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Achille Occhetto
Achille Occhetto (Italian pronunciation: [aˈkille okˈketto]; born 3 March 1936), is an Italian political figure.
Occhetto was born in Turin. He served as the secretary-general of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) between 1988 and 1994 (which became the Democratic Party of the Left halfway through his term in 1991, also known as the PDS, then became a major part of the Democrats of the Left, which is now one of the elements of the Democratic Party (Italy)).
He served as secretary of the youth communist movement from 1963 to 1966 and, subsequently, as regional secretary of the Italian Communist Party in Sicily, distinguishing himself for his war against any kind of mafia.
Appointed in 1986 as national coordinator of the PCI, he became then the party leader in 1988, succeeding to Alessandro Natta. During his secretarship, the party witnessed the collapse of both the Berlin wall and the communist regime in the Soviet Union. He therefore declared the communist experience as over, and dissolved the PCI in order to form a new party, the PDS, characterized by a progressive left-wing stance.

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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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Adamos Adamou
Adamos Adamou (born on 30 October 1950, Limassol) is a Cypriot politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Progressive Party of Working People, sitting with the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group from 2004 to 2009. He sat on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He didn't stand for reelection in the European elections, 2009.
Adamou was Deputy director of Pathological Oncology Clinic.
He is the Chairman of the Delegations for relations between EU with the Palestinian Legislative Council. As a chairman, he is a member of the Conference of Delegation Chairmen. Became (Dec 2009) Patron of The Friends' Hospice Paphos, a charitable organisation established in 2006, attached to the Evangelismos hospital in Paphos, Cyprus.
He is also a substitute of the Committee on Culture and Education and of the Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee.

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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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Adriana Poli Bortone
Adriana Poli Bortone (born on 25 August 1943 in Lecce) is an Italian politician and was an Alleanza Nazionale Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2008. She represented Southern Italy. She was mayor of Lecce until 2007.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)

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Agnes Schierhuber
Agnes Schierhuber (born 31 May 1946) is an Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Austrian People's Party, which is part of the European People's Party.
Schierhuber has been a member of the European Parliament since 1995 and currently sits as a full member of the Agriculture and Rural
Development Committee. She is also part of the Delegation for relations with Canada. As a substitute member she sits on the Employment and Social Affairs Committee. She is the Vice-Chairwoman of the EPP-ED Group working party on agricultural and budgetary issues.

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Alain Hutchinson
Alain Hutchinson (born on 10 December 1949 in Schaerbeek) 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 Development where he is Coordinator for the Socialist group.
He is a substitute for the Subcommittee on Human Rights and a vice-chair of the Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya).

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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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Alain Lipietz
Alain Lipietz (born September 19, 1947, Charenton-le-Pont as Alain Guy Lipiec) is a French engineer, economist and politician, a Member of the European Parliament, and a member of the French Green Party.
Alain Lipietz studied at the École polytechnique (entered in 1966) and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (diploma in 1971). He then obtained a master's degree in economy (1972).
He became a researcher at the Institut de recherche des transports (transportation research institute, 1971–1973) and at the Centre d'études prospectives d'économie - Mathématiques appliquées à la planification (Center for prospective studies of economics - applied mathematics for planification, 1973–1999). He became a research director at CNRS in 1988. Since 1990, he is chief engineer at the Corps of Bridges and Roads (France).
Since the beginning of his career, he has devoted himself to the analysis of social-economic relationships within human communities. He is thought of as having contributed to the Regulation school of economic thought.

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Alan Johnson
Alan Arthur Johnson (born 17 May 1950) is a British Labour Party politician who served as Home Secretary from June 2009 to May 2010. Before that, he filled a wide variety of cabinet positions in both the Blair and Brown governments, including Health Secretary and Education Secretary. Until 20 January 2011 he was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. Johnson has been the Member of Parliament for Hull West and Hessle since 1997.
Born in London on 17 May 1950, the son of Stephen and Lillian Johnson, he was orphaned at the age of 12 when his mother died. Johnson was then in effect brought up by his older sister when the two were assigned a council flat by their child welfare officer. He passed the 11 plus exam and attended Sloane Grammar School in Chelsea, now part of Pimlico Academy, and left school at the age of 15. He then stacked shelves at Tesco before becoming a postman at 18. He was interested in music and joined two pop music bands. Johnson joined the Union of Communication Workers, becoming a branch official. He joined the Labour Party in 1971, although he considered himself a Marxist ideologically aligned with the Communist Party of Great Britain. A full-time union official from 1987, he became General Secretary of the newly formed Communication Workers Union in 1993 following a series of union mergers.

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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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Albert Jan Maat
Albert Jan Maat (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɑl.bərt ˈjɑn ˈmaːt]) (born 8 February 1953 in Heino, Overijssel) is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and its Committee on Fisheries.
He is also a substitute for the Committee on Budgetary Control, the Committee on Budgets, the Subcommittee on Human Rights, and the delegation to the EU–Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee. He is vice-chair of the delegation to the EU–Kazakhstan, EU–Kyrgyzstan and EU–Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia.

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Aldis Kušķis
Aldis Kušķis (born 6 October 1965 in Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian politician. From 2004 till 2009 he was Member of the European Parliament for the New Era Party; part of the European People's Party.

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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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Alejandro Cercas
Alejandro Cercas Alonso (born 25 May 1949, Cáceres) is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. Cercas began his political career in 1982 when he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies, representing Caceres and was re-elected at the subsequent elections in 1986, 1989, 1993 and 1996. In 2010 he signed the Manifesto of the Spinelli Group positionning itself in favour of a federal Europe.

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Alessandra Mussolini
Alessandra Mussolini (born 30 December 1962) is an Italian politician, the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini, and previously an actress and model. She is the founder and former leader of the national conservative political party Social Action; from 2004 until 2008, Mussolini also served as Member of the European Parliament, and has since been a member of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Italian Parliament, for the ruling People of Freedom party.
Some of Mussolini's noted stances are in regards to social views on women's and children's rights and role within both the family unit and society in general.
Alessandra Mussolini was born in Rome, the daughter of Romano Mussolini, the fourth son of the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, and Anna Maria Villani Scicolone (born 11 May 1938, Rome). The actress Sophia Loren is her maternal aunt.
From 1976 to 1980 she went to high school at the American Overseas School of Rome. She graduated in 1986 from Università di Rimini, where she got her Master of Arts in film management.

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Alessandro Foglietta
Alessandro Foglietta (born on 1 February 1953 in Supino) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Central with the Alleanza Nazionale, Treasurer of the Union for a Europe of Nations and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. He is also a member of the Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)

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Alexander Radwan
Alexander Radwan (born on 30 August 1964 in München) 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 Economic and Monetary Affairs.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Legal Affairs and a vice-chair of the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries.

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Alexandra Dobolyi
Alexandra Dobolyi (born September 26, 1971 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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Alfonso Andria
Alfonso Andria (born on 27 May 1952 in Salerno) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Southern with the Margherita Party, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe 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 for relations with the United States 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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Alfred Gomolka
Alfred Gomolka (born 21 July 1942 in Breslau) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. He was a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union of Germany, part of the European People's Party from 1994 to 2008. He is now retired and lives in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
As Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Dr Gomolka served as President of the Bundesrat from 1 November 1991 to 19 March 1992. Gomolka tried to avoid the takeover of the East-German shipyards by the West-German Bremer Vulkan AG, which was proposed during the post-communistic privatizations. After he was forced to leave office in 1992, the East German shipyards were sold to the Bremen shipbuilder by his predecessor. In the following years the Bremer Vulkan illegally transferred subsidies of 350 Million Euros to keep jobs at the Shipyards in Bremen running.

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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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Alistair Carmichael
Alexander Morrison "Alistair" Carmichael (born 15 July 1965) is a Liberal Democrat politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Scottish seat of Orkney and Shetland since the 2001 general election.
He was born on Islay, and attended Port Ellen Primary School and Islay High School. He worked between 1984-89 as an hotel manager, before beginning study at the University of Glasgow. There, he was a member of the Students' Representative Council and President of the Liberal Club, however he left his course early. He later returned to education at the University of Aberdeen, where he gained an LLB in 1992, qualifying as a solicitor in 1993. From 1993-96, he was a Procurator Fiscal Depute for Edinburgh and Aberdeen, and from 1996-2001 was a solicitor with Aberdeen and Macduff.
Carmichael was elected to represent Orkney and Shetland in the 2001 general election, the constituency previously held by Jim Wallace and Jo Grimond. He was appointed Liberal Democrat Northern Ireland and Scotland Spokesman by Sir Menzies Campbell in July 2007, but resigned in March 2008 in order to vote in favour of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. He was reappointed to the position by Nick Clegg in October 2008. He had also briefly served as the Liberal Democrat Home Affairs Spokesman, following the resignation of Mark Oaten.

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Aloyzas Sakalas
Aloyzas Sakalas (born on July 6, 1931 in Anykščiai) is a Lithuanian politician, signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, and Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania. Aloyzas Sakalas is also a part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs.
Aloyzas Sakalas is a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs and a member of the Delegation for relations with Belarus.

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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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Ambroise Guellec
Ambroise Guellec (born 26 March 1941 in Peumerit, Finistère) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for Western 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 Regional Development.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Fisheries, a member of the delegation to the EU–Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Mercosur.

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Ana Maria Gomes
Ana Maria Rosa Martins Gomes, better known as Ana Gomes, GCC , (Lisbon, 9 February 1954) is a Portuguese politician, who suspended her career as a diplomat to enter party politics in 2003. In 2004, she was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (Portuguese Socialist Party [1] member of the European Socialist Party) and was reelected in June 2009. She is married with one daughter, three stepchildren and six grandchildren.
Ana Gomes is currently a City Council member of Sintra.
She has been a career diplomat since 1980 and served in the Portuguese Missions at the UN in New York and Geneva, and also in the Embassies in Tokyo and London. Between 1999 and 2003, she was Head of Mission and Ambassador in Jakarta, where she played an important role both in the process leading up to the independence of East Timor and in the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between Portugal and Indonesia.
In the European Parliament, her main areas of activity are: human rights, security and defence, international relations, gender issues and development. In 2010 she signed the Spinelli Group manifesto.

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Ana Mato Adrover
Ana Mato Adrover (born on 24 September 1959 in Madrid) is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament with the People's Party, Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
She is a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Spain)

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Anders Wijkman
Anders Ivar Sven Wijkman (born 30 September 1944 in Stockholm) is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament. As a member of the European Parliament, he focusses on issues related to climate change, environment, development cooperation and humanitarian affairs. He is a member of the Christian Democrats, part of the European People's Party - European Democrats group.
He sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He is also a substitute for the Committee on Development, a member of the delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with the United States.
Anders has been a member of the Swedish parliament, secretary general of the Swedish Red Cross, and president of the International Red Cross Disaster Relief Commission. Anders is vice President of Club of Rome and the Tällberg Foundation. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He is also a councillor for the World Future Council.

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Andrea Losco
Andrea Losco (b. 31 March 1951, Cardito) is an Italian politician. He was a member of the European Parliament from May 8, 2006, when he took up a seat vacated after the 2006 Italian general election, until the 2009 European elections. He represented the Olive Tree coalition within the ALDE parliamentary group.

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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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Andres Tarand
Andres Tarand (born 11 January 1940 in Tallinn), is an Estonian politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists between 2004 and 2009. Tarand also served as the Prime Minister of Estonia from 1994 to 1995.
Born in Tallinn, Tarand graduated from the University of Tartu with a degree in climatology in 1963. After receiving his first degree he continued his studies at Tartu receiving a second degree in geography in 1973. He continued to do research at Tartu, eventually becoming director of research in 1979, to 1981.
Besides serving as director of research at University of Tartu, Tarand has also been a member of the board for the university, since 1996, as well as director of the Tallinn Botanical Gardens, from 1988–1990.
Tarand has also been a member of the Estonian Parliament from 1992 to 2004. While in parliament Tarand served as the Minister for the Environment of Estonia twice, 1992 to 1994 and 1994 to 1995, as well as his term as Prime Minister. He was elected to the European Parliament in 2004.

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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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Andrew Lansley
Andrew David Lansley, CBE, MP (born 11 December 1956) is a British politician who has been the Secretary of State for Health since 2010, the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for South Cambridgeshire since the 1997 general election, and was the Shadow Secretary of State for Health from June 2004 until becoming Secretary of State for Health in May 2010. Lansley's Health and Social Care Act 2012 is one of the most controversial plans of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government, resulting in strong opposition from both the Royal College of Nursing and British Medical Association.
Born in Hornchurch, Essex, Lansley was educated at Brentwood School and the University of Exeter, gaining a BA in politics. During his time at Exeter University, Lansley was elected as President of the Guild of Students (Student Union), as a Broad Left candidate. His father, Thomas, worked in a pathology laboratory and was co-founder of the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine and chair of the Institute of Medical Laboratory Scientists.

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Andrew Mitchell
The Right Honourable Andrew John Bower Mitchell MP (born 23 March 1956) is a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sutton Coldfield. He was appointed as Secretary of State for International Development on 12 May 2010, and as a Privy Counsellor on 13 May 2010.
A former UN peacekeeper, he has extensive pre-government experience of the developing world, and is the founder of Project Umubano, a Conservative Party social action project in Rwanda and Sierra Leone in central and west Africa, launched in 2007.
A former President of the Cambridge Union and Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party, he became Secretary of State for International Development in 2010. Both in Opposition and Government, he has repeatedly asserted the need for full transparency and value for money in British aid contributions to the developing world, with resources concentrated on the world's poorest and most troubled countries. Those judged now able to support their own citizens, such as Russia, China, Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia, will no longer be eligible to receive aid. He has made the commitment to reach the UN target to spend 0.7 per cent of UK GNI on aid to the developing world by 2013.

