulgaria, Kalfin has been part of the Bulgarian National Bank's Consultative Council since 2004. He observed the elections in Kosovo in 2001 and 2004 as part of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe missions in the region and has also worked as a senior university lecturer and manager in several consulting companies.
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Ivo Belet
Ivo Maria Robert Belet (born on 7 June 1959 in Sint-Truiden) is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Flanders with the CD&V/N-VA, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. He is a former newsanchor of VRT, the Flemish public broadcaster.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education and the Committee on Petitions. He is also a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).
In May 2011, as Rapporteur on the future of professional football, with Syed Kamall, Chairman of the Parliamentary Sports Intergroup, he called for a reform of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association: "FIFA is facing a series of corruption scandals, dragging professional football through the mud. It is time for a big clean-up. We, in the European Parliament, therefore support a thorough reform of FIFA. A transparent and independent committee needs to lead an enquiry into the malpractices".
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Ivo Strejček
Ivo Strejček (born on 11 January 1962) is a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Civic Democratic Party, part of the European Conservatives and Reformists and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
He is a substitute for the Committee on International Trade and a member of the Delegation to the EU–Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee.
Strejček was born in Nové Město na Moravě. He earned the degree of Doctor of Pedagogics from Purkyně University, Brno, and a Master's degree from Masaryk University, Brno.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Czech Republic)
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Ivo Vajgl
Ivo Vajgl (born 3 March 1943) is a Slovenian politician and diplomat.
Born in Maribor, he studied at the University of Ljubljana. He was appointed foreign minister by Prime Minister Anton Rop on 6 July 2004, replacing Dimitrij Rupel, who left the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia party to join the opposition Slovenian Democratic Party. Vajgl's tenure ended on 3 December 2004 with Rupel's reappointment to the position in the new administration of Janez Janša, formed after the 2004 elections to the National Assembly, which had been held on 3 October.
As foreign minister, Vajgl joined Rop in signing the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe in Rome on 29 October 2004. Between 2004 and 2007, Vajgl worked as the advisor for foreign policy in the cabinet of the President of Slovenia Janez Drnovšek. Since the mid 1990s, Vajgl was member of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia. In 2005, he ran as a candidate for president of the party, but was defeated by Jelko Kacin. In 2007, Vajgl left the Liberal Democracy and joined the newly formed party Zares.
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Jacek Kurski
Jacek Kurski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjat͡sɛk ˈkurskʲi], born 22 February 1966 in Gdańsk) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2005 getting 26446 votes in 25 Gdańsk district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwość list.
On 8 September 2010, Kurski was the only MEP to vote against a condemnation by the European Parliament of the execution of Iranian national Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani by stoning. Kurski stated that he voted against by error, and he corrected his vote almost immediately.
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Jacek Protasiewicz
Jacek Protasiewicz (born on 5 June 1967 in Brzeg) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the DS & OP with the Platforma Obywatelska, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
Protasiewicz is a substitute for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe.
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Jacky Hénin
Jacky Hénin (born 12 November 1960 in Douai) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France. He is a member of the French Communist Party, which is part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade.
He is also member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Belarus.
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Jacqueline Foster
Jacqueline Foster (née Jacqueline Renshaw, 30 December 1947) is a British Conservative politician and company director, and Member of the European Parliament for the North West England region.
Foster was born in Liverpool and educated at Prescot Girls' Grammar School. In 1969 she joined British European Airways' cabin services; remaining with the merged British Airways after 1974. She was a member of the Transport and General Workers' Union and from 1976 to 1979 served as trade union representative for cabin crew. In 1975 she married Peter Foster, but they divorced in 1981.
That same year, Foster left British Airways to be Area Manager (Austria) for Horizon Tours, a holiday company. After four years she returned to British Airways, again as cabin crew. In 1989, she was one of the founder members of Cabin Crew '89, an independent trade union which broke away from the TGWU, and served on the union executive.
Foster combined her trade union activities with active membership of the Conservative Party; she was Vice Chairman of Twickenham Conservative Association. In the 1992 general election, she was the Conservative candidate in Newham South, a Labour-held seat in east London. Against the national trend, Foster cut the Labour majority. She was shortlisted as candidate for Eastleigh in the byelection of 1994 but lost out in selection. After failing to be reelected to the European Parliament in 2004, She set up her own firm of aviation consultants, Foster Jay Ltd., of which she became managing director. At the 2005 Conservative Party conference she declared her opposition to all-woman shortlists.
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Jaime Mayor Oreja
Jaime Mayor Oreja, (born 12 July 1951 in San Sebastián) is a Spanish politician who served as Interior Minister in the People's Party government of José María Aznar before resigning in February 2001 to stand for Basque President on 13 May 2001, a post he failed to win. He is known for his strongly anti-ETA views.
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James Elles
James Edmund Moncrieff Elles (born 3 September 1949, London) is a British politician, and Conservative Party Member of the European Parliament for the South East England.
The son of Diana Newcombe Elles, Baroness Elles and her husband, Neil Patrick Moncrieff Elles, he graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a BSc in agriculture. He served as the MEP for Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire from 1984 to 1989 and the MEP for Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire East from 1994 to 1999. He has represented the South East in the European Parliament since 1999. Elles has special responsibility for the Conservative Party for the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.
Elles graduated from Edinburgh University with a BSc (hons) in agriculture. He became a European MP after an eight-year career as a civil servant with the European Commission, initially as a Tokyo Round negotiator and latterly as Assistant to the Deputy Director General of Agriculture.
Now in his sixth term, Elles is the longest-serving member of the European Parliament’s budgets committee, having been a member for the past 25 years. He was rapporteur (the person appointed to steer a measure through Parliament) for both the 1996 and 2007 budgets.
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Jan Březina
Jan Březina (born on 14 April 1954 in Konice) is a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Christian Democratic Union - Czechoslovak People's Party, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development and a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Czech Republic)
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Jan Olbrycht
Jan Olbrycht (born on 21 September 1952 in Rybnik) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Silesian Voivodeship with the Platforma Obywatelska, part of the European People's Party and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development.
Olbrycht is a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism, substitute for the Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee.
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Jan Philipp Albrecht
Jan Philipp Albrecht (born December 20, 1982 in Braunschweig) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament from the Alliance '90/The Greens. He is specialized in the field of civil rights, data protection and democracy.
Albrecht studied law in Bremen, Brussels and Berlin and worked for the Walter-Hallstein Institut in Berlin. He graduated in ICT-law at the Universities of Hanover and Oslo.
Albrecht was Spokesman of the Green Youth in Germany from 2006 to 2008. In 2009 he was elected for the Greens to the European Parliament. He is the youngest MEP from Germany.
He is member of the LIBE committee and substitute member of the JURI committee in the European Parliament and works especially on home affairs, data protection and police & justice cooperation. Furthermore he is member of the Delegation of the EP to Israel
Albrecht has been active in the decision-making process of the so called SWIFT-agreement in the European Parliament, which meant to give US authorities access to European bank data transferred via SWIFT for their terrorist finance tracking program (TFTP). He is generally opposed to the lowering of judicial standards in the protection of fundamental rights for the purpose of security means or law enforcement. Albrecht criticises, therefore, the plans for internet blocking.
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Jan Zahradil
Jan Zahradil (born 30 March 1963) is a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Civic Democratic Party (ODS). He is the Chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament, a position that he's held since 8 March 2011.
A scientific researcher by profession, Zahradil entered politics during the Velvet Revolution. He was a member of the Federal Assembly of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, before becoming an adviser to Prime Minister Václav Klaus. In 1998, he was elected to the national Chamber of Deputies. Three years later, he became Vice-Chairman of the ODS. Following an unsuccessful attempt to become Chairman in 2002, he was appointed First Vice-Chairman.[citation needed]
He was appointed an MEP on the Czech Republic's accession to the EU, in May 2004, and was elected at the top of the ODS's list at the June 2004 election. He was elected head of the Civic Democrats' delegation in the European Parliament, in which capacity he led the negotiations that founded the European Conservatives and Reformists. He was re-elected in 2009, and became Vice-Chairman of the newly-founded ECR. In March 2011, Zahradil was elected Chairman, replacing Michał Kamiński. He also sits on the Parliament's Committee on Development.[citation needed]
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Janusz Lewandowski
Janusz Antoni Lewandowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjanuʂ lɛvanˈdɔfskʲi], born 13 June 1951 in Lublin) is a Polish politician and economist belonging to the Gdansk liberals group, and a member of the Europea n Parliament (elected on 13 June 2004), Chairman of the Committee on Budgets. On 27 November 2009 he obtained the post of Budget and Financial Programming Commissioner of the European Commission (pending approval by the European Parliament in January 2010) and is affiliated to the European People's Party (EPP).
Janusz Lewandowski graduated in economics from University of Gdańsk, received a doctorate and was a lecturer there until 1984. Later he worked for Polish Oceanic Lines (Polskie Linie Oceaniczne). He was also a lecturer at Harvard University and the founder of the Research Institute for Market Economy in Gdansk (Instytut Badań nad Gospodarką Rynkową w Gdańsku).
He is an author of a book on famous liberals and he also writes short articles for several newspapers and magazines, including Rzeczpospolita, Gazeta Wyborcza, Parkiet, Polityka, Wprost and Newsweek.
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Janusz Wojciechowski
Janusz Wojciechowski (born on 6 December 1954 in Rawa Mazowiecka) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament, elected from the Lodz Voivodship representing the Polish People's Party (PSL) (2004-2006), the Polish People's Party "Piast" (PSL "Piast") (2006 - 2010) and, presently, Law and Justice (since 2010).
Wojciechowski was a Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party (EPP) from 2004-2006 and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. Wojciechowski was dismissed from his PSL party following his decision to leave the EPP for the Union for Europe of the Nations EU parliamentary grouping. Wojciechowski is a substitute for the Committee on Budgetary Control and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia.
He ran on the Law and Justice list in the 2009 election, despite not being a party member. In November 2010, he joined Law and Justice.
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Janusz Zemke
Janusz Zemke (pronounced [ˈjanuʂ ˈzɛmkɛ]; born February 24, 1949 in Kowalewo Pomorskie) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 33672 votes in 4 Bydgoszcz district, candidating from Democratic Left Alliance list.
He was also a member of PRL Sejm 1989-1991, Sejm 1991-1993, Sejm 1993-1997, Sejm 1997-2001, and Sejm 2001-2005.
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Jaromír Kohlíček
Jaromír Kohlíček (born February 23, 1953 in Teplice) is a Czech inventor, economist, politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia; part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left party group in the European Parliament. After studies at University of Chemical Technologies he candidated unsuccessful to Senate. He was also member of Lower Chamber of Czech Republic Parliament (from 1998 to 2004, when he was elected to European Parliament).
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Jarosław Kalinowski
Jarosław Kalinowski (Polish pronunciation: [jaˈrɔswaf kalʲiˈnɔfskʲi], born April 12, 1962), is a Polish politician, from the agrarian Polish People's Party (PSL).
Kalinowski was born in Wyszków. He was first elected to the Sejm in 1993, and was reelected in the subsequent elections of 1997, 2001, 2005 and 2007. At the 2005 legislative elections of September 25, he gained 15,855 votes in the 18th electoral (Siedlce) district. He was reelected to the Sejm once again at the legislative elections of October 21, 2007.
Kalinowski was deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture from April to October, 1997, in the cabinet of Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz. He was returned to both these positions again from October 2001 to March, 2003, in the cabinet of Leszek Miller. Kalinowski succeeded Waldemar Pawlak as the leader of the PSL party in November, 1997 and he held this position to March 2004. He contested the Polish presidential election as the PSL candidate in 2000 (5.95% of votes), and again in the following presidential elections of 2005 (1.8% of votes). Following the 2005 Polish legislative elections, he was elected to the position of Vice-Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (deputy Speaker of the lower house) in November. He was reelected to this position following the legislative elections of 2007.
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Jarosław Wałęsa
Jarosław Wałęsa ([jaˈrɔswaf vaˈwɛ̃sa], born September 13, 1976 in Gdańsk) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 14709 votes in 25 Gdańsk district, candidating from Platforma Obywatelska list. He is the son of Lech Wałęsa.
Wałęsa is a 1995 graduate of Glastonbury High School, Connecticut, where he spent his high school years as a foreign exchange student. He then attended the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
On September 2, 2011, Jarosław was seriously injured riding his motorcycle after colliding with a SUV in Stropkowo near Sierpc.
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Jean Lambert
Jean Denise Lambert (born Jean Denise Archer on 1 June 1950, Orsett, Essex) is an English politician, and Member of the European Parliament for the London Region. A member of the Green Party of England and Wales, she has been an MEP since 1999. One of two Green MEPs from the UK, the other is Keith Taylor, Lambert is a Vice-President of the Greens/European Free Alliance Group of MEPs.
She attended Palmer's Grammar School for Girls in Grays, Essex.
Lambert gained a BA in Modern Languages in 1971 from University College, Cardiff, before taking a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) from St Pauls' College (Francis Close Hall), Cheltenham (now the University of Gloucestershire) and gaining an ADB (Ed.) in 1975. She then worked as a secondary school teacher in Chingford, East London, first from 1972-8, then from 1985-9 and finally between 1993 and 1999. She also holds a Professional Development Certificate (BTEC), which she achieved in 1998.
After joing the Ecology Party in 1977 (later becoming the Green Party of England and Wales), Lambert has held numerous positions, including Co-Chair of the Party Council (1982–1985), Principal Speaker (1992-3 and 1998-9), Chair of the Party Executive (1993-4), Representative to the Federation of European Green Parties (1987-9 and 1998-9) and Political Liaison to the Green Group in the European Parliament (1989–1992). She is currently the party's Employment, Social Affairs and Pensions Spokesperson.
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Jelko Kacin
Jelko Kacin (born 26 November 1955 in Celje, Lower Styria, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Slovenian politician and Member of the European Parliament. During the Slovenian Independence War he was the Secretary of Information of Slovenia. He founded the Slovenian Press Agency on 3 June 1991 and the war (also called the Ten-Day War) started on 27 June 1991. He is the former president of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia and member of the bureau of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.
He is also a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism, vice-chair of the delegation to the EU–Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, a substitute for the delegation to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia–EU Joint Parliamentary Committee, and for the delegations for relations with Iran, the Korean Peninsula, and the countries of south-east Europe.
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Jens Rohde
Jens Rohde (born 18 April 1970) is a Danish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Venstre party. He was previously a member of the Danish parliament for Venstre.
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Jerzy Buzek
Jerzy Karol Buzek [ˈjɛʐɨ ˈbuzɛk] ( listen) (born 3 July 1940) is a Polish engineer, academic lecturer and politician who was the ninth post-Cold War Prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001. He has been a member of the European Parliament since 13 June 2004, and he was elected as President of the European Parliament on 14 July 2009, succeeding Hans-Gert Pöttering. He is married to Ludgarda Buzek and is the father of Polish actress Agata Buzek.
Jerzy Karol Buzek was born to a Lutheran family on 3 July 1940 in what is now Smilovice in the Czech Republic. He was born into the prominent Buzek family, which participated in Polish politics in the Second Polish Republic during the interbellum. The family was part of the Polish community in Zaolzie. Buzek's father was an engineer. After the Second World War, his family moved to Chorzów. He is a Protestant.
In 1963 Jerzy Buzek graduated from the Mechanics-and-Energy Division of the Silesian University of Technology, specialising in chemical engineering. He became a scientist in the Chemical Engineering Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 1997 he has been a professor of technical science. He is also an honorary doctor of the universities in Seoul and Dortmund.
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Jiří Maštálka
Jiří Maštálka Czech pronunciation (help·info) (born on 3 January 1956 in Sušice) is a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia; part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left party group in the European Parliament.
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Joachim Zeller
Joachim Zeller (born 1 July 1952) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union and since 2009 a member of the European Parliament.
Born in Opole, Upper Silesia, Zeller attended the Humboldt University of Berlin. From 1977 to 1992, he was employed at the university library as a research associate. From 1996 to 2006, he served as mayor of the Berlin borough of Mitte.
In April 2012, Zeller was one of 28 EP politicians who voted against a move to restrict the export of spy gear and censorship tools to autocratic regimes.
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Joanna Senyszyn
Joanna Senyszyn(Polish pronunciation: [jɔˈanna sɛˈnɨʂɨn]; born February 1, 1949 in Gdynia) is a Polish left-wing politician, vice-president of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) and member of the European Parliament.
In the 1970s, Senyszyn was a member of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR), the governing party in the communist People's Republic of Poland. In 1980 she joined Solidarność, of which she continued to be a member until 1995. Later, she joined SLD and was a successful candidate in the 2001 parliamentary election from the Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union (SLD-UP) list, becoming a member of the Sejm. She was also a candidate in the European Parliament election in 2004, but did not win a seat. In 2005, she secured herself another Sejm term in the election (getting 11925 votes in district 26 Gdynia) and became a vice-president of her party. Since 2009 she's a member of the European Parliament.
Joanna Senyszyn is often featured in the media, in no small way thanks to her brash manners, expressive image and distinctive, high-pitched voice. Her public appearances, both in the Sejm and on other occasions, are often marked by the use of provocative language and satire. She is credited with coining the term kaczyzm to describe her political opponents of the Prawo i Sprawiedliwość government. She also raised some controversy (and gained media attention) when she paraphrased the words of the late Pope John Paul II during the so called Parada Równości, a demonstration promoting LGBT rights in Poland coupled with a gay pride parade.
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Joanna Skrzydlewska
Joanna Skrzydlewska (born 17 February 1977 in Łódź) is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2005 getting 11822 votes in 9 Łódź district, candidating from Platforma Obywatelska list.
She is a member of the Skrzydlewski family that own the Lodz's largest florist and funeral home chains. Her Father, Witolda Skrzydlewski, was the subject of a documentary called Skin Hunters, where he was one of two funeral home operators accused of paying for information from paramedics so as to profit from patients death. The other funeral home owner has been convicted and an investigation is ongoing regarding her fathers involvement, if any.
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Joe Higgins
Joe Higgins (born 20 May 1949) is an Irish Socialist Party politician. In the 2011 general election he was elected to Dáil Éireann as Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin West constituency, having previously served in that capacity from 1997–2007. He was also a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency from 2009 to 2011, the first Socialist Party MEP.
One of nine children of a small farming family, he was born in 1949 in Lispole, part of the Dingle gaeltacht in County Kerry. He went to school in the Dingle Christian Brothers School, and after finishing he enrolled in the priesthood. As part of his training he was sent to a Catholic seminary school in Minnesota, U.S. in the 1960s.
It was against the backdrop of anti-Vietnam War protests and the civil rights movement that Higgins was politicised.
He is a brother of Liam Higgins who played football with the Kerry GAA senior team in the 1960s and 1970s.
Higgins is bilingual in English and Irish,
Higgins returned to Ireland and attended University College Dublin studying English and French. For several years he was a teacher in several Dublin inner city schools. While at university he joined the Labour Party and became active in the Militant Tendency, an entryist Trotskyist group that operated within the Labour Party. Throughout his time in the Labour Party he was a strong opponent of coalition politics along with TDs Emmet Stagg and Michael D Higgins. He was elected to the Administrative Council of the Labour Party by the membership in the 1980s. In 1989 Higgins was expelled alongside 13 other members of Militant Tendency. The group eventually left the party and formed Militant Labour which became the Socialist Party in 1996.
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John Attard Montalto
John Attard Montalto (born 7 February 1953) is a Maltese politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2004. He is a member of the Labour Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists. He served in the government of Malta as Minister for Industry and Economic Affairs from 1996 to 1998.
Born in Sliema, Attard Montalto studied history and law at the University of Malta and he was also student representative on the University Senate. He first contested the general elections in 1987 and was elected. He was re-elected in subsequent elections in 1992, 1996, 1998 and 2003. Between 1996 and 1998, when the Labour Party was in government, he served as Minister for Industry and Economic Affairs.
After the defeat of Labour Party at the polls in 2003 and the resignation of the Party Leader Alfred Sant, Attard Montalto announced his intention to run for the post. The race turned out to be between three contestants, including Sant who was persuaded to run and who, eventually, won the election. Attard Montalto finished last.
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John Bufton
John Bufton (born 31 August 1962 in Llanidloes), is a UKIP Member of the European Parliament for Wales.
He was educated at Elan Village Primary School and Llandrindod Wells High School, and joined the family haulage business before embarking on a career managing a residential care home for the elderly with the local authority.
John Bufton's political career began when he was elected onto Rhayader Town Council in 1987. In 1996, he was elected to Powys County Council. In the 1997 General Election, he ran for the Referendum Party in the Montgomeryshire constituency.
In 2000, he ran as UKIP candidate in the Ceredigion by-election, coming fifth with 1.9% of the vote. He also ran for UKIP in the 2005 General Election, 2007 Welsh Assembly Elections and 2008 Powys County Council election.
In 2009, Bufton became UKIP's first MEP for Wales, picking up the fourth available seat from Labour, and pushing the Liberal Democrats into 5th place. Bufton was appointed to serve on the Committee on Regional Development, at the European Parliament.
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Jolanta Hibner
Jolanta Hibner (born January 26, 1951 in Ząbki) is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 3512 votes in 19 Warsaw district, candidating from Platforma Obywatelska list. She was reelected on 21 October 2007.
On 7 June 2009 Jolanta Hibner was elected Member of European Parliament from Masovian Voivodeship constituency.
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Jorgo Chatzimarkakis
Georgios ("Jorgo") Chatzimarkakis (born on 21 April 1966 in Duisburg) is a German politician of Greek descent, Member of the European Parliament with the Free Democratic Party of Germany (part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe).
Chatzimarkakis was born and grew up in Duisburg. In 1993 he graduated as M.A. in political science at the philosophical faculty of the University of Bonn. He supplemented his studies with a visiting research fellowship at the University of Oxford under the auspices of Ralf Dahrendorf in 1995. From 1993 to 1996 Chatzimarkakis worked as a science policy officer at the Bundestag.
From 1996 to 1998, he was member of the planning department of the Foreign Office of Germany. Chatzimarkakis held a lectureship at the University of Duisburg from 1997 to 2001, during which time he also worked on his doctoral thesis on Informational Globalism - A cooperation model of global governance using the example of electronic commerce (Informationeller Globalismus - Kooperationsmodell globaler Ordnungspolitik am Beispiel des Elektronischen Geschäftsverkehrs ). In 2011 the University of Bonn revoked his doctoral title. The committee charged him guilty of plagiarism in his thesis.
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Joseph Cuschieri
Joseph Cuschieri (born February 20, 1968) is a Maltese politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2009. Previously he served in the House of Representatives of Malta from 1998 to 2008. He was born in a working class family and joined the Labour Party at a very early age.
Cuschieri was born in Attard. Before becoming a politician, he worked in the textile industry, at the dockyards, as a journalist and broadcaster, and in the tourism industry. He was a founder of Super One Radio (now One Radio),[citation needed] where he worked as a journalist.
Cuschieri became active in the Labour Party at 13[citation needed] when he joined the Socialist Youth League in Sliema.
In 1994 he was nominated first Deputy Mayor of St. Julian's, after polling the largest number of votes among independent candidates. In the second local council elections in 1996 he was re-elected with the largest numbers of votes among all candidates.
Cuschieri was elected as an MP for three consecutive terms commencing 1998. He garnered a greater share of the vote in 2003 and then in 2008.
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Joseph Daul
Joseph Daul (born 13 April 1947 in Strasbourg) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the East of France. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), a member-party of the European People's Party (EPP). On 9 January 2007 he was elected Chairman of the EPP Group (at the time EPP-ED Group) in the European Parliament, replacing Hans-Gert Pöttering, who was elected as the new President of the European Parliament. Daul, in his capacity as EPP Group Chairman, is an ex officio Vice President of the European People's Party.
Daul had previously come to prominence of the European Parliament's powerful Committee on Agriculture, a position he was elected to on 23 July 2004, and right before as the Chair of the Committee Chair's Conference. He has been Mayor of Pfettisheim (Bas-Rhin) since 1989, and is an Officer of the Agricultural Order of Merit, Knight of the National Order of Merit and Knight of the Légion d'honneur.
In addition to French he speaks standard German and Alsatian, the German dialect spoken in his native region.
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José Bové
Joseph (José) Bové (born June 11, 1953 in Talence, Gironde) is a French farmer and syndicalist, member of the alter-globalization movement, and spokesman for Via Campesina. He was one of the twelve official candidates in the 2007 French presidential election. On 7 June 2009, he was elected to the European Parliament as a member of Europe Écologie, a coalition of French environmentalist political parties.
Bové was born in Talence, near Bordeaux, but raised in many different places, both inside and outside France, including the United States. Bové speaks English fluently, having followed his parents to Berkeley, California at the age of three, when they were invited to be researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
Bové attended a Jesuit secondary school near Paris (from which he was expelled for being "faithless"). While at university, he associated with anarchists and pacifists. When asked to serve in the army, he fled France.
In 1976 Bové joined a movement protesting the proposed expansion of a military camp on the Larzac plateau, which would have displaced sheep farmers. He joined a band of peasants occupying the threatened territory and illegally building a sheep barn. The protest eventually succeeded and the military plan was cancelled. As a result of that experience he became a sheep farmer, producing Roquefort cheese on the Larzac.
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Judith Merkies
Judith Merkies (born 1966) is a Dutch politician for the Labour Party (Partij van de Arbeid - PvdA).
Judith Merkies graduated with a law degree from the University of Amsterdam and pursued a career as a lawyer before taking on post-graduate studies in European and International Law at the Free University Brussels. Merkies has worked for the institutions of the European Union as well as for various industries. Prior to becoming a Member of the European Parliament Merkies worked as a Project Manager for the Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) of the European Commission. From 2005 to 2006 she worked as an executive manager at the European Music Office, an international non-profit association bringing together professional organizations, associations and federations from the music sector within the European Union. From 2000 to 2004 she worked as a representative of professionals and companies in the Dutch film industry.
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Judith Sargentini
Judith Sargentini (born March 13, 1974 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch GreenLeft politician. She is currently a Member of the European Parliament where she leads the GreenLeft delegation. Previously she was chair of the GreenLeft in the Amsterdam city council.
Sargentini comes from a "politically very aware" family. In 1981, when she was seven, she took part in demonstrations against the placement of nuclear weapons in the Netherlands. Between 1986 and 1992 she attended high school at the Spinozalyceum in Amsterdam. After graduating she studied history at the University of Amsterdam. Since 1990 Sargentini was politically active, first in the PSJG, the political youth organization of the left-socialist Pacifist Socialist Party and later in DWARS, the political youth organization of the GreenLeft, a new political party in which the PSP had merged. During her study she was also active in the international student movement. She was secretary of the Dutch National Students' Union (between 1995–1996) and board member of the European Students' Union (in 1998).
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Julie Girling
Julie Girling MEP is a British Conservative politician, currently serving as a Member of European Parliament for the South West of England.
Girling is a former Leader of Cotswold District Council, and Cabinet Member for the Environment on Gloucestershire County Council, resigning from both in the run-up to the 2009 elections.
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Juozas Imbrasas
Juozas Imbrasas (b. 1941 January 8 in Algirdai, Ukmergė district municipality) is the former mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania. He is a member of the political party Order and Justice.
In 2007, Imbrasas as a mayor of the city banned a gay rights rally on the basis of "safety concerns" due to building works. No alternative site for the rally was proposed leading to accusations of discrimination.
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Jutta Haug
Jutta Dorothea Haug (born on 8 October 1951 in Castrop-Rauxel) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets.
She is a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, substitute for the Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Germany)
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János Áder
János Áder (Hungarian pronunciation: [jaːnoʃ aːdɛr]; born 9 May 1959) , a Hungarian lawyer and politician, has been President of Hungary since May 10, 2012.
Áder grew up in the small town of Csorna in Győr-Moson-Sopron county. Beginning in 1978, he studied law for five years at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. From 1986 to 1990, he was a research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Sociological Research Institute.
Áder, who has a law degree, was a co-founder of Fidesz (Alliance of Young Democrats), at the time a liberal coalition of democrats (although it has shifted to center-right as of 2012). He served as a party legal expert. Áder was a member of the Opposition Round Table which, in 1989, negotiated an end to single-party rule in Hungary.
In the 1990 and 1994 elections he was head of the Fidesz campaign. He was a member of the Hungarian Parliament (Országgyűlés) from 1990 to 2009, and was the Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary from 18 June 1998 to 15 May 2002. He was the leader of the Fidesz caucus opposition from 2002 to 2006. In 2011, he helped draft legislation which changed the role of the Hungarian judiciary, leading the European Commission to bring the matter of Hungarian judicial independence before the European Court of Justice. He also helped draft the legislation which revised Hungarian electoral laws.
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József Szájer
József Szájer, (born on 7 September 1961 in Sopron) is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union party, a Vice-Chairman of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
Szájer is a substitute for the Committee on Legal Affairs, a member of the Delegation for relations with Japan and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with Mercosur.
He is a signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Hungary)
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Jörg Leichtfried
Jörg Leichtfried (born on 18 June 1967 in Bruck an der Mur, Styria) is an Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament with the SPÖ, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism.
He is a substitute for the Committee on International Trade, a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Austria)
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Jürgen Creutzmann
Jürgen Creutzmann (born 4 October 1945 in Speyer, Germany) is a German politician and member of the liberal Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP). He is a member of the European Parliament since 2009.
Creutzmann was born in Speyer and finished secondary school in Heidelberg in 1966. Subsequently, he studied Business Administration at the University of Mannheim. After working for an audit firm, he began his career at the chemical company BASF in 1973 where he was employed until 2006. Between 1973 and 1988, he was responsible for the consolidated financial statement of the BASF SE Group. As Director Subsidiaries Accounting Services, he was responsible for the accountancy of 50 subsidiaries and holdings of BASF from 1988 until 2006.
Creutzmann is married with two children.
In 1965, Creutzmann became member of the Jungdemokraten, then the FDP’s youth organisation, and was elected member of the executive board of their regional group in Rhineland-Palatinate. He joined the FDP in the subsequent year and was leader of the FDP in Speyer between 1971 and 1973. Creutzmann became member of the executive board of the FDP Rhineland-Palatinate in 1983 and has been its treasurer since then. In 1998, Creutzmann became member of the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate. At first, Creutzmann was speaker of the FDP’s parliamentary group in the Landtag and its vice chairman between 1999 and 2001. From 2006 until 2009, he was speaker for European politics. Between 2001 and 2006, he was vice president of the Landtag and subsequently leader of its committee for European affairs.
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Kader Arif
Kader Arif (Arabic: قادر عريف; born 3 July 1959 in Algiers) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France. A member of the French Socialist Party, which is affiliated to the Party of European Socialists, he sits on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade.
He is also a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and a member of the delegations to the EU–Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, and the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly. Recently, he signed the Manifesto of the Spinelli Group for a federal Europe.
In January 2012 he resigned as the European Parliament’s rapporteur of the ACTA agreement in protest to the ACTA agreement.
On 16 May 2012 he was appointed Junior Minister for Veterans at the French Ministry of Defence by President François Hollande.
He played as hooker for the French rugby union club Castres Olympique.
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Karima Delli
Karima Delli (born 4 March 1979 in Roubaix, Nord) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the Île-de-France constituency.
Born to Algerian parents, she grew up in poor conditions in Tourcoing as the ninth child in the family of 13. She obtained a Master of Advanced Studies in political science at the Lille IEP. During this period, she met Green Senator Marie-Christine Blandin, later becoming Blandin's parliamentary assistant.
Delli is a member of Europe Écologie–The Greens. In the 2009 European elections, she was the fourth candidate on the Europe Écologie list in the East region, and was elected to the European Parliament. She is the second-youngest French MEP after Damien Abad.
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Kartika Liotard
Kartika Tamara Liotard (born June 26, 1971 in Voorburg, South Holland) is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament (since 2004). She used to be a member of the Socialist Party, is vice-chair of the EUL–NGL group, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
She is also a substitute for the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, a member of the delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya), and a substitute for the delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Before her election she worked as a legal advisor in the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture.
In May 2009 she co-authored a book on the European Union and water privatisation, on the EU's policies towards privatisation of water services both within the Union and (though its aid and trade policies) around the world.
