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.

Tonio Borg (born May 12, 1957) is a Maltese politician who has been Deputy Prime Minister of Malta since 2004. He was Minister of Home Affairs from 1995 to 1996 and again from 1998 to 2008; since 2008, he has been Minister of Foreign Affairs (Maltese: Ministru għal l-Affarijiet Barranin). Borg is a Member of Parliament for the Nationalist Party.

Borg, first elected to the House of Representatives in the 1992 general election, was Minister of Home Affairs from April 1995 to October 1996 and then, while the Nationalist Party was in opposition, Party Spokesman for Home Affairs from October 1996 to September 1998. Following the 1998 election, he returned to his position as Minister of Home Affairs on September 8, 1998. He became Minister of Justice and Home Affairs in April 2003, following that year's election. Borg was elected as the deputy leader of the Nationalist Party in March 2004, and he became Deputy Prime Minister, while remaining Minister of Justice and Home Affairs, when the previous Deputy Prime Minister, Lawrence Gonzi, succeeded Edward Fenech Adami as Prime Minister. Borg also served as Leader of the House of Representatives at that time.

Gösta Ingvar Carlsson (born 9 November 1934) is a Swedish politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Sweden, first from 1986 to 1991 and again from 1994 to 1996. He was leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1986 to 1996.

Carlsson was a member of the Riksdag from 1965 to 1996 representing the constituency of Stockholm County (until 1970 in the Lower House). He served as Minister for Education from 1969 to 1973, as Minister for Housing in 1973 and again from 1974 to 1976 and as Minister for the Environment from 1985 to 1986. He served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1982 to 1986 and assumed office as Prime Minister of Sweden upon the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986.

Carlsson was born in Borås, Västra Götaland County (then Älvsborg County), Sweden. Carlsson has a diploma in business economics and a degree in political science from Lund University. In Lund he met with Tage Erlander, the Swedish prime minister and his aide Olof Palme, later to become Erlanders successor.