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Andrew Stunell
Robert Andrew Stunell, known as Andrew Stunell, OBE (born 24 November 1942) is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hazel Grove, and was first elected at the 1997 general election. Since 2010 he has served as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Communities and Local Government.
Andrews Stunell was born in Sutton, Surrey and educated at Surbiton County Grammar School for Boys (moved to Thames Ditton as Esher County Grammar School with the former buildings becoming Hollyfield School, then became Esher College in 1977) on St Marks Hill in Surbiton, then studied Architecture at University of Manchester and Liverpool Polytechnic. He became a member of RIBA in 1969. After graduation he was an architectural assistant until 1989, working for CWS Manchester from 1965-7, Runcorn New Town from 1967–81, then freelance 1981-5. From 1989–96 he worked as Political Secretary of the Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1993. Stunell married Gillian Chorley in 1967. They have three sons and two daughters and he is a former Baptist lay preacher and an active member of his local Methodist church.

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Andrzej Szejna
Andrzej Jan Szejna (pronounced [ˈandʐɛi̯ ˈjan ˈʂɛi̯na]; born on 28 April 1973 in Końskie) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Lesser Poland Voivodeship & Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship with the Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union, part of the Socialist Group and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs.
Szejna is a substitute for the Committee on Budgets, a member of the Delegation for relations with Belarus and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan and the Philippines.

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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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André Brie
Dr. André Brie (born on 13 March 1950 in Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament since 1999 for the Party of Democratic Socialism, part of the European Left and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.
He is also a substitute for the Committee on Petitions and the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
Outside Parliament he is a member of the PDS regional party council in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Germany)

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André Laignel
André Laignel (born 4 December 1942 in Paris) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for Central France. He is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.

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Angelika Beer
Angelika Beer (born 24 May 1957 in Kiel) is a German politician. 2004 to 2009 she was a Member of the European Parliament for Alliance '90/The Greens, part of the European Greens. She was chair of the delegation for relations with Iran and a member on the delegation for relations with Afghanistan and the Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, the Foreign Affairs committee and the Subcommittee on Security and Defence.
In January, she was not reelected on a place on the European Parliamentary election list for Alliance '90/The Greens. She left the Green Party at the end of March 2009. As a reason for her exit, she criticised the Green Party's aspiration after power and the loss of its pacifistic orientation.
In November 2009 she became a member of Pirate Party Germany. In May 2012 she was elected as one of six Pirates to become a member of the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein.

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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 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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Anne Ferreira
Anne Ferreira (born 18 March 1961 in Saint-Quentin, Aisne) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-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 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 for relations with South Africa, and a substitute for the delegation to the EU–Kazakhstan, EU–Kyrgyzstan and EU–Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia.

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Anne Laperrouze
Anne Laperrouze (born 4 July 1956 in Puylaurens, Tarn) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France. She was a member of the Union for French Democracy and is a member of DEMocrate MOvement(MODEM), which is 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 Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. She is also a member of the delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China, and a substitute of the delegation for relations with the countries of Central America.

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Anne Van Lancker
Anne Edward Marie Van Lancker (born on 4 March 1954 in Temse) is a Belgian politician and a former Member of the European Parliament (until 2009) for Belgium with the Socialistische Partij Anders (sp.a), part of the Socialist Group and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
She was a substitute for the Committee on Development and a member of the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
Anne Van Lancker was the only Belgian MEP in the European Convention, that presented a draft constitution for the EU in 2003. Her work during that convention earned her the title 'tireless battler for a social Europe' from Financial Times journalist Peter Norman.
She also chairs Zij-kant, the women's organisation of sp.a.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Belgium)

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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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Antoine Duquesne
Antoine Duquesne (3 February 1941 – 4 November 2010) was a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the French Community of Belgium with the MR/MCC/PRL, Member of the Bureau of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
He was a substitute for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, a vice-chair of the Delegation for relations with Mercosur and a substitute for the Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee.
In 1965 Duquesne became a Doctor of Law at the University of Liège. From 1965 to 1971 he served as an assistant lecturer in the Faculty of Law of that university. He was a practicising lawyer from 1965 to 1975 and again from 1988.
From 1975 to 1977 he was Deputy Secretary-General of the National Committee for Training and Further Training in Trade and Commerce. Frol 1977 to 1982 he served as general administrator of the National Committee for Coordination and Dialogue on Continuing Education for Small Businesses and the French-Speaking Institute for Continuing Training for Small Businesses. From 1983 to 1988 he was the Director of the National Fund for Professional Credit.

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Antolín Sánchez
Antolín Sánchez Presedo (born April 5, 1955 in Betanzos, Galicia (Spain)) is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.

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Antonio Tajani
Antonio Tajani (born 4 August 1953, in Rome) is an Italian politician. He is the current European Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship and has also been one of the five Vice-President of the European Commission since May 2008.
After attending a classical high school in Rome, he earned a degree in Law at the Sapienza University of Rome.
Tajani was an official in the Italian Air Forces. After attending a specialized air defense course, he became radar controller.
Tajani has been a professional journalist, editor of parliamentary affairs for the weekly "Il settimanale", presenter of Rai Radio 1 news programme, and head of the Rome editorial office of the newspaper "Il Giornale", owned by the Berlusconi family. He was special envoy to Lebanon, the Soviet Union and Somalia.
He is married with two children.
In his youth Tajani was a militant of Fronte Monarchico Giovanile (Youth Monarchist Front), a student organization of the Monarchist party of Italy. Even later, he has always advocated for the return from exile of the House of Savoy (banned according to the Italian Constitution)

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Antonios Trakatellis
Antonios Trakatellis (Greek: Αντώνιος Τρακατέλλης) (born 4 September 1931 in Thessaloniki) is a Greek Member of the European Parliament, and an academic biochemist. He was elected on the New Democracy ticket and sits with the European People's Party group. He has been leader of the ND parliamentary group since 2000.
Trakatellis has been a lecturer at several Greek and American universities, and was Rector of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 1988-1994. He has published a large number of papers and books concerning insulin, nucleic acids, proteins and vitamin B₆ deficiency.
On 20 July 2004 he was elected one of the 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament, ending his mandate on 15 January 2007.
He is the brother of Demetrios, Archbishop of America.

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Antonis Samaras
Antonis Samaras (Greek: Αντώνης Σαμαράς, pronounced [anˈdonis samaˈras]; born 23 May 1951) is a Greek economist and politician who has been leader of New Democracy, Greece's major conservative party, since 2009. A Member of Parliament for Messenia, he was Minister of Finance in 1989, then Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1989 to 1990 and again from 1990 to 1992. Later, he was Minister of Culture in 2009. He was best known for the 1993 controversy, when he effectively caused the New Democracy government, of which he was a member, to fall from power. In spite of this he rejoined the party in 2004 and was elected to its leadership in a closely fought intra-party election in late 2009. He is the 7th leader of the party since it was founded in 1974.
Born in Athens, Samaras attended school in the Athens College (founded by his maternal greatgrandfather, Stephanos Deltas, and Emmanouil Benakis, Deltas' father-in-law), and graduated from Amherst College in 1974 with a degree in economics, and then from Harvard University in 1976 with an MBA. He is a member of the Greek Parliament for the prefecture of Messenia (1977–1996 and 2007–present) as well as a former Finance, Foreign, and Culture Minister. He is the son of the late Dr. Constantine Samaras, Professor of Cardiology, and the late Lena, née Zannas, a maternal granddaughter of author Penelope Delta. His brother, Alexander, is an architect. His paternal uncle, George Samaras, was a long-standing member of Parliament for Messenia in the 1950s and '60s.

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Ari Vatanen
Ari Pieti Uolevi Vatanen (

pronunciation (help·info)) (born 27 April 1952 in Tuupovaara) is a Finnish rally driver turned politician and Member of the European Parliament 1999–2009. Vatanen won the World Rally Championship drivers' title in 1981 and the Paris Dakar Rally four times.
Vatanen was born and grew up in rural Tuupovaara in Eastern Finland. His debut year in professional rallying was 1970, and he debuted in the World Rally Championship at the 1974 1000 Lakes Rally. His first international rally was the 1975 Rothmans 747 Rally in Jamaica driving a Datsun 120Y. He placed 12th with co-driver Gerry Phillips. He won the British Rally Championship in 1976 and 1980 with Peter Bryant and David Richards. In 1977, Vatanen became a regular privateer contestant in the WRC with a Ford Escort RS1800. For the 1979 season, he was signed by Rothmans Rally Team. Continuing with an RS1800, he took his debut win at the 1980 Acropolis Rally and became the World Rally Champion in 1981. From 1979 until the end of 1981, Vatanen was co-driven by David Richards, who went on to become chairman of Prodrive, the Banbury based motorsport team and one of the most influential figures in British (and worldwide) motorsport. In the 1982 season, Vatanen did not defend his title and competed in only three world rallies.

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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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Armando Veneto
Armando Veneto (b. 14 November 1935, Aversa) is an Italian politician. He was a member of the European Parliament from May 8, 2006, when he took up a seat vacated after the 2006 Italian general election, until the 2009 European elections. He represented the Popular-UDEUR (before becoming independent) within the EPP-ED parliamentary group.

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Armin Laschet
Armin Laschet (born 18 February 1961) is a German politician.
Laschet was born in Aachen-Burtscheid. He has three children, Julius, Eva and Johannes Laschet, and is married with Susanne Laschet. He attended Pius-Gymnasium in Aachen and studied law at the universities of Bonn and Munich. In Munich he became a member of K.D.St.V. Aenania München, a catholic student fraternity that is member of the Cartellverband. From 1999 until 2005 he was a 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.
As Former German minister for integration he recently signed the Soros' open letter calling for more Europe in the single currency turmoil
Since June 2005 he has been Minister (Minister für Generationen, Familie, Frauen und Integration („Generationenminister“)) in North Rhine-Westphalia. As a Federal State Minister, Laschet is paid according to 120 % of Salary Class B11, which equals approximately 215 000 Euros (300 000 USD) p. a.

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Arūnas Degutis
Arūnas Degutis (b. July 26, 1958, Kaunas) is a Lithuanian politician who was a signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.

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Ashley Mote
Ashley Mote (born 25 January 1936 in London) was a non-inscrit Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England. An outspoken critic of fraud in the European Institutions, he himself was convicted of benefit fraud in 2007 for which he served a nine-month prison sentence and was described by the trial judge as "a truly dishonest man". The scandal ignited a debate as to how an MEP could receive a prison sentence, yet keep his seat in the European Parliament; there are currently moves afoot to review the legislation.
Married with two children, Mote was a management consultant who ran a marketing business in Farnham, Surrey, employing thirteen full-time staff, for eighteen years before it closed in 1989 as a result of the late 1980s recession.
He later became an author, publishing several titles on right wing politics and also on cricket. His books have included Vigilance - A Defence of British Liberty (2001) about the European Union, and OverCrowded Britain: Our Immigration Crisis. His books on cricket are The Glory Days of Cricket (1997) which won The Cricket Society's "Cricket Book of the Year" award in 1997 and a 1998 re-issue of John Nyren's 1833 classic collection of articles on the Georgian game, The Cricketers of My Time. He was also the first president of the revived Hambledon Club which raises money for colts cricket.

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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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Atanas Paparizov
Atanas Atanassov Paparizov (Bulgarian: Атанас Атанасов Папаризов) (born 5 July 1951 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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Aurelio Juri
Aurelio Juri (born 27 July 1949) is a Slovenian politician and journalist of Italian ethnic origin. Between 2008 and 2009, he served as Member of the European Parliament. He was an influential member of the Social Democrats, before he left the party in 2009.
Juri was born in an Italian-speaking family of Friulian descent in Pula, Croatia, then part of former Yugoslavia. He spent his childhood in the Slovenian coastal town of Koper, where he started his political career in the Communist Party of Slovenia. In 1978, he became member of the Town Council. A stounch supporter of the reformist wing of the party led by Milan Kučan, became member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovenia in 1989, one year before the democratic changes in Slovenia. Between 1986 and 1990, he also served as chairman of the autonomous organization of the Italian Community of Koper.
In 1994, he became mayor of Koper, but resigned in 1996, after being elected to the Slovenian National Assembly on the list of the United List of Social Democrats. He remained in Parliament for three consecutive terms. In November 2008, he replaced the party leader Borut Pahor, who was elected Prime Minister of Slovenia, as member of the European Parliament.

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Avril Doyle
Avril Doyle (born 18 April 1949) is a former Irish politician. She was a member of Fine Gael, part of the European People's Party.
Avril Belton was born in Dublin and was educated at University College Dublin. Her father Richard Belton was a Senator and her grandfather Patrick Belton was a Teachta Dála (TD). She was a member of Wexford County Council, including a term as Mayor of Wexford Town. She was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the November 1982 general election as a Fine Gael TD for the Wexford constituency. She lost her seat at the 1989 general election but was re-elected at the 1992 general election, again losing her seat at the 1997 general election to party colleague Michael D'Arcy. She was a member of the Seanad from 1989–1992 and from 1997–2002. She was elected as an Member of the European Parliament (MEP) at the 1999 election and re-elected at the 2004 election. She served as a Minister of State in the Fine Gael-Labour Party coalition governments of 1982–87 and 1994–97.
Doyle made news during debate in the European Parliament in June 2008 after the rejection of the Treaty of Lisbon by Irish voters. A group of British Eurosceptic MEPs wore green hats and T-shirts, encouraging the EU to respect the Irish no vote. However, many Irish MEPs saw this as self-serving and felt that there would be no Eurosceptic support for Irish opinion had the treaty been accepted; and Doyle was both lauded and criticised for the following comment, which is a reference to the forceful occupation of Ireland by Britain; "How the history books could have been written differently, if respect for the Irish vote from some of our British colleagues was always there."

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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 Kudrycka
Barbara Kudrycka [barˈbara kudˈrɨt͡ska] (

listen) (born 22 January 1956, in Kolno) is a professor of administrative law and public administration science and a Polish politician who has served as the Minister of Science and Higher Education in the cabinet of Donald Tusk since 2007.
In 1978 she graduated with a degree in law from the University of Warsaw. From 1978 to 1981 she was a member of the Polish United Workers' Party. In 1980 she joined the Solidarity trade union. In 1985 she received a doctoral degree in law and in 1995 became an assistant professor at the Department of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw.
From March 1998 through August 2007, for three consecutive terms, she was the rector of the Białystok School of Public Administration. Currently she is the school's president.
Since October 2003 she has been the chair of administrative law at the Law Department of the University of Białystok.
Since 2004 she has been an active member of the Civic Platform. From 2004 through 2007 she was a member of the European Parliament. She sat on the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. She was a substitute for the Committee on Legal Affairs and a member of the Delegation for Relations with Belarus.