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Kathleen Van Brempt
Kathleen Van Brempt (18 November 1969), born in Wilrijk, is a Belgian social-democratic politician and member of the SP-A. She currently serves as Member of the European Parliament as part of the Party of European Socialists .
Van Brempt studied at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven where she became licentiate in sociology in 1991.
After having worked for the SP-A in capacity of a researcher and as political secretary to Louis Tobback, in 1999 Van Brempt was appointed deputy chief of staff to the minister of employment Renaat Landuyt.
She served as a member of the European Parliament from 6 January 2000 to 1 October 2003, when she resigned to become State Secretary for Labor organization and Welfare in the working place in the Belgian federal government. During the regional elections of 2004, Van Brempt was elected to the Flemish Parliament and she became Minister for Mobility, Social Economy and Equal Opportunities in the Flemish government.
After the European Elections of 2009 Van Brempt became elected as member of the European Parliament in the socialist fraction.
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Kay Swinburne
Jacqueline Kay Swinburne (born 8 June 1967) is a Welsh politician. She is a Conservative Member of the European Parliament for Wales.
Born and raised in west Wales, Swinburne was educated at Llandysul Grammar School and went on to earn a degree in Biochemistry and Microbiology from King's College London, followed by a Ph.D. in medical research and an MBA from the University of Surrey, before starting a successful career in international healthcare and finance. Swinburne first came to national attention in 1999 when she resigned from Deutsche Bank after being a victim of sexual discrimination.
Swinburne is a former Conservative Councillor in Hereford, serving as Chair Health Scrutiny, former Town Mayor for Ledbury, former Deputy Chair NHCA. On 28 March 2008 it was announced that she was to head the Welsh Conservatives' list of candidates for the 2009 European Parliament election, effectively guaranteeing her a seat in the European Parliament. Her election in June 2009 was notable for being the first time the Conservatives topped an election in Wales since 1918.
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Kinga Gál
Kinga Gál (born on 6 September 1970 in Cluj-Napoca) is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Hungarian Civic Party, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
Gál is a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs, vice-chair of the Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee, and a member of the Reconciliation of European Histories Group.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Hungary)
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Kinga Göncz
Kinga Göncz (born November 8, 1947 in Budapest, Hungary) is a former foreign minister of Hungary. She is the daughter of Árpád Göncz, former President of Hungary. Fluent in English and German, Göncz is married, the mother of two adult children, and the grandmother of two boys. In 2009 she headed the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) European election list and was subsequently elected as one of 22 Hungarian Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).
Göncz finished the Faculty of Medicine at the Semmelweis University of Medicine in Budapest in 1972. In 1978, she specialized in Psychiatry, in the second half of the 1980s, specialized in Psychotherapy. In 2004 obtained the Diploma in Psychotherapy of the European Association for Psychotherapy. She worked as a psychiatrist between 1972 and 1978. Following this, she was a senior assistant at the National Medical Rehabilitation Institute, and took part in the development of the first social policy educational programs.
Since 1989 she worked as an associate professor at the Social Policy and Social Work Department of the Institute for Sociology of ELTE University, Budapest, teaching among others communication skills development, mediation and organization development. From 1994 to 2002 she worked as the Director of Partners Hungary. The organization is a member of an American-founded international network, with the goal of the education of the culture of creative conflict management, techniques of democracy, negotiation techniques and change management. Within this, Göncz worked on the establishment of centers for the prevention and management of social conflicts in Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and in the former Yugoslavia.
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Konrad Szymański
Konrad Szymański (born on 6 December 1969 in Kalisz) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the DS & OP with the Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc, part of the European Conservatives and Reformists (formerly part of Union for a Europe of Nations) and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
Szymański is a substitute for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and a member of the Delegation for relations with Belarus.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)
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Kristian Vigenin
Kristian Vigenin (Bulgarian: Кристиан Вигенин; born 12 June 1975 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Coalition for Bulgaria, part of the Party of European Socialists, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union.
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Kristiina Ojuland
Kristiina Ojuland (born 17 December 1966 in Kohtla-Järve, Estonia) was the foreign minister of Estonia from 2002 through 2005. In June 2004 she ran for the post of secretary-general of the Council of Europe, but was defeated, receiving 51 of 299 votes. She is a member of the Estonian Reform Party and since 2009 she serves as 1 of the 6 Estonian MEPs in the European parliament.
She is a member of the Reconciliation of European Histories Group.
1993: Vienna School of International Studies, special program
1992: Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, special program.
1992: Graduated from the Estonian School of Diplomacy in Tallinn.
1990: LL.B, Law Faculty, University of Tartu
2009–: Member of European Parliament (ALDE)
2007–: Vice President of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR), member of the ELDR Bureau
2007–: Vice-chair of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, ALDE-PACE Group
2007–2009: First vice-speaker of Riigikogu
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Krisztina Morvai
Krisztina Morvai (born 22 June 1963) is a Hungarian lawyer. She was elected on the list of the political party Jobbik - Movement for a Better Hungary in the 2009 European Parliament elections. Although Morvai is not a member of Jobbik, the party already declared her as its future nominee for the position of the president of Hungary. She's the sixth most popular politician in Hungary.
Morvai was born in Budapest in 1963 to parents Klári Fekete and Miklós Morvai. After graduating from ELTE Apáczai Csere János High School, she went to Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, getting a law degree cum laude. After graduation she gained qualifications to practice as a judge in Hungary, but instead of working in that capacity she went on to teach at the university, currently as an associate professor. In 1989 she was the first recipient of a British Government scholarship for students in central Europe and was presented with her award by UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher personally. She used the scholarship to study advanced law at King's College London gaining a Master of Laws degree. In 1993-1994 she taught law in the United States at the University of Wisconsin–Madison as a Fulbright scholar. She primarily researches the area of penal law, dealing with the retrospective administration of justice, the question of abortion, victim's rights in criminal procedure, the dignity and rights of the HIV positive, child abuse and sexual exploitation, the problem of prostitution, discrimination and domestic violence. She is author of the book Terror a családban (Terror in the family) a book on domestic violence.
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Kriton Arsenis
Kriton Arsenis (Greek: Κρίτων Αρσένης, born 3 August 1977) is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) since July 2009.
He was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. He studied planning and regional development at the University of Thessaly in Greece (1996–2001) and continued on with postgraduate studies in International Development (MPA/ID) at the Kennedy School of Harvard University (2001–2003). From 2005 to 2009, he worked for the Greek NGO ELLINIKI ETAIREIA-Hellenic Society for the Protection of the Environment and the Cultural Heritage, where he was responsible for setting up the "Sustainable Aegean Programme", a public awareness campaign for the sustainable development of the Aegean Islands. From January 2008 to May 2009 he served as a member of the Greek National Planning Council where he represent 10 Greek environmental NGOs.
In June 2009, Kriton Arsenis became a Member of the European Parliament in the PASD. He was recruited to the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), by George A. Papandreou, the current prime minister of Greece, after receiving the European Grand Prize for the “Sustainable Aegean” campaign. He is a Member of the European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the Committee on Fisheries. He is also a substitute Member of the Committee on Development. He is active in issues related to biodiversity and the fight against climate change. He was also instrumental in the recent EU regulation on illegal timber. Likewise, he has been in the front line in the battle to save the bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) in the Mediterranean.
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Krzysztof Lisek
Krzysztof Lisek (born May 28, 1967 in Gdańsk) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005 getting 10,731 votes in 34 – Elbląg for Civic Platform.
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Kurt Lechner
Kurt Lechner (born 26 October 1942, Kaiserslautern) is a German politician and former Member of the European Parliament for Rhineland-Palatinate.
He is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party. He resigned his seat in March 2012 due to age. He was replaced by Birgit Collin-Langen.
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Lajos Bokros
Lajos András Bokros (born 26 June 1954) is a Hungarian economist and Member of the European Parliament for Hungary.
Bokros was born in Budapest. He graduated from and holds a Ph.D. from the Budapest University of Economics. He was director of the State Property Agency of Hungary between 1990–1991. He was chairman and chief executive officer at the Budapest Bank between 1991–1995. He is a full professor (Department of Public Policy) and former chief operating officer of the Central European University.
Bokros was the Minister of Finance between 1995–1996 in the government of Gyula Horn. He is best known for the so-called "Bokros package"; a string of austerity measures implemented during his term as Finance Minister.
Supported by the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF), Bokros was elected to the European Parliament in the 2009 election and sits in the European Conservatives and Reformists Group. He is a full member of the Committee on Budgets and a substitute member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
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Laurence Stassen
Laurence Stassen (born 8 February 1971, Sittard) is a Dutch politician on behalf of the Party for Freedom (PVV) and a former freelance television presenter of the regional broadcasting TV Limburg. There she presented the program sponsored Limburg leeft (translated: Limburg lives) about residency and life in Limburg.
For the European Parliament elections in 2009 Stassen was ranked as the fourth candidate for the PVV. In itself an electable position - the PVV won four seats - but the lower-ranking party leader Geert Wilders was elected by preference votes. Wilders however, had already declared to remain in the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, so Stassen could take office as a Member of the European Parliament on July 14, 2009.
On December 10, 2010 it was announced that the 2011 provincial elections Stassen would run for PVV party leader in the province of Limburg. She was elected and retained her membership of the European Parliament.
Laurence Stassen is married with two children. She is living in Echt. She is committed to children with cancer and she is active in at least two foundations.
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Lena Ek
Lena Ek (born 16 January 1958 in Mönsterås, Kalmar County) is a Swedish politician, current Minister for the Environment and a former Member of the European Parliament and Member of the Riksdag. She is a member of the Centre Party, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
She sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. She was also a substitute for the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and a member of the delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
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Leonardo Domenici
Leonardo Domenici (born July 12, 1955) is an Italian politician. He was the Mayor of Florence from June 13, 1999 until June 2009.
He represents the Italian Democratic Party and is a member of the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) parliamentary group.
Domenici was born in Florence, from where he graduated in moral philosophy. He began his political career in 1976 in the PCI (Italian Communist Party), later becoming the Secretary of the Florentine branch of the Federation of the Democratic Party of the Left.
Domenici was elected in 1994 for the first time a member of the Italian Parliament for the Chianti-Valdarno constituency and re-elected as a candidate of the Ulivo coalition in 1996.
Then he was the Mayor of Florence from June 13, 1999 until June 2009. Since 2009 he is a Member of the European Parliament.
In February 2008, Domenici and one of the city assessors of Florence announced intentions to launch a suit against the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
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Leonidas Donskis
Leonidas Donskis, Ph.D., (born on August 13, 1962) is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), a philosopher, political theorist, historian of ideas, social analyst, and political commentator.
As a public figure in Lithuania, he acted as a defender of human rights and civil liberties. In 2004, Donskis has been awarded by the European Commission the title of the Ambassador for Tolerance and Diversity in Lithuania. A center-right politician, he has always been opposed to all extreme or exclusionary attitudes and forms of violent politics, and, instead, has been leaning to liberalism with its advocacy of individual reason and conscience, ability to coexist with democratic programs of other non-exclusive ideologies, and moderation.
Leonidas Donskis was born in Klaipėda, Lithuania. He graduated from Lithuanian State Conservatoire (now Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater), majoring in philology and theater, and then pursued his graduate studies in philosophy at the University of Vilnius, Lithuania. Having received his first doctorate in philosophy from the University of Vilnius, he later earned his second doctorate in social and moral philosophy from the University of Helsinki, Finland.
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Liam Aylward
Liam Aylward (born 27 September 1952) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East constituency. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for Carlow–Kilkenny from 1977–2007.
Liam Aylward was born in Mullinavat, County Kilkenny in 1952. He was educated at St Kierans College, Kilkenny. He worked as a laboratory technician before getting involved in politics. He was elected to Kilkenny County Council in 1974, serving on that authority until 1992.
Aylward was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1977 general election for Carlow–Kilkenny in what proved to be a landslide for Fianna Fáil. Since then he has served as Minister of State at the Department of Energy (1988–1989), at the Department of Education (1992–1994) and at the Department of Agriculture & Food (2002–2004). In 2004 he was elected to the European Parliament for Fianna Fáil, which was then part of the Union for a Europe of Nations.
Since the 2009 European Parliament elections, Fianna Fáil is now affiliated with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). Aylward is a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, the delegation for relations with Mercosur and the delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly. Aylward is also a substitute member of the Committee on Culture and Education and the delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
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Libor Rouček
Libor Rouček (born on 4 September 1954 in Kladno) is a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Czech Social Democratic Party, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Budgets and a member of the Delegation for relations with Iran.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Czech Republic)
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Licia Ronzulli
Licia Ronzulli (born: Milan, Italy 14 September 1975) is an Italian MEP representing The People of Freedom party.
She won a seat in the 2009 European Parliament election. She is Vice Chair of the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and a member of the Employment and Social Affairs committee.
She is known for taking her daughter, Victoria, to the European Parliament plenary sessions in Strasbourg. Prior to becoming an MEP, she was a hspital director and nurse in Milan and Bangladesh.
Licia Ronzulli began her career working in a hospital and she graduated in psychology. In 2003, she became the chief of her department as coordinator at the hospital IRCCS Galeazzi of Milan, in Italy.
During the Italian general election of 2008, she was nominated for The People Of Freedom party in the district of Marche.
When she was a candidate in the 2009 European elections, Licia Ronzulli was elected in the northwest of Italy with 40,016 votes. She joined the European People Party and became a member of the commission for Employment and Social Affairs and member of the Delegation for Relations with South Asia, as well as a substitute member of the Commission of Women Rights and Gender Equality and the Subcommittee on Human Rights. On September 16, 2009, she was elected Vice-Chairman of the Parliamentary Joint Africa-Caribbean-Pacific-UE Assembly, which has the express purpose of promoting human rights and democracy.
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Liisa Jaakonsaari
Liisa Anneli Jaakonsaari (born September 2, 1945 in Oulu) is a Finnish Social Democratic politician. She was a city councillor in Oulu from 1972 until 1995. She was also a member of the Finnish parliament from 1979 until 2009, when she was elected into the European Parliament.
Jaakonsaari was the Minister of Labour in Paavo Lipponen's first cabinet (1995–1999).
Unlike her party, Jaakonsaari advocates NATO membership.
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Linda McAvan
Linda McAvan (born 2 December 1962) is a British Labour Party politician, who is a Member of the European Parliament for the Labour Party for Yorkshire and the Humber. She has been a Member of the European Parliament since 1998, and was first elected in a by-election following the resignation of Norman West.
Before being elected she worked for Barnsley Borough Council and was the European Officer for the Coalfields Community Campaign.
Since June 2007 she has served as Vice President of the European Parliament's Socialist Group, is a member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and currently sits on the Temporary Committee on Climate Change.
Labour Party members elected Linda McAvan to be the top-ranked Labour candidate [1] for Yorkshire and the Humber in the 2009 European elections.
McAvan is married to Paul Blomfield, the Labour MP for Sheffield Central.
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Liz Lynne
Elizabeth Lynne, known as Liz Lynne, (born 22 January 1948) is a British politician, and was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the West Midlands for the Liberal Democrats from the 1999 European election until she retired in 2012. Previously she had been elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochdale at the 1992 general election but was defeated at the 1997 general election.
Lynne was born in Woking and educated at Dorking County Grammar School. Between 1966 and 1989 she was an actress, appearing in The Mousetrap. She also worked as a speech consultant between 1988 and 1992. Lynne is the founder and former chair of the Indonesian Co-ordination for the British Section of Amnesty International. Whilst an MP she was the Liberal Democrats' spokesperson on Health and Community Care, and then spokesperson on Social Security and Disability. She is also one the patrons for the domestic violence charity Mankind Initiative.
She was rated as the 35th best out of all 785 MEPs and 9th best of the 78 UK MEPs on promoting transparency and reform according to eurosceptic think-tank Open Europe. She is a founding member—and current Vice President of the European Parliament Intergroup MEPs Against Cancer.
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Liêm Hoang Ngoc
Liêm Hoang-Ngoc (born 11 December 1964 in Saigon, South Vietnam) is a French economist and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the East France constituency.
Hoang-Ngoc is an associate professor at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. He is a member of the French Socialist Party, where he is close to the left of the party organized around Henri Emmanuelli. He is also a member of the alter-globalization collective Attac.
In the 2009 European elections, he was the second candidate on the PS list in the East region.
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Lojze Peterle
Alojz "Lojze" Peterle (born 5 July 1948) is a Slovenian politician. He was the leader of the Slovene Christian Democrats from the founding of the party in 1990 until it merged with the Slovenian People's Party in 2000. Between 1990 and 1992, he was the president of the first freely elected Slovenian government, and he was among those who led Slovenia to independence from Yugoslavia. He is a Member of the European Parliament.
Lojze Peterle was born to a peasant family in the Lower Carniolan village of Čužnja vas near Trebnje. He attended the Novo mesto Grammar School. In 1967, he enrolled to the University of Ljubljana, where he studied history and geography, and later also economy. During his student years, he started collaborating with the Christian left intellectual circle around the journal Revija 2000.
In the 1980s, he started working at the Institute for Urban planning of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia. In the mid 1980s, he was involved in several projects of trans-regional cooperation within the Alpe-Adria regional cooperation network.
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Lorenzo Fontana
Lorenzo Fontana (Verona, 10 April 1980) is an Italian politician from Veneto.
A member of Liga Veneta–Lega Nord and close ally of Flavio Tosi, Fontana has been deputy leader of the Movimento Giovani Padani, the youth section of Lega Nord, from 2002. After having been district and municipal councillor in Verona, he was elected to the European Parliament in 2009.
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Lothar Bisky
Lothar Bisky (born 17 August 1941) is a German politician. He was the chairman of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), the successor of East Germany's Socialist Unity Party (SED). In June 2007 he became co-chairman of the The Left (Die Linke) party, formed by a merger of the PDS and the much smaller Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative. From 2007 until 2010 he was the President of the Party of the European Left. Also, he is the Publisher of the socialist newspaper Neues Deutschland.
Bisky was born in Zollbrück, Pomerania, Germany (now Korzybie, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland), from where he came after 1945 as refugee to Schleswig-Holstein in northern West Germany. In order to get a free university education he emigrated to Communist GDR at the age of 18, and after facing initial doubts due to his heritage was allowed to join the Socialist Unity Party in 1963, but did not rise to leadership positions until shortly after the fall of communism and the resulting purge of hardliners from the party. He was rector of the University of Film and Television (Potsdam-Babelsberg) from 1986 to 1990. In 1991 he became a member of the board of directors of regional television channel ORB (now part of RBB.)
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Louis Bontes
Louis Bontes (born 28 February 1956 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch politician and former police officer. As a member of the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid) he has been an MP since 17 June 2010. He focuses on matters of the European Union, civil law, security, police and foreign affairs (Africa, Middle and South America). From 2009 to 2010 he was an MEP.
Bontes worked many years in the Dutch police force, lately as district commander harbor for the Rotterdam-Rijnmond area.
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Louis Grech
Louis Grech (born 22 March 1947 in Hamrun) is a Maltese politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Malta Labour Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets.
He is also a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development, vice-chair of the delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula, a member of the delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, and a substitute for the delegation to the EU–Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee.
In the past he served as Chairman of the Maltese national airline, Air Malta.
In 1970 he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Balliol College, Oxford.
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Louis Michel
Louis H. O. Ch. Michel (born 2 September 1947) is a Belgian politician. He served in the government of Belgium as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2004 and was European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid from 2004 to 2009. Since 2009, he has been a Member of the European Parliament. Michel is a prominent member of the French-speaking liberal party, the Mouvement Réformateur.
From 1968 to 1978, before dedicating his life to his political career, Louis Michel taught English, Dutch and German in the Provincial School of Jodoigne, a rural town 25 miles from Brussels.
From 1967 to 1977, he was chairman of the Young Liberals in the district of Nivelles. Then he became alderman in Jodoigne from 1977 to 1983, "secretary-general" of the Parti Réformateur Libéral (PRL) political party from 1980 to 1982 and chairman of the PRL from 1982 to 1990 and from 1995 to 1999.
He was a member of the Belgian federal parliament from 1978 to 2004, first as a representative (1978–1999) and then as a senator (1999–2004).
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László Surján
László Surján (born on 7 September 1941 in Kolozsvár, (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania) is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament with the FIDESZ, Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets.
Surján is a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development and a vice-chair of the Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee.
He is a signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Hungary)
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László Tőkés
László Tőkés ([laːsloː tøːkeːʃ]; born April 1, 1952) is a politician from Romania of Hungarian ethnicity, currently serving as a Member of the European Parliament (since 2004) and Vice President of the European Parliament (since 2010).
A bishop of the Királyhágómellék Reformed Ecclesiastical District of the Reformed Church in Romania, he is also a former honorary president of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, and a founding member and president of the Hungarian National Council of Transylvania.
An effort to transfer him from his post as an assistant pastor in Timişoara and to evict him from his church flat helped trigger the Romanian Revolution of 1989, which overthrew Nicolae Ceauşescu and spelled the end of the communist era in Romania.
He is a member of the Reconciliation of European Histories Group, and co-sponsored the European Parliament resolution of 2 April 2009 on European conscience and totalitarianism.
A native of Cluj, László Tőkés is the son of István Tőkés, professor of theology and former deputy bishop of the largely Hungarian Reformed Church. He was married to Edit Joó, with whom he has three children: Sons Máté and Márton, and daughter Ilona. Máté Tőkés, who was only three years old during the Revolution of 1989, later collected the memories of the friends, relatives, and other participants of the events, and in 2005 wrote Egymás tükrében ("In Each Other's Mirror"), a book about his parents and the hardships of the family.
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Lívia Járóka
Lívia Járóka (born on 6 October 1974 in Tata) is a Hungarian politician of part Romani ethnicity. She is a Member of the European Parliament, elected as part of the Fidesz list in 2004. Járóka was the second Roma (but the first Roma woman) ever elected to the European Parliament; the first was Juan de Dios Ramirez Heredia from Spain, who served from 1994-1999.
Járóka grew up in Sopron, a town near Hungary's western border with Austria. Her father is ethnically Roma, her mother Hungarian. After getting an MA in sociology from the Central European University Warsaw campus on a scholarship from the Soros-funded Open Society Institute she went on to study anthropology in Britain, focusing on Romani issues and culture. In August 2003, she had a daughter. As of January 2005, she was still enrolled as a senior PhD anthropology student at University College London researching the politics of ethnic identity among Roma in Hungary.
In 2006 January she was named a Young Global Leader among other 150 prominent young figures of the world, in 2006 October among others she won the "MEP of 2006" award in the Justice and Fundamental Rights category by the Parliament Magazine.
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Magdi Allam
Magdi Cristiano Allam (Arabic: مجدي علام Maǧdī ʿAllām; born April 22, 1952), is an Egyptian-born Italian journalist and political leader, noted for his criticism of Islamic Extremism, his defence of Judeo-Christian roots of Europe and the West, and his articles on the relations between Western culture and the Islamic world. Allam converted from Islam to Christianity during the Vatican's 2008 Easter vigil service presided over by Pope Benedict XVI. He also serves as a regional councillor in the Italian region of Basilicata after being elected in 2010 and a Member of the European Parliament for Italy since 2007.
Allam was born in Egypt and raised by Muslim parents. His mother Safeya was a believing and practicing Muslim, whereas his father Muhammad was "completely secular and agreed with the [until the early seventies wildely held] opinion of the majority of Egyptians who took the West as a model in regard to individual freedom, social customs and cultural and artistic fashions." At age four, his mother entrusted him to the care of Sister Lavinia of the Comboni Missionary Sisters, and later he was sent to a Catholic boarding school in Egypt - the Institute of Don Bosco - for junior high and high school, where he was further exposed to Western culture and civilization.
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Mairead McGuinness
Mairead McGuinness (born 13 June 1959) is an Irish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East constituency. She is a member of Fine Gael, part of the European People's Party.
McGuinness was the first female graduate of University College Dublin's Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural economics in 1980. In 1984, she completed a diploma in accounting and finance and went on to a career in a number of media outlets before entering politics in 2004. She worked as a researcher on The Late Late Show, as a presenter on RTÉ's Ear to the Ground and Celebrity Farm, a journalist with the Irish Farmers Journal and editor of the Irish Independent's farming supplement.
In early 2004, she declared her intention to seek a nomination for the European Parliament election for Fine Gael. This followed speculation linking her to a similar move for the Progressive Democrats. At the selection convention in February 2004, she was selected to run alongside Avril Doyle. This proved controversial[citation needed], as it was widely expected that Fine Gael could win only one of the three seats in the East constituency. However, a stronger than expected performance from Fine Gael in the election saw both women being elected.
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Malcolm Harbour
Malcolm Harbour (born 19 February 1947) is a British politician. He is a Conservative Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands. He is a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group and the Chairman of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
Malcolm Harbour was educated at Bedford School (1960–64), Trinity College, Cambridge (1964–67) where he gained a BA in Mechanical Services, and at the University of Aston (1967–70) where he gained a Diploma in Management Studies. He began his career in the motor industry, working as an apprentice at the Longbridge plant in Birmingham (1967–69). From then until 1980 he held various posts in design, development and product planning in the Rover Triumph Division.
In 1980, Harbour became a director of Austin Rover with responsibilities for planning, sales and marketing. He co-founded Harbour Wade Brown, a motor industry consultancy, in 1989 and the International Car Distribution Programme Ltd in 1993, of which he remains a director. He was also briefly project director of the Three Day Car Programme (1998–99).
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Manfred Weber
Manfred Weber (born on 14 July 1972 in Niederhatzkofen) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Bavaria with the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
After his reelection in 2009 he became Vice-Chairman of the Group of the EPP in the European Parliament.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development, a member of the Delegation for relations with India, a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community and a substitute on the Subcommittee on Human Rights.
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Mara Bizzotto
Mara Bizzotto (Bassano del Grappa, 3 June 1972) is an Italian Venetist politician.
A member of Liga Veneta–Lega Nord since 1993, Bizzotto is the most prominent leader of the party in the area around Bassano. She was a member of the Regional Council of Veneto from 2000 to 2005 and then, again, from 2006 to 2009, when she was elected to the European Parliament.
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Marc Tarabella
Marc Tarabella (born on 11 March 1963 in Ougree) is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the French Community of Belgium with the Parti Socialiste, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and a vice-chair of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Belgium)
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Marek Gróbarczyk
Marek Józef Gróbarczyk (born March 13, 1968 in Nowy Sącz) is a Polish engineer and manager, who served as a Minister of Maritime Economy in Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński's government.
A graduate of the Maritime Academy in Gdynia and the Technological-Agricultural Academy in Bydgoszcz, he spent a number of years after finishing his studies as an officer in western civilian fleets. After this he went into private business (housing) and public service. He was a member of the boards of state-run oil corporations.
After the resignation of Maritime Economy Minister Rafał Wiechecki on August 13, 2007 (Wiechecki's party, League of Polish Families, broke the coalition with Law and Justice), Prime Minister Kaczyński named Gróbarczyk as the new minister. During his speech, Kaczyński mistakenly spelled the new minister's name as Ogarczak.
Gróbarczyk isa non-partisan. After Law and Justice's electoral defeat he will step down. In 2009 he was elected to the European Parliament for Law and Justice.
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Marek Migalski
Dr Marek Henryk Migalski (born 14 January 1969 in Racibórz) is a Polish politician, Member of the European Parliament, political scientist, and columnist. A member of Poland Comes First (PjN), Migalski was elected to the European Parliament at the 2009 election for Law and Justice (PiS). He never joined the party, and his open criticism of PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński led to his expulsion from the party's group and the creation of the more moderate PjN in late 2010.
Migalski taught Polish before studying political science at the University of Silesia, graduating in 1999. In that year, he was appointed deputy director of Euroregion Cieszyn Silesia, while earning his doctorate from the University of Silesia, which he was granted in 2001 for his thesis A Bridge Between East and West: Edvard Beneš – An Attempt to Preserve the Independence of Czechoslovakia in 1945-1948. He taught at the University of Silesia in Katowice, as well as the Humanitas Academy in Sosnowiec.
As a political scientist, Migalski was well known for his conservative views, as well as the accuracy of his predictions.In 2009, he ran for the European Parliament for Law and Justice, in the Silesian constituency. He was elected, winning 112,881 votes. However, he did not become a member of the party, and was seen as a moderate within the group.
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Marek Siwiec
Marek Maciej Siwiec (born on 13 March 1955 in Piekary Slaskie) is a Polish politician and since 2004 Member of the European Parliament for the Greater Poland Voivodship with the Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. In the European elections of 2004 he obtained 36 985 votes. He was reelected MEP in 2009, gaining 64 976 votes.
From January 2007 to June 2009 he served as Vice President of the European Parliament. He also chaired the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. On 12 January 2010, he criticized the current EU policy toward the country saying in the European Parliament "Ukraine is in political chaos, which I think suits many people in the EU". He was observer of the elections in Ukraine in 2006 and 2010.
Previously he was notable as Chief of the Polish National Security Bureau under President Aleksander Kwaśniewski.
Currently he serves as a coordinator of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats for the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly. He is member of the Board of Yalta European Strategy foundation, President of European Friends of Israel, member of Global Leadership Council of Colorado State University.
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Margrete Auken
Margrete Auken (born 6 January 1945) is a politician, and member of the Danish socialist party Socialistisk Folkeparti (SF), and the sister of Svend Auken. Margrete Auken was educated at the University of Copenhagen, and was a member of the Danish parliament from October 1979 to December 1990 and from September 1994 to June 2004.
She is a sognepræst (parish priest) at the Frederiksberg Church of the Danish National Church.
When she was elected as the sole candidate for SF for the European Parliament in 2004 she sparked an uproar in SF by choosing to join the European Green Party – European Free Alliance instead of the European United Left – Nordic Green League without the approval of SF.
Auken's daughter Ida Auken is also a priest and politician.
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Marian Harkin
Marian Harkin (born 26 November 1953) is an Irish politician and is currently a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North-West constituency.
Harkin was born in Ballintogher, County Sligo in 1953. She is a graduate of University College Dublin with a Bachelor of Science degree in geology. She worked as a teacher of mathematics in a secondary school in Sligo town for 23 years. She lived in Manorhamilton, County Leitrim with her husband, Seán Harkin, where he ran a grocery business until his death in 1996. After her husband's death, Harkin and her two sons moved to Sligo town where they currently live.
While living in Manorhamilton, Harkin became active in the voluntary and community sector and developed the view that people living in disadvantaged areas such as Connacht had to rely on their own initiative and energy to progress development of their region. Her work at local level led to her appointment to Developing the West Together, which evolved into the Council for the West, of which Harkin became chairperson.
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Marianne Thyssen
Marianne Leonie Petrus Thyssen (born on 24 July 1956 in Sint-Gillis-Waas) is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Flanders with the CD&V/N-VA, a Vice-Chairwoman of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
On 15 May 2008 she was elected chair woman of CD&V
She is a substitute for the Committee on International Trade, a member of the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and a substitute for the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Belgium)
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Marielle de Sarnez
Marielle de Sarnez (born 27 March 1951 in Paris) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. She is a member of the MoDem, vice-chair of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education.
She is also substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs, a member of the delegation for relations with South Africa and a substitute for the delegation to the EU–Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee.
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Marielle Gallo
Marielle Gallo (born 19 May 1949 in Lons-le-Saunier, Jura) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the Île-de-France constituency.
She is the wife of famous French historian and member of the French Academy, Max Gallo. She ran in a Parisian constituency in the 1993 election under the colours of the Citizens' Movement. In 2007, she joined the Modern Left, allied to President Nicolas Sarkozy. She became the party's spokesperson.
In the 2009 European elections, she was the fourth candidate on the Union for a Popular Movement list in the Île-de-France region, and was elected to the European Parliament, where she sits with the Group of the European People's Party.
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Marietje Schaake
Marietje Schaake (Leiden, 28 October 1978) is a Dutch politician for the social liberal party Democrats 66. Since July 2009, she has served as a member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), as well as the Committee of International Trade (INTA) and the Committee on Culture, Media and Education (CULT). She also sits on the Parliament's Delegation for relations with the United States and the Delegation for relations with Iran, and the delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo. In March 2011 the European Parliament adopted Schaake's report on the cultural dimensions of the EU's external actions. Schaake is currently the rapporteur for the first EU strategy on digital freedom in foreign policy. Marietje Schaake is a Member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the Board of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center. She is also vice-chair of the Supervisory Board of Free Press Unlimited, and serves on the Board of Governors of the European Internet Foundation.