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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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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 Belder
Bastiaan (Bas) Belder (born October 25, 1946 in Ridderkerk, South Holland) is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament with the SGP, part of the Europe of Freedom and Democracy Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. Belder himself is a member of the SGP, the Reformed Political Party .
He is a substitute for the Committee on International Trade and the Committee on Budgets.
Furthermore he is chairman of the delegation for the relations between the European Parliament and Israel.

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Bashir Khanbhai
Bashir Khanbhai (born 1945) is a former Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Born in Tanga, Tanzania, Khanbhai worked in the family business and took a degree in pharmacy at the School of Pharmacy, University of London, then a masters' in politics, philosophy and economics at the University of Oxford. He also became a member of the Standing Committee of the Oxford Union. Khanbhai joined the Conservative Party, and stood for them in Norwich South at the 1997 general election, but was not elected. At the 1999 European Parliament election, he was elected from third position on the Conservative Party list in the East of England, becoming the first British Muslim MEP.
In 2004, Khanbhai repaid £7,000 of wrongly claimed travel expenses; although he lived in Sevenoaks, Kent, he had registered a boatyard in Wroxham as his home address. In light of this expenses scandal, he was deselected by his party, and did not stand in the 2004 election. He subsequently claimed that he had been treated differently to other Conservative MEPs in similar positions, ascribing this to racist elements within the party.

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Benoît Hamon
Benoît Hamon (born 26 June 1967) is a French politician, member of the Socialist Party (PS), part of the Party of European Socialists. He was Member of the European Parliament for the East of France from 2004 to 2009. He was national secretary for Europe in the French socialist party. At present, he is spokesman. He also was the leader of the left-wing of the PS during the 2008 Reims Congress and its candidate for the First Secretaryship.
On 16 May 2012 he was appointed Junior Minister for the Social Economy at the French Ministry of the Economy, Finance, and External Trade by President François Hollande.
After the candidacy for the First Secretary of the PS became a contest between Ségolène Royal and Martine Aubry, Hamon urged his supporters to vote for Aubry, who secured a narrow, contested majority.

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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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Bernard Lehideux
Bernard Lehideux (born 23 September 1944 in Paris) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. He is a member of the Union for French Democracy, which is part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
He is also a substitute for the Committee on Development, a member of the delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, and a substitute for the delegation to the EU–Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee.

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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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Bert Doorn
Bert Doorn (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbɛrt ˈdoːrn]) (born 26 May 1949) is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs and its Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
He is also a member of the delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula.
Doorn was born in Enschede, Overijssel. He studied law at Groningen (1968–1973), Nancy (1973–1974) and Freiburg (1974). He obtained a doctorate in competition law from Freiburg (1976–1978) He was Secretary for international affairs (1978–1992) and secretary for matters relating to company law (1992–1997) with the VNO (Confederation of Netherlands Industry). From 1997 to 1999, he was a company lawyer with VNO-NCW (Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers) (1997–1999). He was involved in various activities with the CDA, acting as Chairman of the Wassenaar section, a member of the national working party on international cooperation, and a member of the CDA's Foreign Affairs Committee.

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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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Bill Wiggin
William David Wiggin (born 4 June 1966) is a British Conservative Party politician, Member of Parliament and a former Shadow Minister for Agriculture & Fisheries. He held the seat of Leominster from the 2001 election until the 2010 election, when the seat of Leominster was abolished. Wiggin now holds the seat of North Herefordshire having been elected in 2010.
Wiggin was born in London in 1966. He attended Eton and later read Economics at the Bangor University, gaining a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in 1988.^{[dead link]} He also served in the Royal Welch Fusiliers in the TA, being a platoon commander for Holyhead, Bangor and Caernarfon.
Following this, Wiggin worked as a Trader in Foreign Exchange Options for UBS from 1991–3, then was an Associate Director of Kleinwort Benson from 1994–8, then as a manager in the Foreign Exchange department of Commerzbank from 1998.
Wiggin was selected as the Conservative candidate for Burnley for the 1997 election. He came second to Peter Pike, who recorded a 17,062 majority over him. Returning to his roots, he was selected as the Conservative Party candidate in the safe seat of Leominster in April 1999, replacing Peter Temple-Morris, who had defected to the Labour Party. He won his seat in 2001 with a 10,367 majority over his Liberal Democrat opponent.

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Bogdan Golik
Bogdan Golik (born on 19 March 1963 in Wrocław) is a Polish politician and Former Member of the European Parliament for LD with the Self-Defense and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
Before elected to the European Parliament, he was animal doctor and business advisor.
Initially, he was a non-attached like the other members of his party, but on 1 December 2004, he joined [1] the Socialist Group together with Wiesław Kuc.
He is also a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).
In December 2005 Golik was accused of raping a Brussels prostitute. Golik claims that he is the victim of a conspiracy. He said the incident is just a provocation resulting from, among the others, actions undertaken by him against the Russia to Germany gas pipeline. On the demand of Golik, the Belgian prosecutor’s office asked the European Parliament to strip Golik of his immunity. On October 3, the Legal Commission of the European Parliament made a decision about stripping Bogdan Golik, a Polish member of the European Parliament, of his immunity. “I’m glad that I will finally be able to testify and defend myself, which would be impossible in case of my being protected by the immunity” – said Golik. He emphasized that he himself asked the Legal Commission to strip him of the immunity. In November 2008 the Royal Prosecutor stated that Golik is innocent and there is no evidence against him.[2]

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Bogdan Klich
Bogdan Adam Klich ['bɔɡdan klʲix] (

listen) (born on 8 May 1960 in Kraków) was a Polish politician and Minister of National Defence of Poland. Bogdan Klich was interned in 1981 during the martial law set by the communist regime. Until 16 November 2007 he was a 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 Foreign Affairs.
Klich was a substitute for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)

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Bogdan Pęk
Bogdan Pęk ([ˈbɔɡdan ˈpɛ̃k], born on 8 April 1953 in Kraków) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the MP & SW with the Liga Polskich Rodzin, part of the Independence and Democracy and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
Pęk 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 substitute for the Delegation for relations with Belarus.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)

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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 Rogalski
Bogusław Rogalski (born on 11 March 1972 in Maków Mazowiecki) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Podlasie and Warmian-Masurian voivodships in the north-east of Poland. He represents the Liga Polskich Rodzin and is in the Alliance of a Europe for the Nations Group, he sits on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade.
Rogalski is a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs and a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community.

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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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Borut Pahor
Borut Pahor (born 2 November 1963) is a Slovenian politician who was Prime Minister of Slovenia from 2008 to 2012. A longtime president of the Social Democrats party, Pahor served several terms as a member of the National Assembly and was its chairman from 2000 to 2004. In 2004, Pahor was elected as member of the European Parliament. Following the victory of the Social Democrats in the 2008 parliamentary election, Pahor was appointed as Prime Minister of Slovenia. In September 2011, Pahor's government lost a confidence vote amidst an economic crisis and political tensions. He continued to serve as the pro tempore Prime Minister until he was replaced by Janez Janša in February 2012.
Pahor was born in Postojna, SR Slovenia (in the former Yugoslavia) and spent his childhood in the town of Nova Gorica on the border with Italy, before moving to the nearby town of Šempeter pri Gorici. He attended Nova Gorica Grammar School, and in 1983 he enrolled to the University of Ljubljana, where he studied public policy and political science at the Faculty of Sociology, Political Science and Journalism (FSPN, now known as Faculty for Social Sciences, FDV). He graduated in 1987 with a thesis on peace negotiations between members of the Non-Aligned Movement. His B.A. thesis was awarded the Student Prešeren Award, the highest academic award for students in Slovenia. According to the Slovenian press, Pahor worked as a male model to pay for his university studies.

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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 Paddick
Brian Leonard Paddick (born 24 April 1958) is a British politician, and was the Liberal Democrat candidate for the London mayoral election, 2012. He was, until his retirement in May 2007, Deputy Assistant Commissioner in London's Metropolitan Police Service and the United Kingdom's most senior openly gay police officer.
Paddick joined the Metropolitan Police Service in 1976. Rising through the ranks, he was appointed the officer in charge of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at Notting Hill in 1995, then returned to New Scotland Yard, first as Superintendent of the Personnel Department in 1996 and then as Chief Superintendent in 1997. In December 2000 he was appointed Police Commander for the London Borough of Lambeth where he worked until 2002.
In the latter capacity, Paddick attracted controversy by instructing his police officers not to arrest or charge people found with cannabis so that they could focus on crimes that were affecting the quality of life in the borough to a greater extent. The situation worsened when The Mail on Sunday published a false story by Paddick's former partner that alleged, among other things, he had used cannabis and was an anarchist^{[citation needed]}. In late 2002 the Crown Prosecution Service decided that no charges would be brought against him, and in December 2003 Paddick and the Mail on Sunday settled legal proceedings brought by him, with the newspaper accepting that the story was false, apologising, and paying damages.

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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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Brice Hortefeux
Brice Hortefeux (born 11 May 1958) is a French politician. He was Minister of the Interior, Overseas Territories and Territorial collectivities. He was previously Minister for Labour, Labour Relations, the Family, Solidarity and Urban Affairs and Minister-Delegate for Local Government at the Ministry of the Interior and was a Member of the European Parliament.
Hortefeux was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine but was raised in Auvergne. He is one of the most loyal political allies, and personal friend, of French president Nicolas Sarkozy. He is the godfather of one of Nicolas Sarkozy's sons.
On 18 May 2007, he was appointed as the first Minister of Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Cooperative Development in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon. As such he has boosted the numbers of illegal immigrants forcibly repatriated from France, extended the network of detention centres (established also outside the larger conurbations in smaller cities such as Blois) and modified the rights of individuals and organizations which visit them.

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Brigitte Douay
Brigitte Douay (born 24 February 1947 in Paris) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France. She is a member of the Socialist Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the Committee on Budgets.
She is also a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development, a member of the delegation for relations with Japan, and a substitute for the delegation to the EU–Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee.

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Brigitte Fouré
Brigitte Fouré (born 13 August 1955 in Amiens) is a French university lecturer and former government minister, a member of the Nouveau Centre and of Société en mouvement ("Society on the move" ("Society on the Move") She is a lecturer in law at the University of Picardie Jules Verne.
Daughter of a farmer, she studied law at Amiens and Paris. An activist for the UNI and then the CNI, she was elected regional councillor in 1986 and conseillère municipale ("Municipal Councillor") in 1989. With Gilles de Robien she had responsibility for education and youth work. She joined the Parti républicain ("Republican Party") in 1992, within the Union for French Democracy. She became Mayor of Amiens in 1992 and was appointed a minister in Jean-Pierre Raffarin's first government.
In the French Regional Elections of 2004, she was elected on the right-wing ticket of Gilles de Robien. She resigned on 23 March 2007 to become second deputy mayor with responsibility for Local Democracy, Community Life, Prevention and Security.

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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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Bronisław Geremek
Professor Bronisław Geremek [brɔˈɲiswaf ɡɛˈrɛmɛk] (

listen) (born Benjamin Lewertow on March 6, 1932 in Warsaw, died July 13, 2008 in Lubień, Poland), was a Polish social historian and politician.
Geremek was born in Warsaw on March 6, 1932. His father, a fur merchant, was murdered in Auschwitz. His mother and he were smuggled out of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943 and were sheltered by Stefan Geremek. Geremek later married Bronisław's mother and Bronisław was further raised in a Roman Catholic tradition. In his adult life he considered himself neither a Jew nor a Catholic. His grandfather was a maggid, his brother Jerry, living in New York is a Jew and his sons living in Poland are Roman Catholics.
In 1954 Bronisław Geremek graduated from the Faculty of History at the Warsaw University, and in 1956–1958 he completed postgraduate studies at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. He completed his PhD in 1960 and in 1972 he was granted a postdoctoral degree at the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). In 1989 he was appointed associate professor.

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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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Béatrice Patrie
Béatrice Patrie (born May 12, 1957 in Lorient) is a French former judge and Member of the European Parliament for the South West of France. She is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.

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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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Camiel Eurlings
Camiel Martinus Petrus Stephanus Eurlings (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkaː.mil ˈøːr.lɪŋs]) (born September 16 1973) is a former Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). He served as a Member of the House of Representatives from May 19, 1998 until July 20, 2004 when he became a Member of the European Parliament, serving until February 22, 2007 when he became Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management in the Cabinet Balkenende IV. He announced his leave from politics on March 12, 2010.
Eurlings is a former Member of the European Parliament and sat on the Committee on Foreign Affairs. He also chaired the delegation to the EU–Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, and was a substitute for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, the Subcommittee on Human Rights, the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, and the delegation for relations with Israel.
From March 2006 to March 2007 he served as Vice President of the European People's Party (EPP).

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Carl Lang
Carl Lang (born 20 September 1957 in Vernon, Eure) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France. He was member of the National Front from 1978 to 2008; he is currently president and co-founder of the Party of France. (Front National and Party of France are both classified by their opponents as far-right party.)
He was a member of the europarliamentary group "Identity Tradition and Sovereignty" (ITS) in the European Parliament until its dissolving in November 2007. Currently a Non-Inscrits, he is member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
Carl Lang is also a substitute for the Committee on Fisheries and the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, a member of the delegation for relations with Belarus, and a substitute for the delegation to the EU–Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee.
Ahead of the 2009 European elections, he announced that he would run a dissident FN list against the official FN list led by Marine Le Pen in the North-West constituency.

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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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Carlo Fatuzzo
Carlo Fatuzzo (born on 14 March 1944 in Genoa) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for North-West with the Partito dei Pensionati, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs and a member of the Delegation for relations with the United States.

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Carlos Carnero
Carlos Carnero (born November 24, 1961, Madrid) is a Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). There is a single national constituency system for the elections to the European Parliament in Spain. He has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 1994. December 7 2006, he was appointed member of the presidency of the Party of European Socialists (PES).
Carlos Carnero is a member of the Parliament's Constitutional Affairs Committee and is the spokesman for the PES Group of the European Parliament's Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA). He is also a substitute member of the Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee and Petitions committee. Carlos Carnero is a member of the delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries; the Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly; and the delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee.
He is a member of the PSOE Council on International Relations, where he directs the Working Group on Mediterranean Affairs. He has been a member of the PSOE Federal Committee (2001-2004).

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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 Jackson
Caroline Jackson (born 5 November 1946 in Penzance, Cornwall) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She was a Member of the European Parliament for the Conservative Party from 1984 to 2009.
Jackson represented the Wiltshire constituency from 1984 to 1994, then the new Wiltshire North and Bath from 1994 to 1999 and from 1999 to 2009 served as an MEP for the South West England constituency. In the European Parliament, she has been a leading member of the Environment Committee and between 1999 and 2004 was Chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Consumer Protection and Public Health. She was a trustee of the National Energy Foundation from 2004 to 2010.
She is married to Robert Jackson, a former MEP for the Upper Thames and former Member of Parliament for Wantage, who defected to the Labour Party in 2005. She studied at St Hugh's College and Nuffield College, Oxford. She holds a doctorate in 19th century politics and was formerly a research fellow of St Hugh's College. She has been a member of the National Consumer Council and a board member of Peugeot Talbot UK Ltd.

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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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Caroline Spelman
Caroline Alice Spelman (née Cormack; born 4 May 1958) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Meriden in the West Midlands since 1997. In May 2010 she became Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in David Cameron's coalition cabinet, and was sworn as a Privy Counsellor on 13 May 2010.
Born in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, Spelman attended Herts and Essex High School for Girls (now called The Hertfordshire and Essex High School), in Warwick Road, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, and received a BA First Class in European Studies from Queen Mary College, University of London.
She was Sugar Beet commodity secretary for the National Farmer's Union from 1981 to 1984. She was deputy director of the International Confederation of European Beet Growers (officially known as La Confédération Internationale des Betteraviers Européens – CIBE) in Paris from 1984–9, then a research fellow for the Centre for European Agricultural Studies (part of the University of Kent and since 2000 known as the Centre for European Agri-Environmental Economics) from 1989 to 1993. She co-owns Spelman, Cormack & Associates, a lobbying firm for the food and biotechnology industry, with her husband. Based in Dorridge (her constituency is in the Borough of Solihull).

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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 Malmström
Anna Cecilia Malmström (born 15 May 1968) is a Swedish politician currently serving as European Commissioner for Home Affairs in the Barroso Commission. Prior to her appointment as commissioner, she had served as a Member of the European Parliament 1999–2006 and as Swedish Minister for European Union Affairs 2006–2010. She is a member of the Liberal People's Party, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
Malmström was born in Brännkyrka församling in Stockholm but grew up in Gothenburg and in France (where she studied literature in 1987 at the University of Paris. She has also worked at Stuttgart and Barcelona. She currently resides in Lindholmen, Gothenburg, with her husband and twins. She speaks Swedish, English, Catalan, Spanish and French fluently, and a good standard German and Italian.
Malmström was a student at Gothenburg University from 1992 to 1999: assistant researcher (1994); PhD in political science with thesis titled The Region, Power and Glory: Regional Parties in Western Europe (1998); Lecturer at the Department of Government (1998–99). She has researched and taught in European politics, regionalism, immigration, and terrorism. Malmström has been a member of the Liberal Party since the late 1980s, sitting as party executive since 1997, and was a member of in the Västra Götaland Regional Council from 1998–2001. In 2007, when Jan Björklund was elected party leader, she was appointed first vice party chairman.

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Cem Özdemir
Cem Özdemir (born 21 December 1965, Bad Urach) is a German politician. He is co-chairman of the German political party Alliance '90/The Greens, together with Claudia Roth. He was a Member of Parliament of the German Bundestag between 1994 and 2002 and of the European Parliament between 2004 and 2009.
Cem Özdemir is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy.
Cem Özdemir is the son of a Turkish gastarbeiter of Circassian ancestry from Tokat, Turkey; in 1983 he acquired German citizenship. After graduating from a German Hauptschule and a Realschule Özdemir completed an apprenticeship, becoming an early childhood educator. After qualifying for advanced technical college entrance he studied social pedagogy at the Evangelical Technical College (Evangelische Fachhochschule für Sozialwesen) in Reutlingen, Germany. After completing his studies in 1987, Cem Özdemir worked as an educator and a freelance journalist.
Özdemir is a secular Muslim and is married to the Argentinean journalist Pia Maria Castro. Castro and Özdemir have two children, Mia Rasha and Vito Yunus.^{[citation needed]}

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Charles Kennedy
Charles Peter Kennedy (born 25 November 1959) is a British Liberal Democrat politician, who led the Liberal Democrats from 9 August 1999 until 7 January 2006 and is currently a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ross, Skye and Lochaber constituency.
In the 1983 General Election he stood for the Ross, Cromarty & Skye constituency, then held by the Conservative MP and Minister, Hamish Gray. In a shock result, Kennedy was elected for the Social Democratic Party (SDP): at 23, he became the youngest MP in the House of Commons. Ambitious and popular, he quickly emerged as a potential party leader. In 1994, by which time the SDP and the Liberal Party had merged, he became President of the Liberal Democrats, a position he held for four years. In 1999, on the resignation of Paddy Ashdown, Kennedy was elected party leader.
He took the party through two successful general elections. However, he faced criticism for his laid-back leadership style, and there was considerable speculation regarding his alcohol consumption. From December 2005, some within the party were questioning his leadership and calling for a leadership election. On 5 January 2006, Kennedy was informed that ITN would be reporting that he had received treatment for a drinking problem. Kennedy decided to pre-empt the broadcast and admit his drinking problem openly. He called a leadership election at the same time, stating that he intended to stand. The admission of a drinking problem seriously damaged his standing within the parliamentary party. As support for him amongst this key group ebbed away, Kennedy resigned as leader on 7 January, saying that he would not be standing in the leadership election. Deputy leader Sir Menzies Campbell took over as interim leader and was elected as leader on 2 March 2006.

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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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Cheryl Gillan
Rt Hon Cheryl Elise Kendall Gillan MP (born 21 April 1952 in Cardiff, Wales) is a British Conservative Party politician. She is currently the Secretary of State for Wales, and the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Chesham and Amersham in Buckinghamshire.
Prior to her parliamentary career, Gillan worked as a marketing executive for several companies. She was first elected to the House of Commons in 1992 and was a junior minister for education and employment from 1995-97. After 1997 she served as a Conservative whip and as a spokesperson for trade and industry, foreign affairs, and home affairs. She was the Shadow Welsh Secretary from 2005–10, assuming the cabinet position of Secretary of State for Wales after the 2010 general election.
She was appointed as a Privy Councillor on 13 May 2010.
Cheryl Gillan was born in Llandaff, a district of Cardiff, in 1952. Her father was a former British Army officer and a director of a steel company whilst her mother was a Wren. She was brought up in South Wales and her family farms near Usk. She was educated at Elm Tree House and Norfolk House primary schools in Cardiff before her family left Wales when she was aged 11. Gillan attended the independent Cheltenham Ladies' College, the College of Law and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

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Chloe Smith
Chloe Rebecca Smith (born 17 May 1982) is a British politician and the Conservative Member of Parliament for Norwich North. She was elected to the seat in a by-election on 23 July 2009 following the resignation of Labour MP Ian Gibson after the MPs' expenses scandal.
Born in Ashford, Kent, she was aged 3 when her family moved to Norfolk. Growing up in Stoke Ferry, Smith attended comprehensive schools in Swaffham and Methwold, and after a gap-year working for former Conservative Education Secretary Gillian Shephard, went up to the University of York where she read English literature. She undertook summer work for Bernard Jenkin.
After York University she joined Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, where she advised private businesses, government departments and public bodies.
In 2007 Smith was chosen to be the Conservative candidate for the constituency of Norwich North in the General Election. She then took leave from her job, working for Conservative Central Office on secondment, bringing her business skills to help the Party "draw up detailed plans to put our policies into practice."

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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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Chris Huhne
Christopher Murray Paul-Huhne, commonly known as Chris Huhne (English spelling pronunciation /ˈhjuːn/, born 2 July 1954) is a British politician and former cabinet minister, who is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for the Eastleigh constituency in Hampshire. He was appointed Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in the coalition government following the 2010 general election. In February 2012 he became the first Cabinet minister in history to be forced from office by a criminal prosecution when he was charged with perverting the course of justice over a 2003 speeding case. Huhne has twice stood unsuccessfully for election as leader of the Liberal Democrats. In the 2006 election he came second to Sir Menzies Campbell and in the 2007 election he narrowly lost to Nick Clegg.
Huhne was born in an affluent section of West London to businessman Peter Paul-Huhne and actress Ann Murray, who had been the voice of the speaking clock. He was educated at the fee-paying Westminster School. His family name was Paul-Huhne and he was known all through his school years as Christopher Paul-Huhne. At Oxford, he simplified his name to "Chris Huhne".

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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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Christa Prets
Christa Prets (born 2 October 1947 in Diez, Germany) is an Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education and its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
She is also a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development, vice-chair of the delegation for relations with Iran, and a substitute for the delegation to the EU–Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee.

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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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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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Christopher Beazley
Christopher John Pridham Beazley (born 5 September 1952 in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex) is a British politician for the Conservative Party, who served as a Member of the European Parliament 1984–1994 and 1999–2009.
He is the son of Peter Beazley, and earned a BA in History at Bristol University in 1974. From 1974 to 1976, he worked at the Bank of England, then as a teacher 1976–1983 and as a research officer at Sussex University 1983–1984. He has since been a consultant and writer on European affairs.
From 1984 to 1994 he was the MEP for Cornwall and Plymouth, serving alongside his father Peter Beazley, who was the MEP for Bedfordshire South. From 1999 to 2009, he was the MEP for the East of England. He was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
He has been the Conservative spokesman on Culture and Education, Regional Development, Home Affairs and Justice, and Constitutional Affairs.
A centrist conservative, he has been vice-chairman of the Conservative Group for Europe, and has criticized the UK Conservative Party of leaving the European People's Party group.

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Claire Gibault
Claire Gibault (born 31 October 1945 in Le Mans) is a French conductor and politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the south-east of France. She is a member of the Union for French Democracy, which is part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education and its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
She is also a member of the delegation to the EU–Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Japan.
Since 2004 Claire Gibault has been an MEP, a member of the Committee on Culture and Education and of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality. She was rapporteure for a draft report on the social status of artists in Europe, approved by a large majority in June 2007.
Claire Gibault tries to defend modern feminism in order to give women the opportunity to have the same chances of success as men. This is what she is committed to within the European Parliament's Women's Rights Committee, on matters concerning women and poverty, the reconciliation of working life and family life or women migrants.

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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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Claudio Fava
Giovanni Claudio Fava (born 15 April 1957) is an Italian politician .He is currently the Coordinator of the National Secretariat of Sinistra Ecologia Libertà (Left Ecology Freedom).He was until 2009 Member of the European Parliament for the Italian Islands with the Democratic Left (SD), part of the Socialist Group and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development.
He was a substitute for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Committee on Fisheries and the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Fava was born in Catania, Sicily. His father Giuseppe Fava, founder of the I Siciliani monthly magazine – for which Claudio Fava also worked – was killed by the Mafia on 5 January 1984.
A graduate in law (1980) and a qualified journalist (since 1982). He was one of the founders of La Rete and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the Sicilian Regional Assembly in 1991. In 1992-1994 served as member of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy.
Later he was the Regional Secretary of the Democrats of the Left (DS) in Sicily (1999–2001), and became a member of the national executive of the DS in 1999.

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Colin Breed
Colin Edward Breed (born 4 May 1947, Surrey) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South East Cornwall from 1997 until he stood down at the 2010 general election.
He was born just after the war in north-east Surrey, the son of a chef and he was educated at Torquay Boys' Grammar School. He was appointed as an area manager with the Midland Bank in 1964. After 17 years with the bank, he became the managing director of Rowan Dartington & Co Ltd in 1981, before becoming a director with Gemini Abrasives in 1992 until his election to Westminster.
Breed was elected as a councillor to both the Caradon District Council and to the Saltash Town Council in 1982. He was twice selected as the Mayor of Saltash. He was selected to contest the constituency of Cornwall South East at the 1997 general election, when the sitting Conservative MP Robert Hicks was retiring. The 1997 general election saw losses for the Conservatives across the UK and Breed was comfortably elected as the new Liberal Democrat MP for Cornwall South East with a majority of 6,480, and he had held the seat since. He made his maiden speech on 24 June 1997 on the preservation of plant varieties.

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Colm Burke
Colm Burke (born 17 January 1957) is an Irish Fine Gael politician and member of Seanad Éireann.
He was a member of the European Parliament for the South constituency in Ireland between 2007 and 2009. He was appointed in June 2007 following the re-election of the outgoing MEP Simon Coveney to Dáil Éireann. Following the abolition of the dual mandate, Coveney opted to remain in national politics and resigned from the European Parliament. Burke subsequently sat as a Fine Gael and European People's Party MEP. He served on various European Parliament committees including Committee on Foreign Affairs, Internal Market & Consumer Protection (Substitute), Committee on Fisheries (Substitute Member) and Subcommittee on Human Rights (Substitute Member). Burke lost his seat at the 2009 European Parliament election, with Fine Gael party colleague Seán Kelly taking a seat instead.
Burke was a member of Cork City Council from 1999 to 2007 and served as Lord Mayor of Cork in the 2003–04 term. He was elected to Seanad Éireann in April 2011 and is currently Fine Gael Seanad spokesperson on Health.

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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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Cornelis Visser
Cornelis L. Visser (born 14 November 1964, Stellendam) is a Dutch politician.