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Marietta Giannakou
Marietta Giannakou (Greek: Μαριέττα Γιαννάκου, born June 6, 1951) is a Greek politician, member of New Democracy. She is the former Minister for National Education and Religious Affairs of Greece.
She was born in Geraki Lakonias and she became a doctor and neuro-psychologist at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Athens. She has been a member of the Greek Parliament, vice-chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on European Affairs, a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and National Defence, and a member of the Interparty Parliamentary Committee on the examination of the drugs problem. Moreover, she is the chairman of the Greek Friendship Group between the Parliaments of Greece and Poland and member of the Greek Friendship Groups between the Parliaments of Greece and the United States and of Greece and Morocco. National Coordinator and Member of the Horizontal Working Party on Drugs of the Council of the European Union. Chairman of the Balkans/Middle East Regional Group of the Dublin Group of the Council of the European Union. Member of the Political Bureau of the European People’s Party. She was a former Minister of Health, Welfare and Social Security, as well as a former member of the Greek Parliament. She was also a former member of the European Parliament, as well as the former head of the Delegation of the New Democracy Party in the European Parliament. She used to be the chairman of the European Committee “Fourth World”, as well as the former vice-president of the European Christian Democratic Union. In her lifetime, she has published numerous scientific articles and reports pertaining to European perspectives towards drug problems, organized crime, women in contemporary societies, as well as social policies.
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Marije Cornelissen
Marije Cornelissen (March 9, 1974 in Stiens) is a Dutch politician. In the 2009 she was elected in the European Parliament.
Cornelissen grew up in a leftwing and feminist family. At a young age she participated in the demonstrations against the presence of weapons of mass destruction in the Netheralnds. As the only atheist student she attended a strict catholic primary school. Cornelissen studied international relations at the University of Utrecht, where specialized in conflict studies.
Since the 1990s Cornelissen has been active in the GreenLeft. Between 1996 and 1997 she worked as assistant to MEP Nel van Dijk on women's rights (between 1996 and 1997). In addition she was active in the Feminist Network of the GreenLeft (chair between 1996 and 2001) and she was active in the European Green Party, where she coordinated the dialogue between East and West European Greens (Dutch delegate between 1999 and 2006). She also worked at the party bureau (1997–1999) and was a member of the party board (2001–2005). Between 2002 and 2003 she was international secretary of the GreenLeft where she participated in the Dutch demonstrations against the War in Iraq. In 2004 European Parliament election she was put on the eight spot of the GreenLeft list.
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Marina Yannakoudakis
Marina Yannakoudakis (born 16 April 1956) is a Conservative Party Member of the European Parliament for London first elected at the 2009 European Parliament election.
Yannakoudakis was born in Paddington. She studied for a BSc in government, politics and modern history at Brunel University, where she was chairman of the Conservative students, and also received an MA in education from the Open University.
She was a member of Barnet London Borough Council for Oakleigh Park Ward from 2006 to 2010 where she was a member of the appeals committee.
She is a full member of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and a substitute member of the Special Committee on Organised Crime, Corruption and Money Laundering. She is a member of the Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee.
She is also a member of the High-Level Contact Group for relations with the Turkish Cypriot community in the northern part of the island. She is the Conservative and the European Conservatives and Reformists spokesman on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
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Marine Le Pen
Marine Le Pen (French pronunciation: [ma.ʁin lə.pɛn]; born Marion Anne Perrine Le Pen; 5 August 1968) is a lawyer by profession, a French right-wing politician and the president of the Front National (FN), the third-largest political party in France, since 16 January 2011. She is the youngest daughter of the French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, former president of the FN and currently its honorary chairman.
She joined the FN in 1986, its Executive Committee in 2000 and was a vice-president of the FN for eight years (2003–2011). She currently is an ex-officio member of the FN Executive Office, Executive Committee and Central Committee.
She has been a regional councillor since 1998 (Île-de-France: 2004–2010, Nord-Pas-de-Calais: 1998–2004, 2010–present), a Member of the European Parliament since 2004 (Île-de-France: 2004–2009, North-West France: 2009–present) and was a municipal councillor in Hénin-Beaumont, Pas-de-Calais for three years (2008–2011).
In 2010, she was a candidate for the leadership of the FN set up by Jean-Marie Le Pen on 5 October 1972. She successfully succeeded him during the FN congress in Tours, Indre-et-Loire. On 16 January 2011, she was elected with 67.65% (11,546 votes) as the second president of the Front National.
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Mario Borghezio
Mario Borghezio (born on 3 December 1947 in Turin[citation needed]) is an Italian politician from the Northern League. He is a Member of the European Parliament, and sits with the eurosceptic Europe of Freedom and Democracy group. He is a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and of the Committee on Petitions. He also sits as a substitute member on the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
In 1993, he was sentenced to pay a fine of 750,000 lire for violence on a minor. He forcefully held and turned over to the police a 12-year-old Moroccan unregistered street seller. Italian law does not allow so-called "Citizen's arrests", or otherwise taking the law into one's own hands.
In July 2005, Borghezio was found guilty of arson, for setting fire to the pallets of some migrants sleeping under a bridge in Turin during a vigilante raid. For this he was sentenced to two months and twenty days in prison, converted into a fine of €3,040.
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Mario Mauro
Mario Mauro (born July 24, 1961 in San Giovanni Rotondo) is an Italian Member of the European Parliament and a teacher of history. He's married with Giovanna, they have two children, Francesca Romana and Angelo. He graduated in Lettere and Filosofia at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) in Milan, in 1985. In 2008 he started teaching at the Università Europea di Roma.
Mauro was first elected at the European Parliament in 1999 with the PPE-DE group. From 1999 to 2004 he was Vice President for the Education and Culture Commission. On July 20, 2004 he was elected one of the 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament.. In June 2009 he was elected again at the European Parliament. Currently he holds, in addition to his position as European Parliamentary, the following positions: 1) Personal Representative of the OSCE presidency against racism, xenophobia and discrimination, with special reference to discrimination against Christians (2009). 2) Professor contracted "Fundamental human rights in natural law and international agreements" and "History of European institutions" at the European University of Rome (since 2008). In his parliamentary duties, which can be accessed http://www.europarl.europa.eu, he maintains a dynamic work of monitoring the activity of the Commission for the promotion and defense of human rights in various parts of the world and protection of activists who suffer persecution or discrimination of local authorities.
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Marit Paulsen
Marit Eli Paulsen, née Björnerud, (born 24 November 1939 in Oslo) is a Norwegian-born Swedish politician, and a Member of the European Parliament for the Liberal Party of Sweden 1999-2004 and 2009–present. She is a well-known figure in the Swedish public debate on environmental and food quality issues, initially as a non-partisan, and was an avid proponent of Swedish membership in the European Union during the EU membership referendum campaign in 1994.
In 1998 she joined the Liberal Party, and served as 2nd Vice President of the party 1999-2007. In the 2009 European Parliament elections, she was elected to the European Parliament as top candidate of the Liberal Party list. She gained more personal votes than any other Swedish candidate.
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Marita Ulvskog
Marita Ulvskog (born 4 September 1951 in Luleå) is a Swedish Social Democratic politician. She was a member of the Riksdag 1998-2009. She was the Swedish Minister for Home Affairs from 1994 to 1996 and Minister for Culture from 1996 to 2004. She was the party secretary of the Social Democrats 2004-2009.
On 30 September 2008 it was revealed that Ulvskog would be the number one candidate for the Social Democrats in the 2009 elections för the EU parliament, even though she during the 90's was involved in the critical debate on EU. She was elected with a strong support of personal votes and now serves as a member of the European parliament. She is the vice president of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats at the European parliament.
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Markus Ferber
Markus Ferber (born on 15 January 1965 in Augsburg, Bavaria) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Bavaria with the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Budgets.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Germany)
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Markus Pieper
Markus Pieper (b. 15 May 1963, Hamelin) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for North Rhine-Westphalia. He is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party.
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Marta Andreasen
Marta Andreasen (born 26 November 1954) is an Argentine-born Spanish accountant, employed in January 2002 by the European Commission as Chief Accountant, and notable for raising concerns about flaws in the commission's accounting system which she felt left the commission vulnerable to potential fraud. She was subsequently elected as a Member of the European Parliament for United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) in 2009.
She qualified in 1977 as a certified public accountant in Buenos Aires, then worked for five years as an auditor at Price Waterhouse. From 1982 on she worked as a finance and administration manager, then as a regional finance director at various companies, such as Rockwell Automation and Lotus Development, mostly in Spain.[citation needed]
She joined the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 1998, where she reported serious problems with its accounting system, raised her concerns with the management and suggested ways of reforms. After initial resistance, Arthur Andersen were assigned for an outside analysis. In August 2000, their report described the OECD's internal accounting systems as outdated and inadequate. Andreasen, however, was suspended from her job for 15 months.[citation needed]
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Martin Callanan
Martin Callanan (born 8 August 1961) is a British Conservative Party politician. He has been a Member of the European Parliament for the North East England constituency since 1999, and was re-elected in 2004 and 2009.
Callanan was born in Newcastle upon Tyne. Before becoming an MEP, he stood as a parliamentary candidate for Washington (in the 1987 election), Gateshead East (in the 1992 election), and Tynemouth (in the 1997 election).
He vehemently opposed the erection of the "Angel of the North" sculpture by Antony Gormley.
Before his election to the European Parliament, Callanan worked as a project engineer at Scottish and Newcastle breweries and holds a BSc degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Newcastle Polytechnic. Callanan was the last Conservative member of Gateshead Borough Council, before standing down in 1996. He is a member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. Callanan is a regular contributor to ConservativeHome, writing a monthly report.
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Martin Ehrenhauser
Martin Ehrenhauser (born September the 18, 1978) is an Austrian Member of the European Parliament. He took his seat in the parliament when Hans-Peter Martin's List, an independent Austrian list led by author and MEP Hans-Peter Martin gained 17.7% of the Austrian vote in the 2009 elections for the European Parliament.
He, like his former mentor Hans-Peter Martin, has gained wide media attention for exposing 'scandals' in the European Union.
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Martin Kastler
Martin Kastler (born June 18, 1974 in Nuremberg) is a German politician of the CSU and member of the European Parliament.
After attending the Martin-Behaim-Gymnasium in Nuremberg Kastler studied History and Political Sciences in Erlangen and Prague. From 1996 to 1997 he gathered experience in the field of European policy as an employee in the Foreign Policy Department of the President of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel. Thereafter, Kastler became press spokesman for the Nuremberg Metropole region and editor for DATEV. Since 1996 Kastler works freelance as a journalist and publicist. From 2004 until his re-entrance into the European Parliament in December 2008 he was head of the Development Policy Department and Coordinator for EU-Projects for the Hanns Seidel Foundation.
Martin Kastler is married, has two children and lives in Schwabach.
Martin Kastler is member of the CSU since 1993. He is Local Board Member of the CSU for Nuremberg-Fürth-Schwabach and Deputy Chairman of the Schwabach District CSU Association. Beyond that, Kastler is Deputy Chairman of the Nuremberg-Fürth-Schwabach District 'Junge Union' Association and Member of the Federal Commission of 'Junge Union' in Bavaria.
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Martin Schulz
Martin Schulz (born on 20 December 1955 in Hehlrath) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party of Germany, since 2004 leader of the Socialists in the European Parliament (formerly called the Party of European Socialists group and since 2009 called the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats). Martin Schulz has a secondary level of education, he attended high school Heilig Geist Gymnasium in Würselen. He is the current President of the European Parliament.
After four years at primary school, from 1962 to 1966, Schulz attended the Heilig-Geist (Holy Spirit) grammar school in Broich (now Würselen), a district of the town of Broichweiden, for nine years, leaving without his Abitur (A-levels). From 1975 to 1976 he then trained to be a bookseller .
Over the next five years he worked for a number of publishing houses and bookshops, and in 1982 he opened his own bookshop in Würselen, which he ran until 1994.
Besides German, he speaks French and English and understands Dutch.
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Mary Honeyball
Mary Hilda Rosamund Honeyball (born 12 November 1952 in Weymouth, Dorset) is a Member of the European Parliament for the Labour Party representing London. She has been a member of the European Parliament since 2000. Seventh on Labour's 1999 list, she had not been elected in the European Parliament Election, 1999, but replaced Pauline Green who resigned as an MEP in November 1999.
Before her election to the European Parliament, Honeyball's career was in the charitable and non-governmental sector. During the 1980s she ran the Council for Voluntary Service in the London Borough of Newham, before going on to work as a Senior Manager for SCOPE, the cerebral palsy charity. She was later the General Secretary of the Association of Chief Officers of Probation from 1994 to 1998, and prior to that Chief Executive of Gingerbread, the charity for single parent families. She was also a councillor in the London Borough of Barnet from 1978 to 1986. Honeyball unsuccessfully contested Norwich North for Labour in 1987.
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Mathieu Grosch
Mathieu J.H. Grosch (born on 14 September 1950 in Eupen) is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the German-speaking Community of Belgium with the CSP-EVP, Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development, a member of the Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with Japan.
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Matthias Groote
Matthias Groote is a German politician and has been a Member of the European Parliament since October 2005. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, which is a part of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament. He is the current chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the delegation for relations with Japan. He is a substitute on the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and the delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
Matthias Groote was born on 21 October 1973 in Leer and went to secondary school in Westrhauderfehn, taking the leaving exam in 1990. He became an industrial engineer in 1995 and worked on plant design. In 1995 and 1996 he ran an alternate public service with the German Red Cross. He was a technical engineer in 1999, became a qualified industrial engineer in 2005, and also became a sales engineer in 2005.
Matthias Groote has been a member of the Ostrhauderfehn local council since 1996, a member of the Leer district council since 2001, and the chair of the Ostrhauderfehn SPD council group since 2001. He first became a member of the Social Democratic Party in 1996 and has been a member of the Leer SPD District Executive since 1997. He was chair of the Leer District Young Socialists from 1997 to 2002, vice-chair of the Weser-Ems District Young Socialists from 1999 to 2002, and has been a member of the Executive of the Weser-Ems Social-Democratic Association for Local Politics since 2003.
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Maurice Ponga
Maurice Ponga (born 5 June 1947 in Kouaoua, New Caledonia) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the Overseas constituency.
Ponga is a Melanesian (Kanak), but unlike most Kanaks, he opposes New Caledonia's independence from France and is a member of The Rally-UMP, a major anti-independence party. He has represented the party, known as RPCR until 2002, in the Congress of New Caledonia between 1995 and 2009. While in office, he participated in all but one New Caledonian government. Most recently, as Minister of Youth and Sports in the Martin II government, he played a major role in the success of Noumea's bid for the 2011 Pacific Games.
In the 2009 European elections, he was the UMP's candidate in the Pacific Section of the Overseas constituency, and his candidacy was locally supported by all anti-independence parties. The UMP won one seat in the constituency with 29.7% of the votes, and since the UMP obtained its highest result in the Pacific Section (44.4%), Ponga was elected to the European Parliament. He is the second New Caledonian and second Kanak to serve as an MEP, after Dick Ukeiwé (also a member of the RPCR), who served between 1989 and 1994.
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Małgorzata Handzlik
Małgorzata Handzlik (born January 1, 1965 in Bielsko-Biała) is a member of the European Parliament. She was elected in 2004 by the Polish people as a candidate of Citizens Platform (Platforma Obywatelska, "PO").
She learned Esperanto in the 1980s during her travels with her husband George Handzlik, an Esperanto singer, writer, publisher, and teacher. Apart from promoting her party's objectives, Handzlik has declared to stand in for multilingualism and equal linguistic rights for all citizens. Handzlik is a fluent speaker of Esperanto and proposes to investigate the possible role of this language as a second language for all Europeans.
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Metin Kazak
Metin Kazak (Bulgarian: Метин Казак; born 29 July 1972) is a Bulgarian politician and Member of European Parliament. He is a member of Movement for Rights and Freedoms. He was first elected to the European Parliament in 2007, and re-elected in 2009.
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Michael Cashman
Michael Maurice Cashman (born 17 December 1950, London) is a British former actor, now a Labour politician. He has been a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands constituency since 1999.
As a child actor he was cast in the role of Oliver Twist in the original run of Lionel Bart's musical Oliver!, but he is possibly best known for his role as Colin Russell in BBC TV's EastEnders – a character remembered for being a participant in the first gay kiss in a British soap opera. He also appeared in the ITV drama serial The Sandbaggers and the Doctor Who story "Time-Flight".
Cashman is a founder of Stonewall, an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society and a Patron of The Food Chain, a London-based HIV charity.
In the European Parliament he is Labour spokesperson on human rights.
A member of the Civil Liberties Committee, Michael Cashman has been a rapporteur on several key initiatives including an important initiative on funerals of those who die in third countries - an issue he was motivated to act on after the death of his own father.
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Michael Gahler
Michael Gahler (born April 22, 1960 Frankfurt/Main) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Hesse. He is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party.
He studied in Mainz and Dijon (1981-87) before training as a lawyer. He joined the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1990, moved to work for the CDU in 1993. He has been a politician since 1986, when he won a seat on the city council of Hattersheim. He was elected to the European Parliament in 1999.
He is Vice-President of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and a member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights and the delegation for relations with Iran.
He is a signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.
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Michalis Tremopoulos
Michalis Tremopoulos (Greek: Μιχάλης Τρεμόπουλος, b. 3 March 1958, Serres) is a Greek journalist, lawyer, environmentalist and politician. Member of European Parliament since 2009.
He graduated in law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1991, and in social ecology at the Goddard College in Vermont in 1993. He worked as a TV, radio and newspaper journalist.
He is a member of Ecologist Greens party. He won a seat in the European parliament in 2009 EP elections.
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Michał Kamiński
Michał Tomasz Kamiński (born 28 March 1972) is a Polish politician and a Member of the European Parliament for Warsaw with Poland Comes First (PJN). He was chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists in the European Parliament from July 2009 until March 2011.
Kamiński was a founder member of the Christian National Union (ZChN) in 1989, and served on its board from 1995 to 2001. Kamiński was elected to the Sejm in 1997 for Solidarity Electoral Action, which included ZChN. In 2001, he joined the Right Alliance (PP), which merged with Law and Justice (PiS) the following year, having been reelected on the PP-PiS joint ticket in 2001.
He was elected to the European Parliament in 2004, representing Warsaw. He stepped down to become Secretary of State in Chancellery of the President Lech Kaczyński's . He was returned as an MEP in the 2009 election, and was elected chairman of the new European Conservatives and Reformists group. In November 2010, he left PiS to form the more liberal Poland Comes First (PJN); while remaining in the ECR, he stepped down as chairman in March 2011.
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Michel Barnier
Michel Barnier (born 9 January 1951) is a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and Vice President of the European People's Party (EPP). He is the current European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services. He was named Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries on 18 June 2007 and resigned on 7 June 2009 after being elected to the European Parliament.
Michel Barnier was born in La Tronche in the Isère département of the Rhône-Alpes région, in France. He graduated from ESCP Europe in 1972. Member of the staff of some Gaullist ministers in the 1970s, he was elected to the French National Assembly at 27 as a deputy for the Savoie département in 1978, under the banner of the Neo-Gaullist Rally for the Republic (RPR) and served in this function until 1993.
Together with Jean-Claude Killy he organised the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville as co-president of the COJO (Comité d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques).
Barnier joined the cabinet for the first time after the large victory of the Right in the 1993 legislative election as Minister of the Environment. Two years later, after the election of Jacques Chirac as President of france, he became Secretary of State for European Affairs. He held this function until the defeat of the Presidential Majority in the 1997 legislative election. Barnier served as a European Commissioner for regional policy in the Prodi Commission from 1999 until 31 March 2004 having been made the Foreign Minister of France in the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin. He served in this function until 5 June 2005 when upon the establishment of the new government under Dominique de Villepin he was replaced by Philippe Douste-Blazy. He considered he was unjustly sanctioned for the victory of the "No" in the French referendum over the European Constitution.
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Michel Dantin
Michel Dantin (born 15 January 1960, Lyon) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the South-East France constituency. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
In 1983 at age 23, he became a municipal councillor in Chambéry under Gaullist mayor Pierre Dumas. In 1985, he was elected to the General Council of Savoie for the Rally for the Republic, becoming the youngest councillor. He was Vice President of the General Council under the presidencies of Michel Barnier (1994–98). When seeking a third cantonal term in 1998, he was defeated by Socialist candidate Thierry Repentin. However, he was re-elected as municipal councillor on the RPR or UMP lists in 1989, 1995, 2001 and 2008.
He served in the ministerial cabinets of Hervé Gaymard and Dominique Bussereau between 2002 and 2007, and since 2007 in the cabinet of Michel Barnier.
In the 2009 European elections, he was the sixth candidate on the Union for a Popular Movement list in the South-East region, but he was not elected. However, the fifth UMP MEP, Nora Berra, will not sit in the European Parliament due to her appointment to the government and Dantin will take her seat.
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Michèle Rivasi
Michèle Rivasi (born February 9, 1953 in Montélimar, Drôme) is Member of the European Parliament, representing South East France for Europe Écologie–The Greens.
A former teacher at the École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines (Eng: Normal Superior school of Letters and Human Sciences), in 1986 she founded the Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity following the Chernobyl disaster.
Rivasi represented the Drôme's 1st constituency (Valence) between 1997 and 2002. She was classfied as an independent ecologist close to the PS, but has since joined Europe Écologie–The Greens.
From September 2003 to November 2004, she was the director of Greenpeace in France.
In 2009, The Greens selected her to lead the Europe Écologie list in the South-East constituency ahead of the 2009 European elections, in addition to which she is an assistant to the Mayor of Valence, and a member of the General Council of the Drôme.
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Michèle Striffler
Michèle Striffler (born 23 August 1957 in Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the East constituency.
She was a member of the liberal wing of the Socialist Party, close to Jean-Marie Bockel, but she joined Bockel's Modern Left (LGM). The Modern Left is a member of the presidential majority of Nicolas Sarkozy. Striffler is assistant to the mayor of Mulhouse, Bockel.
In the 2009 European elections, she was the second candidate on the Union for a Popular Movement list in the East region, and was elected to the European Parliament, where she sits with the Group of the European People's Party.
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Miguel Portas
Miguel de Sacadura Cabral Portas (1 May 1958 – 24 April 2012) was a Portuguese politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Left Bloc, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group. He was a member of the Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament and a member of the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries.
Miguel Portas was the older brother of current Foreign Affairs Minister and leader of the right-wing CDS–PP, Paulo Portas, and a great-nephew of Artur de Sacadura Cabral.
Miguel Portas got a Degree in Economics, at School of Economics and Management, in 1986. He worked has a cultural animator in the county of Ourique (1984), sociocultural animator and trainer in the Algarve hills as agents of development (1987). Moving on a career as a journalist, he was director of the cultural magazine "Contraste" (1986) and later he was hired as editor of the weekly journal "Expresso" (1988), where he was the international editor between 1992 and 1994. He also directed the weekly "Já" (1996), he was a reporter for magazine "Vida Mundial" (1998-1999), columnist for "Diário de Notícias" (2000-2006) and the weekly "Sol" (2008-2012). He was co-author and host of two television documentary series, "Indian Ocean" (2000) and "Periplus" (2004), on the Mediterranean. He had three books published: "And the rest is landscape" (2002, chronicles, essays and interviews), "The Labyrinth" (2006 - on Lebanon) and "Periplus" (2009 - dedicated to the Mediterranean).
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Mike Nattrass
Mike Nattrass MEP FRICS is an English politician and Member of the European Parliament, representing the West Midlands constituency for the UK Independence Party (UKIP), elected for the first time in June 2004 and re-elected in June 2009.
Born on 14 December 1945 in Leeds, Yorkshire, with Black Country links on his mother’s side, he is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS) and co-founder, in the 1980s, of Nattrass Giles, a commercial property business.
Nattrass joined the New Britain Party in 1994 whose candidates were absorbed into the Referendum Party in 1997. He gained the highest vote in the West Midlands for the Referendum Party at the 1997 general election.[citation needed] In 1998, he accepted an invitation to join UKIP from its leader Michael Holmes and sat on the UKIP National Executive Committee. In 2000 he became Party Chairman under Leader Jeffrey Titford and from 2002 to 2006 he was Deputy Leader under Roger Knapman.
Nattrass stood in many by elections and general elections representing UKIP, including the May 2008 Crewe and Nantwich by-election and in South Staffordshire at the general election in 2010.
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Milan Cabrnoch
Milan Cabrnoch (born on 6 August 1962 in Čáslav) is a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Civic Democratic Party, part of the European Conservatives and Reformists and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Budgetary Control and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Czech Republic)
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Milan Zver
Milan Zver (born 25 May 1962) is a Slovenian politician, sociologist and political scientist. He currently serves as vice-president of the Slovenian Democratic Party. Between 2004 and 2008, he was Minister for Education and Sports in Janez Janša's centre right government. In the European elections of 2009, he received the highest number of preferential votes in Slovenia, and was subsequently elected to the European Parliament.
He is a member of the Reconciliation of European Histories Group.
Zver was born in Ljubljana, former Yugoslavia, but spent most of his childhood in the village of Destrnik in the eastern Slovenian region of Styria. After finishing high school in Ptuj, he enrolled to the University of Ljubljana, where he studied sociology and political science at the Faculty of Social Sciences. He graduated in 1987 and continued his studies at the University of Graz under the supervision of the scholar Horst Haselsteiner. He obtained his MA in 1990, but in 1992 he left the research work at the university and decided to undertake public service in Slovenia instead. A member of Slovenian Social Democratic Party since 1990, Zver served as advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister Jože Pučnik and later to the Minister of Defence Janez Janša. After the Social Democratic Party left Janez Drnovšek's coalition government in 1994, Zver served as a secretary of the Municipal Council of Ljubljana until 1999, and later as an advisor to the parliamentary group of the Slovenian Social Democratic Party (now known as the Slovenian Democratic Party) in the National Assembly of Slovenia. From 2002 to 2004, he served as member of the Municipal Council of Ljubljana.
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Miloslav Ransdorf
Miloslav Ransdorf (born 15 February 1953 in Rakovník) is a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia; part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left party group in the European Parliament.
He was videotaped sleeping through a committee session of the European Parliament
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Miroslav Mikolášik
Miroslav Mikolášik (born on 11 September 1952 in Dolný Kubín) is a Slovak politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Krestansko-demokraticke hnutie, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development.
He is a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, a member of the Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with Israel.
He still lives in Dolný Kubín along with his wife. He has four children; three sons and one daughter.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Slovakia)
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Miroslav Ouzký
Miroslav Ouzký (born 18 August 1958 in Chlumec nad Cidlinou) is a Czech Member of the European Parliament. He was elected on the Civic Democratic Party ticket and sits with the European Conservatives and Reformists group.
He studied medicine at university in Prague. He worked as a surgeon and director of a hospital in Kadaň. Thereafter, he served in a city council. In 1998 he was elected as a member of the Czech Parliament until 2004. Since then he has been a member of the European Parliament. On 20 July 2004 he was elected one of the 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament. In February 2007, he became the Chair of the Environmental Committee of the European Parliament, succeeding Karl-Heinz Florenz.
He is married, and has a son and daughter.
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Mirosław Piotrowski
Mirosław Mariusz Piotrowski (born on 9 January 1966 in Zielona Góra) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for Law and Justice. He was originally elected in 2004 with the Liga Polskich Rodzin, then part of the Independence and Democracy grouping. and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Piotrowski is a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development and a vice-chair of the Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)
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Mitro Repo
Mitro Repo (born September 3, 1958) is a Finnish orthodox priest and member of the European Parliament since 2009, elected as an independent candidate on the Social Democratic Party's ticket.
Repo is a third generation priest. He studied theology at the University of Helsinki.
Repo's position on the Finnish Church's involvement in splitting the Estonian Orthodox Church[disambiguation needed
] led him into a conflict with metropolitan Johannes in the 1990s and finally to his temporary suspension.
Repo has been a popular speaker and commentator in radio and television talk shows. In addition to his church services, he has visited workers in their factories and financial and business leaders.
Repo was asked by several parties to run as a candidate in European Parliament elections, and he finally chose the Social Democrats. His decision to stand in the election led to a conflict between Repo and the church leadership. In the end, the Finnish Orthodox Church banned him from serving in religious services and wearing his trademark priestly outfit.
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Monica Macovei
Monica Luisa Macovei (Romanian pronunciation: [moˈnika luˈiza] or [luˈisa] [makoˈvej]; born 4 February 1959 ) is a Romanian politician, lawyer and former prosecutor, currently a Member of the European Parliament from the Democratic Liberal Party. She was the Minister of Justice of Romania in the first cabinet of Prime Minister Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu. In this position she was credited with implementing justice reforms that helped Romania enter the European Union (EU) on January 1, 2007.
Monica Macovei graduated in 1982 with honors from the Law Faculty of the University of Bucharest; in 1994 she received a master's of law in comparative constitutional law from the University of the State of New York/Central European University. She has served as a lecturer in law at the University of Bucharest. She has also authored a number of books and articles on legal and human rights themes.
Macovei was a prosecutor between 1983 and 1997, during the Communist and in the post-Communist Romania, resigning after an investigation by the Prosecutor's Office accused her of "repeated negligence in dealing with cases and repeated delays in resolving some cases". From 1997 to 2004 she was a lawyer with the Bucharest Bar.
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Monika Hohlmeier
Monika Hohlmeier (née Strauß, born 2 July 1962) is a German for the Christian Social Union, and member of the European Parliament since 2009. Between 1998 and 2005 she served as Bavarian State Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs.
Born Munich, Bavaria, Hohlmeier is the daughter of Franz Josef Strauß.
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Morten Løkkegaard
Morten Løkkegaard, born 20 December 1964, is a Venstre Party MEP representing Denmark. He was elected in 2009.
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Morten Messerschmidt
Morten Messerschmidt (born 13 November 1980) LL.M., is member of the European Parliament for the Danish People's Party. He won his seat in a landslide in the 2009 elections with 284,500 personal votes.
Before taking his seat in the European Parliament, he was a member of the Danish parliament (Danish: Folketinget) from 8 February 2005, having won his seat with 3,812 personal votes.
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Nathalie Griesbeck
Natalie Griesbeck (born 24 May 1956 in Metz) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the East of France. She is a member of the Democratic Movement (MoDem), part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
She sits on the Committee on Budgets and is a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism. She is also a member of the European Parliament's delegation for relations with Mercosur and a substitute for the delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and ASEAN.
She was the second candidate in the East constituency on the MoDem list, while Jean-François Kahn was the top candidate. The list only won one seat, but Kahn resigned before the session opened, giving his position to Griesbeck.
Griesbeck has a master's degree in public law (1979) and postgraduate diplomas (DEAs) in public law (1980) and legal history (1981). She was formerly a lecturer in public law at the University of Metz, and has also served as deputy mayor of Metz, with responsibility for finance and economic development, vice-chair of Metz Council, with responsibility for economic development, a member of the Moselle Council, and chair of Transcité (2001–2003). She holds the Palmes académiques and the Ordre National du Mérite.
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Nessa Childers
Nessa Maria Vereker Childers (born 9 October 1956) is an Irish Labour Party (S&D) politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East constituency since 2009.
She is the daughter of the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine H. Childers and his second wife, Rita Childers. She has an Arts and Psychology degree from Trinity College, Dublin and a postgraduate diploma from University College Dublin. She previously worked as a psychoanalyst in private practice.
She is a former councillor for the Green Party in Blackrock in south Dublin. She was elected in 2004 and resigned from her seat in August 2008.
Childers originally joined the Labour Party before the 2004 local elections, but when she failed to get a nomination to run for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, she switched to the Green Party and was elected as a Green councillor.
In September 2008 she resigned from the Green Party to run for the Labour Party in the East constituency at the 2009 European Parliament election.
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Niccolò Rinaldi
In 2009 he was elected at the European Parliament with Italia dei Valori. He is member of the ALDE group, of which he has been, since 2000 and until the election, general secretary adjunct. He is currently Vice President for the group. He is also head of delegation for IDV (Italia dei Valori) at the European Parliament.