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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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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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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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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 Dăianu
Daniel Dăianu (born 30 August 1952, Bucharest) is a Romanian economist, professor and politician. He has been a member of the European Parliament since end of 2007, when he was elected on the National Liberal Party's lists.
He was the Finance Minister of Romania between December 5, 1997 and September 23, 1998, in the governments of Victor Ciorbea and Radu Vasile. He was dismissed because he refused to endorse a controversial deal with Bell Helicopter Textron to purchase 96 AH-1RO Dracula attack helicopters (a variant of AH-1 Cobra), in order to help modernize the armed forces. Dăianu considered that terms of the contract were disadvantageous for the Romanian industry and that the deal was too costly for the Romanian budget at that time.
Between 1992 and 1997, Dăianu was the Chief Economist of the National Bank of Romania. In August 2005, he became President of the Supervision Board of Banca Comercială Română, a position previously held by Sebastian Vlădescu and Florin Georgescu, among others. He resigned this post in December 2007, in order to avoid any conflict of interest with his duties as a member of the European Parliament.

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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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Daniela Raschhofer
Daniela Raschhofer (b. June 19, 1960 at Braunau am Inn, Austria) is a former Member of the European Parliament from Austria, belonging to the Freedom Party of Austria.
Daniela Raschhofer was born on June 19, 1960 at Braunau am Inn, Austria. After finishing elementary school, Raschhofer passed her Matura at a high school for women's economic occupation. After training to become an elementary school teacher in Salzburg, Raschhofer moved to Linz and studied to become a vocational teacher. She also worked in a law office, spent a year abroad in Paris, and taught in her birth town of Braunau am Inn. In 1991, Raschhofer became a member of the Upper Austrian Landtag, and also a became a member of the council of Braunau am Inn the same year. In 1996, she ceased being a member of her landtag, as on November 11, 1996, she became a Member of the European Parliament, representing Austria as a member of the Freedom Party of Austria.
During her time as a Member of the European Parliament, Raschhofer served on the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, the Committee on Regional Policy, the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy and the Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union. She also served sporadically as a committee member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection, the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport and the Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities.

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Danny Alexander
Daniel Grian Alexander (born 15 May 1972) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who has been Chief Secretary to the Treasury since 2010. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey constituency since 2005.
In his first parliamentary term (2005-2010), Alexander was the Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary for Work and Pensions, the chief of staff to party leader, Nick Clegg, and Chair of the Liberal Democrat Manifesto Group (2007–2010).
With the 2010 UK general election producing a hung parliament, he played a key role in the four-man Liberal Democrat negotiating team and in the drawing up of the coalition document for the new Coalition Government with the Conservative Party. Alexander was initially appointed Secretary of State for Scotland, but at the end of May 2010, he was promoted to Chief Secretary to the Treasury, following the resignation of David Laws.
Born in Edinburgh, Alexander lived on the island of Colonsay as a boy before his family moved to Glengarry. He was educated at Lochaber High School, Fort William in the Scottish Highlands, before reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at St Anne's College, Oxford.

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Danutė Budreikaitė
Danutė Budreikaitė (born May 16, 1953 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian politician and Member of the European Parliament; part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.

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Dariusz Grabowski
Dariusz Maciej Grabowski (born on 28 August 1950 in Warsaw) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Masovian Voivodship with the Liga Polskich Rodzin, part of the Union for Europe of the Nations Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets.
Grabowski is a substitute member on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
He was awarded a Masters degree in Economics in 1973, and achieved a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Warsaw in 1978.

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Dariusz Rosati
Dariusz Kajetan Rosati ['darjuʂ rɔsati] (

listen) (born August 8, 1946 in Radom as Gaetano Dario Rosati) is a Polish professor of economics and a politician who is a member of the European Parliament (elected on June 13, 2004).
Dariusz Rosati is a graduate of international trade from Warsaw School of Economics and a professor of economics.
In the 1980s he was a member of Polish United Workers Party (PZPR) and an economic adviser to Mieczysław Rakowski's government, the last communist regime in Poland. In the 1990s he was a supporter (but not a member) of the post-communist parties, first Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), and today Social Democratic Party of Poland (SDPL).
Dariusz Rosati was a co-founder and director of the Global Economy Institute (Instytut Gospodarki Światowej) and the Institute of Economic Situations and Prices (Instytut Koniunktur i Cen). He worked as an expert in various international organizations, indluding the economic commission of the United Nations in Geneva and an adviser to the Chairman of the European Commission in Brussels.

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David Blunkett
David Blunkett (born 6 June 1947) is a British Labour Party politician and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, having represented Sheffield Brightside from 1987 to 2010. Blind since birth, and coming from a poor family in one of Sheffield's most deprived districts, he rose to become Education and Employment Secretary, Home Secretary and Work and Pensions Secretary in Tony Blair's Cabinet following Labour's victory in the 1997 general election.
He was promoted to become Home Secretary following the 2001 general election, a position he held until 2004, when he resigned following highly publicised matters related to his personal life. Following the 2005 general election, he was appointed Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, though he resigned from that role later that year following a large amount of media coverage relating to external business interests in the period when he did not hold a cabinet post.
Blunkett was born on 6 June 1947 at Jessop Hospital, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, with improperly developed optic nerves due to a rare genetic disorder. He grew up in an underprivileged family and in 1959, he endured a family tragedy when his father was gravely injured in an industrial accident in which he fell into a vat of boiling water while at work as a foreman for the East Midlands Gas Board and died a month later. This left the surviving family in poverty, especially since the board refused to pay compensation for two years because his father worked past the retirement age, dying at age 67.

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David Cameron
David William Donald Cameron (pronunciation: /ˈkæmərən/; born 9 October 1966) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Leader of the Conservative Party. He represents Witney as its Member of Parliament (MP).
Cameron studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Oxford, gaining a first class honours degree. He then joined the Conservative Research Department and became Special Adviser to Norman Lamont, and then to Michael Howard. He was Director of Corporate Affairs at Carlton Communications for seven years.
He was defeated in his first candidacy for Parliament at Stafford in 1997, but was elected in 2001 as the Member of Parliament for the Oxfordshire constituency of Witney. He was promoted to the Opposition front bench two years later, and rose rapidly to become head of policy co-ordination during the 2005 general election campaign. With a public image of a youthful, moderate candidate who would appeal to young voters, he won the Conservative leadership election in 2005.

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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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David Howarth
David Ross Howarth (born 10 November 1958) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Cambridge from 2005 to 2010.
David Howarth grew up on Mossley Estate, a council estate in Bloxwich in Staffordshire, going to Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall. Attending Clare College, Cambridge, he was President of Union of Clare Students, and was on the committee of Cambridge University Liberal Club. He gained a BA in Law in 1981. He then won a scholarship to Yale Law School, gaining an LLM in 1983. In 1985, he gained an MPhil from Yale University in Sociology. While at Yale, he was involved in Jesse Jackson's 1984 presidential campaign.
He was a lecturer in Land Economy, Law and Economics at the University of Cambridge between 1988 and 2005, where he has been a Fellow of Clare College since 1985. He specialised in constitutional law and tort law. He stood for the Cambridgeshire seat of Peterborough in 1997, and had stood for the Cambridge seat in 1992 and 2001, before finally winning it in 2005.

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David Laws
David Anthony Laws (born 30 November 1965) is a British politician who has been the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Yeovil since 2001. He was briefly the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, holding office for 17 days in 2010 before resigning due to disclosure of his Parliamentary expenses claims, in consequence of which he was in due course suspended from Parliament by vote of the House of Commons.
After a career in investment banking, Laws became an economic adviser and later Director of Policy and Research for the Liberal Democrats. In 2001, he was elected as the MP for Yeovil, the seat previously represented by former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown.
In 2004, he co-edited The Orange Book: Reclaiming Liberalism, followed by Britain After Blair in 2006. After the 2010 general election, Laws led negotiations for the Liberal Democrats which resulted in a coalition with the Conservative Party.
Laws was born in Farnham, Surrey, the only son of a Conservative voting father who was a banker, and a Labour voting mother. He would later joke that he was the "perfect fusion" as a Liberal Democrat.

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David Miliband
David Wright Miliband (born 15 July 1965) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Shields since 2001, and was the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2007 to 2010. He is the elder son of the late Marxist theorist Ralph Miliband. He and his brother, current Labour Leader Ed Miliband, were the first siblings to sit in the Cabinet simultaneously since Edward, Lord Stanley, and Oliver Stanley in 1938.
Born in London, Miliband studied at Oxford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he started his career at the Institute for Public Policy Research. At 29, Miliband became Tony Blair's Head of Policy whilst the Labour Party was in opposition and was a major contributor to Labour's manifesto for the 1997 general election which brought the party to power. Blair made him head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit from 1997 to 2001, following which Miliband was elected to parliament for the North East England seat of South Shields.

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David Nutt
David John Nutt (born 16 April 1951) is a British psychiatrist and neuropsychopharmacologist specialising in the research of drugs that affect the brain and conditions such as addiction, anxiety and sleep. He was until 2009 a professor at the University of Bristol heading their Psychopharmacology Unit. but since then he has been the Edmond J Safra chair in Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College, London. Nutt was a member of the Committee on Safety of Medicines, and was President of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology.
Nutt completed his secondary education at Bristol Grammar School and then studied medicine at Downing College, Cambridge, graduating in 1972. In 1975, he completed his clinical training at Guy's Hospital.
He worked as a clinical scientist at the Radcliffe Infirmary from 1978 to 1982 where he carried out important basic research into the function of the benzodiazepine receptor/GABA ionophore complex, the long term effects of BZ agonist treatment and kindling with BZ partial inverse agonists. This work culminated in a ground-breaking paper in Nature (journal) in 1982 which described the concept of inverse agonism (using his preferred term, 'contragonism') for the first time. From 1983 to 1985, he lectured in psychiatry at the University of Oxford. In 1986, he was the Fogarty visiting scientist at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in Bethesda, MD, just outside of Washington, D.C. Returning to the UK in 1988, he joined the University of Bristol as director of the Psychopharmacology Unit. In 2009, he then established the Department of Neuropsychopharmacology and Molecular Imaging at Imperial College, London, taking a new chair endowed by the Edmond J Safra Philanthropic Foundation. He is an editor of the Journal of Psychopharmacology.

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David Steel
David Martin Scott Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood, KT, KBE, PC (born 31 March 1938) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as the Leader of the Liberal Party from 1976 until its merger with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the Liberal Democrats. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1965 to 1997 and as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) from 1999 to 2003, during which time he was the parliament's Presiding Officer. Since 1997, he has been a member of the House of Lords.
David Steel was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, the son of a Church of Scotland minister also called David Steel, who would later serve as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. He was brought up in Scotland and Kenya, and educated at Dumbarton Academy; James Gillespies Boys' School, Edinburgh; the Prince of Wales School, Nairobi; and George Watson's College, Edinburgh.
He first took an active part in Liberal politics at the University of Edinburgh, and after graduating in Law worked for the Scottish Liberal Party and then the BBC before being elected to the House of Commons as the MP for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles at a 1965 by-election, becoming the "Baby of the House". He represented this seat until 1983, when he was elected in Tweedale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, a new constituency covering much of the same territory.

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David Sumberg
David Anthony Gerald Sumberg (born June 2, 1941 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire) is a British politician, and Member of the European Parliament for the North West England region for the Conservative Party. He was first elected to the European Parliament in 1999 and stood down in 2009.
He is married to Carolyn and has two grown up children, Jonathan and Katie. In the 1970s he was a partner in a firm of Manchester lawyers Maurice Rubin & Co. Sumberg was previously the Member of Parliament for Bury South, from 1983 to 1997, and is a former Manchester City Councillor. As an MP he acted as the Parliamentary Private Secretary for the Attorney General, Sir Patrick Mayhew.
As an MEP, he said that he was "not a signed up member" of the "European Project" and did not support a more centralised European Union, "unlike most of my MEP colleagues".
He has been criticised by members of other political parties and the national media for his low attendance and political inactivity. From 2004 to 2008 he made only two speeches and gave twelve “explanations of votes” - a total of 536 words. He has also tabled only five questions and has not written any of the reports or tabled any resolutions to the one committee he sat on. His local rival, Chris Davies MEP, said he would undoubtedly make the shortlist for Britain's laziest MEP. Defending himself, he said speeches in the European Parliament did not achieve a great deal as they are to empty chambers with no-one listening.

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David Willetts
David Linsay Willetts (born 9 March 1956) is a British Conservative Party politician and the Minister of State for Universities and Science. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the constituency of Havant in Hampshire.
Willetts was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Christ Church, Oxford, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Willets graduated with a first class degree.
Having served as Nigel Lawson's private researcher,^{[citation needed]} Willetts took charge of the Treasury monetary policy division at 26 before moving over to Margaret Thatcher's Policy Unit at 28. Aged 31, he subsequently took over the Centre for Policy Studies.
Aged 36, Willetts entered Parliament in 1992 as the MP for Havant. He quickly established himself in Parliament, becoming a Whip, a Cabinet Office Minister, and then Paymaster General in his first term (when that role was split between the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury as a policy co-ordination role). During this period Willetts' gained "Two Brains" as a nickname, a monicker reportedly coined by The Guardian's former political editor Michael White. However, Willetts was forced to resign from the latter post by the Standards and Privileges Committee over an investigation into Neil Hamilton in 1996, when it found that he had "dissembled" in his evidence to the Committee over whether pressure was put onto an earlier investigation into Hamilton.

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Den Dover
Densmore Ronald Dover, known as Den Dover, (born 4 April 1938 in Stockton Heath, Cheshire) is a British politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North West England region from 1999 to 2009.
Elected as a Conservative, he was forced to resign the position of Chief Whip, before being expelled from the party over investigation into his expenses. Dover stood down from the European Parliament at the 2009 European Elections.
Dover was born in Stockton Heath, Cheshire. Educated at King George V School, Southport until transferring to Manchester Grammar School where he won the bowling prize at cricket. Dover gained a First Class Honours degree in Civil Engineering at Manchester University.
Dover worked in the construction industry across Europe, working for John Laing plc, George Wimpey, and as Chief Executive for the National Building Agency. Dover was latterly Director of Housing Construction with the Greater London Council, before entering politics on a full time basis when he became an MP.

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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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Desislav Chukolov
Desislav Slavov Chukolov born on December 22, 1974 in Ruse, Bulgaria.
Desislav Chukolov was elected member of the European Parliament from Bulgaria on May 20, 2007. He was a member of the Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty (ITS) political group until the group ceased to exist on November 14, 2007. He is currently a non-attached MEP.

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Diamanto Manolakou
Diamanto Manolakou (Greek: Διαμάντω Μανωλάκου; born 1 March 1959, Piraeus) is a Greek politician. She was elected Member of the European Parliament for the Communist Party of Greece; part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left in the 2004 European elections, an office she held until April, 2010, when she resigned in favor of Costas Droutsas. She resigned in order to take a seat in the Greek Parliament, one previously held by Elpida Pantelaki.

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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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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 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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Donata Gottardi
Donata Maria Assunta Gottardi (born on October 17, 1950 in Verona) is an Italian politician. She was a member of the European Parliament from May 8, 2006, when she took up a seat vacated after the 2006 Italian general election, until the 2009 European elections. She represented the Olive Tree coalition within the Party of European Socialists parliamentary group.

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Dorette Corbey
Dorette Corbey (born July 19, 1957 in Eindhoven, North Brabant) is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Partij van de Arbeid (Dutch Labour Party), which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
She is also a substitute for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and a member of the delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China.

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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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Duarte Freitas
Duarte Freitas (born August 10, 1966 in São Roque do Pico, Azores) 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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Ed Miliband
Edward Samuel Miliband (born 24 December 1969) is a British Labour Party politician, currently the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the South Yorkshire constituency of Doncaster North since 2005 and served in the Cabinet from 2007 to 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown. He and his brother, David Miliband, were the first siblings to sit in the Cabinet simultaneously since Edward, Lord Stanley, and Oliver Stanley in 1938.
Born in London, Miliband graduated from Corpus Christi College, Oxford and the London School of Economics, becoming first a television journalist and then a Labour Party researcher, before rising to become one of Chancellor Gordon Brown's confidants and Chairman of HM Treasury's Council of Economic Advisers.
As Prime Minister, Gordon Brown appointed Miliband as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster on 28 June 2007. He was subsequently promoted to the new post of Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, a position he held from 3 October 2008 to 11 May 2010. On 25 September 2010, he was elected Leader of the Labour Party.

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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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Edith Mastenbroek
Edith Mastenbroek (born 23 March 1975 in The Hague) is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament. 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 Budgetary Control and its Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. She is also a substitute for the Committee on Legal Affairs and a member of the delegation for relations with Israel.
She was rapporteur for the Safer Internet Plus Programme at the start of her term in the European Parliament. She is active on anti-terrorism, information security, data protection and privacy, and on seeking alternatives to Strasbourg as a meeting place for the European Parliament once a month. She is a core member of the Campaign for Parliamentary Reform (CPR).
She is also an observer on the European Security Research Advisory Board. She is President and Chairwoman of the European chapter of the Global Organisation of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC).

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Edward Davey
Edward Jonathan "Ed" Davey MP FRSA (born 25 December 1965) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston and Surbiton since 1997, and Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change since 2012. He was previously the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills with responsibility for Employment Relations, Consumer and Postal Affairs.
The son of a solicitor father and teacher mother, Edward Davey was born in Annesley Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire. His father John died when Davey was four years old, and his mother Nina (née Stanbrook) eleven years later, following which he was brought up by his mother's parents. After attending senior school at the independent Nottingham High School (in common with MPs Kenneth Clarke, Geoff Hoon and Ed Balls) in the year above Ed Balls, where he was head boy in 1984, he furthered his education at Jesus College, Oxford where he was awarded a first class BA degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1988. Whilst at Oxford, he was also elected to the JCR presidency of Jesus College.

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Elena Valenciano
María Elena Valenciano Martínez-Orozco (born 18 September 1960 in Madrid) is a Spanish politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. Valenciano resigned from the European parliament in 2008 when she was elected to the Spanish Parliament, representing Madrid.She is a trustee of the Fundacion IDEAS, Spain's Socialist Party's think tank.

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Elio Di Rupo
Elio Di Rupo (French pronunciation: [eljo di ʁypo]; b. 18 July 1951) is a Belgian socialist politician of Italian heritage. He is the Prime Minister of Belgium, and leader of the Socialist Party (PS). He became Prime Minister on 6 December 2011 and heads the Di Rupo I Government. Elio Di Rupo is the first francophone to hold the office since Paul Vanden Boeynants in 1979, as well as the country's first socialist Prime Minister since Edmond Leburton left office in 1974. He is also the first Belgian Prime Minister of non-Walloon or Flemish descent as well as the only openly gay leader of a European Union country.
Di Rupo is the son of two Italian immigrants. His father was born in San Valentino in Abruzzo Citeriore in the region of Abruzzo. Elio is the only child who was born in Belgium; his brothers and sisters were all born in Italy. When he was one year old, his father died in a car crash and his illiterate Roman Catholic mother was unable to raise all seven children. Because of financial reasons, three children were raised in the orphanage nearby.

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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 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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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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Els de Groen
Elly de Groen-Kouwenhoven (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɛli də ˈɣrun ˈkʌu.ə(n).ˌɦoː.və(n)]) (born 23 December 1949 in The Hague as Elly Kouwenhoven, and now generally known as Els de Groen) is a Dutch author and politician, who served as a Member of the European Parliament 2004–2009. She was a member of Europe Transparent, which sat with the Greens/EFA party group. As a MEP, she was a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Committee on Petitions, as well as a member of the delegation to the EU–Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee and a substitute for the delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe.

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Elspeth Attwooll
Elspeth Attwooll (born 1 February 1943, Chislehurst, then in Kent, now in the London Borough of Bromley) is a retired Scottish Liberal Democrat politician. She is a former Member of the European Parliament for Scotland.
She has stood as a parliamentary candidate for Glasgow Maryhill in every general election from October 1974 to 1997. She was part of the Liberal Democrat delegation to the Scottish Constitutional Convention.
She was first elected to the European Parliament in 1999, the first Liberal Democrat ever to be elected to the European Parliament from Scotland, and retained her seat in 2004. She stood down as MEP at the 2009 European Parliamentary elections, after ten years in Brussels and Strasbourg. While an MEP, she served on the Fisheries and Regional Development Committees, being elected a vice-chair of the former.
Her work in the European Parliament was highly respected, and she drafted many influential reports, including one on Community action in relation to whaling which stressed the need for the European Union to use its influence to secure the International Whaling Commission and agreement between the pro- and anti- whaling lobbies within it. She was and is a passionate advocate of radical decentralisation of the Common Fisheries Policy.

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Emilio Menéndez
Emilio Menéndez del Valle (born 20 June 1945 in Madrid) is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. He has served as Spanish ambassador to Jordan and to Italy.
Author of:
Angola. Imperialismo y Guerra Civil, Madrid, Akal Editor, 1976.

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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 Nicholson
Emma Harriet Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (born 16 October 1941) is a British politician. Formerly the Conservative then Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Torridge and West Devon she is a now life peer, and a former Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament for South East England.
Born in Oxford and a descendant of the family which founded London gin distillers J&W Nicholson & Co, Lady Nicholson is the third of four daughters of Sir Godfrey Nicholson, Bt and his wife, Lady Katharine (the fifth daughter of the 27th Earl of Crawford). She was diagnosed as deaf at the age of 16. She was educated at St Mary's School, Wantage and the Royal Academy of Music. Prior to her political career, she was a computer programmer and systems analyst from 1962 to 1974, and a director of the Save the Children Foundation from 1974 to 1985.
She was elected a Conservative Member of Parliament for Torridge and West Devon, in 1987, and was vice-chairman between 1983 and 1987. She defected to the Liberal Democrats in 1995. She was made a life peer as Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, of Winterbourne, in the Royal County of Berkshire in 1997.

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Enrique Barón Crespo
Enrique Barόn Crespo (born 27 March 1944 in Madrid) is a Spanish politician and lawyer. He is a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and sits with the Party of European Socialists group in the European Parliament.
Enrique Barón graduated in law from the University of Madrid and in business at ESSEC in Paris, in 1965. As a practising lawyer, he specialised in labour law, and acted for defendants in political cases (1970–1977).
He was a Deputy in the Cortes (1977–1987) representing Madrid region and was Minister of Transport, Tourism and Communications (1982–1985).
After election to the European Parliament he was President of the European Parliament (1989–1992), and was PES Group chairman from 1999 to 2004. He was Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (1992–1995) and is currently Chairman of the Committee on International Trade.
Barόn is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Global Panel Foundation and the Advisory Board of think tank Gold Mercury International, London, UK.

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Eric Pickles
Eric Jack Pickles (born 20 April 1952) is a British Conservative Party politician. Pickles was appointed Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government of the coalition government headed by Prime Minister David Cameron on 12 May 2010.
He was the Chairman of the Conservative Party until being replaced by Baroness Warsi in May 2010 and has been Member of Parliament for Brentwood and Ongar in Essex since 1992. He was Co-Chairman of the Joint Committee Against Racism between 1982 and 1987.
Pickles is a member of the controversial Peniel Pentecostal Church, a local "happy clappy" church located in Pilgrims Hatch, Brentwood, Essex.
Born in Keighley, Yorkshire, he went to Greenhead Grammar School (which became Greenhead High School and is now University Academy Keighley) on Greenhead Road in Utley, north Keighley, then attended Leeds Polytechnic. He was born into a Labour supporting family – his great grandfather was one of the founders of the Independent Labour Party, and described himself as "massively inclined" towards communism as a boy – but he joined the Conservative Party in 1968 after the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia.

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Esko Seppänen
Esko Olavi Seppänen (born on 15 February 1946 in Oulu) is a Finnish politician representing Left Alliance. He is a former Member of the European Parliament (1996–2009) and Finnish parliament (1987–1996).
In the European parliament Seppänen was Member of the Bureau of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets. He also was a substitute for the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.
Before founding of the Left Alliance in 1990 Seppänen represented the Finnish People's Democratic League and he was a member of the Communist Party of Finland.
Seppänen has a Bachelor's degree in business studies (1971). He worked as journalist at Yleisradio in 1970–1987.

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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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Eugenijus Gentvilas

Eugenijus Gentvilas (born 14 March 1960 in Telšiai) is a Lithuanian politician, signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania and Member of the European Parliament for the Liberal and Centre Union (Liberal Movement since 2006), sitting with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe [1]. He was mayor of Klaipėda from 1997 to 2001. In mid-2001, Gentvilas briefly acted as Prime Minister of Lithuania.

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Eva Lichtenberger
Dr Eva Lichtenberger (born 1 July 1954 in Zams) is an Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Austrian Green Party, part of the European Greens.
Lichtenberger attended the Academy of Education in Innsbruck from 1972 to 1974. At the University of Innsbruck, she studied psychology and art history from 1975 to 1982 and political science and psychology from 1982 to 1987, eventually graduating with a PhD.
After finishing her university studies, she became spokesperson of the citizens’ action committee "Air of Hall". Since the mid-1980s, she has been a consulting member of the environmental committee of the city of Hall. In 1989, she became member of the Tyrolian Landtag and was fraction leader until 1994. From 1994 to 1999 she was the first member of the Austrian Green Party to become a minister in the Landesrat (state council), with the portfolio for environmental affairs.
From 1999 to 2004 she was Member of the National Council of Austria (Nationalrat). Since 2004 she is Member of the European Parliament.

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Evan Harris
Evan Leslie Harris (born 21 October 1965) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford West and Abingdon from 1997 to 2010, losing his seat in the 2010 general election by 176 votes to Conservative Nicola Blackwood.
Evan Harris was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, the son of South African Jewish parents (his father was a medical professor). He was brought up in Liverpool, where he had a state education at the Liverpool Blue Coat School. He won a scholarship to Harvard High School in California in 1984, and later won a scholarship to Wadham College, Oxford, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in physiology and a diploma in medical sociology. He completed his education at the Oxford Medical School where he received a Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery and qualified as a doctor in 1991.
Harris began his career at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in 1991 as a Pre-Registration House Officer (junior doctor). A year later, he moved to the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, specialising in acute medicine and surgery. In 1994 Harris moved to Oxfordshire Health Authority, becoming an honorary specialist registrar in public health and working on issues to do with NHS staffing and training. Harris held the position of local British Medical Association representative and negotiator from 1992–1994, following which he was elected to the BMA's National Council.

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Evangelia Tzampazi
Evangelia Tzampazi (Ευαγγελία Τζαμπάζη) (born 5 October 1960 in Serres, Greece) is a Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement; part of the Party of European Socialists.

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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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Ewa Klamt
Ewa Klamt (b. 26 May 1950, Straubing) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Lower Saxony. She is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party.

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Fausto Correia
Fausto de Sousa Correia (October 29, 1951 – 9 October 2007) was a Portuguese politician, deputy of the Portuguese Parliament, and Member of the European Parliament for the Socialist Party; part of the Party of European Socialists.
Born and raised in Coimbra, Fausto Correia earned a degree in law from the University of Coimbra. In his early years, Correia was journalist at the newspaper República.
As a member of the Portuguese Government headed by Prime-Minister António Guterres, in the early 2000s Correia played a major part in the establishment of the Loja do Cidadão (The Citizen's Shop), a one-stop-shop intended to improve quality in public services, and aimed to develop a new philosophy of more efficient and modern public service throughout the major cities of Portugal.
He was elected as a candidate of the Socialist Party to the European Parliament in the European Parliament Elections.
He was a former chairman of the Associação Académica de Coimbra - O.A.F. (in 1995), the major football club of Coimbra, and RDP, the state-managed public radio network of Portugal.

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Feleknas Uca
Feleknas Uca (born 17 September 1976) is a German Die Linke politician of Kurdish ancestry. From 1999 to 2009 she was member of the European Parliament from Germany. Feleknas Uca was at one time the world's only Yazidi parliamentarian until the Iraqi legislature was elected in 2005.
Feleknas Uca was born in Celle, Lower Saxony, West Germany to an immigrant Kurdish family originally from Turkey. She graduated from Comprehensive School in Celle before taking an apprenticeship as a doctor's assistant, and completed her Abitur by distance learning.
In 1999, aged 22, she was elected to the European Parliament fifth of six places on the Party of Democratic Socialism national list. In the 5th European Parliament (1999-2004), she sat on the Parliament's committees on Culture, Education and the Media and Equal Opportunities. She maintained close links with far left groups in Turkey and, in particular, Kurdish nationalist groups. She was a member of the EU-Turkey joint parliamentary committee. In the PDS' selection of candidates for elections to the 6th European Parliament (2004-2009), Uca slipped to seventh place on the PDS national list, putting her seat under severe pressure. However, in the elections, the PDS secured a slightly increased share of the vote and she was returned in the last successful place.