Born in Florence in 1962, he graduated in Political Science with a dissertation on the "road economy" in Dakar, which was the result of a "field research" in Senegal. He was responsible for the information at the UN in Afghanistan. He lived in Peshawar (Pakistan's turbulent city on the border with Afghanistan), Kabul and in the rest of the country. Afghanistan has been a harsh and exciting period, a school of life - a period in which he wrote some books ("Islam, guerra e dintorni", published by L'Harmattan (Italy) with a foreword by Jas Gawronski and translated into French under the title of "Dieu, guerre and autres paysages" with a foreword by Daniel Cohn-Bendit, "Droga di Dio", published by L'Ancora, the tale "Firenze, Herat e la forza di Kabul", published in "Imago Mundi: Piazza di Guerra", edizioni Festina Lente). In 1991 he left the United Nations and he started working at the European Parliament, as political adviser. In 2000 he became one of the Secretaries General of the Parliament. He also managed the implementation of various projects with multimedia installations in Florence for the collective memory about the blockade of town (e.g. "Piazza di guerra", 2003), the Rwandan genocide ("Silence for Rwanda", 2004), the Holocaust ("Anatomy of a Genocide", 2009, which has been recently published by Giuntina with the title "Piccola anatomia di un genocidio - Auschwitz e oltre). In 2009 he was elected MEP with Italia dei Valori . He is now Vice-President for ALDE (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe) and IDV Head of Delegation in the European Parliament.
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Nick Griffin
Nicholas John "Nick" Griffin (born 1 March 1959) is a British politician, chairman of the British National Party (BNP) and Member of the European Parliament for North West England.
Born in Barnet, Griffin was educated at Woodbridge School in Suffolk. He joined the National Front at the age of fourteen and became a political worker for the party following his graduation from Cambridge University. In 1980 he became a member of its governing body, and later wrote articles for several right-wing magazines. He was the National Front's candidate for the seat of Croydon North West in 1981 and 1983, but left the party in 1989. In 1995 he joined the BNP, and, in 1999, became its leader. He stood as the party's candidate in several elections and was elected as a member of the European Parliament for North West England in the 2009 European Elections.
In 1998, Griffin was convicted of distributing material likely to incite racial hatred, for which he received a suspended prison sentence. In 2005, he was acquitted of separate charges of inciting racial hatred. He has been criticised for many of his comments on political, social, ethical and religious matters, though since becoming leader of the BNP he has sought to distance himself from some of his previously-held positions, which include Holocaust denial. In recent years, where Griffin has been invited to participate in public debates or political discussions, the events have proven controversial, and have often resulted in protests and cancellations.
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Nigel Farage
Nigel Paul Farage ( /ˈfærɑːʒ/, FARR-ahzh; born 3 April 1964, Farnborough, Kent), is a British politician and is the Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), a position he also held from September 2006 to November 2009. He is a Member of the European Parliament for South East England and co-chairs the Eurosceptic Europe of Freedom and Democracy group.
Farage is a founding member of the UKIP, having left the Conservative Party in 1992 after they signed the Maastricht Treaty. Having unsuccessfully campaigned in European and Westminster parliamentary elections for UKIP since 1994, he gained a seat as an MEP for South East England in the 1999 European Parliament Election — the first year the regional list system was used — and was re-elected in 2004 and 2009. Farage describes himself as a libertarian and rejects the notion that he is a conservative.
In September 2006, Farage became the UKIP Leader and led the party through the 2009 European Parliament Election in which it received the second highest share of the popular vote, defeating Labour and the Liberal Democrats with over two million votes. However he stepped down in November 2009 to concentrate on contesting the Speaker John Bercow's seat of Buckingham in the 2010 general election.
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Niki Tzavela
Niki Tzavela (Greek: Νίκη Τζαβέλλα; born 30 June 1947 in Lamia) is 1 of the 22 Greek MEPs in the European parliament. She headed the EP list of LAOS. She is Vice-Chair of the Delegation for Relations with the United States of America and Vice-Chair of the Europe of Freedom and Democracy Group in the European Parliament. She is a Member of the Committee on Industry, Research, and Energy and a Member of the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee. She has also been a MP in the Greek parliament between 1994 and 1996.
Former non political positions include Head of the Greek Manpower Employment Organisation (1989-1993), Vice-Chair of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games Organising Committee (OEOA), and Vice-Chair of the Kokkalis Foundation.
Tzavela attained her Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Psychology from Howard University in Washington, DC and her Master’s in Labour Economics from Leeds University.
She is a Board Member of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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Nikki Sinclaire
Nicole "Nikki" Sinclaire (born 26 July 1968 in London) is a European politician from the United Kingdom and is a current Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands. She was elected MEP in June 2009 as a UK Independence Party candidate but had the UKIP whip withdrawn in 2010.
Educated at the University of Kent at Canterbury graduating with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) qualification. Sinclaire has worked for Lloyds as a 'problem troubleshooter', was employed as a Gateway store manager and worked in Cyprus in the hospitality sector.[citation needed]
Sinclaire held many positions within UKIP including Head Office Manager (1999–2001), member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) and Party Secretary under the leadership of Roger Knapman.
In 2001 she was disqualified from the NEC, shortly after being elected.[citation needed] In 2003, representing herself, she took UKIP to the High Court, successfully overturning her disqualification.[citation needed] In 2004 she became Party Secretary, a position which she left to become political assistant and advisor to Mike Nattrass, MEP for the West Midlands (2004–2009).[citation needed]
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Nirj Deva
Niranjan Joseph "Nirj" De Silva Deva-Aditya FRSA DL (born 11 May 1948) is a politician from the United Kingdom. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been a Member of the European Parliament representing South East England since 1999. He was previously a Member of Parliament (MP) in the British House of Commons from 1992 to 1997, representing the constituency of Brentford and Isleworth.
Deva was born in Sri Lanka into a politically active family, and was raised in Britain. He was only the fourth Asian-born person to be elected a Member of the House of Commons, and was the first Asian-born person to be elected as a Conservative member of the European Parliament.
Deva was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, to a leading family of Rajasthani (Indian) descent, and is a Roman Catholic. He spent his Primary and secondary education at St.Joseph's College, which is a leading Catholic school in Colombo. He holds Sri Lankan and British citizenship, and speaks Sinhalese and English.
Deva was educated at Loughborough University, where he completed a degree in Aeronautical Engineering and was subsequently a Postgraduate Research Fellow in Economics.
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Norbert Glante
Norbert Glante (born 8 August 1952 in Caputh) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
He is a member for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, a member of the Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with Mercosur.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Germany)
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Norica Nicolai
Norica Nicolai (born Norica Clinci; January 27, 1958) is a Romanian lawyer and politician. A member of the National Liberal Party (PNL), she was a member of the Romanian Senate for Cluj County from 2000 to 2008, and has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2009. She was at the centre of a conflict between Prime Minister Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu and President Traian Băsescu in early 2008, with the latter rejecting, ultimately successfully, the former's nomination of Nicolai to be Justice Minister.
She is married and has one child.
She was born in Sinaia, and, following secondary studies at the town's George Enescu High School, in 1983 she graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Bucharest; she also holds a doctorate in criminal law. From 1983 to 1991, she was a prosecutor at the Olteniţa courthouse, and from 1991 to 1993 was legal adviser to a rural trucking company in Călăraşi. She worked as a lawyer in the same city from 1991 to 1997. From 1998 to 2001, Nicolai was president of the Economic and Social Council, a public institution that facilitates dialogue between employers, unions and the government; and was a secretary of state at the Labour Ministry from 1997 to 2000. She belonged to the Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNŢ-CD) from 1997 until August 2000, when it expelled her for signing a declaration in support of then-PNL member Theodor Stolojan; the PNŢ-CD supported Mugur Isărescu in the upcoming presidential election.
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Oldřich Vlasák
Oldřich Vlasák (born on 26 November 1955 in Hradec Králové) is a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Civic Democratic Party, part of the European Conservatives and Reformists and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism, a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community and a substitute for the Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Czech Republic)
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Ole Christensen
Ole Christensen aka. Ole EU (born 7 May 1955 in Pandrup, North Jutland) is a Danish politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Social Democrats, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
He is also a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development and a member of the delegation to the EU–Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee.
Christensen worked as an ironmonger from 1971 to 1976, before joining the Queen's Lifeguard Regiment as a Junior NCO (1976-90). During his service, he was a senior shop steward and member of the National Executive of HKKF trade union for non-commissioned army personnel.
He was Vice-Chairman of the Danish TUC in Brovst (1984-1988), and Chairman of Brovst constituency organisation (1984-1989). He then served as a member of Brovst town council (1989-2004), including terms of office as Mayor (1998-2002) and Deputy Mayor (2002-2004).
Having matriculated at the Aalborg School of Commerce in 1979, and graduated Bachelor of Commerce in 1984, he qualified and worked as an instructor at Aalborg Training School in 1990 before becoming a business consultant with Aalborg Trade Council (1992-98). He has been involved in various other trade union and local government organizations in North Jutland.
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Olle Ludvigsson
Olle Ludvigsson (born 1948) is a Swedish politician and trade union leader. He became one of the Swedish Social Democratic Party's Members of the European Parliament after the 2009 election.
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Olle Schmidt
Torsten Olof "Olle" Fredrik Schmidt (born July 22, 1949 in Axvall, Västra Götaland County) is a Swedish politician. He has served as a Member of the European Parliament for the Swedish Liberal People's Party, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, between 1999 and 2004, and again since 2006.
He sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. He is also a member of the Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners and a member of the delegation for relations with Croatia.
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Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci (Italian pronunciation: [oˈrjana falˈlatʃi]; 29 June 1929 – 15 September 2006) was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A former partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career. Fallaci became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution, and her interviews with many world leaders during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
After retirement, she returned to the spotlight after writing a series of articles and books critical of Islam that aroused support as well as controversy.
Fallaci was born in Florence, Italy, in 1929. Her father Edoardo Fallaci, a cabinet maker in Florence, was a political activist struggling to put an end to the dictatorship of Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. During World War II, she joined the resistance despite her youth, in the democratic armed group "Giustizia e Libertà". She later received a certificate for valour from the Italian army. In a 1976 retrospective collection of her works, she remarked that:
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Othmar Karas
Othmar Karas (born 24 December 1957 in Ybbs an der Donau, Lower Austria) is an Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Austrian People's Party, vice-chair of the EPP-ED group, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
He is also a substitute for the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, a member of the delegation for relations with Japan, a substitute for the delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China, and a member of the temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007–2013.
He is married to Dr. Christa Waldheim-Karas, daughter of Kurt Waldheim and Elisabeth Waldheim.
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Paolo De Castro
Paolo De Castro (born 2 February 1958) is an Italian politician, and former Italian Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policies. In 2009 he was elected to the European Parliament, and currently serves as chair of the parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
He has also served as professor of Agricultural Economics at the Veterinary Medicine University of Bologna. He is married and has two sons.
Born in San Pietro Vernotico, Apulia, in 1980 he graduated he graduated at Bologna getting the maximum mark in Agricultural Science.
From January 2001 to May 2004 the Minister chaired the "Nomisma" Economics' Studies Institute. He also chaired the Qualivita Foundation and currently runs the International Agricultural Policy Magazine edited by the Informatore Agrario in Verona. He is professor at the Agriculture Academy of Bologna, the Georgofili Agricultural Economics Academy of Florence, the Agriculture Academy of Pesaro and the National Academy of Treja. From 1996 to 1998 he was economic advisor of Prime Minister Romano Prodi and Economic Advisor of the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Michele Pinto. Since 1 June to 31 December 2000 he was appointed as special Advisor of the EU Commission's President. From 21 October 1998 to 25 April 2000 he served as Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Policies in both Governments chaired by Massimo D'Alema. On November 2000, President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi awarded him the "Cavaliere di Gran Croce al merito della Repubblica Italiana"merit honour. He is scientific coordinator of the International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM) in Paris, and scientific Director of the Genio Rurale Magazine: a magazine on goods evaluation and territory science of Edagricole. He is also member of the Italian Agricultural Economists' Society (SIDEA) and of the European Agricultural Economics Association (EAEA).
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Paolo Mieli
Paolo Mieli (born February 25, 1949) is an Italian journalist who has been director of Italy's leading newspaper, Corriere della Sera.
Born in Milan, Mieli debuted as journalist at 18 for L'Espresso, where he remained for some 20 years. As a member of Potere Operaio he initially adhered to far-left positions. Later he took a more moderate stance under the influence and tutelage of his teachers, Rosario Romeo and Renzo De Felice.
From the 1980s Mieli worked for the most important Italian newspapers. After one year and a half at La Repubblica, he was hired by La Stampa in 1987. He became director in 1990. Two years later he moved to Il Corriere della Sera during the Tangentopoli bribe scandal. In May 1997 he was replaced by Ferruccio De Bortoli, assuming the position of editor-in-chief of RCS MediaGroup, publisher of Corriere della Sera. He continued his collaboration for that newspaper and returned as its director on December 24, 2004.
Mieli served as a member of RAI TV, Italy's state network, but turned down the opportunity to be Chair amid a 2003 controversy.
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Pascal Canfin
Pascal Canfin (born in Arras on 22 August 1974) is a French politician, currently serving as Deputy Minister for Development under the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
A member of Europe Écologie–The Greens, he was a Member of the European Parliament between the 2009 European election, when he was elected in the Île-de-France constituency, and his appointment to Government.
Pascal Canfin graduated initially from the Bordeaux Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and then from Newcastle University.
Between 2003 and 2009, he was a journalist for the monthly magazine Alternatives économiques and a specialist for questions linked to the environment, social economy as well as corporate social responsibility.
Prior to that he was a human resources consultant (1999–2003), after being a representative of the French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT) trade union for Nord-Pas-de-Calais (1997–1999).
Alongside his journalistic work, Pascal Canfin got politically involved with the Greens (France) in France. He was responsible for the party’s Economic, Social and Public Services Committee between 2005 and 2009.
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Pascale Gruny
Pascale Gruny (born February 18, 1960) was a member of the National Assembly of France. She represented the Aisne department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
She is a Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the North-West constituency.
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Patrice Tirolien
Patrice Tirolien (born 17 March 1946 in Grand-Bourg, Guadeloupe) is a French politician who served in the French National Assembly from 1995–1997 and is also a Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the Overseas constituency. He is also mayor of Grand-Bourg.
In the 2009 European elections, he was the PS candidate in the Atlantic Section of the Overseas constituency, and his candidacy was locally supported by all anti-independence parties. The PS won one seat in the constituency with 20.26% of the votes, and since the PS obtained its highest result in the Atlantic Section, Tirolien was elected to the European Parliament.
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Patrick Le Hyaric
Patrick Le Hyaric (born February 4, 1957 in Orléans, Loiret) is a French journalist, politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the Île-de-France constituency. He is the director of the newspaper L'Humanité since 2000, when he replaced Pierre Zarka.
Le Hyaric is a member of the executive of the French Communist Party and also the federal secretary of the Communist federation in the Morbihan. In 2004, he led the PCF list in the West constituency. The PCF list obtained 4.1% in the constituency but no MEPs were elected.
In 2009, he was selected to lead the Left Front list in the Île-de-France constituency ahead of the 2009 European elections. His list won 6.32% of the vote and he was elected to the European Parliament.
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Patrizia Toia
Patrizia Toia (born on 17 March 1950 in Pogliano Milanese) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for North-West with the Margherita Party, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.
She is a substitute for the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, a member of the Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee and a substitute for the Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)
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Paul Nuttall
Paul Andrew Nuttall MEP (born 30 November 1976, Liverpool) is the Deputy Leader of the UK Independence Party and Member of the European Parliament for the North West England region.
Nuttall was educated at Savio High School and studied A-Levels at Hugh Baird College in Bootle, Merseyside, followed by a HND in Sports Science at North Lincolnshire College. He holds a BA in History from Edge Hill University as well as a Masters from Liverpool Hope University, specialising in the British Edwardian politics. He earned a Certificate of Education from the University of Central Lancashire.
Between academia and politics, Paul Nuttall lived and worked in Barcelona before returning to Merseyside to lecture history at Hugh Baird College and Liverpool Hope University.
Paul Nuttall joined the UK Independence Party in 2004 and formed the South Sefton branch in 2005 to enable the party to contest elections in north Merseyside. This branch has gone on to be one of the best performing branches for UKIP in the North West region and Paul continues to be involved with the branch today. Between 2006-07, he worked as an assistant in the European Parliament to John Whittaker, MEP
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Paul Rübig
Paul Rübig (born on 6 May 1953 in Wels) is an Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Austrian People's Party, Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Budgets, a member of the Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Austria)
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Paulo Rangel
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Pavel Poc
RNDr. Pavel Poc (* 26. 5 1964, Havlíčkův Brod) is member of Czech Social Democratic Party and member of European Parliament.
Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague - final state examination in general biology (1988); doctorate in natural science in the field of general biology (1988). Environmental law - Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague (1994–1995). Master of Public Administration - University of Economics, Prague and EHSAL Management School Brussels (1996). Financial management course (1999). Course in local economic development (Fond pomoci místní správě) (2000).
Expert at the ethological laboratory of the Physiology Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ČSAV), Prague (to 1992). Employee of the Mariánské Lázně municipal authority - municipal ecologist (1992); from 1993, head of the environmental department. Member of the board of directors of CHEVAK a.s., member of the supervisory board of Parking Centrum a.s., Mariánské Lázně (1998–2002). Commercial director, executive director and partner, Zahradní a parková spol. s r.o. (2003–2009).
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Paweł Kowal
Paweł Kowal (born 22 July 1975 in Rzeszów) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for Poland Comes First (PJN). He is currently Chairman of the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee in the European Parliament.
Kowal was elected to the Sejm in the 2005 election for Law and Justice, having received 12,625 votes in 12 – Chrzanów district. He won re-election in 2007: having more than doubled his personal vote to 26,184.
In 2009, he ran for the European Parliament in the Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie constituency, which includes Chrzanów. He came second amongst PiS candidates, behind Zbigniew Ziobro, with Law and Justice winning two seats, so was elected. He resigned his seat in the Sejm three days later.
During the 2010 presidential election Kowal was the head of the delegation of the European Parliament's observers. He joined Poland Comes First when that party split from Law and Justice in 2010.
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Paweł Zalewski
Paweł Zalewski (born September 25, 1964 in Warsaw) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 14068 votes in 11 Sieradz district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwość list.
He was also a member of Sejm 1991-1993.
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Pervenche Berès
Pervenche Berès (born 10 March 1957 in Paris) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. She is a member of the Socialist Party; part of the Party of European Socialists. On 28 July 2004 she was elected Chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.. She was the rapporteur of the Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (CRIS).
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Peter Jahr
Peter Jahr (born 24 April 1959 in Burgstädt) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament. He was elected on the CDU ticket and sits with the European People's Party group.
After Abitur and military service Peter Jahr entered the Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig to study agricultural science. In 1984 he graduated as Diplom-Landwirt (comp. Master of Agricultural Engineering) and in 1988 obtained a doctorate (Dr.agr.).
From 1984 until 1988 he was Research Assistant at the Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig. In 1988 he joined the Justus von Liebig Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft as administrator. In 1990 he became manager of the Agrar Gmbh, Taura. Since 1995 he is a sideline farmer.
Peter Jahr is married and has four children.
Peter Jahr was a member of the Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany from 1988 to 1990 and joined the Christian Democratic Union in 1990.
From 1990 to 2002 Peter Jahr was Member of the Landtag of Saxony, the German state of Saxony's parliament. He left the Landtag to become a member of the German Bundestag representing the district of Döbeln - Mittweida - Meißen II.
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Peter Skinner
Peter Skinner (born 1 June 1959 in Oxford) is a Member of the European Parliament for the Labour Party for South East England. Educated at St. Josephs R.C. Secondary Modern School in Orpington, Kent, he attended Bradford University between 1979 and 1982 where he attained a BSc in Economics and Politics. Between 1986 and 87 he undertook a post-graduate course in Industrial Relations and in 1991 completed a post-graduate Diploma in Education. He has been a member of the European Parliament since 1994, when he represented the Kent West constituency before the reforms in European Elections created multi-member constituencies based on British regions in 1999.
In both 1999 and 2004 he was elected as the top candidate on the Labour Party's list, determined in 1999 by the NEC, and in 2004 by a ballot of party members. In 2009, he was re-elected.
Peter Skinner was born in Oxford on 1 June 1959. He attended Bradford University, graduating from there with a BSc in Economics and Politics, and was later a post-graduate student at the Universities of Warwick, Coventry and Greenwich. Skinner has also gained a professional qualifications in Management.
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Peter van Dalen
Peter van Dalen (born 3 September 1958 in Zwijndrecht) is a Dutch civil servant and politician. He is a member of the ChristianUnion party, a socially conservative Protestant party, and was formerly a member of the Reformatory Political Federation (RPF), which merged with the Reformed Political League (GPV) to form the ChristianUnion. He is a Member of the European Parliament in the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) grouping.
Van Dalen was educated at the Develstein College, in Zwijndrecht, and studied history and international relations at Utrecht University. At university, van Dalen was a member of the SSR-NU, a Christian social club for students, and worked in the House of Representatives of the Netherlands as a member of staff for Meindert Leerling, with responsibility for health policy. After graduating in 1983, van Dalen enrolled in Utrecht's law school, but had to drop out in 1985 because he was constantly travelling abroad and was too busy to keep up with his studies. He became a senior policy officer for Leen van der Waal, a Member of the European Parliament for a joint RPF-GPV-SPG (Reformed Political Party) ticket in 1984. In 1989, van Dalen joined the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, dealing with the then-European Economic Community (EEC). From 1990 to 2009, van Dalen held increasingly senior positions in the Ministry, reaching the position of Superintendent-Director of the Inspectorate of Transport and Public Works.
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Peter Šťastný
Peter Šťastný (born September 18, 1956), also known colloquially as "Peter the Great" and "Stosh", is a retired Slovak professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1980 to 1995. During his time with the Quebec Nordiques, Stastny became a Canadian citizen. Since 2004, he has also served as a Member of the European Parliament for Slovakia. During his NHL career, he played with the Quebec Nordiques, New Jersey Devils, and St. Louis Blues.
He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1998 and ranks 34th all time in NHL points (and second overall for Slovaks).
Peter Šťastný was a prolific scorer in the NHL in the 1980s. He started his career in the NHL with the Quebec Nordiques in 1980 and was traded in 1989 to the New Jersey Devils. As a star member of a team playing in a francophone city, Stastny endeared himself to the Quebec fans by learning to speak French, and later learned to speak English. He retired as a member of the St. Louis Blues in 1995.
When the startling news broke in 1980 that Czechoslovakia player of the year, Peter Šťastný, and his brother Anton, had defected to Canada to play with the Quebec Nordiques, it represented a watershed moment in professional hockey as one of the first major stars of Eastern bloc hockey to join the NHL. The following year, his brother Marián joined them to become the third trio of brothers to play on the same professional hockey team (the first being the Bentley brothers of the Chicago Blackhawks in the 1940s and the second being the Plager brothers of the St. Louis Blues in the 1970s).
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Petra Kammerevert
Petra Kammerevert (born 1 June 1966 in Duisburg) is a German politician. Since 2009, she has been a Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
Following her Abitur in Düsseldorf in 1985, Kammerevert studied sociology and political science at the University of Duisburg, graduating with a degree in Social Sciences. Between 1992 and 2002, she worked as a scientific adviser to a Member of the European Parliament, spending the first eighteen months in Brussels and the remainder in Düsseldorf. From 2002-2009 she worked as a consultant for the ARD public service broadcasting company.
She is married with one adult step-son and lives in Düsseldorf.
Kammerevert joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1984 and initially participated as a board member of the Young Socialists in the SPD's Lower Rhine regional group between 1987 and 1990. In 1992 she assumed the chair of the Young Socialists in the SPD Düsseldorf, an office which she retained until 1995. Since 1997, she has been a member of the executive committee of the SPD Düsseldorf. Between 1999 and 2009, she was a member of the municipal council of Düsseldorf. Since 2004, she has also been a member of the executive committee of the SPD Lower Rhine region.
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Phil Bennion
Phillip Bennion (born 7 October 1954) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He sits as a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands, having replaced Liz Lynne after she stepped down in February 2012.
Bennion was born in Tamworth, Staffordshire and educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School. He went on to study agriculture and agronomy at Aberdeen and Newcastle. After returning to Staffordshire to run his family farm, he gained a second degree, in history and economic history, from the University of Birmingham. He served as a councillor on Lichfield District Council from 1999 to 2011, and he has unsuccessfully contested four general elections, including Tamworth in 2005 and Telford in 2010.
Bennion advised Charles Kennedy on agricultural issues during his leadership of the Liberal Democrats. Bennion went on to serve on the party's federal policy committee for eight years. He was second on the party list for the West Midlands constituency at the 2009 European Parliament election, but the party's 12% share of the vote entitled them to only one seat. When Liz Lynne stepped down in February 2012, electoral rules meant that Bennion, as the next Liberal Democrat candidate on the list, took her seat.
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Philip Bradbourn
Philip Bradbourn OBE MEP (born 9 August 1951, Tipton, Staffordshire) is a British politician, and Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands, for the Conservative Party. He has been a member of the European Parliament since 1999.
He was a parliamentary candidate for Wolverhampton South East in the 1992 general election and stood for the European Parliament in County Durham in 1994.
Until his election he was adviser to the Conservative Group Leader on Wolverhampton City Council. He held various local authority posts mainly based around planning. He was also the Chairman of the West Midlands Region Conservatives.
In the 1992 General Election he stood as Conservative Candidate in the Wolverhampton South-East Parliamentary Constituency and in the 1994 European Elections was European Conservative Candidate for the County Durham European Constituency.
Born in Tipton in 1951, Philip Bradbourn was educated at Tipton Grammar School and then at Wulfrun College and Worcester College where he obtained a post-graduate Diploma in Municipal Administration in 1972. Raised in the Black Country, he still lives in the area.
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Philip Claeys
Philip Claeys (born on 24 May 1965 in Ghent) is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Flanders with the Vlaams Belang, a far-right political party condemning immigration, social integration, and fighting against the federal unity of Belgium. He sits on its Committee on Foreign Affairs, and is a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education and a member of the Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand. Since late 2010, he has been a board member of the pan-European eurosceptic party European Alliance for Freedom
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Belgium)
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Philippe de Villiers
Viscount Philippe Le Jolis de Villiers de Saintignon, known as Philippe de Villiers, born on 25 March 1949, is a French politician. He was the Mouvement pour la France nominee for the French presidential election of 2007. He received 2.23% of the vote, putting him in sixth place. As only the top two candidates advance to the second round of voting, he was eliminated from the race. Before and after the election, Villiers has been internationally notable for his criticism of Islam in France.
Villiers was born in Boulogne in the département of Vendée, France, the second of five children and first son of Jacques Le Jolis de Villiers de Saintignon (born Meurthe-et-Moselle, Nancy, 14 November 1913) and wife Edwige d' Arexy (born Loire Atlantique, Nantes, 1 July 1925). His paternal grandfather, Louis Le Jolis de Villiers, born at Brucheville on 17 October 1874, was killed in action in World War I at Saint-Paul-en-Forêt on 10 September 1914, and married on 24 October 1904 Jeanne de Saintignon (Auverre, 27 July 1880 - 25 August 1959), by whom he had five children, the youngest of whom was Philippe's father Jacques.
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Philippe Juvin
Philippe Juvin (born 1 February 1964 in Orléans, Loiret) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the Île-de-France constituency.
Juvin was president of the Union of Youths for Progress, a left-wing Gaullist youth movement, between 1989 and 1995. As a member of the Rally for the Republic, he joined the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) in 2002. He has since held executive position within the UMP's Hauts-de-Seine section.
He is currently Mayor of La Garenne-Colombes, where he was first municipal councillor between 1983 and 2001 before being elected mayor that same year and easily re-elected in 2008.
In the 2009 European elections, he was the fifth candidate on the Union for a Popular Movement list in the Île-de-France region, and was elected to the European Parliament.
Considerably implied in his charge of European member of parliament and very ambitious,he competes for very high functions
From June 2009 to January 2010, date his resignation of the General Council of the Hauts-de-Seine, Philippe Juvin kept his councillor's mandate looking till the definitive validation of the European elections of June, 2009. Philippe Juvin accumulated during this period the functions of mayor, Member of the European Parliament, councillor and department head of a hospital.
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Philippe Lamberts
Philippe Lamberts (born 1963 in Brussels) is a Belgian politician, co-spokesperson of the European Green Party (first with Ulrike Lunacek, then with Monica Frassoni) and a Member of the European Parliament for the Ecolo party.
He graduated as an engineer at the Université catholique de Louvain in 1986. Since 1987 he has worked as a manager in the private sector. Between 1999 and 2003 he was an adviser of the Vice-Prime Minister Isabelle Durant on foreign affairs and defence.
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Pier Antonio Panzeri
Pier Antonio Panzeri (born 6 June 1955) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the North-West with the Democrats of the Left (DS), part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on Transport and Tourism. He is also a member of the Delegation for relations with the United States.
Panzeri was born in Rivolta d'Adda, province of Cremona. Between 1995 and 2003, he was General Secretary of the Metropolitan Chamber of Labour of Milan. Panzeri is currently a member of the national leadership of the DS.
In 2003-2004, he was Responsible for European policies; he devised and carried out a humanitarian mission to Belém, Brazil, and was a promoter and organiser of events to help the civilian victims of the Yugoslav wars. He attended the General Assembly of the United Nations as an observer for Israeli-Palestinian issues.
In 1996-2003, he worked with the city authorities of Milan, Barcelona, and Frankfurt, in the context of an international project to compare experiences regarding economic development, immigration and welfare, and to devise a future European municipality model.
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Pilar del Castillo
Pilar del Castillo Vera (born 31 July 1952 in Nador, Morocco) is a Member of the European Parliament from Spain.
Minister of Education, Culture and Sport from 2000 to 2004, she was elected to the national parliament at the 2004 General Election representing Granada Province but resigned in July 2004 when she was elected to the European Parliament in the European elections of 2004 for the first time.
She is a member of the Partido Popular (People's Party) which is in turn a member of the European People's Party.
She is a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, a member of the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya)
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Pino Arlacchi
Giuseppe Arlacchi, also known as Pino, (February 21, 1951) is an Italian sociologist and is well known worldwide for his studies and essays about the Mafia. Actually he represents the Italian Democratic Party and is a member of the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) parliamentary group from 2010.
On September 1, 1997 he was appointed Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna and Executive Director of the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (ODCCP), with the rank of Under-Secretary-General. Currently, he is a full professor of sociology at the University of Sassari.
He was born in Gioia Tauro, Calabria (Italy). In the early 1990s he was involved in the foundation of the Direzione Investigativa Antimafia (DIA), a law-enforcement agency specially entrusted with fighting organized crime.
Later on he became president of IASOC (Internation Organization of studies on organized crime). Finally, he was appointed honorary president of the Giovanni Falcone foundation, named after noted magistrate Giovanni Falcone, who was also a close friend of him.
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Pope Benedict XVI
Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus PP. XVI; Italian: Benedetto XVI; German: Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger on 16 April 1927) is the 265th Pope, a position in which he serves dual roles as Sovereign of the Vatican City State and leader of the Catholic Church. As pope he is regarded as the successor of Saint Peter. Benedict XVI was elected on 19 April 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on 24 April 2005, and took possession of his cathedral, the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, on 7 May 2005. A native of Bavaria, Pope Benedict XVI has both German and Vatican citizenship.
After a long career as an academic, serving as a professor of theology at various German universities—the last being the University of Regensburg—he was appointed Archbishop of Munich and Freising and cardinal by Pope Paul VI in 1977. In 1981, he settled in Rome when he became Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, one of the most important dicasteries of the Roman Curia. From 2002 until his election as Pope, he was also Dean of the College of Cardinals, and as such the primus inter pares among the cardinals. Prior to becoming Pope, he was "a major figure on the Vatican stage for a quarter of a century" as "one of the most respected, influential and controversial members of the College of Cardinals"; he had an influence "second to none when it came to setting church priorities and directions" as one of Pope John Paul II's closest confidants.