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Fernand Le Rachinel
Fernand Le Rachinel (born 4 June 1942 in Gourfaleur, Manche) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France. He is a member of the Front National, and is therefore a Non-Inscrit in the European Parliament. He sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism.
Le Rachinel is also a substitute for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and a member of the delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula. He entered the European Parliament on 22 October 2004, replacing Chantal Simonot, who resigned on 1 October.

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Filip Adwent
Filip Adwent (31 August 1955, Strasbourg – 26 June 2005) was a Polish politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Pomeranian Voivodship.
He ran as a candidate from the League of Polish Families^{[citation needed]}, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
Adwent was a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism and a vice-chair of the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.
He died eight days after he and his family were involved in a multiple car accident which occurred on 18 June 2005 near Warsaw. His father and daughter died instantly, along with two other people. Adwent, aged 49, and his mother died eight (8) days later from their injuries.
See: European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)

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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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Financial Times
The Financial Times (FT) is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 24 cities around the world.
Along with FT.com, it has an average daily readership of 2.1 million people worldwide (PwC audited figures, November 2011). FT.com has 4 million registered users and 250,000 digital subscribers, as well as 585,681 paying users. FT Chinese has more than 1.7 million registered users. The Financial Times in print format has an average daily circulation of three hundred and five thousand copies worldwide (the British edition has a daily circulation of eighty eight thousand and a combined Saturday and Sunday, weekend, circulation of one hundred and thirteen thousand copies), as of April 2012.
Founded in 1888 by James Sheridan and Horatio Bottomley, the Financial Times competed with four other finance-oriented newspapers, in 1945 absorbing the last, the Financial News (founded in 1884). The FT specialises in UK and international business and financial news, and is printed as a broadsheet on light salmon paper.

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Francesco Musotto
Francesco Musotto (born on 1 February 1947 in Palermo) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Islands (elected for the first time in 1999). He is the son of Giovanni Musotto, a notable professor in criminal law at the University of Palermo and member Italian Socialist Party (Italian: Partito Socialista Italiano, PSI).
Francesco Musotto, a former member of the PSI like his father, is currently with Forza Italia (part of the European People's Party), sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development, is a substitute for the Committee on Fisheries, and of the Committee on Transport and Tourism. He is also the current President of the Province of Palermo.
He graduated in law in 1969, worked as a lawyer from 1974, and as a farmer from 1996. Musotto earned a second diploma in agriculture in 1998.
Between 1972 and 1975, he served as Municipal Councillor for Cefalù, and is Chairman of the Palermo Provincial Council since 1998. He was a member of the Sicilian Regional Assembly in 1983-1986.

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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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Francis Maude
Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude (born 4 July 1953) is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he currently serves as the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, and as a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the constituency of Horsham. He is the son of the former Conservative Cabinet minister Angus Maude.
Maude was educated at the private fee-paying Abingdon School, at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and at the College of Law. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1977, and practised criminal law.
Maude served a councillor for the City of Westminster from 1978 to 1984.
Maude was first elected to the House of Commons to represent the constituency of North Warwickshire in the Conservative Party's landslide victory at the 1983 general election. In 1984, he became the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Employment Peter Morrison. Maude then became an assistant government whip (1985–87) and Minister for Corporate and Consumer Affairs (1987–89). In 1989, he became the Minister for Europe in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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Francis Wurtz
Francis Wurtz (born 3 January 1948 in Strasbourg) was a French Member of the European Parliament from 1979 until 2009. Elected in the Île-de-France constituency on the French Communist Party (PCF) ticket, he sits with the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group, and is its current President. He was nominated by EUL/NGL as their candidate for President of the European Parliament in the 2004 election. He received 51 votes.
A university graduate in literature (philosophy), he worked for a time as a State school teacher. He has been a member of the central committee of the PCF since 1979.

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Francisco Assis
Francisco Assis (born January 8, 1965 in Amarante) is a Portuguese politician and was a Member of the European Parliament for the Socialist Party; part of the Party of European Socialists from 2004 to 2009.

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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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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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Frithjof Schmidt
Frithjof Schmidt (b. 17 April 1953, Bad Harzburg) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Alliance '90/The Greens, part of the European Greens.

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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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Gabriela Creţu
Gabriela Creţu (born January 16, 1965) is a Romanian politician and member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), part of the Party of European Socialists. Elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Vaslui County in the 2004 elections, she became a Member of the European Parliament on January 1, 2007, with the accession of Romania to the European Union.
Born in Târgu Frumos, Creţu graduated from the Iaşi High School of Economic and Administrative Law (1983), and then from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Iaşi (1987). She later specialized in Gender studies, Political communications, Gender mainstreaming, and Political campaigning. In 1998, Creţu took her PhD in Epistemology and the Philosophy of science. She has authored and published several essays in the field.
Between 1987 and 2004, she taught Social science at high schools in Vaslui. Having joined the National Salvation Front in 1990, she followed it into the transformations that led to its transformation into the present-day PSD; since 1998, she serves on the party's National Council; until 2001, she was also Secretary of the PSD Women's Forum, and, since 2005, she is Vice President of the National Social Democratic Women's Organization.

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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.
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Garrelt Duin
Garrelt Duin (born on 2 April 1968 in Leer, Lower Saxony) is a German politician. He is member of the German Bundestag (Parliament) with the Social Democratic Party of Germany and chairman of the SPD in Lower Saxony.

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Gary Titley
Gary Titley (born 19 January 1950 in Salford, Lancashire) is a British politician and Labour Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North West of England.
He is a former director of the West Midlands Enterprise Board and chaired the West Midlands Co-op Finance Company and the Black Country Co-op Development Agency. He was previously a member of the Labour Party's Plant Committee on electoral reform. Previously he was a teacher of modern languages and history, and is currently Vice-Chair of the Labour Friends of Israel group.¹
Member of the subsequently abolished West Midlands County Council 1981–86.
He was first elected an MEP in June 1989. He served as leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party (EPLP) from 2002 until January 2009.
In January 2004 a letter bomb was sent to his office and opened by his wife, a member of his staff. It immediately started to smoke and then caught fire, but no one was injured.
As a result of his activities in the European Parliament he has been made a Commander of the White Rose of Finland, and holds the Austrian Gold Cross, and the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas. He has announced that he will not stand for re-election in the 2009 European Parliament election.

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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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Geert Bourgeois
Geert Albert Bourgeois (born 6 July 1951 in Roeselare) is a Belgian (Flemish) lawyer and politician (member of the New Flemish Alliance, N-VA). He is since 2009 the current Flemish Minister for Administrative Affairs, Local and Provincial Government, Civic Integration, Tourism and the Vlaamse Rand. He is also Vice-Minister-President.
Bourgeois first entered elective politics in 1977 when he was elected a member of the city council in Izegem. From 1983 to 1994 he served as an alderman.
In 1995 he was elected to the Belgian Chamber of People's Representatives and, being re-elected in 1999 and 2003, served until July 2004, when he resigned having been elected to the Flemish Parliament. Since July 2004, Bourgeois serves in the Flemish Government as Flemish Minister for Administrative Affairs, Foreign Policy, Media and Tourism.
On 22 September 2008 Geert Bourgeois was forced to resign due to pressure by the SP.a-Vl.Pro and Open VLD coalition partners because of his party's no confidence vote in the federal government of Yves Leterme and their lack of trust in further negotiations by the Regions regarding the state reform.

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Genowefa Grabowska
Genowefa Grabowska (born on 1 January 1944 in Przystajń) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Silesian Voivodship with the Socjaldemokracja Polska, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Constitutional Affairs.
Grabowska is a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)

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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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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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Georg Jarzembowski
Georg Jarzembowski (b. 3 February 1947, Braunschweig) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Hamburg. He is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party.

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George Osborne
George Gideon Oliver Osborne,MP (born 23 May 1971 in Paddington, London) is a British Conservative politician. He is the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom, a role to which he was appointed in May 2010, and has been the Member of Parliament for Tatton since 2001.
Osborne is part of the old Anglo-Irish aristocracy, known in Ireland as the Ascendancy. He is the heir to the Osborne baronetcy (of Ballentaylor, in County Tipperary, and Ballylemon, in County Waterford).
He was educated at St Paul's School and Magdalen College, University of Oxford, before entering politics.
Osborne is the eldest of four sons. His father, Sir Peter Osborne, 17th Baronet, co-founded the firm of fabric and wallpapers designers Osborne & Little. His mother is Felicity Alexandra Loxton-Peacock, the daughter of artist Lady Clarisse Loxton Peacock.
Originally named Gideon Oliver, he changed his name to George when he was 13. In an interview in July 2005, Osborne said: "It was my small act of rebellion. I never liked it. When I finally told my mother she said, 'Nor do I'. So I decided to be George after my grandfather, who was a war hero. Life was easier as a George; it was a straightforward name."

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Georgios Georgiou
Georgios Georgiou (born on 24 September 1976) is a Greek footballer who plays as a defender for OFI Crete.
Born in Augsburg, Germany, Georgiou moved to Greece where he played football for Lamia F.C..
Georgiou could not score in 58 games for Atromitos, but scored in his official OFI debut against Atromitos.

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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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Georgs Andrejevs
Dr. h. med. Georgs Andrejevs (born October 30, 1932 in Tukums) is a Latvian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Latvian Way party; part of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party. He was Foreign Minister of Latvia in 1992—1994.

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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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Gerhard Hager
Gerhard Hager (born 26 September 1942 in Vienna) is a former non-attached Member of the European Parliament representing Austria. His two European Parliamentary terms began on 11 November 1996 and 20 July 1999, culminating in his European Parliament career's ending on 19 July 2004.
Gerhard Hager was born on September 26, 1942 in Vienna, Austria as the nephew of Gustav Krist and grew up under the impressions of the aftermath of World War II. From 1948-1952 Hager attended primary school before attending another school from 1952-1960. After leaving school, Hager studied law at the University of Vienna, graduating from there in 1966. During the 1970s and 1980s, Hager served in positions such as a Judge of the High Court and President of the Senate. In 1991, he was appointed Councillor of the Supreme Court. He also worked as a lecturer at the University of Vienna.
In May 1994, the President accorded him the title of professor.
On November 11, 1996, Hager began his term as a Member of the European Parliament representing Austria. For most of his parliamentary term, Hager was a member of the right-wing populist Austrian Freedom Party, but left the party on February 14, 2003.

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Gian Paolo Gobbo
Gian Paolo Gobbo (Treviso, 1 April 1949) is a Venetist politician. He is the President of Liga Veneta, the "national" section of Lega Nord in Veneto.
In 1978–1980 he was a founding member of Liga Veneta. In 1990 and 1995, he was elected to the Regional Council of Veneto and was Vice President of Veneto from 1994 to 1995.
Gobbo was a member of the European Parliament for the Lega Nord from 1999 to 2004 and then, again, from 2006 to 2009.
Since 2008, he has been Mayor of Treviso.
In January 2010, Gobbo was indicted along with 35 other members of the Lega Nord on charges relating to an attempt to form an armed criminal gang during the late 1990s

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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 De Michelis
Giovanni (Gianni) De Michelis (born on 26 November 1940) is an Italian politician.
De Michelis was born in Venice.
His political experience started with the Italian Socialist Party, where he was elected to the municipal council of Venice. He got elected for the first time to the Italian Parliament in 1976 and was elected again in 1979, 1983, 1987, 1992 and 2006. He was Minister for State's Participation from 1980 to 1983. He then became Minister of Work in 1986 (with Bettino Craxi as President of the Council). His career however reached the top with his nomination to the Vice-Presidency of the Council in 1988-1989. He became Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1989 and kept that post until 1992.
Between 1993 and 2001, during the so called "judicial storm of Mani Pulite", was accused of curruption along with many of the socialists MPs and regional administrators. Within more than 35 different trails, apart from the numerous favorable verdicts, he has been convicted of corruption and was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months (negotiated) in Venice for highways bribes in Veneto and to 6 months for illegal financing (Enimont bribe, also negotiated).

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Gianni Rivera
Giovanni ("Gianni") Rivera (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒanni riˈvɛra]; born 18 August 1943 in Alessandria) is an Italian former football midfielder, mostly as an offensive playmaker, who was awarded the Ballon d'Or, one of the most prestigious individual awards in football, in 1969. He played the majority of his career with Serie A side A.C. Milan. Internationally, he represented Italy, 60 times scoring 14 goals, at four World Cups (1962, 1966, 1970, and 1974) as well as being part of the first Italian side to win the European Football Championship in 1968.
Rivera is considered as one of the greatest Italian footballers ever and as one of the greatest passers of all time. He was a creative midfielder with offensive ideas, often at odds with the proponents of the classic Italian defensive schemes. Rivera was known for his classy, elegant and aesthetic style of play, known for his impeccable dribbling and distribution.
After retiring from football, Rivera has gone into politics and currently is a Member of the European Parliament for the Uniti nell'Ulivo party. He has been appointed as the President of the educational youth sector by the FIGC for the Italy national football team, along with Roberto Baggio and Arrigo Sacchi under head coach Cesare Prandelli.

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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 Savary
Gilles Savary (born 6 December 1954 in Oradour-sur-Vayres, Haute-Vienne) is a French politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. He is a member of the Socialist Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and was vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism.
He was also a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, a member of the delegation for relations with Iran, and a member of the temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007–2013.

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Gintaras Didžiokas
Gintaras Didžiokas (b. 10 August 1966, Vilnius) is a Lithuanian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Peasants and New Democratic Party Union; part of the Union for a Europe of Nations.