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Proinsias De Rossa
Proinsias De Rossa (born 15 May 1940) is a former Irish Labour Party politician. He was President of the Workers' Party and subsequently leader of Democratic Left; later, he was a senior member of the Labour Party. He was Minister for Social Welfare from 1994 to 1997. He was a Member of the European Parliament for the Dublin constituency from 1989 to 1992 and from 1999 to 2012.
Born as Francis Ross in 1940 in Dublin, he was educated at Marlborough Street National School and Dublin Institute of Technology. Soon after his sixteenth birthday, in May 1956, he joined the IRA, and was politically active in Sinn Féin from an early age. During the IRA Border Campaign, he was captured training IRA members in Glencree in May 1956, served seven months in Mountjoy Prison and was then interned at the Curragh Camp.
He worked in his family's fruit and vegetable shop and later was employed as a postman and an encyclopaedia salesman. He took the Official Sinn Féin side in the 1970 split. In 1977 he contested his first general election for the party, which that year was renamed Sinn Féin the Workers Party (in 1982 the name changed again to the Workers' Party).
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Pál Schmitt
Pál Schmitt (Schmitt Pál, Hungarian pronunciation: [ʃmit paːl]; born 13 May 1942) is a Hungarian Olympic fencer and politician who served as President of Hungary from 2010 to 2012.
Schmitt was a successful fencer in his youth, winning two gold medals at the Summer Olympics. Later, he served as an ambassador during the 1990s and was a Vice President of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2010. After briefly serving as Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary in 2010, Schmitt was elected as President of Hungary in a 263 to 59 vote in the Parliament of Hungary. He was sworn in as President on 6 August 2010.
As a result of an allegation of academic misconduct, he was stripped by a legal session of the Senate of the Semmelweis University of his Dr. Univ. degree on 29 March 2012. On 2 April, Schmitt announced to the Hungarian Parliament his resignation as President.
Schmitt started a successful fencing career in 1955 competing for MTK-VM. After winning two Hungarian Championship titles in individual competitions he participated as part of the Hungarian National Fencing Team 130 times between 1965 and 1977. He won the team épée gold medal at the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics. He also won team and individual World Championships in fencing, and collected several second and third place finishes until his active career ended in 1977. He later became the Chief of Protocol of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and presided over the World Olympians Association between 1999 and 2007.
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Rachida Dati
Rachida Dati (27 November 1965 in Saint-Rémy, Saône-et-Loire) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament, representing Île-de-France. Before her election, she held the cabinet post of Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice. She was a spokesperson for Nicolas Sarkozy during the French presidential election of 2007. After his victory, Sarkozy appointed her to his Government on 18 May 2007.
She was elected mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris on 29 March 2008.
Dati was born to a Moroccan father, a bricklayer named Mbarek, and an Algerian mother, named Fatima-Zohra. Rachida Dati is the second child of a family of 12. She spent her childhood in Chalon-sur-Saône in Bourgogne.[citation needed]
After attending Catholic school, she began work at 16 as a paramedical assistant. She then worked for three years as an accountant at Elf Aquitaine while continuing her studies in economics and business management.
After meeting Jean-Luc Lagardère in 1990, she entered the audit management team of Matra Nortel communication. She later spent a year in London at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, in the records management and archiving department. In 1994, she was an auditing supervisor and secretary-general of the bureau of urban development studies at Suez (then Lyonnaise des Eaux). From 1995 to 1997, she worked as a technical advisor at the legal management division of the Ministry of Education.[citation needed]
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Rainer Wieland
Rainer Wieland (b. 19 February 1957, Stuttgart) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Baden-Württemberg. Since 2009 he is one of the 14 Vice Presidents of the Parliament. He is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party. Rainer Wieland is chairman of Europa-Union Deutschland Baden-Württemberg (regional section of UEF) and since 2011 President of Europa-Union Deutschland.
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Ramona Mănescu
Ramona Nicole Mănescu (born 6 December 1972, Constanţa) is a Romanian politician and lawyer. She is a Member of the European Parliament (2007–present) from the National Liberal Party and is part of the ALDE group in the European Parliament. As a member of this group she is a coordinator in the Regional Development Committee and a member in the Culture and Education Committee.
Mănescu has a degree in Law from the Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest. After graduating, the liberal MEP has followed several postgraduate studies, with institutions such as: Romanian Diplomatic Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006), National Intelligence Academy, Supreme National Security College, dissertation on "Romanian Defense Industry" (2006), National Defense University - National Defence College, dissertation on "Romania and the European Security and Defence Policy" (2005). Mănescu also has an MA in "International Relations and European Integration" from the National School of Administration and Political Science of Bucharest (2006).
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Raül Romeva
Raül Romeva i Rueda (born on 12 March 1971 in Madrid) is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds, part of the European Greens and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Spain)
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Rebecca Harms
Rebecca Harms (born 7 December 1956 in Hambrock, Uelzen, Lower Saxony) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Alliance '90/The Greens, part of the European Greens. In July 2009 she was elected as co-president of the The Greens–European Free Alliance group in the European parliament.
Harms began her career as an apprentice landscape designer. In 1984 Undine von Blottnitz employed her as an assistant after being elected to the European Parliament. She has made numerous documentaries. From 1994 to 2004 she was a member of the Parliament of Lower Saxony. From 1998 she was leader of her party. She is a member of the Parteirat of her party.
She lives in Dickfeitzen in the Wendland region. This region became known nationwide for the Gorleben atomic waste site.
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Reimer Böge
Reimer Böge (born 18 December 1951 in Hasenmoor) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament. He was elected on the CDU ticket and sits with the European People's Party group.
He is Vice-Chair of the Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand, member of the Committee on Budgets and the Special committee on the policy challenges and budgetary resources for a sustainable European Union after 2013 and substitute of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Delegation for relations with Japan. In addition he is standing rapporteur on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007–2013.
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Reinhard Bütikofer
Reinhard Hans Bütikofer (born January 26, 1953) is a German politician for the Alliance 90/The Greens party and was from 8 December 2002 till 16 November 2008 party leader, together with Claudia Roth.
Bütikofer was born in Mannheim and grew up in Speyer. He studied philosophy, sinology and history in Heidelberg, but did not finish his studies. He was engaged in the student's movement and one of the "K groups", the Maoist Communist League of West Germany (Kommunistischer Bund Westdeutschland; KBW). From the 1980s onwards, he became active in Heidelberg municipal politics for the Green-Alternative List.
In 1984, he was elected into the town council of Heidelberg and became member of the Green party, the starting point of his political career with Alliance 90/The Greens. In 1988, he was elected in the Landtag (state parliament) of Baden-Württemberg. He was Member of the Landtag until 1996.
After a "family year", in 1997 Bütikofer became co-chairman of the Baden-Württembergian Green party. Two years later he was elected secretary general of the federal party. In December, 2002 he became co-chairman of the federal party. On 3 March 2008 he announced not to stand again as a party chairman and to run for European Parliament in 2009, to which he was elected.
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Renate Sommer
Renate Sommer (b. 10 September 1958, Bochum) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for North Rhine-Westphalia. She is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party.
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Renate Weber
Renate Weber is a Romanian lawyer and human rights activist who, in November 2007, was elected as Member of the European Parliament. She is the first Romanian appointed as Chief of an EU Election Observation Mission. Renate Weber was Chair of the Soros Foundation - Romania (formerly known as the Open Society Foundation Romania), between 1998–2005 and 2006 - 2007. Between 2004 - 2005 she was Advisor on constitutional and legislative matters to the President of Romania.
Renate Weber has graduated the Law Faculty of Bucharest University, in 1979 and became a lawyer at the Bucharest Bar.
In the 1990s, Renate Weber has become one of the strongest voices of the Romanian civil society, being involved in a number of national and international non-profit organization, such as the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (Vienna), where she was Vice-chair (1994–1996), or the Association for the Protection of Human Rights in Romania - Helsinki Committee (APADOR-CH), where she was Co-chair (1994–1999). Renate Weber was the most longest-serving Chairwoman of the National Council at the Foundation for an Open Society - Romania (1998–2005, 2006–2007).
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Richard Ashworth
Richard James Ashworth (born 17 September 1947 in Folkestone) is a Member of the European Parliament for South East England for the Conservative Party. He is married with three daughters. Ashworth was educated at The King's School, Canterbury and studied agriculture and management at Seale-Hayne College in Devon.
He has been the chairman of a further education college (Plumpton in East Sussex) for a number of years as well as serving on several public bodies in the education sector. His interests include music, theatre, sport, aviation and country pursuits.
He is the Conservative Spokesman on budgets in the European Parliament.
He was a parliamentary candidate for North Devon in 1997, and for the South East region for the 1999 European Parliament elections.
Before being elected in 2004 he was a dairy farmer in East Sussex for over thirty years and during this time operated his own dairy business. He has also acted as chairman of United Milk Plc and of NFU Corporate.
He was a member of the Minister of Agriculture's food chain advisory committee.
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Richard Falbr
Richard Falbr (born on 29 September 1940 in Chester) is a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Czech Social Democratic Party, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development, a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with Mercosur.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Czech Republic)
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Richard Howitt
Richard Howitt (born 5 April 1961 in Reading, Berkshire) is a Member of the European Parliament for the Labour Party for the East of England. He has been a member of the European Parliament since 1994.
Howitt was brought up in a single parent family, in a council house and went to a comprehensive school. He graduated with a BA degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford in 1982 and has a Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies from the University of Hertfordshire.
After leaving university, he worked for four years in the voluntary sector and eight years for a disability organisation.
Howitt served as a councillor on Harlow District Council from 1983 to 1995, including three years as Leader of the council. He was the Labour Party candidate in Billericay in the 1987 general election.
He was elected to the European Parliament, representing the Essex South constituency, and has served for the East of England constituency since 1999.
Richard Howitt has been a member of the Labour Party's National Policy Forum since 1994.
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Richard Seeber
Richard Seeber (born 15 January 1962 in Innsbruck) is an Austrian politician (Austrian People's Party ÖVP) and member of the European Parliament. Richard Seeber is married and has four children.
Between 1968 and 1972, Richard Seeber went to the elementary school in Haiming in Tyrol. From 1972 to 1980, he studied at the high school in Imst Tyrol specialising in scientific subjects.
In 1980, Seeber started to study laws at the University of Innsbruck. On June 30, 1984 he was awarded his doctor of law's degree. In the same period, Seeber was enrolled in economic studies at the University of Innsbruck and he completed his degree in 1988 with the title Mag. rer. soc. oec. During his studies, he took various language classes. Under those are English and French.
Thanks to his excellent language skills, he worked as cruise director on Romanian and Bulgarian ships plying the Danube and as tourist guide in Romania and at the Black Sea Coast during 1985 and 1989. From 1987 to the beginning of 1989, Richard Seeber worked for 13 months as barrister at the district court of Imst as well as at the regional court of Innsbruck. In 1990, he worked as trainee lawyer before taking up his new employment in the tourism department of the Tyrol Chamber of Commerce in 1991.
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Riikka Manner
Riikka Manner (née Pakarinen, born August 24, 1981 in Varkaus, Finland) is a Finnish Member of the European parliament since 2009. She represents the Centre Party.
She was elected to the Varkaus city council in 2008. She has worked as a press assistant to Eero Reijonen, Risto Autio, and Paavo Väyrynen. In 2009, she was elected to the European Parliament.
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Rita Borsellino
Rita Borsellino (born 2 June 1945 in Palermo) is a Sicilian anti-Mafia activist, politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Democratic Party. She is the sister of late judge Paolo Borsellino, killed by a Mafia car bomb in 1992.
Graduated in Pharmaceutics in 1967, after the death of her brother Rita Borsellino has become one of the most popular anti-mafia activists in Sicily, and founded in 1995 Libera, a civil organization with the main goal to diffuse an anti-mafia culture among the youth Sicilians, of which she is currently vice-president. Since 1998 she is also Chairman of "Associazione Piera Cutino - guarire dalla talassemia", a non-profit foundation that promotes medical research against thalassaemia.
In 2005, some minor parties of The Union, mainly from the radical left wing, endorsed her as candidate for the primary election. She was then backed also by the Democrats of the Left, being eventually supported by all the coalition parties, except the Daisy (Margherita) who presented another candidate, University of Catania's Dean Ferdinando Latteri. In the primary election, held on December 4, 2005, she then defeated her competitor, and gained the candidacy of the Union for the Sicilian regional election held on 28 May 2006, where she lost to incumbent governor Salvatore Cuffaro.
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Robert Goebbels
Robert Goebbels (born 3 April 1944) is a politician in Luxembourg, and a Member of the European Parliament for the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. Goebbels is often associated with the GMO and Pro-Nuclear lobby.
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Robert Rochefort
Robert Rochefort (born 19 September 1955 in Paris) is a French economist and politician.
In 2009, he joined the MoDem and was selected to lead the MoDem list in the South-West constituency ahead of the 2009 European elections. He was the MoDem's only elected Member of the European Parliament in that region.
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Robert Sturdy
Robert Sturdy (born 22 June 1944 in Wetherby, West Yorkshire) is a British politician, and Member of the European Parliament for the East of England constituency for the Conservative Party. He has held the seat since 1999. Before then, he was the MEP for Cambridge and Bedfordshire North, from 1994 to 1999.
Before being elected he was a farmer and is a former county chair of the Young Farmers.
His son is Julian Sturdy, the MP for York Outer.
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Roberta Angelilli
Roberta Angelilli (born on 1 February 1965 in Rome) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Central with the Alleanza Nazionale, part of the Union for a Europe of Nations and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
She is a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development, a member of the Delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)
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Roberts Zīle
Dr. Roberts Zīle (born June 20, 1958 in Riga) is a Latvian economist and politician and Member of the European Parliament for the National Alliance, a free market national conservative political party in Latvia and part of the European Conservatives and Reformists. He was formerly vice-president of the now defunct Union for a Europe of Nations group.
Zīle was born in Riga and educated at the Riga 25th high school and graduated from the University of Latvia in 1981, with a degree in economics. Later, in 1997, Zīle gained a PhD. in economics from the Latvian University of Agriculture.
During the 1990s, Zīle was a member of the Riga City Council. He was elected a Deputy of the Saeima from Riga in 1995. In the government of Guntars Krasts, Zīle served as the Minister of Finance from 1997 to 1998. He served as the State Secretary for International Trade and Financial Institutions under Prime Ministers Vilis Krištopans, Andris Šķēle, and Andris Bērziņš. In the government of Einars Repše, he served as the Minister of Communications from 2002 to 2004. Zīle was the Prime Ministerial candidate of the For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK (TB/LNNK) parties for the Latvian parliamentary election, 2006. At the 2009 European Parliament elections, Zīle was the top candidate for the For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK ticket, and was elected. TB/LNNK had been in the Union for Europe of the Nations political grouping the European Parliament, but as the group organically broke up, TB/LNNK joined the new European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), whose largest members include the British Conservative Party, the Czech Civic Democratic Party and the Polish Law and Justice party.
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Roger Helmer
Roger Helmer (born 25 January 1944 in London) is a British business executive and politician and a United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands region. He was elected to the European Parliament in 1999 as a Conservative Party MEP, and re-elected in 2004 and 2009. In March 2012 he defected from the Conservatives to UKIP.
On 12 October 2011 Helmer announced that he would resign from the European Parliament at the end of the year, citing "increasing disillusion with the attitudes of the Conservative Party" as the main reason, although admitting that his "twelve-and-a-half years banging my head against the same brick wall in Brussels is perhaps long enough". Helmer expected to be replaced by Rupert Matthews who was next on the Conservative party list in the European Parliament election, 2009. However the Tory party was reported to be looking into golliwog dolls featuring on the front cover of a book published by a company of which Matthews is director and shareholder and would not confirm that Matthews would succeed him. Helmer delayed standing down before deciding to defect to UKIP with the intention to fulfil his term until 2014.
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Rolandas Paksas
Rolandas Paksas ( pronunciation (help·info); born 10 June 1956) is a Lithuanian politician who was President of Lithuania from 2003 to 2004. He was previously Prime Minister of Lithuania in 1999 and again from 2000 to 2001, and he also served as Mayor of Vilnius from 1997 to 1999 and again from 2000 to 2001. He has led Order and Justice since 2004 and has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2009.
A national aerobatics champion in the 1980s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Paksas founded a construction company, Restako. In 1997, he was elected to Vilnius City Council for the centre-right Homeland Union and became mayor. In May 1999, Paksas was appointed Prime Minister, but resigned five months later after a disagreement over privatisation. Paksas joined the Liberal Union of Lithuania (LLS) in 2000. The LLS won the 2000 election, and Paksas became PM again, but he left within seven months after another dispute over economic reforms.
In 2002, Paksas founded the Liberal Democratic Party, and ran for the presidency, winning the run-off against incumbent Valdas Adamkus in January 2003. It emerged that he had granted citizenship to a major campaign donor, leading to his impeachment and removal from office in April 2004. He is the only European head of state to have been impeached. Barred from the Seimas, Paksas was elected to the European Parliament in 2009, while leading his party, now called Order and Justice (TT), and seeking to overturn the ban.
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Romana Jordan Cizelj
Romana Jordan Cizelj (born 8 January 1966) is a Slovenian politician and physicist, currently serving as Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Slovenian Democratic Party, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.
Romana Jordan was born in the Styrian town of Celje, where she attended the prestigious First Celje Grammar School. In 1990 she graduated in electrical engineering at the University of Ljubljana and in 2000 she obtained a PhD on a thesis on nuclear engineering. Between 1990 and 2002 she worked as a researcher at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana.
She entered active politics in 1998, when she was elected on the Supervisory Board of the municipality of Domžale. In 2002, she was elected member of the Domžale Municipal Council on the list of the Slovenian Democratic Party. In 2004, she was elected to the European Parliament.
Romana Jordan Cizelj is a substitute for the Committee on Budgets, a substitute for the temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007–2013, a member of the delegation for relations with the United States, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Canada.
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Rosario Crocetta
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Rovana Plumb
Rovana Plumb is a Romanian member of the European Parliament on the Employment and Social Affairs Committee as well as the EU-Turkey Joint Parliament Committee; she is a substitute on the Environmental, Public Health, and Safety Committee as well as the Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee. Her official party is the Social Democrat Party (Romania), which she has voted with 98.25% of the time. Rovana Plumb was born June 22, 1960 in Bucharest and has attended the Academy of Economic Studies as well as George Washington University, among others. She served as a member of the Romanian Parliament from 2004 to 2007.
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Rowan Williams
Rowan Douglas Williams FBA, FRSL, FLSW (born 14 June 1950) is an Anglican bishop, poet and theologian. He is the 104th and current Archbishop of Canterbury, Metropolitan of the Province of Canterbury and Primate of All England, offices he has held since early 2003.
Williams was previously Bishop of Monmouth and Archbishop of Wales (making him the first Archbishop of Canterbury in modern times not to be appointed from within the Church of England) and had spent much of his earlier career as an academic at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford successively. His primacy has been marked by much speculation that the Anglican Communion (in which the Archbishop of Canterbury is the leading figure) is on the verge of fragmentation and by Williams's attempts to keep all sides talking to one another. On 16 March 2012, it was announced that he has accepted the position of Master of Magdalene College at Cambridge University, beginning in January 2013. He is expected to stand down as Archbishop of Canterbury in December 2012.
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Rui Tavares
Rui Tavares (born 29 July 1972 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese politician and Member of the European Parliament. He was elected in 2009 for the Left Bloc. In June 2011, Tavares became an independent within the The Greens–European Free Alliance group.
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Rumiana Jeleva
Rumiana Ruseva Jeleva Bulgarian: Румяна Русева Желева (born on April 18, 1969 in the village of Zagortsi) was Bulgaria's minister of foreign affairs (July 2009 – January 2010), the third woman to hold this office after Irina Bokova and Nadezhda Mihailova. Jeleva was a key figure in the "Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria" (GERB) political party which won the 2009 parliamentary elections. From 2007–2009 she served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and headed the Bulgarian delegation in the EPP Group. She was nominated by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov as Commissioner in the "Barroso II Commission" and was affiliated with the European People's Party (EPP). However, an article in the German newspaper Die Welt accused her husband of links with the Russian mafia.
Jeleva holds a B.A. in sociology from the University of Sofia (1995) and a PhD in sociology from Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg (2003).
The Bulgarian pronunciation of the name Jeleva is [ˈʒɛlɛvɐ], with the [ʒ]-sound of English pleasure (voiced palato-alveolar fricative). According to the current official standards for the Romanization of Bulgarian, her name should be transliterated as "Zheleva". Because of this confusion, some people erroneously pronounce the name with a y-sound, [j].[citation needed]
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Ryszard Czarnecki
Richard Henry Czarnecki ([ˈrɨʂart ˈxɛnrɨ t͡ʂarˈnɛt͡ski], born 25 January 1963 in London; pol. Ryszard Henryk Czarnecki) is a British-born Polish politician who is a Member of the European Parliament for the Lower Silesian and Opole constituency from Law and Justice. Prior to 2008, he was a member of the Self-Defense party.
He is part of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs, and is a substitute for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe. Member of the "Group on South Asia","South Asia Peace Forum" and "Forum for Balochistan" in the European Parliament.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)
In 2009 European Parliament election he is a candidate of Law and Justice from Kuyavian-Pomeranian constituency.
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Ryszard Legutko
Ryszard Antoni Legutko (Polish pronunciation: [ˈrɨʂart anˈtɔɲi lɛˈɡutkɔ]), born 24 December 1949. Polish philosopher and politician. Professor of philosophy at the Jagellonian University in Kraków, specializing in ancient philosophy and political theory. Known for publications described by extreme left-wing as extreme right-wing, such as "Nie lubię tolerancji" ("I don't like tolerance").
Under communism he was one of the editors of the samizdat quarterly “Arka”. After the collapse of the communist regime he co-founded the Centre for Political Thought, which combines research, teaching, seminars and conferences and is also a publishing house. He has translated and written commentaries to Plato’s Phaedo (1995), Euthyphro (1998) and Apology (2003). He is the author of several books: Plato’s Critique of Democracy (1990), Toleration (1997), A Treatise on Liberty (2007) and An Essay on the Polish Soul (2008). His latest book, Socrates, is forthcoming.
In 2005 he was elected to a seat in the Polish Senate (representing the Law and Justice Party), where he became Deputy Speaker. In 2007 he was Poland’s Education Minister, and in 2007-2009 Secretary of State in the Chancellery of President Lech Kaczyński. He is currently a member of the European Parliament, where he sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee, and Deputy Chairman of the Conservatives and Reformists parliamentary group.
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Sabin Cutaş
George Sabin Cutaş (born February 23, 1968) is a Romanian politician. A member of the Conservative Party (PC), he sat in the Romanian Senate from 2004 to 2008 representing Teleorman County, and has represented Romania in the European Parliament since 2009.
Born in Bacău, Cutaş attended the Aerospace Engineering faculty of the Politehnica University of Bucharest from 1987 to 1992. Between 1995 and 2004, he held a number of posts at Dan Voiculescu-owned companies, including Grivco, Antena 1 (which he headed from 1999 to 2004) and Intact Media Group (director from 2003 to 2004). A member of Voiculescu's PC, he served a term in the Senate, where he led the PC parliamentary caucus in his last year there and twice served as one of the body's vice presidents. He was, at various points, on the economics, foreign policy and culture committees. Elected to the European Parliament in 2009, he sits on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
He is married and has two children.
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Sabine Verheyen
Sabine Verheyen (born 24 October 1964 in Aachen) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament. She was elected on the CDU ticket and sits with the European People's Party group.
From 1983 to 1988 Sabine Verheyen studied architecture at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences. She is married and has three children.
She joined the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in 1990. Since 2001 she is a member of CDU Regional Executive Committee of North Rhine-Westphalia and since 2002 member of the Regional Executive Committee of the CDU Municipal Policy Association (KPV).
From 1994 to 2009 she was member of the city council of Aachen. From 1999 to 2009 she was mayor of Aachen and member of the Euregio Council. In 2009 she was elected to the European Parliament. There she is member of the Committee on Culture and Education and the Delegation for relations with South Africa. In addition she is substitute on the Committee on Regional Development and the Delegation for relations with Iran.
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Sajjad Karim
Sajjad Haider Karim also known as Saj ( born 11 July 1970) is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North West England.
Karim was the first British Muslim elected to the European Parliament on 4 June 2004. He was re-elected in June 2009.
Karim, who is a British Pakistani, was born in Blackburn in Lancashire. He attended Walter Street County primary school Brierfield and thereafter Mansfield High School, Brierfield. He completed his A levels at Nelson and Colne College before studying Law at University. Karim attended the College of Law in Chester studying Law. He qualified as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1997.
His earliest political activity started with leafleting at the age of seven for the then Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Pendle. He later joined the Liberal Democrats in 1989. Sajjad was elected a member of Pendle Borough Council in 1994 and served until 2002 representing Brierfield ward.
Karim, who is the first British Muslim elected to the European Parliament, was elected to represent the North West England in 2004 as a Liberal Democrat. On 26 November 2007 he re-joined the Conservative Party and was re-elected to the European Parliament in June 2009.
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Salvatore Tatarella
Salvatore Tatarella (born on 11 October 1947 in Cerignola) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Southern electoral district with People of Freedom (previously Alleanza Nazionale), part of the Group of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He is a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism, a member of the Delegation for relations with Iran and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with Mercosur countries.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)
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Sampo Terho
Sampo Terho (Born 20 September 1977) is a Finnish politician and scholar. He is currently serving as the chairman of Suomalaisuuden Liitto and Member of the European Parliament.
Terho graduated from University of Tampere in 2003 with a Master's degree in Finnish History, and has worked as a researcher in the Finnish National Defence University. Terho has also served as a peacekeeper in Kosovo. Terho received the second largest amount of votes on the True Finns' electoral list in the 2009 European Parliament election. He succeeded Timo Soini in the European Parliament when Soini was elected to Parliament of Finland in the 2011 election.
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Sandra Kalniete
Sandra Kalniete (born 22 December 1952) is a Latvian politician, author, diplomat and independence movement leader. She served as Foreign Minister of Latvia 2002–2004 and as European Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries in 2004. Since 2009, she has served as Member of the European Parliament for the European People's Party.
She is currently a member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO), Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI) and Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM). Additionally she is on the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee and the Vice-Chair for the Delegation for relations with Japan. Kalniete is also the chairperson of the Reconciliation of European Histories Group, an all-party group in the European Parliament involved in promoting the Prague Process. The group includes 40 MEPs from across the political spectrum including the European People's Party, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats, the Greens, and the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.
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Sandrine Bélier
Sandrine Bélier (born 2 September 1973 in Longjumeau) is a French environmental jurist, politician of Europe Écologie–The Greens and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the East constituency.
In 2009, she was selected to lead the Europe Écologie list in the East constituency ahead of the 2009 European elections. Her list won over 14%, so she was easily elected to the European Parliament.
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Sari Essayah
Sari Miriam Essayah (born 21 February 1967 in Haukivuori) is a Finnish retired race walker and a politician, Member of the European Parliament since 2009. Her father is from Morocco.
After retiring from sports she entered politics and represented the Christian Democrats in the Finnish parliament between 2003–2007 but failed to get reelected in the election of 2007. She served as the Christian Democrats' party secretary from 2007 to 2009. Essayah was elected to the European Parliament in 2009.
Essayah was a president candidate in the finnish president election in 2012, Essayah came last with 2.47 percent of the votes, the winner was Sauli Niinistö.
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Satu Hassi
Satu Maijastiina Hassi (born 3 June 1951) is a Finnish politician, and Member of the European Parliament for the Green League. She served as the Minister of Environment and Development Co-Operation in Paavo Lipponen's second cabinet between 15 April 1999 and 31 May 2002; in accordance with her party's position on the issue, she quit the cabinet in protest of the government's decision to build a fifth nuclear power plant in Finland. Hassi served as the leader of her party between 1999 and 2001. She was a member of the national parliament from 1991 to 2004; she left the parliament when she was elected to the European Parliament as the sole Finnish Green representative in the 2004 election.
In the European Parliament she is Vice President of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, vice member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and member of the Temporary Committee on Climate Change.
Hassi was previously a taistoist, a pro-Soviet member of the Communist Party in the 1970s. She has a licentiate in technology, has worked as an engineer in a power company and taught at Tampere University of Technology. She has published three novels, a collection of poems and several essays. She has also been co-author of a series of physics books for high school students.
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Saïd El Khadraoui
Saïd El Khadraoui (born on 9 April 1975 in Leuven) is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Belgium with the Socialist Party – Different, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism.
He is a substitute for the Committee on International Trade, a member of the Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the United States.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Belgium)
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Sebastian Bodu
Sebastian Valentin Bodu (born December 7, 1970) is a Romanian politician, Member of the European Parliament. He was elected in 2007 and re-elected in 2009, being part of the European People's Party group in the European Parliament. Bodu is a Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Legal Affairs and also a member of the delegation for relations with Canada.
Between 2005 and 2007, Sebastian Bodu was the president of ANAF. He is a member of the Democratic Liberal Party since 2002. Bodu is a lawyer, being a member of the Bucharest Bar between 1996–1998 and 2007–2008.
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Sergej Kozlík
Sergej Kozlík (born on 27 July 1950 in Bratislava) is a Slovak politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Ludova strana - Hnutie za demokraticke Slovensko, and is therefore a Non-Inscrit in the European Parliament.
He sits on its Committee on Budgets, and is a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and a member of the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Slovakia)
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Sergio Berlato
Sergio Berlato (born on 27 July 1959 in Vicenza) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for North-East with the Alleanza Nazionale, part of the Union for a Europe of Nations and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
He is a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, a member of the Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China.
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Sergio Cofferati
Sergio Cofferati (born 30 January 1948) is an Italian politician who, after serving as mayor of Bologna for the Democrats of the Left from 2004 to 2009, and thus has been elected as Member of the European Parliament in 2009 for the Italian Democratic Party.
Cofferati was born at Sesto ed Uniti, in the province of Cremona.
Initially an employee for the Milan's Pirelli and a member of CGIL, Cofferati rose up in the major Italian trade union, becoming leader of Filcea (the chemical labour wing of CGIL) in 1988, and leader of the CGIL itself in 1990, succeeding Bruno Trentin. He led the CGIL until 2002, after having obtained some relevant triumphs such as negotiating the reform of pensions in 1995, and opposing the change of article 18 of the "workers' statute", a 1970 bill, which allows Italian judges to condemn enterprise to assume workers from theirself fired. After having left his position in the CGIL, he went back to his position at Pirelli but his old factory didn't exist anymore.
In 2004, he was elected as Mayor of Bologna, replacing Giorgio Guazzaloca. In 2008, he decided not to run for his second term as mayor; in 2009 he has been candidated and elected to the European Parliament.
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Sharon Bowles
Sharon Margaret Bowles (b. 12 June 1953, Oxford) is a Liberal Democrat politician and Member of the European Parliament for the South East England region of the United Kingdom. As with all the other Liberal Democrat members in the parliament, she sits in the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe grouping.
Before joining the European Parliament Bowles worked as a European patent attorney. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA). She is the European Parliament's only registered patent attorney.
In the 1992 and 1997 general election she was the Liberal Democrat candidate for the Aylesbury constituency. She has been a member of the bureau of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party since 2004.
She replaced Chris Huhne in the European Parliament after he was elected to the House of Commons in the 2005 general election. On 10 November 2007 she was selected as the first placed prospective candidate on the Liberal Democrat list for the 2009 election in her European constituency, and was re-elected to the European Parliament on 4 June 2009. She now serves alongside Catherine Bearder as MEP for South East England.
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Sidonia Jędrzejewska
Sidonia Jędrzejewska (born in 1975 in Kraków)
She graduated from theAdam Mickiewicz University in Poznan with a degree in sociology. From 1999 to 2003 she was a PhD student of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Among others, she has held scholarships from MENiS, the German Academic Exchange Service and the Stefan Batory Foundation.
In the mid-90's, she cooperated with the Association of Young Democrats in Poland, the Youth of the European People's Party and the European Youth Forum. From 1999 to 2003 she was the Vice-President of the Youth of the European People's Party and from 2000 to 2002 she was the Vice-President of the European Youth Forum in Brussels.
She worked as an administrator in the Secretariat of the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets and a research assistant at the University of Central Europe in Warsaw. In 2006, she became an advisor on the EU budget to the European People's Party - European Democrats Group in the European Parliament (EPP-ED), negotiating the Multiannual Financial Framework for the years 2007-2013.
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Siiri Oviir
Siiri Oviir (born 3 November 1947 in Tallinn, Estonia) is an Estonian politician and Member of the European Parliament. She previously belonged to the Estonian Centre Party of where she decided to leave on 9 April 2012.
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Silvia Adriana Ţicău
Silvia Adriana Ţicău (born 14 November 1970 in Galaţi) is a Romanian politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Romania to the European Union.
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Silvia Costa
Silvia Costa Acosta-Martínez (born May 4, 1964 in La Palma, Pinar del Río Province) is a former high jumper from Cuba most known for winning medals at the 1985 IAAF World Indoor Championships and the 1993 World Championships in Athletics. She also has three medals from the Summer Universiade. Her personal best jump (set in 1989) is 2.04 metres, which puts her 9th in the all-time performers list.
Costa is married to Spanish citizen José Sanleandro.
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Simon Busuttil
Simon Busuttil (born 20 March 1969 in Attard) is a Maltese politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Nationalist Party, a member of the bureau of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Budgets.
He is also a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development, a substitute for the temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007–2013, vice-chair of the delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya), and a member of the delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly.
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Sirpa Pietikäinen
Sirpa Pietikäinen (born April 19, 1959 in Parikkala, Finland) is a Finnish politician from the National Coalition Party. She is a Member of the European Parliament since 2008, and re-elected in 2009.
She was in the Hämeenlinna town council (1981-1992). She is a former Member of Finnish Parliament, former Minister for the Environment (1991-1995). Pietikäinen was the Chair of Finnish United Nations Association between 1996 and 2007. Pietikäinen was the World Federation of United Nations Associations chairwoman between 2000 and 2004. She has also worked for the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and One World International.
Pietikäinen has an MBA degree from Helsinki School of Economics. She has received The Knight Commander's Order of the White Rose of Finland (1993). She speaks Finnish, English, French, Swedish and German.
Her articles have been published in:
In 2003, Pietikäinen was convicted of aggravated drunk driving after moving her car in a parking lot at midnight. She was fined, given a suspended prison sentence and banned from driving for five months.
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Slavcho Binev
Archon Slavcho Penchev Binev (sometimes (Slavi Binev) was born on December 10, 1965 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Slavcho Binev was elected member of the European Parliament from Bulgaria on May 20, 2007. He is currently a non-attached MEP.At this moment Binev is President of People for Real, Open and United Democracy / PROUD / President of the Conservative Party for Democracy and Success / CPD and Success /
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Stanimir Ilchev
Stanimir Yankov Ilchev (Bulgarian: Станимир Янков Илчев) (born 31 July 1953 in Burgas) is a Bulgarian politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the National Movement Simeon II, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union.
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Stavros Lambrinidis
Stavros Lambrinidis (Greek: Σταύρος Λαμπρινίδης; born 6 February 1962, in Athens) is a Member of the European Parliament for the PA.SO.K. that served as a Vice President of the European Parliament and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece .
After graduating from the Athens College, M.E.P. Stavros Lambrinidis was admitted in Amherst College in 1980 where he received his B.A. degree in economics and political sciences with the distinctions of Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa and a full scholarship for the rest of his studies (he spent a year in the University of Chicago as well). He completed his education in 1988, with a J.D. degree from Yale Law School (some years after his close friend Hillary Clinton).
In Yale University he worked as an Associate Professor in the School of Business Administration, as well as the editor-in-chief of The Yale Journal of International Law.
He trained in International Trade, Transactions and Arbitration, as a colleague of Lloyd Cutler (founder of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C. and law advisor of the White House during Jimmy Carter's and Bill Clinton's Presidencies). After finishing his training, he was assigned the post of the Chairman of the Committee for Human Rights in the Bar Association of Washington, D.C..
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Struan Stevenson
Struan Stevenson (born 4 April 1948 in Ballantrae, Ayrshire) is a Scottish politician. He is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Scotland and Vice Chair of the Committee on Fisheries, in addition to which, he is member of the Executive of the Scottish Conservative party.
Stevenson served his early political career as a local councillor for 22 years, sitting on South Ayrshire Council and its predecessor body the Kyle and Carrick District Council. He stood for election to Parliament at the 1987 election, the 1992 election and 1997 election. He was then elected to the European Parliament in 1999, and retained his seat in 2004.
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Stuart Agnew
John Stuart Agnew (born 30 August 1949 in Norwich) is a Member of the European Parliament for the East of England region for the United Kingdom Independence Party. He was elected in 2009.
He is a Norfolk farmer who formerly represented Norfolk on the NFU Council. He is a long term UKIP member. In the European Parliament he sits on the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
He ran for UKIP in the 2001 General Election in Mid Norfolk and in the 2005 General Election in Norfolk North, and stood in Broadland in the 2010 UK general election
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Stéphane Le Foll
Stéphane Le Foll (born 9 February 1960 in Le Mans) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the West of France. He is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists, and was first elected in 2004.
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Sven Giegold
Sven Giegold (born 17 November 1969) is a German politician for the Alliance 90/The Greens party and one of the founding members of Attac Germany. He became a member of the Greens only in 2008, and was elected to the European Parliament in the 2009 elections.
Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, Giegold grew up in Hanover, Lower Saxony. He enrolled at the University of Lüneburg in 1991 majoring in political science and economics, and later attended the University of Bremen. He earned his Master's degree from the University of Birmingham in 1996. He returned to the University of Bremen to pursue his Ph.D. under supervision of Jörg Huffschmid, but later abandoned his studies in favor of his political career.
Giegold was one of the 200 founding members of Attac's German branch in 2000 and was one of their most notable activists until 2008.
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Svetoslav Malinov
Svetoslav Hristov Malinov (Bulgarian: Светослав Христов Малинов) (born 19 January 1968 in Dupnitsa) is a Bulgarian politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria, part of the European People's Party, and became an MEP on 1 December 2011.
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Syed Kamall
Dr Syed Salah Kamall (born 15 February 1967) is a British Conservative Party politician, Member of the European Parliament for London.
Kamall was born and brought up in London. He was educated at The Latymer School in Edmonton and holds a degree from the University of Liverpool, a Masters degree from the London School of Economics and a PhD from City University London. He is of Guyanese descent; his grandfather migrated to London from Guyana in the 1950s to start a new life.
He started his career as a Business systems analyst for NatWest Bank Overseas Department (1989–1991). He was a Management Fellow, University of Bath School of Management (1994–1996), Management Research Fellow, Leeds University Business School (1996–1997), Associate Director/Consultant, Omega Partners (1997–2001), and a Consultant at SSK Consulting (2001–2005). Since 2004 he has been a Visiting Fellow at Leeds University Business School where he has lectured MBA students on international business and strategy, and supervised doctoral students' research.
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Sylvie Goulard
Sylvie Goulard (born 6 December 1964 in Marseille) is a French politician. She was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for the West region of France in the 2009 European elections. As an MEP she is a member of the Committee for Economic and Monetary Affairs, and ALDE group coordinator, as well as a substitute member of the Committee for Agriculture and Rural Development. She is a member of MoDem's national executive board and Sylvie is also a foreign affairs advisor, and former president of the Mouvement Européen France fr:Mouvement Europeen-France, the oldest pluralist association defending the European ideal. Having graduated with a law degree from the Université Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille III and having studied at both Sciences Po (Paris) and l'Ecole nationale d'administration (ENA) she now teaches at the College of Europe in Bruges.
Political advisor to Romano Prodi when he was President of the European Commission, from 2001 to 2004, she followed the work of the Convention presided by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing which was primarily made up of members of national parliaments, who had been charged by the European Council to draft a European constitution.
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Sylvie Guillaume
Sylvie Guillaume (born 11 June 1962 in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the South-East France constituency.
Guillaume joined the Socialist Party (PS) in 1988 in the Rhône. She is a regional councillor in the Rhône-Alpes Regional Council, and a Lyon municipal councillor.
In the 2009 European elections, she was the second candidate on the PS list in the South-East region, and was elected to the European Parliament.
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Søren Søndergaard
Søren Bo Søndergaard (born 16 August 1955 in Kyndby) is a teacher, metalworker and former member of the Danish parliament. He is a Member of the European Parliament for the People's Movement against the EU.
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Sławomir Nitras
Sławomir Witold Nitras [swaˈvɔmir ˈvitɔlt ˈɲitras] (born 26 April 1973 in Połczyn-Zdrój) is a Polish politician, political scientist, member of Civic Platform (PO), an MP in the lower house of Parliament from 2005–2009 and currently a Member of the European Parliament.
He was educated at the University of Szczecin, graduating in 1998 in Political Science from the Faculty of Humanities. From 1997 to 1998 he was employed as a lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Szczecin.
From 1998 to 1999 he was manager of the Koszalin voivodeship Governor’s office, and in 1999 - 2002 sat on the Board of the Kruszywa Koszalin PLC mines. He spent the following three years running his own business.
From 1998 to 2002 he was a Solidarity Election Action (AWS) councillor in the Western Pomeranian voivodeship sejmik. He was elected a Civic Platform (PO) MP for Szczecin in the 2005 getting 14238 votes in 41 Szczecin district and 2007 parliamentary elections, gaining 65,993 votes in 2007 (the highest individual number of votes in the constituency since 1989). During both terms in office he was a member of the Treasury Committee and in his second term he was also a member of the Economy Committee and the Accessible Government Extraordinary Committee.
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Tadeusz Cymański
Tadeusz Cymański (Polish pronunciation: [taˈdɛuʂ tsɨˈmaɲskʲi], born 6 June 1955 in Nowy Staw) is a Polish conservative politician. He is anti-left and anti-liberal politician. He was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2005 getting 23518 votes in 25 Gdańsk district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwość list.
He was also a member of Sejm 1997-2001 and Sejm 2001-2005.
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Tadeusz Zwiefka
Tadeusz Antoni Zwiefka (Polish pronunciation: [taˈdɛuʐ ˈzvʲɛfka], born 28 December 1954 in Tuchola) is a Polish journalist and politician. Since 2004, member of the European Parliament.
Tadeusz Zwiefka comes from Tuchola in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship, he worked in Szczecin and Warsaw, and today he lives in Poznań.
He is an educated lawyer but he works as a journalist in Polish TV (TVP) and a lecturer. He was an editor-in-chief of Polish TV regional centre in Poznań, later a journalist in central TVP1 news (Wiadomości), parliamentary reporter, director of the Szczecin TV regional centre. He was a co-founder of the popular Telekurier reporters magazine in TVP3.
He is also an academic lecturer of TV journalism and Polish language culture in Poznań colleges and in the Higher School of Environmental Management in Tuchola (Wyższa Szkoła Zarządzania Środowiskiem w Tucholi). Besides his native Polish language, he speaks some German, English and Russian.
In the European elections of 13 June 2004 he was a candidate of Civic Platform in Kuyavian-Pomeranian constituency and received 26,144 votes - the best result made him the only MEP in the region.
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Takis Hadjigeorgiou
Takis is a Cypriot politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Progressive Party of Working People, sitting with the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group, on the European Parliament's Committee of Foreign Affairs.
He is also a member of the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee and Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees.
Born in Pano Akourdaleia, Paphos in 1956, Takis completed his studies in law National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and journalism (Journalism Workshop) in Athens in 1980 and subsequently moved back to Cyprus. Upon returning to his home country, he worked as a freelance journalist and later produced and aired programs with the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation. He became famous through his TV talk show "Χωρίς Πλαίσια" (Without Borders), which covered controversial issues touching upon the more difficult aspects of Cyprus history. Between 1995 and 2007 he served as the Managing Director of Radio Astra 92.8 in Cyprus.
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Tanja Fajon
Tanja Fajon (born 9 May 1971) is a Slovenian politician and journalist, currently serving as Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.
Fajon was born in Ljubljana, where she obtained her bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Ljubljana. She also holds a BA in marketing in non-profit organizations (with honors). In 2005 Fajon obtained a MA degree in international studies from the College of Interdisciplinary Studies in Belgium.
In December 2010, she was the first person to receive an honorary doctorate from American University in Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in Sarajevo.
A journalist, Fajon worked for Radio Glas Ljubljane between 1991 and 1995. She was also a reporter for Republika (1993) and later worked for RTV Slovenija (1995–2009), from 2001 as its EU correspondent from Brussels.
In 2009 she was elected to the European Parliament on behalf of the Social Democrats, associated with the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats. Fajon is a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and a substitute on the Committee on Transport and Tourism.
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Tarja Cronberg
'Tarja Cronberg (née Mattila, born 29 June 1943 in Helsinki) is a Finnish politician and former Minister of Labour. She was also a Member of the Finnish Parliament (2003–2007), representing the Green League. She was elected as the chairperson of her party in 2005 and remained in this position until 2009, when she was replaced by Anni Sinnemäki.
Cronberg was born in Helsinki, Finland and currently resides in Polvijärvi. She holds two Ph.D. degrees: in technology from Lund University, Sweden and in business administration from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
Cronberg has worked in various positions in both business and education, such as an associate professorship at the Technical University of Denmark, among others. She has long exercised political leadership in Europe's networked society. Currently a member of the European Parliament she was a Member of the Finnish Parliament from 2003 to 2007 and a former Minister of Labor. She chaired the Green League party from 2005 to 2009 and served on several parliamentary committees (foreign affairs, security and defense, employment). She was a member of the EU Competitiveness Council (2008-2009) and of the EU Employment and Social Affairs Council (2007-2009).
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Tatjana Ždanoka
Tatyana Arkad'evna Zhdanok, (Russian: Татья́на Арка́дьевна Ждано́к, also spelled as Tatyana Zhdanok), born May 8, 1950 in Riga, is a Latvian politician and Member of the European Parliament and a co-Chairperson of For Human Rights in United Latvia; part of the European Greens–European Free Alliance group. Zhdanok is co-chairperson of ForHRUL since 2001. Since she is prohibited from being nominated to Latvian Parliament or local councils under Latvian law due to her former allegiance with the Communist Party of Latvia after January 1991, she is (similarly with Alfrēds Rubiks) in the peculiar position of being restricted to Europarliament elections.
Born in Riga, Zhdanok is of Latvian Jewish origin, coming from a family decimated by Latvian Nazi collaborators during World War II.
Zhdanok became politically active in the late 1980s, at first a member of the Popular Front, she soon became one of the leaders of the Interfront, a political organization opposing Latvia's independence from the Soviet Union and market reforms. Prior to that, she taught mathematics at the University of Latvia, where she received her doctorate in mathematics in 1992. In 1989, she was elected to the Riga city Soviet, and in 1990, to Supreme Soviet of the Latvian SSR. Zhdanok was also active with the Communist Party of Latvia.
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Thanasis Pafilis
Thanasis Pafilis (Greek: Θανάσης Παφίλης) (born 8 November 1954) is a Greek politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Communist Party of Greece from 2004 to 2009; part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left. Since 2009 he has been a member of the Greek parliament. He was born in Pitsio, Phthiotis.
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Thanos Plevris
Athanasios Plevris (Greek: Αθανάσιος Πλεύρης) or Thanos Plevris is a Greek member of parliament and son of Greek author Konstantinos Plevris. He was elected into office in the 2007 parliamentary election with the Popular Orthodox Rally party.
Plevris practices law in Athens, having completed post-graduate study in Heidelberg University, and earned a doctorate from the University of Athens. He completed his military service as a sergeant in the Greek special forces. In June 2009 Plevris was elected as MEP and was replaced in the Greek parliament by Georgios Georgiou but returned to the Greek parliament again after the Greek legislative election, 2009.
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Theodor Stolojan
Theodor Dumitru Stolojan (Romanian pronunciation: [teˈodor stoloˈʒan]; born 24 October 1943) is a Romanian politician. An economist by training, he is a leader of the Democratic-Liberal Party. He previously served as Prime minister of Romania from September 1991 to November 1992. He and his wife Elena have a son, Vlad Stolojan, and a daughter, Ada Palea. He is currently a Member of the European Parliament for Romania, representing the Democratic Liberal Party (EPP-ED).
Before the 1989 Revolution he worked at the Committee for State Planning, together with Nicolae Văcăroiu, who was President of the Senate between 20 December 2000 and 14 October 2008.
During the rule of Nicolae Ceauşescu he worked at the Ministry of Finances between 1972 and 1977 as an economist in the State Budget Department, then between 1978 and 1982 as Chief of Accountancy of State Budget and then as deputy director of the Department for Foreign Exchange and International Financial Relations until the 1989 Romanian Revolution. He was the Prime minister of Romania from September 1991 to November 1992, then worked for the World Bank and for a Romanian private company. In 2000 he re-entered politics as a member of the National Liberal Party (PNL); he ran for the presidency of Romania in the November 2000 elections, but came in third, behind Ion Iliescu and Corneliu Vadim Tudor. He was named president of the PNL in August 2002.
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Thijs Berman
Thijs Berman (born September 26, 1957 in Coevorden) is a Dutch politician and a Member of the European Parliament. Thijs is also a member of the AWEPA Governing Council.
Berman was born in the Province of Drenthe and grew up in the Province of Groningen. After initially studying acting in Maastricht, he turned to psychology. He earned a bachelor degree in psychology from Utrecht University in 1983 and a master's from the University of Amsterdam in 1987. Since, he was a correspondent in Paris and Moscow for the Dutch Public Radio (Radio 1), the Dutch international radio Wereldomroep, the agrarian daily Agrarisch Dagblad, and magazine Elsevier. He presented many radio and television shows, notably for broadcaster IKON.
In June 2004 he was elected to the European Parliament. He is a member of the Labour Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Development and the Subcommittee on Human Rights. He is also a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and for the Committee on Budgetary Control. Further he is the chair of the Delegation for relations with Afghanistan.
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Thomas Ulmer
Thomas Ulmer (born 25 July 1956) is a Member of European Parliament representing the Christian Democratic Union of Germany in the European People's Party, a pro-European centre-right European political party.
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Timothy Kirkhope
Timothy John Robert Kirkhope (born 29 April 1945) is a British lawyer and politician, currently serving as Member of the European Parliament for Yorkshire and the Humber for the Conservative Party. After serving for ten years as Member of Parliament for Leeds North East, he was first elected to the European Parliament in 1999. Since December 2004 he has been leader of the Conservative delegation on a number of occasions, and is also the Chairman of the Conservative Friends of Israel's Europe grouping.
Kirkhope was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and educated at the Royal Grammar School there and subsequently at the Law Society College of Law in Guildford before qualifying as a Solicitor in 1973. He was a Senior Partner in Newcastle law firm Wilkinson Marshall Clayton and Gibson (now part of Eversheds) until giving up practice on election to Parliament in 1987.
In 1982 he was elected to Northumberland County Council and served as a Director of Newcastle Airport. He obtained a Private Pilot’s Licence in 1983. He was very active in Hospital Broadcasting being the Chairman of Radio Tyneside for some years, and has maintained his links with the company. He was also very active in charitable work for the Macmillan Cancer Relief organization in Newcastle and the Family Service Unit movement.
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Toine Manders
Toine Manders (born on 14 March 1956 in Stiphout) is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament with the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and the Committee on Legal Affairs. He is also a member of the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China.
In 2009, he rejected as "outrageous" an allegation by a Protestant group that the flag of Europe is a marian symbol, saying that similar symbols were also found in ancient Greece.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Netherlands)
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Tokia Saïfi
Tokia Afféda Saïfi (born July 11, 1959 in Hautmont, Nord) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the North-West of France. She is a member of the Radical party and of the Union for a Popular Movement, part of the European People's Party. She is a former member of Ecology Generation.
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Trevor Colman
Trevor Colman (born 27 August 1941 in St Breward, Cornwall) is a Member of the European Parliament for South West England. He represents the 2nd seat in the constituency, for the UK Independence Party.
He had a grammar school education at Sir James Smith's School, Camelford. Since leaving school, he has had a varied career, working in a farm suppliers company, in a magistrate's clerk's office, as a police officer (1962–1995) and as a script adviser (1994–1998) to the television detective series Wycliffe.
Mr Colman served on the UKIP National Executive Committee between 2004 and 2005.
He presented a programme called European Union: Shock Waves for Life TV in 2004. Life TV's owners were fined £12,000 by regulators OFCOM due to a lack of impartiality and failure to present alternative viewpoints.
Mr Colman was listed third on UKIP's list in the South West region in the European Parliament elections in 2004. UKIP took 22.6% of the vote in the region and their top two candidates, Graham Booth and Roger Knapman were elected to the European Parliament. On 1 October 2008, Graham Booth retired and was therefore replaced in the Parliament by Trevor Colman as the next candidate on the list. For the 2009 election, Colman was the first candidate on the UKIP list.
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Tunne Kelam
Tunne-Väldo Kelam MEP (born Tunne-Väldo Sink 10 July 1936 in Taheva, Estonia) is an Estonian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Pro Patria Union (Estonia), part of the European People's Party.
After graduating from Tallinn 2. Secondary School in 1954 he went on to study history in University of Tartu. After graduation from university he was a senior researcher in the State Central Archives of Estonia from 1959 to 1965 and a lecturer on international relations in Society "Science" from 1959 to 1970. From 1965 to 1975 he was a senior editor of Estonian Soviet Encyclopaedia, but had to quit the job because of his anti-Soviet views. He was then employed by the National Library of Estonia as a senior librarian, but was not allowed to continue on his profession after 1979. From there on he held many menial jobs, including the position of a caretaker in a chicken farm.
By the end of 1980s he had become one of the leading dissidents in Estonian society. He was a founding member of the Estonian National Independence Party (ERSP, Eesti Rahvusliku Sõltumatuse Partei) in 1988 and a member of Estonian Citizens Head Committee, people movement supporting the sovereignty of Estonia, from 1989 to 1990. From 1990 to 1992 he was the Chairman of the Estonian Committee, an executive body of the Congress of Estonia, legislative assembly competing with the Supreme Soviet for political power in Estonian SSR. After a new parliament, Riigikogu was established and elected in summer 1992 he became a member of parliament. He held this position till 2004 when he was elected to the European Parliament. He served as a Vice Speaker of Riigikogu from 1992 till 2003.
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Udo Bullmann
Dr. Udo Bullmann, born on June 8, 1956 in Gießen (Germany), is a German social democratic politician. Since 1999 he has been a representative of the Party of European Socialists (PES) in the European Parliament, where he represents his constituency in Hessen.
Udo Bullmann studied political science, sociology, public law, as well as economy. In 1988 he received the Dr .rer .soc degree. 1989 to 1996 he was a Research Assistant at the University of Giessen. Concurrently he was a scholarship of the German Research Council from 1994 to 1997 and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Government at Strathclyde / Glasgow University from 1994 to 1998. Until being elected to the European Parliament in 1999, he was university lecturer and Jean-Monnet-Professor for Studies on European integration at the Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen.
Since his entry into the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1979, he was mostly engaged for the Young-Socialists. He was also the chairman of the Hesse regional association of the Young-Socialists. In 1999 he got elected for the European Parliament. Since May 2003 he has been deputy chairman of the SPD-group in the European Parliament.
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Ulrike Lunacek
Ulrike Lunacek (born 26 May 1957 in Krems an der Donau) is an Austrian politician. She used to be a Member of Parliament of the National Council of Austria, and since 2009 is a Member of the European Parliament for Austria.
She is a member of the Austrian party The Greens – The Green Alternative. Since 5 May 2006, Lunacek was a spokesperson of the European Green Party. Lunacek works as a professional interpreter for the languages English and Spanish and as a journalist. She lives openly as a lesbian.
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Valdemar Tomaševski
Valdemar Tomaševski (born 3 March 1965), rendered in Polish orthography as Waldemar Tomaszewski, is a [[polish politician and Member of the European Parliament. Leader of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (AWPL), Tomaševski has been an MEP since 2009. He sits in the European Conservatives and Reformists group, of which he is a Member of the Bureau on the group executive.
First elected to Vilnius district council for Electoral Action in 1995, Tomaševski was elected President of AWPL in 1999. He was first elected to the Seimas at the 2000 election, winning 51% of the vote in Šalčininkai. In the same year, he became deputy mayor of Vilnius district, serving from 2000 to 2003. Finding himself as one of only two AWPL members in the Seimas, during the parliamentary term, he moved between factions, including Homeland Union and Order and Justice.
Tomaševski was re-elected to the Seimas in 2004 with 63% of the vote: one of five candidates in the country elected in the first round. He was re-elected again at the 2008 election, winning 61%: eight times his nearest competitor's share. He was AWPL's candidate in the May 2009 presidential election, the first that AWPL had entered, and received 4.7% of the national vote, in fourth, with Dalia Grybauskaite winning comfortably.
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Vicky Ford
Victoria Grace "Vicky" Ford (born September 21, 1967 in Omagh, County Tyrone) was elected as Conservative Party Member of the European Parliament for East of England in the 2009 European Parliament election.
The daughter of two doctors, Ford spent much of her early life in Northern Ireland. Her husband is also a doctor. They have three children.
She studied maths and economics at Trinity College, Cambridge, before working in infrastructure finance for 14 years, mainly at JP Morgan.
Before being elected to the European Parliament in 2009, she was a local councillor in South Cambridgeshire. She was also the Conservative candidate in the 2005 general election for Birmingham Northfield, within which lies the plant of MG Rover.
She was the Conservative Party spokesman on Economic and Monetary affairs in the European Parliament from 2009–11 and is a member of the Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.
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Victor Boştinaru
Victor Boştinaru (born 17 May 1952) is a Romanian member of the European Parliament and sits on the Committee for Regional Development (REGI) and Committee on Petitions (PETI). He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Romania and in the European Union he is part of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.
Boştinaru was educated at the University of Bucharest and holds two degrees from the university (achieved in 1974 and 1981). His degrees are in the areas of History, Geography and Philosophy. Boştinaru worked as Professor of History and Geography at multiple establishments.
In 1991, Boştinaru became Vice President of the National Salvation Front and Vice President of the Democratic Party. Boştinaru later went on to become chairman of the National Salvation Front.
In 1990, he was elected as the MP for Dâmboviţa, and served in this position until 2000. During his time as an MP he sat on committees of foreign affairs and the Committee of the Chamber of Deputies.
In April, Boştinaru became the leader of the Democratic Party Parliamentary Group and served as a member of the Romanian delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1992–1996).
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Viktor Uspaskich
Viktor Uspaskich (Russian: Виктор Викторович Успасских Lithuanian: Viktoras Uspaskichas) (born 24 July 1959 in Urdoma, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Soviet Union) is a Russian born Lithuanian entrepreneur, professional welder and politician.
He arrived in Lithuanian SSR in 1985 and worked as a welder in the gas industry. He left shortly after for Finland, before returning in 1987, divorcing his Belarussian wife with two children (Julia, Eduard) and marrying Jolanta Blažytė. He formed his own company Efektas in 1990, and took citizenship of the newly formed Republic of Lithuania in 1991.
With power he quickly gained tremendous success in his business empire that now includes the importation of natural gas from Gazprom, in addition to flourishing enterprises in the food production and animal fodder industries.
Between 1997 and 2003 he was chairman of the Association of Lithuanian Employers, and in 2000 was selected as a non-party member of the Naujoji sąjunga (New Union) social liberal party in the Seimas (parliament). His own political ambitions led him to form the Darbo Partija (Labour Party) in 2003. The DP scored highly during the 2004 European Parliamentary Elections, gaining 30.2% of the popular vote and returning 5 MEPs. That same year, he became Minister of Economic Affairs in Lithuania's coalition government.
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Ville Itälä
Ville Heimo Antero Itälä (born May 10, 1959 in Luumäki) is a Finnish politician. He was elected member of the Finnish Parliament (Eduskunta) from the district of Finland Proper in 1995. Itälä served as the Minister of Interior under Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen in 2000–2003. He was elected chairman of the National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) in 2001. Following his resignation as party leader in 2004, he was succeeded by Jyrki Katainen. Itälä was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 until 29th February 2012.
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Vincent Peillon
Vincent Benoît Camille Peillon (French pronunciation: [vɛ̃.sɑ̃ pɛ.jɔ̃] ; born 7 July 1960 at Suresnes) is Minister for Education in the French Government. He is a longstanding French politician and since 2004 has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North West France (allied with the Socialist Party and the Party of European Socialists).
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Vito Bonsignore
Vito Bonsignore (born on 3 July 1943 in Bronte, Catania, Sicily) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for North-West with the Cristiani Democratici Uniti, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Budgets.
He is also a vice-chair of the Delegation for relations with the United States and a substitute for the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
He has been convicted and sentenced to 2 years for attempted corruption in the construction of a hospital in Asti.
During Mani pulite (in Turin), he has been accused by Alberto Zamorani to have accepted more than 100 million of lire as under-secretary of the Budget (1992), hidden in a chocolate box.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)
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Vittorio Prodi
Vittorio Prodi (born on 19 May 1937 in Reggio Emilia) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for North-East with the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, a president of the Delegation for relations with South Africa and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council.
He is one of Romano Prodi's six brothers and two sisters
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)
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Vladimír Maňka
Vladimír Maňka (born on 19 September 1959 in Lučenec) is a Slovak politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Direction, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, substitute for the Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Slovakia)
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Vladko Panayotov
Vladko Panayotov (Bulgarian: Владек Тодоров Панайотов) (born 7 May 1950, Pavlikeni) is a scholar and Bulgarian member of the European Parliament and sits on the committee for the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He is also a substitute for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. He is a member of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms party of Bulgaria and in the European Union he is part of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
Panayotov was educated in Moscow and Sofia, and holds a Ph.D. His areas of study include mineral processing and chemical cybernetics. In 1975 he worked as an Engineer at the Central Institute on Complex Automatics in Sofia. Between 1975 and 1977 he carried out regular military service.
Panayotov created an envirnonmentaly friendly technology which extracts non-ferrous metals from industrial waste (including copper, nickel and aluminium. This technology avoids the use of cyanides, acids and over non-environmentally friendly materials and reduces the amount of industrial waste produced.
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Vytautas Landsbergis
Professor Vytautas Landsbergis pronunciation (help·info) (born 18 October 1932) is a Lithuanian conservative politician and Member of the European Parliament. He was the first head of state of Lithuania after its independence declaration from the Soviet Union, and served as the Head of the Lithuanian Parliament Seimas. Professor Landsbergis is an intellectual who has been active in Lithuania's political arena for almost two decades, and is a notable politician who helped contribute to the demise of the Soviet Union. He has written twenty books on a variety of topics, including a biography of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, as well as works on politics and music. He is a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism, and a member of the international advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
Vytautas Landsbergis was born in Kaunas, Lithuania. His father was the famous architect Vytautas Landsbergis-Žemkalnis and his mother, ophthalmologist Dr. Ona Jablonskytė-Landsbergienė, was a Righteous Among the Nations who in 1944 sheltered a Jewish teenager in the family home. In 1952 he placed third in the Lithuanian chess championship, after Ratmir Kholmov and Vladas Mikėnas. In 1955, he graduated from the Lithuanian Conservatory of Music (now Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre). In 1969, he wrote his thesis for his PhD degree. In 1978, he became a Professor at the Lithuanian Conservatory. From 1978 to 1990, he was a professor at both the Lithuanian Conservatory and the Vilnius Pedagogical University. In 1994, he wrote a thesis for his doctor habilitus degree.
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Véronique De Keyser
Véronique De Keyser (born on 23 March 1945 in Brussels) is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Parti Socialiste, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.
She is a substitute for the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Belgium)
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Véronique Mathieu
Véronique Mathieu (born 28 October 1955 in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the East of France. She is a member of the Radical Party, associated to the Union for a Popular Movement, part of the European People's Party.
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Werner Langen
Werner Langen (born 27 November 1949) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Rhineland-Palatinate. He is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party.
Media related to Werner Langen at Wikimedia Commons
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Willy Meyer Pleite
Willy Meyer Pleite (born 19 August 1952 in Madrid) is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Izquierda Unida (United Left). He is a member of the bureau of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries, Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Petitions. He is a substitute for the Committee on Development.
Meyer Pleite was born in Madrid. Member of the PCE since 1970.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Spain)
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Wim van de Camp
Wilhelmus Gerardus Johannes Maria (Wim) van de Camp (born 27 July 1953) is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). Since 14 July 2009 he has been a Member of the European Parliament and the Parliamentary leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal in the European Parliament, representing the European People's Party (EPP). Prior till his nomination for the European Parliament Van der Camp served as a Member of the House of Representatives for 23 years, at the time the second longest-serving MP second only to the in 1981 elected Bas van der Vlies.
Van der Camp studied tropical agriculture in Deventer and law at Radboud University Nijmegen. He worked four years at the Association of Netherlands Municipalities (VNG) before becoming an MP in 1986.
He is openly homosexual and not married. He is a member of the Catholic Church and owns a motorcycle.
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Wojciech Olejniczak
Wojciech Michał Olejniczak [ˈvɔjt͡ɕɛx ɔlɛjˈɲit͡ʂak] ( listen) (born 10 April 1974 in Łowicz, Poland) is a Polish leftist politician and member of the European Parliament.
He was the chairman of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) from 29 May 2005, to 31 May 2008 (the first chairman of that party that was not a member of Polish United Workers' Party) and the vice-speaker of Sejm since 26 October 2005. From 2 July 2003, to 31 May 2005, Olejniczak was the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
He was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2005 getting 31,471 votes in the 11th Sieradz district, running on the SLD list. He was also a member of Sejm 2001–2005. He was reelected on 21 October 2007 getting 51,865 votes in the 9th Łódź district.
On 7 June 2009 he was elected Member of European Parliament from Warsaw constituency, gaining 72,854 votes.
He achieved notoriety in Poland for a speech made during the ECOSY Congress in Warsaw, Poland, which displayed his poor command of the English language. This inspired an internet meme on the basis of his speech.
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Wolf Klinz
Wolf Klinz (born on 13 September 1941 in Vienna) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP), part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE).
Wolf Klinz was Chairman of the Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (CRIS), he sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and he is a substitute for the Committee on Development (DEVE). He is the Vice-Chairman for the Delegation for relations with Canada and a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). In 2009 he replaced Peter Skinner as Chair of the steering committee of the European Parliamentary Financial Services Forum, a platform "promoting effective dialogue between the financial industry and MEPs and contributing to a greater understanding of financial services issues".
Wolf Klinz studied economics and business administration in Paris, Madrid, Berlin and Vienna. He graduated with an M.Com in 1963 from the Hochschule für Welthandel (now Vienna University of Economics and Business), a PhD in 1965, and an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, in 1966.
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Yannick Jadot
Yannick Jadot (born July 27, 1967 in Clacy-et-Thierret, Aisne) is a French environmentalist and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the West France constituency.
As an environmentalist and humanitarian, Jadot co-ordinated Greenpeace actions in France between 2002 and 2008 but also headed the 'Alliance pour la planète and was a key player in the 2008 Grenelle Environnemental Accord.
In 2009, he announced that he was leaving Greenpeace to lead the Europe Écologie list in the West constituency ahead of the 2009 European elections. His list won 16.65% and he was elected to the European Parliament, along with Nicole Kiil-Nielsen.
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Zbigniew Ziobro
Zbigniew Tadeusz Ziobro [ˈzbʲiɡɲɛf ˈʑɔbrɔ] ( listen) (born August 18, 1970 in Kraków) is a Polish politician, since October 2005 until November 2007 Minister of Justice and Public Prosecutor General. He was elected to the Sejm on September 25, 2005 in the 13th Kraków district, running on the Prawo i Sprawiedliwość list. He received over 120,000 votes in the parliamentary election, the highest percentage constituency result on a nationwide scale.
Graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University. He did not complete his PhD.
He was a member of Sejm 2001-2005.
Due to his proclaimed "battle against corruption", he became one of the more popular and polarizing politicians in Poland. His uncompromising approach and publicized prosecutions earned him the title of Man of the year 2006, awarded by Wprost magazine. Yet, some of his policies were repeatedly characterized as partisan and overzealous by local and international press, including The Economist.
In 2007, allegedly linked in Andrzej Lepper bribery case former Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration Janusz Kaczmarek groundlessly accused him. In a media sparring with vice-PM Andrzej Lepper, Ziobro revealed that he secretly recorded a conversation with the Minister of Agriculture.
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Zigmantas Balčytis
Zigmantas Balčytis (born 16 November 1953 in Šilutė district municipality) is a former acting Prime Minister of Lithuania. He took office on 1 June 2006 following the resignation of Algirdas Brazauskas, but failed to be approved by the Parliament to become Prime Minister. He was succeeded on 4 July by Gediminas Kirkilas. Balčytis is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania and was Minister of Finance in the Brazauskas government.
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Zita Gurmai
Zita Gurmai (born June 1, 1965 in Budapest) is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Hungarian Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
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Zoltán Bagó
Zoltán Bagó (born on 10 January 1975 in Kalocsa) is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Hungarian Civic Party, part of the European People's Party.
He is a graduate of the University of Szeged, apprenticeship and internships in the offices of the national administration, and among other the U.S. Department of State. He worked in local government and municipal organizations. In the mid-90s he joined Fidesz in 2004 became the head of the party structures in his hometown of. In the 2009 elections unsuccessfully ran for parliamentary seat. However he became MEP a year later, replacing Enikő Győri.
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Zoltán Balczó
Zoltán Balczó (born January 1, 1948 in Nyíregyháza) is a Hungarian politician, deputy speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary. He was a Member of the European Parliament with Jobbik - Movement for a Better Hungary from 2009 to 2010. His older brother is András Balczó, the Olympic champion.
After the 2010 elections he was appointed one of the deputy speakers of the National Assembly of Hungary. As a result of he was replaced by Béla Kovács in the European Parliament.
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Zoran Thaler
Zoran Thaler (born 21 January 1962) is a Slovenian politician and businessman. He is a former Slovenian Foreign Minister and a former Member of European Parliament.
He was born in Kranj in former Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia). He graduated from political science at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana. He started his political career in the Alliance of the Socialist Youth of Slovenia (ZSMS), the largely autonomous youth and student organisation, many times in opposition to the League of Communists of Slovenia.
In the first free elections in Slovenia, he was elected to the Slovenian Parliament as member of the Alliance of the Socialist Youth of Slovenia – Liberal Party (later renamed to Liberal Democratic Party) and became Deputy Foreign Minister (1990–1993) in first democratic Government of Slovenia ruled by the DEMOS coalition.[dead link] He was re-elected to the Parliament in 1992 and 1996 on the list of the ruling Liberal Democracy of Slovenia. Between 1993 and 1995, he served as Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Parliament.
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Zuzana Roithová
Zuzana Roithová (born on 30 January 1953 in Prague) is a Czech politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Christian Democratic Union - Czechoslovak People's Party, part of the European People's Party. She is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, a substitute on the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America.
She has previously served as Minister of Health, Senator and as Chair of the European Movement in the Czech Republic.
She is a signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism and a member of the Reconciliation of European Histories Group.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Czech Republic)
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Ádám Kósa
Ádám Kósa (born on 1 July 1975 in Budapest) is a Hungarian politician and elected Member of the European Parliament with the Hungarian Civic Party, part of the European People's Party. The deaf politician is the first user of Deaf Sign Language at the European Parliament.
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Ágnes Hankiss
Ágnes Hankiss (orig. Ágnes Erdős born on 7 March 1950 in Budapest) is a Hungarian politician and elected Member of the European Parliament with Fidesz, a member of the European People's Party.
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Åsa Westlund
Åsa Ingrid Gunilla Westlund (born May 19, 1976 in Anderstorp, Jönköping County, Småland) is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Swedish Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
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Élie Hoarau
Élie Hoarau (born July 8, 1938 in Sainte-Suzanne, Réunion) is a French politician and member of the Communist Party of Réunion. He is the husband of Senator Gélita Hoarau.
Hoarau was elected as a member of the National Assembly of France from 1986 to 1987, 1988 to 1993 and from 1997 to 2001. Hoarau served as mayor of Saint-Pierre, Réunion between 1982 and 2001.
He had to resign, after being sentenced on July 6, 2000 to 1 year imprisonment with suspended sentence and 50.000 FRF (7500 €) fine because of Electoral fraud .
Hoarau has served as Secretary General of the Communist Party of Réunion since 1993.
In 2009, Hoarau was elected as a member of the European Parliament for the DOM-TOM constituency in the 2009 European elections.
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Élisabeth Morin
Élisabeth Morin-Chartier (born 10 October 1947 in Ceaux-en-Couhé, Vienne) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the West France constituency. She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
She was Vice President of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council under Regional President Jean-Pierre Raffarin and assumed the presidency upon Raffarin's nomination as Prime Minister of France. Her list in the 2004 regional elections was defeated in a near-landslide by the Socialist list, led by Ségolène Royal.
In the 2004 European election, she was the third candidate on Roselyne Bachelot's UMP list in the West but she was not elected. However, when Bachelot entered the François Fillon cabinet in May 2007, she became Member of the European Parliament. She was also a member of the French Economic and Social Council between September 2004 and May 2007.
In the 2009 European elections, she was the second candidate on the UMP list in the West region and was elected to the European Parliament.
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Íñigo Méndez de Vigo
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.
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"Mario Monti giurò il falso" - Intervista a Magdi Cristiano Allam
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- Duration: 32:57
- Updated: 06 Mar 2013
Mario Monti rappresenta il garante di chi deve riciclare i titoli derivati, i titoli spazzatura, affinché si trasformino in beni reali. 787mila miliardi di d...
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Mario Monti rappresenta il garante di chi deve riciclare i titoli derivati, i titoli spazzatura, affinché si trasformino in beni reali. 787mila miliardi di d...
Conferenza stampa di Magdi Allam su RAI 2
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- Duration: 40:16
- Updated: 01 Mar 2013
Conferenza stampa di Magdi Allam su RAI 2. Uploaded by Ignazio Contini on Feb 12 2013. nacio 1956.
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Conferenza stampa di Magdi Allam su RAI 2. Uploaded by Ignazio Contini on Feb 12 2013. nacio 1956.
- published: 13 Feb 2013
- views: 152
- author: Ignazio Contini
Magdi Cristiano Allam a L'Ultima Parola (RAIDUE 01/02/2013)
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- Duration: 4:21
- Updated: 04 Mar 2013
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- published: 04 Feb 2013
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Magdi Cristiano Allam: "Io Amo l'Italia per la sovranità monetaria e i valori non negoziabili"
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- Duration: 2:59
- Updated: 25 Feb 2013
Messaggio elettorale.
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Alessandro moscè intervista Magdi Cristiano Allam
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- Duration: 23:25
- Updated: 27 Feb 2013
Magdi Cristiano Allam intervistato in esclusiva per Radio Gold da Alessandro Moscè.
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Magdi Cristiano Allam intervistato in esclusiva per Radio Gold da Alessandro Moscè.
- published: 30 Nov 2012
- views: 438
- author: RadioGoldPuntoTv
Io Amo L'Italia - Magdi Cristiano Allam - 11/02/13 Tribuna Politica
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- Duration: 40:34
- Updated: 28 Feb 2013
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Magdi Cristiano Allam: 'Scandalo MPS per favorire un Monti bis' (Italia Sette)
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- Duration: 2:15
- Updated: 12 Feb 2013
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- published: 04 Feb 2013
- views: 836
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Magdi Allam sull'islamismo
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- Duration: 2:34
- Updated: 20 Feb 2013
Magdi Allan interpellato sul mondo islamico in occasione dell'assalto al consolato USA il 12 sett. 2012 --- Pagina FB "Di sinistra e antirazzista, ma contro ...
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Magdi Allan interpellato sul mondo islamico in occasione dell'assalto al consolato USA il 12 sett. 2012 --- Pagina FB "Di sinistra e antirazzista, ma contro ...
- published: 14 Sep 2012
- views: 328
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14-12-2012 Magdi Cristiano Allam a Macerata
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- Duration: 100:41
- Updated: 16 Feb 2013
Io amo l'Italia, il movimento politico ed il suo Presidente Magdi Cristiano Allam, incontrano la città di Macerata. Serata in diretta radiofonica su Radio St...
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Io amo l'Italia, il movimento politico ed il suo Presidente Magdi Cristiano Allam, incontrano la città di Macerata. Serata in diretta radiofonica su Radio St...
- published: 16 Dec 2012
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Magdi Crisitano Allam: Uscire dall'Euro per restituire 100 miliardi agli imprenditori
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- Duration: 3:21
- Updated: 25 Feb 2013
Magdi Cristiano Allam ospite a Sky TG24 Pomeriggio (22/02/2013)
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Magdi Cristiano Allam ospite a Sky TG24 Pomeriggio (22/02/2013)
- published: 22 Feb 2013
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Magdi Cristiano Allam "Si all'uscita dell'Italia dell'euro" (TG3 del 08/02/2013)
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- Duration: 1:40
- Updated: 20 Feb 2013
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- published: 08 Feb 2013
- views: 744
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Magdi Cristiano Allam: "Rilanciare il Sud con il nostro patrimonio ambientale, culturale e umano"
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- Duration: 3:35
- Updated: 18 Feb 2013
A Benevento per la presentazione dei candidati sanniti alle governative, pone l'accento sulla necessità di riscoprire i valori cristiani. E polemizza con i m...
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A Benevento per la presentazione dei candidati sanniti alle governative, pone l'accento sulla necessità di riscoprire i valori cristiani. E polemizza con i m...
- published: 03 Feb 2013
- views: 472
- author: ioamolitaliavideo
MAGDI CRISTIANO ALLAM I LOVE ITALY PARTY
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- Duration: 2:27
- Updated: 13 Feb 2013
www.theghana-italynews.com I Love Italy (Io amo l'Italia, ALI), originally Protagonists for Christian Europe (Protagonisti per l'Europa Cristiana), is a Chri...
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www.theghana-italynews.com I Love Italy (Io amo l'Italia, ALI), originally Protagonists for Christian Europe (Protagonisti per l'Europa Cristiana), is a Chri...
- published: 13 Feb 2013
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Magdi Allam su RAI 3
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- Duration: 5:10
- Updated: 13 Feb 2013
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- published: 13 Feb 2013
- views: 12
- author: Ignazio Contini
Magdi Cristiano Allam: ''Fuori dall'euro e fuori da questa Europa!'' (la7 omnibus)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:28
- Updated: 23 Feb 2013
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- published: 15 Feb 2013
- views: 562
- author: ioamolitaliavideo
Magdi Allam interviene a Matrix del 23-3-2011
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:11
- Updated: 09 Apr 2012
Magdi Cristiano Allam ospite a Matrix del 23 marzo 2011.
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Magdi Cristiano Allam ospite a Matrix del 23 marzo 2011.
- published: 15 Aug 2011
- views: 906
- author: politicaannozero
Magdi Allam, Sporting Club, Domande e Risposte
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 36:15
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Magdi Cristiano Allam allo Sporting Club Monza.
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Magdi Cristiano Allam allo Sporting Club Monza.
- published: 27 May 2012
- views: 155
- author: brianzachanneltv
Magdi Cristiano Allam Fuori dall'euro e fuori da questa Europa!'
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:28
- Updated: 15 Feb 2013
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- published: 15 Feb 2013
- views: 12
- author: Ignazio Contini
Tunisia fratelli musulmani islamici genocidio vs Magdi Allam
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:36
- Updated: 28 Jan 2013
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- published: 03 Nov 2011
- views: 541
- author: HolyJHWHsanto
Etg - Intervista a Magdi Allam
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 26:49
- Updated: 16 Feb 2013
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- published: 16 Feb 2013
- views: 41
- author: tvespansione
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Magdi Cristiano Allam: Signoraggio Bancario, sovranità monetaria e uscita dall'euro [Italiano]
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- Duration: 6:06
- Updated: 05 Jun 2012
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- published: 04 Jun 2012
- views: 4590
- author: robertoalessia2005
Magdi Cristiano Allam presenta i candidati della Campania (TV7, 3/2/13)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:48
- Updated: 07 Feb 2013
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- published: 04 Feb 2013
- views: 406
- author: ioamolitaliavideo
Allam: "L'Islam agggredisce l'Europa". Applausi dalla platea leghista
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:11
- Updated: 04 Mar 2013
Quella descritta da Magdi Cristiano Allam, giornalista e eurodeputato Udc, è un'Europa malata di relativismo, "incapace di difendersi dagli attacchi di un mo...
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- published: 14 Sep 2012
- views: 1336
- author: antefattoblog
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"Mario Monti giurò il falso" - Intervista a Magdi Cristiano Allam
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 32:57
- Updated: 06 Mar 2013
Mario Monti rappresenta il garante di chi deve riciclare i titoli derivati, i titoli spazzatura, affinché si trasformino in beni reali. 787mila miliardi di d...
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Mario Monti rappresenta il garante di chi deve riciclare i titoli derivati, i titoli spazzatura, affinché si trasformino in beni reali. 787mila miliardi di d...
- published: 31 Jan 2013
- views: 44600
- author: byoblu
Conferenza stampa di Magdi Allam su RAI 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 40:16
- Updated: 01 Mar 2013
Conferenza stampa di Magdi Allam su RAI 2. Uploaded by Ignazio Contini on Feb 12 2013. nacio 1956.
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Conferenza stampa di Magdi Allam su RAI 2. Uploaded by Ignazio Contini on Feb 12 2013. nacio 1956.
- published: 13 Feb 2013
- views: 152
- author: Ignazio Contini
Alessandro moscè intervista Magdi Cristiano Allam
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 23:25
- Updated: 27 Feb 2013
Magdi Cristiano Allam intervistato in esclusiva per Radio Gold da Alessandro Moscè.
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Magdi Cristiano Allam intervistato in esclusiva per Radio Gold da Alessandro Moscè.
- published: 30 Nov 2012
- views: 438
- author: RadioGoldPuntoTv
Magdi Cristiano Allam: "Io Amo l'Italia per la sovranità monetaria e i valori non negoziabili"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:59
- Updated: 25 Feb 2013
Messaggio elettorale.
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Magdi Cristiano Allam a L'Ultima Parola (RAIDUE 01/02/2013)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:21
- Updated: 04 Mar 2013
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- published: 04 Feb 2013
- views: 1977
- author: ioamolitaliavideo
Tunisia fratelli musulmani islamici genocidio vs Magdi Allam
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:36
- Updated: 28 Jan 2013
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- published: 03 Nov 2011
- views: 541
- author: HolyJHWHsanto
Magdi Allam sull'islamismo
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:34
- Updated: 20 Feb 2013
Magdi Allan interpellato sul mondo islamico in occasione dell'assalto al consolato USA il 12 sett. 2012 --- Pagina FB "Di sinistra e antirazzista, ma contro ...
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Magdi Allan interpellato sul mondo islamico in occasione dell'assalto al consolato USA il 12 sett. 2012 --- Pagina FB "Di sinistra e antirazzista, ma contro ...
- published: 14 Sep 2012
- views: 328
- author: DiSinAntcontroinvStr
14-12-2012 Magdi Cristiano Allam a Macerata
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 100:41
- Updated: 16 Feb 2013
Io amo l'Italia, il movimento politico ed il suo Presidente Magdi Cristiano Allam, incontrano la città di Macerata. Serata in diretta radiofonica su Radio St...
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Io amo l'Italia, il movimento politico ed il suo Presidente Magdi Cristiano Allam, incontrano la città di Macerata. Serata in diretta radiofonica su Radio St...
- published: 16 Dec 2012
- views: 170
- author: radiostudio7Tv
Magdi Allam interviene a Matrix del 23-3-2011
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:11
- Updated: 09 Apr 2012
Magdi Cristiano Allam ospite a Matrix del 23 marzo 2011.
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Magdi Cristiano Allam ospite a Matrix del 23 marzo 2011.
- published: 15 Aug 2011
- views: 906
- author: politicaannozero
Identità europea/Sicurezza: Bonino vs Magdi Allam
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:44
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Pochi secondi sono sufficienti per capire quale futuro hanno in mente i radicali e quale invece l'Udc. Allam probabilmente sarà nel prossimo parlamento europ...
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Pochi secondi sono sufficienti per capire quale futuro hanno in mente i radicali e quale invece l'Udc. Allam probabilmente sarà nel prossimo parlamento europ...
- published: 26 May 2009
- views: 3455
- author: radioradicale
Magdi Allam, Sporting Club, Domande e Risposte
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 36:15
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Magdi Cristiano Allam allo Sporting Club Monza.
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Magdi Cristiano Allam allo Sporting Club Monza.
- published: 27 May 2012
- views: 155
- author: brianzachanneltv
Magdi Cristiano Allam: Signoraggio Bancario, sovranità monetaria e uscita dall'euro [Italiano]
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:06
- Updated: 05 Jun 2012
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- published: 04 Jun 2012
- views: 4590
- author: robertoalessia2005
Magdi Allam, MEP, Apostate of Islam Baptized by pope, speaks in Brussels July 9 2012
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 11:41
- Updated: 14 Jul 2012
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- published: 14 Jul 2012
- views: 271
- author: Preserve Liberaldemocracy
Magdi Cristiano Allam: 'Scandalo MPS per favorire un Monti bis' (Italia Sette)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:15
- Updated: 12 Feb 2013
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- published: 04 Feb 2013
- views: 836
- author: ioamolitaliavideo
Io Amo L'Italia - Magdi Cristiano Allam - 11/02/13 Tribuna Politica
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 40:34
- Updated: 28 Feb 2013
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Cristiano Magdi Allam sur l'islam
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:15
- Updated: 24 Oct 2012
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- published: 24 Oct 2012
- views: 149
- author: sedevacantisme
On. Magdi Cristiano Allam: No alla Bolkestein!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 12:50
- Updated: 09 Sep 2012
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- published: 08 Sep 2012
- views: 120
- author: iblogcattolici
Magdi Cristiano Allam "Si all'uscita dell'Italia dell'euro" (TG3 del 08/02/2013)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:40
- Updated: 20 Feb 2013
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- published: 08 Feb 2013
- views: 744
- author: ioamolitaliavideo
Magdi Cristiano Allam: "Rilanciare il Sud con il nostro patrimonio ambientale, culturale e umano"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:35
- Updated: 18 Feb 2013
A Benevento per la presentazione dei candidati sanniti alle governative, pone l'accento sulla necessità di riscoprire i valori cristiani. E polemizza con i m...
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A Benevento per la presentazione dei candidati sanniti alle governative, pone l'accento sulla necessità di riscoprire i valori cristiani. E polemizza con i m...
- published: 03 Feb 2013
- views: 472
- author: ioamolitaliavideo
Etg - Intervista a Magdi Allam
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 26:49
- Updated: 16 Feb 2013
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- published: 16 Feb 2013
- views: 41
- author: tvespansione
Magdi Crisitano Allam: Uscire dall'Euro per restituire 100 miliardi agli imprenditori
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:21
- Updated: 25 Feb 2013
Magdi Cristiano Allam ospite a Sky TG24 Pomeriggio (22/02/2013)
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Magdi Cristiano Allam ospite a Sky TG24 Pomeriggio (22/02/2013)
- published: 22 Feb 2013
- views: 1102
- author: ioamolitaliavideo
Magdi Cristiano Allam: ''Fuori dall'euro e fuori da questa Europa!'' (la7 omnibus)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:28
- Updated: 23 Feb 2013
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Magdi Allam su RAI 3
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"Mario Monti giurò il falso" - Intervista a Magdi Cristiano Allam
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Conferenza stampa di Magdi Allam su RAI 2
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Alessandro moscè intervista Magdi Cristiano Allam
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Magdi Cristiano Allam: "Io Amo l'Italia per la sovranità monetaria e i valori non negoziabili"
Messaggio elettorale....
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Magdi Cristiano Allam: "Io Amo l'Italia per la sovranità monetaria e i valori non negoziabili"
Messaggio elettorale.
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Magdi Cristiano Allam a L'Ultima Parola (RAIDUE 01/02/2013)
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Tunisia fratelli musulmani islamici genocidio vs Magdi Allam
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Magdi Allam sull'islamismo
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Magdi Allam sull'islamismo
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14-12-2012 Magdi Cristiano Allam a Macerata
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14-12-2012 Magdi Cristiano Allam a Macerata
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Magdi Allam interviene a Matrix del 23-3-2011
Magdi Cristiano Allam ospite a Matrix del 23 marzo 2011....
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Magdi Allam interviene a Matrix del 23-3-2011
Magdi Cristiano Allam ospite a Matrix del 23 marzo 2011.
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2:44
Identità europea/Sicurezza: Bonino vs Magdi Allam
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Identità europea/Sicurezza: Bonino vs Magdi Allam
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Magdi Allam, Sporting Club, Domande e Risposte
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Magdi Cristiano Allam allo Sporting Club Monza.
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Magdi Cristiano Allam: Signoraggio Bancario, sovranità monetaria e uscita dall'euro [Italiano]
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Magdi Allam, MEP, Apostate of Islam Baptized by pope, speaks in Brussels July 9 2012
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Magdi Allam, MEP, Apostate of Islam Baptized by pope, speaks in Brussels July 9 2012
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Magdi Cristiano Allam: 'Scandalo MPS per favorire un Monti bis' (Italia Sette)
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Lions Club San Giorgio su Legnano - Serata con Magdi Allam
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L'Altra Italia: Magdi Cristiano Allam
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Marco Scurria - Una chiacchierata con Magdi Cristiano Allam
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Io Amo L'Italia - Magdi Cristiano Allam - 11/02/13 Tribuna Politica
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Cristiano Magdi Allam sur l'islam
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Cristiano Magdi Allam sur l'islam
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On. Magdi Cristiano Allam: No alla Bolkestein!
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Magdi Cristiano Allam "Si all'uscita dell'Italia dell'euro" (TG3 del 08/02/2013)
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Manila. Members of a major Philippine Muslim rebel force who were meant to have disarmed in the 1990s as part of a peace pact are involved in deadly battles in Malaysia, the group’s leader said on Tuesday. Nur Misuari, who founded the Moro National Liberation Front in the late 1960s, confirmed “freedom fighters” from his group were part of the militia sent by a self-proclaimed sultan to claim the Malaysian state of Sabah....(size: 2.6Kb)
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KUALA LUMPUR. Malaysian security forces attacked a group of armed Filipinos early Tuesday to end the group's three-week occupation of a Borneo village, the prime minister said after the siege turned violent and became Malaysia's biggest security crisis in years ... The Philippine government asked Malaysia on Monday to exercise maximum tolerance to avoid further bloodshed ... 9 ... ....(size: 4.7Kb)
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The new wave. Celebrating the Arab Spring in Egypt’s Tahrir Square. Photo by AP related articles 'Writing is freedom' By Maya Sela . Oct.14,2011 . 2.52 PM Rushdie with first wife Clarissa Luard. Photo by Getty Images Rushdie with fourth wife Padma Lakshmi ... New York ... The writer Magdi Allam, who had the temerity to publish a book in which he attacked Islam, was dubbed "the Italian Rushdie" by the media and required bodyguards ... ....(size: 49.1Kb)
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(Reuters) - Aug 17 (Reuters) - Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Spain Thursday for a four-day visit as part of World Youth Day 2011 celebrations. Here are the major events in Benedict's time as Pope so far.. 2005.. August 18-21 - Pope visits his native Germany for the World Youth Days in Cologne ... 2006. ... 2007. ... 2008. ... Feb 5 ... March 23 - Pope baptizes Magdi Allam, an Egyptian-born journalist and critic of radical Islamism, at Easter Vigil ... 2009. ... ....(size: 10.1Kb)
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18 Apr 2011
"We are not the same leaders, we are not the same policies, we are not the same bylaws," said Magdy Allam, a former member of parliament and one of the party's top officials ... Allam described a three-pronged appeal that party officials hope will endear them to a skeptical public ... Allam, who said 22 party members had already been expelled....(size: 6.8Kb)
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Peter's Basilica ... Brescia Prosecutors Fabio Salmone said there was "absolutely no" indication that the group had attacks in mind ... In 2008, Egyptian-born journalist Magdi Allam angered some Muslims by becoming a Catholic. After being baptized, he changed his name to Magdi Cristiano Allam ... Adds background.). ....(size: 1.5Kb)
Huffington Post
25 Feb 2011
ROME — Italian police on Friday arrested six Moroccan men suspected of inciting hatred against Pope Benedict XVI for converting a Muslim journalist in Italy to Catholicism ... In 2008, Egyptian-born journalist Magdi Allam angered some Muslims by becoming a Catholic. After being baptized, he changed his name to Magdi Cristiano Allam ... ....(size: 1.9Kb)
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25 Feb 2011
The Pope was condemned for converting Egyptian-born Magdi Allam, a former columnist for Italian daily Corriere della Sera. Mr Allam, an outspoken critic of Muslim militancy and strong supporter of Israel, was baptised by the Pope in March 2008. ....(size: 1.4Kb)
| Magdi Cristiano Allam | |
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| Born | (1952-04-22) April 22, 1952 (age 60) Cairo, Egypt |
| Occupation | politician, journalist, author, columnist |
| Religion | Roman Catholic (since April, 2008) |
| Spouse | Valentina Colombo |
| Children | Sofia (27), Alessandro (23), Davide (1) |
| Website | |
| www.magdiallam.it (Italian only) | |
Magdi Cristiano Allam[1] (Arabic: مجدي علام Maǧdī ʿAllām; born April 22, 1952), is an Egyptian-born Italian journalist and political leader, noted for his criticism of Islamic Extremism, his defence of Judeo-Christian roots of Europe and the West, and his articles on the relations between Western culture and the Islamic world. Allam converted from Islam to Christianity during the Vatican's 2008 Easter vigil service presided over by Pope Benedict XVI.[2] He also serves as a regional councillor in the Italian region of Basilicata after being elected in 2010 and a Member of the European Parliament for Italy since 2007.
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Biography[link]
Allam was born in Egypt and raised by Muslim parents. His mother Safeya was a believing and practicing Muslim, whereas his father Muhammad was "completely secular and agreed with the [until the early seventies wildely held] opinion of the majority of Egyptians who took the West as a model in regard to individual freedom, social customs and cultural and artistic fashions."[3] At age four, his mother entrusted him to the care of Sister Lavinia of the Comboni Missionary Sisters, and later he was sent to a Catholic boarding school in Egypt - the Institute of Don Bosco - for junior high and high school, where he was further exposed to Western culture and civilization.
Early years in Egypt[link]
Allam describes growing up in a vibrant and multicultural Cairo. He recounts vividly the "fragrances, sounds, colors and flavors of his beloved Aunt Adreya's home" and remembers Cairo as a "colorful, pluralistic and tolerant city where girls wore miniskirts and boys sported Beatles haircuts." [4] He has positive memories of Egyptian society during his childhood years, characterizing it as having a "social fabric that embodied a genuine love of others and a simple life where emotion was more important than money." [4] However, an unpleasant incident occurred when he was detained and interrogated at age 15 by the Muhabarat, or political police, on suspicion of espionage for Israel, because of his relationship with a Jewish girl. At that time, in 1967, Jewish men were rounded up and incarcerated in the detention camps of Abu Za'abal and Tura[citation needed]. Allam's sympathy for the plight of the girl and her family might have displeased the authorities. He claims the trauma of that interrogation accompanied him until Christmas Eve 1972 when he left Egypt to continue his studies in Italy.
Immigration to Italy and wedding[link]
In 1972 he moved to Italy and enrolled in La Sapienza University of Rome. He graduated from La Sapienza with a degree in sociology and in 1986 became an Italian citizen. Allam is married to a Catholic woman, Valentina Colombo, and has a young son from her, Davide (1 year old), and two adult children, Sofia (27) and Alessandro (23), from a previous marriage.[4]
Journalism and politics[link]
Magdi Cristiano Allam began his journalistic career in 1978 in the center-left leaning famous Italian newspaper La Repubblica, where he worked as a special reporter and commentator from 1978 to 2003. In 2003, Magdi Cristiano Allam joined the more conservative, Milan-based Corriere della Sera, one of Italy's oldest largest and more recognized daily newspaper, as deputy director of the newspaper (vice-director ad personam). Today he is one of Italy's most famous and controversial journalists,[2] but he is above all now a famous political leader, since he has been elected as a Member of the European Parliament (in June 2009) with the center-right Christian-democrat Italian party UDC.[5] In this context, he created on November 28 in Italy a new and independent political Party: "Io Amo L'Italia".[6] However, as a Member of the European Parliament he is still a member of the UDC delegation in the EP. Indeed, the UDC is an electoral and political ally of Io AMo L'Italia.
Conversion[link]
On March 23, 2008, Magdi Cristiano Allam was offered the baptism during the Vatican's 2008 Easter Vigil service in St. Peter's Basilica presided over by Pope Benedict XVI, consequently Allam converted to Roman Catholicism, in a widely publicized and televised baptism ceremony (see #External links) as usual on every Easter Vigil service. In a 2,000-word letter to the editor of his newspaper, Paolo Mieli, Allam explained his motives for converting to Catholicism. He thanked his mother for sending him to Catholic schools, where he was able to "know Catholicism well and up close and the women and men who dedicated their life to serve God in the womb of the Church." [3] He pointed out that in his youth he had become familiar with Catholic writings ("Already then I read the Bible and the Gospels and I was especially fascinated by the human and divine figure of Jesus.")[3] He credited the Pope as the most influential person in his decision to convert, and, using Christian theological terminology, described his conversion as a mystical experience:
The miracle of Christ’s Resurrection reverberated through my soul, liberating it from the darkness in which the preaching of hatred and intolerance in the face of the “different,” uncritically condemned as “enemy,” were privileged over love and respect of “neighbor.”"[3]
Announcing his support for proselytizing among Muslims, he wrote:
Well, today Benedict XVI, with his witness, tells us that we must overcome fear and not be afraid to affirm the truth of Jesus even with Muslims.[3]
He added on Italian TV that he felt "great joy" after his conversion.[7]
Opinion and stances[link]
During most of his journalistic career (roughly from 1978 to 2003), Allam worked at the center-left leaning and moderate La Repubblica. As he was often employed as a Middle East envoy, most of his articles were reportage more than commentaries, characterized by a neutral tone and argumentative style, and his personal views were rarely reported. His own stances were nevertheless made public via a forum on La Repubblica and in numerous interviews and appearances on talk shows. Thus, for most of his career, the public came to know him as a journalist with progressive opinions, who supports the integration of immigrants, especially North African immigrants, into Italian society, and praises the values and cultural identities of Muslim immigrants if they respect the values and duties equals for everybody without distinction, which excludes any appeasement policy with Radical Islam that Allam always fought.
Defending Islamic culture[link]
For a long time, he maintained the position that Islam was compatible with Western civilization and values and he tried to build and believe in a progressive, moderate and liberal Islam. In a meeting with high school students broadcast on Italian public television RAI, he declared:
Islam itself is not a menace, it does not coincide with conservatism, as a religion is not incompatible with progress and freedom; absolutely not! Islam is a faith which, in a moderate interpretation, is absolutely compatible with the values shared by the Italian civil society and the Italian Constitution.[8]
Furthermore, he scorned the idea that Muslims were somehow "invading" Italy:
There are many Islam (...). The largest majority of Muslims are moderate, many Muslims are secular (...) according to the numbers provided by the Muslim organizations in Italy, no more than 3 to 5% of Muslims in Italy even go to the mosque (...) and then there is a fundamentalist Islam that believes in an Islamization of the society that would conjugate religion to politics, and then also a radical Islam, which believes that Islam should be imposed via violent means. But this is an absolutely irrelevant fringe, quantified in Italy around circa 3 to 4% of the Muslims, and - let's remember it - there are overall only 600,000 Muslims in Italy. 600,000 in a country of 57 millions. Clearly to talk of a risk of Muslim invasion or of a Muslim menace does not make any sense.[8]
Immigration[link]
Similarly, he maintained for years that immigration was beneficial for Italy, offsetting population decline and correcting what he called "Italy's provincial identity":
Economically Italy needs immigrants. Socially Italy needs immigrants to offset the lowest fertility index of Europe (...). But (stopping immigration) would also be a catastrophe for Italy as a civilization, because the immigrant is a bridge that allows Italy to escape a very provincial sense of identity into a more global one(...). Immigration is a resource, not a problem [8] But he always underlines the fact that all hosting countries must demand respect for its rules and regulations. Allam firmly believes on an immigration based on "Non solo diritti, ma anche doveri"(not only right, but rules as well), reciprocal respect for a better society of social enrichment.
9/11[link]
After the 9/11 attacks he commented against the clash of civilizations theory, and denounced the idea of a monolithic Islam, intrinsically extremist at its core and naturally driven to expansionism and extremism (a thesis he would come to embrace a few months later):
There will be a clash of civilization? This thesis is based on the idea of Islam as a monolithic reality, with an integristic identity, and an inescapable inclination toward expansionism. In reality both Islam as a faith and Muslims as individuals are to be understood as a plurality. Yet there is a risk of a clash on ideological basis, should the Mulsilms perceived to be attacked indiscriminately by the West (...) It would be a big gift to Bin Laden.[9]
Change of heart and mind (2003-Today)[link]
Before converting to Christianity, Magdi Cristiano Allam was a Muslim by birth. He made the pilgrimage to Mecca, with his deeply religious mother in 1991.[2] In his autobiography Vincere la paura (Conquering Fear), Cristiano Allam acknowledges thinking about conversion to Christianity on moving to Italy. Starting from the end of 2002, Allam gradually assumed virtually opposite opinions on most issues related to Islamic world and Middle-East. He accused Italy and the West of ignoring the dangers of an imminent "Islamization" of the society, and a possible Jihad in Europe. His themes and styles parallel those of the famous Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci. Both authors would extensively refer very positively to each other in their writings. For example, Allam refers many times to Fallaci in his I love Italy, but do Italians Love her? and fully agrees with her positions on these issues. His newfound explicit style has been described by his lifelong friend and noted Italian-Jewish intellectual Gad Lerner as "Pharaonic Sturm und Drang" and as having "fideistic emphasis."[10]
Opposition to multiculturalism[link]
In his writings since 2003, Allam has infuriated many Muslims and non-Muslims alike, with his denunciations of multiculturalism, lashing out at what he calls "the Islamization of society."[11] For example, reacting to a speech by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams which raised the suggestion that Muslims in Britain should be allowed to have their own courts in matters of family law, Allam wrote that
By leaning on the 'politically correct' and by allowing Muslims to have their own courts, a mixture is installed that can unbalance the country and overthrow constitutional order.[11]
Previously having been a believer in multiculturalism, he now claimed that multiculturalism is dangerous and wrote against "submitting ourselves to different ideologies and faiths."[11]
Ban on mosque building[link]
In 2005, Allam published an article calling for a ban on building mosques in Italy.[12] In a piece accusing mosques of fostering hate, he claimed Italy is suffering from "mosque-mania" and justified the extreme measure of a government ban on building mosques. Previously, he had voiced support for an economic involvement of the Italian government in building new mosques to satisfy the needs of a growing Muslim population.
Arab Israel conflict[link]
The change allowed him to become a staunch supporter of Israel, argue against the formula "territories for peace" which he had championed for more than 25 years.[4] His unwavering support for Israel, he claims, is because the "origin of the ideology of hatred, violence and death is the discrimination against Israel."[13]
For most of his life he had been a strong albeit argumentative supporter of the Palestinian cause, going to rallies and writing favorably of the Palestinian rights to statehood.[4] However, since 2002, Allam has voiced support of Israel, together with a strong condemnation of Palestinian terrorism. He claims that his criticism of Palestinian terrorism prompted Hamas to allegedly single him out for elimination. According to Italian and Egyptian secret services, Hamas and Egyptian terrorists Islamist groups has claimed responsibility for such a threat. That fore, in 2003, the Italian government provided him with a sizable security detail.[2]
Support for Israeli military action against Iran[link]
On the issue of Iran's nuclear quest, Magdi Cristiano Allam has said Israel should do whatever it takes to stop Iran's nuclear program, indirectly suggesting that Israel should bomb Iranian nuclear facilities.[4] Labeling the Iranian government "the Nazi-Islamic" regime, Allam claimed that Israel cannot rely on the United Nations and should not have any illusions about the Bush administration "which now wants only to leave Iraq without losing face."[4]
Criticism of Islam[link]
In his public letter to the editor of Corriere della Sera about his conversion, Allam stated that Islam was inseparable from Islamic extremism. Criticising Islam itself, rather than Islamic extremism, Allam argued:
I asked myself how it was possible that those who, like me, sincerely and boldly called for a 'moderate Islam,' assuming the responsibility of exposing themselves in the first person in denouncing Islamic extremism and terrorism, ended up being sentenced to death in the name of Islam on the basis of the Quran. I was forced to see that, beyond the contingency of the phenomenon of Islamic extremism and terrorism that has appeared on a global level, the root of evil is inherent in an Islam that is physiologically violent and historically conflictive.[3]
Like Blondet and others fascists and anti-Jewish thinkers, many radical islamists and leaders, such as Tarik Ramadan or Youssef Al Qardaoui, also accused Magdi Allam of being a "false Muslim" in order to prompt the belief that his criticism of Islam was the result of a Judeo-Christian plot rather than normal criticism from a liberal Muslim thinker. However, Tarik Ramadan himself was obliged to admit his accusation was wrongful after a long controversy between him and Daniel Pipes, who put forward proof that Magdi Cristiano Allam had never been a "hidden christian" before his conversion,[14] as was being claimed by Ramadan, Cardini and Blondet. Other commentators warn that his pro-Israeli and anti-Islam positions will increasingly drive the country to adopt pro-Israeli government positions, which - they argue - would be against the national interest. In particular, following the publication of Allam's "Long Live Israel!", more than 200 scholars, teachers and writers published an open letter in the magazine RESET against Allam's publication of "proscription lists" of alleged "haters of Israel." Allam's blacklists included several famous scholars of the Arab world, such as Professor Massimo Campanini, of the prestigious Naples Eastern University. The signatories protested and criticized Allam's statements that the Italian academe is poisoned by a leftist and atheistic "culture of death." Most of the signatories of the petition against Allam are Christians, and many are well-known conservatives, such as the prominent medieval history scholar Franco Cardini. Allam has many enthusiastic supporters among his newly found readership, and politically in the anti-immigration party he once detested - the Lega Nord, and among the Catholic side of leading Italian party Forza Italia and its electorate: indeed his Godfather was Maurizio Lupi, an elected representative of Forza Italia with well known connections in the Vatican establishment.[15]
Response to conversion[link]
Magdi Cristiano Allam's conversion was criticized both by Muslim associations and by progressive Catholics. The Union of Islamic Communities in Italy — which Allam has frequently criticized as an organization that incites violence — slighted his baptism as "his own decision".[13] The group's spokesperson, Issedin El Zir, said:
He is an adult, free to make his personal choice.[13]
Imam Yahya Sergio Yahe Pallavicini, vice president of the Italian-Islamic Religious Community (Comunità Religiosa Islamica Italiana, Co. Re.Is.), said he acknowledged Allam's choice but said he was amusingly "perplexed" by the symbolic and high-profile way in which Allam chose to convert. Imam Pallavicini explained:
If Allam truly was compelled by a strong spiritual inspiration, perhaps it would have been better to do it delicately, maybe with a priest from Viterbo where he lives.[13]
The Spanish daily El Pais criticized Allam's extreme opinions and wondered whether Allam's conversion deserves so much attention:
This intellectual doesn't mince his words when it comes to flaying Islam. And he is not entirely wrong when he refers to terrorist fanaticism and the lack of freedom in countries where Islam is professed. He is probably however going a bit far when he says that the 'root of evil is an inherent part of Islam, which is physiologically violent'. It is not the Muslim world as a whole that defends violence or seeks to impose its religion by force. We shouldn't however play down the courage that Magdi Allam has shown by daring to say such things that way and we also have to recognise his right to convert to Christianity. We can nonetheless ask whether it was necessary for his baptism to have been carried out by the Pope himself in the Vatican.[16]
Some criticized the publicity given to the conversion, thus questioning his sincerity and even suggesting a politically motivated apostasy.[17]
Unauthorized email controversy[link]
On January 16, 2007, in an article entitled Poligamia, la moglie che accusa il capo UCOII (literally: "Polygamy, the wife who accuses UCOII's leader") on Corriere della Sera, Magdi Allam published an e-mail — obtained from a third party—sent to Hamza Roberto Piccardo, spokesman of the Unione delle Comunità ed Organizzazioni Islamiche in Italia, by Piccardo's recently divorced wife, without asking for the authorization of either ex-spouse. In spite of the uproar that followed,[18] RCS Quotidiani S.p. A, the publisher of Corriere della Sera, chose to keep the article online until the "Garante per la protezione dei dati personali" (Guarantor for the protection of personal data) ordered RCS to take it down on May 24, 2007.[19]
Published works[link]
- (Italian) Viva Israele (Long Live Israel), Mondadori, 2007, ISBN 978-88-04-56777-6
- (Italian) Io amo l'Italia. Ma gli italiani la amano? (I love Italy. But do the Italians love her?), Mondadori, 2006, ISBN 88-04-55655-2
- (Italian) Vincere la paura: La mia vita contro il terrorismo islamico e l'incoscienza dell'Occidente (Conquering Fear: My life against Muslim terrorism and Western unconsciousness), Mondandori, 2005, ISBN 88-04-55605-6
- (Italian) Kamikaze made in Europe. Riuscirà l'Occidente a sconfiggere i terroristi islamici? (Kamikaze made in Europe. Will the West defeat Islamic terrorists?), Mondadori, 2004, ISBN
- (Italian) Diario dall'Islam (A diary from Islam), Mondadori, 2002, ISBN 88-04-50478-1
- (Italian) Bin Laden in Italia. Viaggio nell'Islam Radicale (Bin Laden in Italy. A journey through radical Islam), Mondadori, 2002, ISBN 88-04-51416-7
- (Italian) Jihad in Italia. Viaggio nell'Islam Radicale (Jihad in Italy. A journey through radical Islam), Mondadori, 2002, ISBN 88-04-52421-9
- (Italian) Saddam. Storia Segreta di un Dittatore (Saddam. A dictator's secret history), Mondadori, 2002, ISBN 978-88-04-51633-0
Awards[link]
In 2006, Allam was a co-winner, with three other journalists, of the $1 million Dan David Prize, named for an Israeli entrepreneur. Allam was cited for "his ceaseless work in fostering understanding and tolerance between cultures."[20]
On May 4, 2007, Allam was presented with the American Jewish Committee's Mass Media Award at its 101st Annual Meeting.[21]
References[link]
- ^ At his baptism he chose Cristiano to be his middle name (see "Buona Pasqua a tutti: ricevere il Battesimo dal Papa nel Giorno della Risurrezione è il dono più grande della vita!" (in Italian). Personal Website of Magdi Allam. http://www.magdiallam.it/. Retrieved 2008-03-23. )
- ^ a b c d "Pope baptizes prominent Muslim editor". Associated Press. 2008-03-22. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23759188. Retrieved 2008-03-22.
- ^ a b c d e f "Magdi Allam Recounts His Path to Conversion". ZENIT. 2008-03-23. http://www.zenit.org/article-22151?l=english. Retrieved 2008-03-25.
- ^ a b c d e f g Man, Saviona (2007-07-02). "Muslim, Italian and Zionist". Haaretz. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/877090.html. Retrieved 2008-03-25.
- ^ http://www.udc-italia.it/?h_dx=1280
- ^ http://www.magdiallam.it/
- ^ D'emilio, Francis (2008-03-24). "Muslim Baptized by Pope Sought Dialogue". townhall.com. http://www.townhall.com/news/world/2008/03/24/muslim_baptized_by_pope_sought_dialogue?page=1. Retrieved 2008-03-24.
- ^ a b c Allam, Magdi (2001-04-02). "Al bahr al abian al mutawassit = Mediterraneo" (in Italian). RAI. pp. 1. http://www.emsf.rai.it/grillo/trasmissioni.asp?d=783. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
- ^ Allam, Magdi (2001-09-23). "E adesso cosa succederà" (in Italian). Repubblica. pp. 1. http://www.repubblica.it/online/mondo/domande/domande/domande.html. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
- ^ Lerner, Gad. "La Differenza tra Traditori e Transfughi." (in Italian). Vanity Italia. http://lerner.style.it/archive.php?y=2007&m=06. Retrieved 2008-03-30.
- ^ a b c Allam, Magdi (2008-02-26). "Magdi Allam denounces the pitfalls of multiculturalism". Corriere della Sera. http://europe.courrierinternational.com/eurotopics/article.asp?langue=uk&publication=26/02/2008&cat=REFLECTIONS&pi=1. Retrieved 2008-03-22.
- ^ Moschee-mania, serve uno stop ("Mosque-mania needs stopped"), Corriere della Sera, September 29th, 2005
- ^ a b c d Winfield, Nicole (2008-03-22). "Pope baptizes prominent Italian Muslim". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 2008-03-27. http://web.archive.org/web/20080327004718/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080323/ap_on_re_eu/pope_muslim_convert. Retrieved 2008-03-24.
- ^ http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/152500
- ^ "PAPA/ MAGDI ALLAM RICEVE BATTESIMO DA BENEDETTO XVI" (in Italian). APCOM. 2008-03-23. http://notizie.alice.it/notizie/politica/2008/03_marzo/22/papa_magdi_allam_riceve_battesimo_da_benedetto_xvi_a_s_-2-,14360911.html. Retrieved 2008-03-24.
- ^ "Conversión bajo los focos" (in Spanish). El Pais. 2008-03-25. http://www.elpais.com/articulo/opinion/Conversion/focos/elpepiopi/20080325elpepiopi_3/Tes. Retrieved 2008-03-26.
- ^ "Meno male é solo Magdi Allam" (in Italian). effedieffe.com. 2008-03-23. http://www.effedieffe.com/content/view/2597/175/.
- ^ See the links to reactions about Magdi Allam's article collected in Dalla parte di Lia 7 on the blog Gattostanco on January 20, 2007 and for instance Luca Conti's Pubblicare email private e l'etica del giornalismo on Pandemia, January 16, 2007
- ^ See the Sentence of the Guarantor and its announcement in the Guarantor's Newsletter N. 293 dated July 26, 2007
- ^ Official announcement for the 2006 Laureates
- ^ "Magdi Allam Accepts Mass Media Award". israelenews.com. 2007-08-12. http://www.israelenews.com/view.asp?ID=370. Retrieved 2008-03-22.
External links[link]
- Dialogue To Win Peace by Renato Farina (Traces magazine. June 2004)
- Magdi Cristiano Allam - Personal Website
- Dan David Prize laureate 2006
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| Mario Monti | |
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| Prime Minister of Italy | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 16 November 2011 |
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| President | Giorgio Napolitano |
| Preceded by | Silvio Berlusconi |
| Minister of Economy and Finance | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 16 November 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Giulio Tremonti |
| Senator for Life of the Italian Senate | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 9 November 2011 |
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| President | Giorgio Napolitano |
| European Commissioner for Competition | |
| In office 15 September 1999 – 30 October 2004 |
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| President | Romano Prodi |
| Preceded by | Karel Van Miert |
| Succeeded by | Neelie Kroes |
| European Commissioner for Internal Market, Services, Customs and Taxation | |
| In office 18 January 1995 – 15 September 1999 |
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| President | Jacques Santer Manuel Marín (Acting) |
| Preceded by | Raniero Vanni d'Archirafi |
| Succeeded by | Frits Bolkestein |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1943-03-19) 19 March 1943 (age 69) Varese, Italy |
| Political party | Independent |
| Spouse(s) | Elsa Antonioli |
| Children | Federica Monti Giovanni Monti |
| Residence | Palazzo Chigi |
| Alma mater | Bocconi University Yale University |
| Religion | Roman Catholic[1] |
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Mario Monti (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmaːrjo ˈmonti]; born 19 March 1943) is an Italian economist and academic who has been the 54th Prime Minister of Italy, as well as Minister of Economy and Finance, since November 2011.
Monti served as a European Commissioner from 1995 to 2004, with responsibility for the Internal Market, Services, Customs and Taxation from 1995 to 1999 and for Competition from 1999 to 2004. Monti has also been Rector and President of Bocconi University in Milan.
On 12 November 2011, in the midst of the European sovereign debt crisis, Monti was invited by President Giorgio Napolitano to form a new technocratic government (in Italian, governo tecnico) following the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi. Monti was sworn in as Prime Minister on 16 November 2011, just a week after having been appointed a Senator for Life.
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Early life[link]
Monti was born in Varese on 19 March 1943.[2] His mother was from Piacenza. Although his father grew up in Varese, he was born in Luján in the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, where the Monti family had emigrated in the 19th century and built up a soft-drink and beer-production business.[3][4] Monti's father went back to Argentina during World War II, but later returned to his family home in Varese.[5]
Monti studied at the Leo XIII private catholic high school, and attended Bocconi University of Milan, where he obtained a degree in economics in 1965. Later he won a scholarship to Yale University,[6] where he studied under James Tobin, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics.[7]
Academic career[link]
Monti began his academic career at the University of Trento; he then taught economics at the University of Turin from 1970 to 1985, before moving to Bocconi University, where he was appointed rector from 1989 to 1994, and of which he is president since 1994. He also served as president of the SUERF (The European Money and Finance Forum) from 1982 to 1985.[8] His research helped to create the Klein-Monti model, aimed at describing the behaviour of banks operating under monopoly circumstances.[9]
European Commissioner[link]
Santer Commission[link]
In 1994, Monti was appointed to the Santer Commission, along with Emma Bonino, by the first Silvio Berlusconi cabinet. In his office as a European Commissioner from 1994 to 1999, he was responsible for Internal Market, Financial Services and Financial Integration, Customs, and Taxation. His work with the commission has earned him the nickname "Super Mario" from his colleagues and from the press.[10]
Prodi Commission[link]
In 1999, Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema confirmed his appointment to the new Prodi Commission and he was given one of the most powerful positions at the Commission, Competition Commissioner.[11]
As Competition Commissioner Monti led the investigation into a number of high profile and controversial mergers, including: Scania AB & Volvo (1999),[12] WorldCom & Sprint (2000),[13] General Electric & Honeywell (2001), Schneider Electric & Legrand (2001)[14] and Carnival Corporation & P&O Ferries (2002).[15] His term in office also saw the European Court of Justice, for the first time, overrule the Commission's decision to block a merger in three separate cases, although two were decided by his predecessor.[16] Monti was also responsible for levying the EU's largest ever fine at the time (€497 million) against Microsoft for abusing its dominant market position in 2004.[17]
Monti was criticised in the media and by competition lawyers for the perceived inflexibility of the merger oversight process and the high number of cases that were being blocked.[12][18][19] On 1 November 2002, Monti responding to the European Court of Justice's ruling which reversed his decision to block the merger between Airtours & First Choice Holidays said, "Last week was a tough week for the Commission's merger control policy - and of course for me."[16][19] This ruling in combination with his decision to block the General Electric & Honeywell merger led to criticism in the United States against both the Commission's procedures and accusations that Monti's decisions were politically motivated.[20] Monti, however, was defended by supporters who saw his actions as an important step in the development of competition law in the EU. Dan Rubinfeld, economics professor at the University of California who worked on the US Justice Department's antitrust case against Microsoft, said of Monti, "There has been a lot of talk of politics in this and other cases, but I believe he has been driven entirely by the desire to do the right thing."[16]
On 11 December 2002, Monti proposed a series of reforms to the EU's merger rules and made structural changes within the Commission's Competition department which aimed to improve transparency for companies throughout the merger review process.[21] The reforms were adopted by the EU as Regulation 139/2004 (known as ECMR).
In 2004, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi returned to power in Italy and did not re-appoint Monti to the Barroso Commission.[22]
Barroso Commission[link]
In 2010, Monti, then no longer a European Commissioner, was asked by Commission President Manuel Barroso to draft a "Report on the Future of the Single Market" proposing further measures towards the completion of the EU's Single Market.[23][24] The published report, adopted by the EU on 13 April 2011, proposed 12 reforms to the Single Market and was intended to "give new momentum" to the European economy.[25]
Prime Minister[link]
Appointment[link]
On 9 November 2011, Monti was appointed a Lifetime Senator by Italian President Giorgio Napolitano.[26] He was seen as a favourite to replace Silvio Berlusconi to lead a new unity government in Italy in order to implement reforms and austerity measures.[27] On 12 November 2011, following Berlusconi's resignation, Napolitano invited Monti to form a new government.[28] Monti accepted the offer, and held talks with the leaders of the main Italian political parties, declaring that he wanted to form a government that would remain in office until the next scheduled general elections in 2013.[29] On 16 November 2011, Monti was officially sworn in as Prime Minister of Italy, after unveiling a technocratic cabinet composed entirely of unelected professionals.[30] He also chose to hold the post of Minister of Economy and Finance.[31][32] On 17 and 18 November 2011, the Italian Senate and Italian Chamber of Deputies both passed motions of confidence supporting Monti's government, with only Lega Nord voting against.[33][34]
Austerity measures[link]
On 4 December 2011, Monti's government introduced emergency austerity measures intended to stem the worsening economic conditions in Italy and restore market confidence, especially after rising Italian government bond yields began to threaten Italy's financial stability.[35] The austerity package called for increased taxes, pension reform and measures to fight tax evasion. Monti also announced that he would be giving up his own salary as part of the reforms.[36] On 16 December 2011, the Lower House of the Italian Parliament adopted the measures by a vote of 495 to 88.[37] Six days later the Upper House gave final approval to the package by a vote of 257 to 41.[38]
Labour market reforms[link]
On 20 January 2012, Monti's government formally adopted a package of reforms targeting Italy's labour market. The reforms are intended to open certain professions (such as taxi drivers, pharmacists, doctors, lawyers and notaries) to more competition by reforming their licensing systems and abolishing minimum tariffs for their services.[39][40] Article 18 of Italy's labour code, which requires companies that employ 15 or more workers to re-hire (rather than compensate) any employee found to have been fired without just cause,[41][42] would also be reformed. The reforms to Article 18 are intended to make it easier for companies to dismiss or lay-off employees, which would hopefully encourage companies to hire more employees on permanent rather than short-term renewable contracts.[42] The proposals have been met by strong opposition from labour unions and public protests.[43] In early January 2012, consultations between the government and labour unions commenced[44] and on 13 February it was reported in the Italian media that a compromise on the proposals was very close and the government was hopeful that reforms could be approved by the Italian parliament in March.[45][dated info]
Think tanks[link]
Monti actively participates in several major think tanks. He is a member of the Praesidium of Friends of Europe. He was the founding chairman of Bruegel, another European think tank, which was formed in 2005. He is also the European Chairman of the Trilateral Commission, a think tank founded in 1973 by David Rockefeller.[46]
Monti is a leading member of the exclusive Bilderberg Group.[47] He has also been an international advisor to Goldman Sachs[48] and The Coca-Cola Company.[49] He has also been a member of the "Senior European Advisory Council" of Moody's[50] and he is one of the members of the "Business and Economics Advisors Group" of the Atlantic Council.[51]
In 2007, Mario Monti was one of the first supporters of the first European civic forum, États Généraux de l'Europe, initiated by European think tank EuropaNova and European Movement. He was also a member of the French government's Attali Commission from 2007 to 2008,[6][52] appointed by Nicolas Sarkozy to provide recommendations to enhance economic growth in France.
Monti is a founding member of the Spinelli Group,[53] an organization launched in September 2010 to facilitate integration within the European Union (other members of the steering group include Jacques Delors, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Guy Verhofstadt, Andrew Duff and Elmar Brok).
Personal life[link]
Monti is married to his wife Elsa[54] and has two children.[55]
Known for his reserved character, Monti acknowledges not being especially sociable.[56] He has said that his youth was given over to hard study; spare-time activities included cycling and keeping up with world affairs by tuning in to foreign short-wave radio stations.[56]
Awards and decorations[link]
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Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic – awarded on 29 November 2004[57] |
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Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic – awarded on 27 December 1992[58] |
See also[link]
References[link]
- ^ Il "côté cattolico del nuovo premier". Lettera 43. 13 November 2011.
- ^ "Mario Monti nominato senatore a vita — La mossa del Colle, il via libera del premier" (in Italian). La Repubblica. 9 November 2011. http://www.repubblica.it/politica/2011/11/09/news/mario_monti_nominato_senatore_a_vita_la_mossa_del_colle_nei_giorni_della_crisi-24745975/. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
- ^ "Monti d'Italia e d'Argentina - Il Grande Sud" (in Italian). Il Sole 24 Ore. 17 November 2011. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
- ^ "Mario Monti, el sucesor de Berlusconi, es hijo de un argentino" (in Spanish). La Nación. 14 November 2011. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
- ^ Camanzini, Enrico. "Mario Monti, dalla città giardino al Palazzo Madama: I ricordi delle gite sui monti delle Prealpi" (in Italian). Il Giorno. 12 November 2011. Retrieved 17 November 2011.
- ^ a b Public hearing: Strengthening economic governance in the EU (Brussels, 13 January 2011) — Curriculum vitae of speakers. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
- ^ Clift, Jeremy (June 2005). "Super Mario and the Temple of Learning". Finance and Development. International Monetary Fund. http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2005/06/people.htm.
- ^ Staff (undated). "Past SUERF Presidents and Vice Presidents". SUERF. http://www.suerf.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=39&Itemid=6. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
- ^ Matthews, Kent and Thompson, John (2008). The economics of banking, Chapter 6: The Theory of the Banking Firm, p. 77-91. Wiley. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
- ^ Smith-Spark, Laura (13 November 2011). "Who is Italy's 'Super Mario' Monti?". CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/11/world/europe/italy-mario-monti-profile/index.html. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
- ^ "Examining the EU executive". BBC News. 23 July 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/letter_from_america/3921303.stm. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
- ^ a b "Monti puts brakes on EU merger mania". European Voice. 23 March 2000. http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/imported/monti-puts-brakes-on-eu-merger-mania/40395.aspx. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
- ^ "Sprint, WorldCom call off $120 billion merger". CNet News. 13 July 2000. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1033-243110.html. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
- ^ "A shocking denouement". The Economist. 11 October 2001. http://www.economist.com/node/814366. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
- ^ "EU backs Carnival bid for P&O". The Guardian. 25 July 2002. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2002/jul/25/12. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
- ^ a b c "The full Monti". CNet News. 24 March 2004. http://news.cnet.com/The-full-Monti/2100-1016_3-5178159.html. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
- ^ "Microsoft hit by record EU fine". BBC News. 24 March 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/3563697.stm. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
- ^ "Spaghetti Monti". The Economist. 5 October 2000. http://www.economist.com/node/387773. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
- ^ a b "Mario Monti: Merger man on a mission". BBC News. 1 November 2002. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2385037.stm. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
- ^ "Monti braves the catcalls". The Economist. 13 December 2001. http://www.economist.com/node/905116. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
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External links[link]
- Super Mario and the Temple of Learning, interview in "Finance and Development", quarterly magazine of the International Monetary Fund, June 2005.
- Profile at Politics.co.uk
- Articles at The Guardian
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| Preceded by Antonio Ruberti |
Italian European Commissioner 1995–2004 Served alongside: Emma Bonino, Romano Prodi |
Succeeded by Franco Frattini |
| Preceded by Raniero Vanni d'Archirafi |
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| European Commissioner for Internal Market, Services, Customs and Taxation 1995–1999 |
Succeeded by Frits Bolkestein |
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| Preceded by Karel Van Miert |
European Commissioner for Competition 1999–2004 |
Succeeded by Neelie Kroes |
| Preceded by Silvio Berlusconi |
Prime Minister of Italy 2011–present |
Incumbent |
| Preceded by Giulio Tremonti |
Minister of Economy and Finance 2011–present |
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| Preceded by Luigi Guatri |
Rector of Bocconi University 1989–1994 |
Succeeded by Roberto Ruozi |
| Preceded by Giovanni Spadolini |
President of Bocconi University 1994–present |
Incumbent |
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| Preceded by Gianfranco Fini as President of the Chamber of Deputies |
Order of Precedence of Italy as Prime Minister |
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| Name | Monti Mario |
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| Short description | politician economist, former Europeam commissioner |
| Date of birth | 19 March 1943 |
| Place of birth | Varese, Lombardy |
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