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Giorgio Carollo
Giorgio Carollo (Vicenza, 30 March 1944) is an Italian politician.
He is a Member of the European Parliament for North-East, elected with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries and its Committee on Legal Affairs. He is a substitute for the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on International Trade.
A long-time member of Christian Democracy, he later joined Forza Italia, of which he was regional coordinator for Veneto from 1998 to 2005.
In 2005, he left Forza Italia and formed his own political group, Veneto for the European People's Party. In the 2007 provincial election of Vicenza, he is candidate for President with the support of parties both from the centre-left and the centre-right: Italy of Values, UDEUR Populars, Liga Fronte Veneto, Christian Democracy, some citizen' lists and his own Veneto for the EPP, which is part of the majority supporting the regional government of Giancarlo Galan in the Regional Council.

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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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Giovanni Berlinguer
Giovanni Berlinguer (Italian pronunciation: [berliŋˈɡwɛr]), Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (born 9 July 1924), is an Italian politician and Professor of Social Medicine.
He was born in Sassari, Sardinia, the son of Mario Berlinguer. Like his brother Enrico, Giovanni Berlinguer was a major figure in the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1972, 1976 and 1979 and to the Senate in 1983 and 1987.
He ran for the secretarship of the Democrats of the Left (DS) in 2001, being defeated by Piero Fassino 61.8% to 34.1%.
He is now a Member of the European Parliament representing the DS and sits with the Party of European Socialists group. At the convening of the Parliament on 20 July 2004 he was found to be the oldest member, and as such presided over the Parliament during the election of Josep Borrell Fontelles in 2004 and Hans-Gert Pöttering in 2007 as President of the Parliament.

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Giovanni Pittella
Gianni Pittella (born on 19 November 1958) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Southern and First Vice President of the European Parliament for the seventh parliament. He is a member of the Italian Democratic Party and is a member of the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) parliamentary group. He is also the President of the political association Prima Persona.
In the sixth parliament, Pittella represented the Democrats of the Left (DS) as part of the Party of European Socialists group and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets. He was a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, substitute for the Delegation to the European Union-Romania and European Union-Moldova Joint Parliamentary Committees.

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Gisela Kallenbach
Gisela Kallenbach (born 28 March 1944, in Soldin, New March, now Myślibórz, Poland) is a German politician. She served as a Member of the European Parliament for Alliance '90/The Greens, part of the European Greens, from 2004 to 2009. Since 2009, she has been a member of the Parliament of Saxony. From 2000 to 2003, she was International Mayor of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo. She was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2001.
Due to her family background and Christian faith, she was denied the right to go to Gymnasium and take the Abitur by the East German communist regime. She eventually became an engineer and an English translator. From 1990 to 2000, she worked as an adviser for the city of Leipzig's environmental administration. She became involved in local politics for the Greens in 1990.
She is involved with the Zeitzeugenportal, an initiative of the Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, a signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism, and also co-organized (with Milan Horáček) a public hearing in the European Parliament on totalitarian regimes in support of the declaration. She is also a supporter of the Freiheit statt Angst demonstrations concerned with citizens' data privacy.

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Gitte Seeberg
Gitte Seeberg (born on 25 June 1960 in Copenhagen) is a Danish politician, lawyer, and current secretary general of the Danish branch of the WWF. She was a member of the Danish Folketinget parliament for the Conservative People's Party and New Alliance, and has previously been a Member of the European Parliament.
Seeberg earned a Degree in law from Copenhagen University in 1986. She then worked as a commercial property agent and ran an independent legal practice.
In 1994, Seeberg was elected to represent the Conservative People's Party in the Danish Folketinget parliament. The trio of her, Lene Espersen, Henriette Kjær were seen as a breath of fresh air to the Conservatives, while political rivals nicknamed them "April, May, and June Duck". She held a number of speaker positions for the Conservatives, among them financial, foreign, and EU policy, and was Vice-Chairman of the parliamentary party group from 2001 to 2004.
In the 2004 European Parliament election, Seeberg was elected to represent the Conservative People's Party in the European Parliament. She was a Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party.

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Giulietto Chiesa
Giulietto Chiesa (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈljetto ˈkjɛza]; born on 4 September 1940 in Acqui Terme, Province of Alessandria, Italy) is an Italian journalist and politician, and was a Member of the European Parliament for North-West with the Independent - Di Pietro-Occhetto List Civil Society. Originally he represented Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, since 2006 - Party of European Socialists. Chiesa sat on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade.
Chiesa held a number of important positions in the Italian Communist Party before it was dissolved in 1991.
He was a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.
In the 2009 European Parliament elections, Chiesa was a candidate on the ForHRUL list in Latvia.
Giulietto Chiesa speaks Russian well and has written a couple of books in co-authorship with Roy Medvedev. In 1988, their book «The USSR that changed» (in Italian: L’URSS che cambia) was published. In 1990, they published another book, written in the format of discussions: «The Revolution of Gorbachev» (ital. La rivoluzione di Gorbaciov), initially published in the US («Time of Change», Pantheon Books, 1990), later also in Japan.

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Giuseppe Gargani
Giuseppe Gargani (born April 23, 1935 in Morra De Sanctis) is an Italian politician, a lawyer and from 1999 to 2009 a Member of the European Parliament,. He was elected on the Forza Italia ticket and sat with the European People's Party group. In the June 2009 elections Mr. Gargani came in 10th with 79,479 votes on the PdL list where only nine were elected.
He was chairman of the Avellino provincial administration (1970–1972). Subsequently he was a member of the Italian parliament until 1994 and was Under-Secretary-of-State at the Ministry of Justice (1979–1983).
On July 23, 2004 he was elected Chair of the Committee on Legal Affairs.

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Giusto Catania
Giusto Catania (born on 10 June 1971 in Palermo) is an Italian politician and former Member of the European Parliament for North-West with the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (PRC), part of the European Left and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
He was a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development, a member of the Delegation for relations with Iran, and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya).
A graduate in modern literature in 1996, he failed to be qualified to teach literature in 2001. Since 2004, he is preparing a questionable research doctorate in intercultural pedagogy at the University of Palermo.
In 1994-1996, he was responsible for the Federazione Giovanile Comunisti Italiani (the youth wing of the PRC) in Sicily, and member of the Sicilian Regional Secretariat; in 1996-2001, he was Provincial Secretary of the PRC Federation of Palermo. Since 2001, he is Regional Secretary of the PRC in Sicily.

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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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Glenn Bedingfield
Glenn Bedingfield (b. November 15, 1974 in Pietà) is a Maltese journalist and formerly a Member of the European Parliament and General Secretary of the Forum Żgħażagħ Laburisti (the Labour Youth Forum of the Maltese Labour Party) and member of the Party's National Executive.
Bedingfield was one of the first journalists to join the newly set up Labour Party owned Super One Radio and One Television, One Productions in 1991. As an investigative political journalist Glenn Bedingfield won the 2002 Journalist of the Year award for broadcast TV. From 1992 he produced and he involved in controversial and investigative media programms in One Television and also in One Radio.
He also published 3 investigative books on the relations between crime and politics. The first of these books landed Glenn Bedingfield in court when criminal proceedings were initiated against him by the Nationalist Government of the time. The case caused uproar during its first sitting. The case was not pursued further by the government.

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Glyn Ford
Glyn Ford (born 28 January 1950 in Gloucester) was a member of the European Parliament (1984–2009) initially for Greater Manchester East, until 1999 and then South West England for the Labour Party and Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party.
Before being elected he worked at the University of Manchester in the Department of Science and Technology Policy as a Senior Research Fellow and was a local councillor in the Greater Manchester borough of Tameside where he was the Chair of the Environmental Health and Education Committees. Ford has two children Elise born in 1981 and Alessandro born in 1996.
Ford's three areas of interest are Research and Development, Racism and East Asia is an expert on Asia. Ford was for 15 years a member of the EP's 'Research' Committee and was in the Guest Editor for 'Science and Public Policy' Special Issue on 'Science and Technology in Europe'and the author, with Chris Niblett and Lindsay Walker of 'The Future for Ocean Technology' (Frances Pinter,1987).
Ford was Chair if the EP's Committee of Inquiry into 'The Growth of Racism and Fascism in Europe' (1984–86) and 'rapporteur' for a second EP Committee of Inquiry into 'Racism and Xenophobia'. He served as the EP's representative on the Council of Ministers Consultative Commission on Racism and Xenophobia (1994–99). He is National Treasurer of the Anti-Nazi League and author of 'Fascist Europe' (Pluto, 1992).

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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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Gordon Brown
James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 until 2010. He previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Government from 1997 to 2007, becoming the longest-serving holder of that office in modern history. Brown has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1983, for Dunfermline East until 2005, and currently for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.
Brown became Prime Minister on 27 June 2007, after the resignation of Tony Blair and three days after becoming Leader of the governing Labour Party. His tenure ended on 11 May 2010, when he resigned as Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party. Brown was one of only three people to serve in the Cabinet continuously from Labour's victory in 1997 until its defeat in 2010, the others being Jack Straw and Alistair Darling.
Brown has a PhD in history from the University of Edinburgh and spent his early career working as a lecturer at a further education college and a television journalist. He has been a Member of Parliament since 1983; first for Dunfermline East and since 2005 for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. As Prime Minister, he also held the offices of First Lord of the Treasury and the Minister for the Civil Service.

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Graham Booth
Graham Harry Booth (29 March 1940 – 14 December 2011) was an English politician, and was a Member of the European Parliament for South West England between 2002 and 2008. He was a member of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP).
Booth was born in Paignton, Devon. Before he entered politics, he was a businessman in the building and tourism trades. In the 1999 European Parliament elections, Booth was the number two candidate on the UKIP list for South West England. Consequently he became an MEP in 2002 as the replacement for Michael Holmes, former party leader, when Holmes resigned from the European Parliament. Booth was re-elected in 2004 with a greatly increased vote. In the 2005 General Election he contested the Torbay constituency in Devon, and gained 7.9% of the vote.
UKIP MEPs frequently claim that the European Parliament is a powerless talking shop, with real lawmaking power resting with the European Commission. However, Graham Booth is credited with having helped save the Isles of Scilly helicopter shuttle service in his constituency by means of an astute parliamentary speech in 2003. The service, which is crucial to life on the islands, had been threatened with closure by a heavy-handed interpretation of a new EU directive aimed at larger airlines. Following Booth's speech, an alliance between UKIP and the UK Labour Party MEPs persuaded the EU Transport Commissioner to amend the directive, allowing the service (and similar 'social carriers' across Europe) to continue in business.

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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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Grażyna Staniszewska
Grażyna Ewa Staniszewska (born on 2 November 1949 in Biała Krakowska) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Silesian Voivodeship with the Unia Wolności, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development.
Staniszewska is a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education, a member of the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and a substitute for the Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee.
Since October 6, 1978 until January 9, 1979 she was a secret agent of communist Służba Bezpieczeństwa (SB) pseudonym Kowalska.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)

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Greg Hands
Gregory William "Greg" Hands, MP (born 14 November 1965) is a Conservative Party politician. He is currently the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chelsea and Fulham having been elected during the 2010 general election for the newly-created constituency formed with the splitting of the former constituencies of Kensington and Chelsea as well as Hammersmith and Fulham.
Previously, Hands had represented the constituency from 2005–2010, during which time it was the Hammersmith and Fulham constituency.
Greg Hands was born in New York City, the United States, and was educated widely before leaving Dr Challoner's Grammar School, Amersham in 1984, where he held the post of chairman of the Dr. Challoner's Debating Society. He then went on to attend Robinson College, Cambridge where he was awarded a first in modern history in 1989. He also joined the party as a student, served as the chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association and was on the executive committee of the Cambridge University Students' Union. During his gap year he worked in a swimming pool in Berlin, and first became interested in the Eastern Bloc, and visited Prague, and other Eastern European cities in future holidays. He worked on trading floors in the City of London and New York City until 1997. He has dual American/British nationality and voted for the defeated McCain/Palin ticket in the 2008 Presidential election.

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Guido Podestà
Guido Podestà (born on 1 April 1947 in Milan) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for North-West with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. He was elected president of the province of Milan on 2009/06/22, replacing the centre-left candidate Filippo Penati, whom he beat in a runoff vote.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)

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Guido Sacconi
Guido Sacconi (born on 23 June 1948 in Udine) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Central region with the Democrats of the Left (DS), part of the Socialist Group, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
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 substitute for the Delegation for relations with the countries of South-east Europe.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)

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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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Guntars Krasts
Guntars Krasts (born 16 October 1957 in Riga) is a Latvian politician, former Prime Minister, and former Member of the European Parliament for the single Latvia constituency. Born in Riga, he was the Minister of Economy of Latvia from December 1995 to August 1997, Prime Minister of Latvia from August 1997 to November 1998, and the Deputy Prime Minister from November 1998 to June 1999. Krasts was a member of Saeima, the Latvian parliament, from June 1999 until being elected to the European Parliament in 2004.
Guntars Krasts was elected in the 2004 Euroelections as MEP for the single Latvia constituency as a member of For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK. He sits with the Union for a Europe of Nations group (UEN). He left For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK in February 2008 but joined no other party. As of 31 March 2009, his European Parliament profile shows no national party membership.
On 28 March 2008, Libertas Latvia gave a press conference in which Krasts was named as the head of the Libertas Latvia list. The list would total eight candidates to contend the nine seats assigned to the single Latvia constituency.

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Guy Bono
Guy Bono (born 30 April 1953 in Béja, Béja Governorate, Tunisia) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-east of France. He 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 Culture and Education.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism, a member of the delegation to the EU–Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with the countries of Central America.

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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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Gyula Hegyi
Gyula Hegyi (born 30 April 1951 in Békéscsaba) is a Hungarian politician and a former Member of the European Parliament for the Hungarian Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
Gyula Hegyi was born on 30 April 1951 in Békéscsaba. He was studying in the Budapest University of Technology, from where he graduated in 1975. Two years later he also finished the school of the Association of Hungarian Journalists (MÚOSZ) in 1975. He was working for the culture and the 'comment' section of the Hungarian newspaper, Magyar Hírlap.
He published some thousand articles on culture and politics in Hungarian dailies and weeklies and he also wrote nine books: three collections of verses, six collections of essays and other articles.
From the time of the change of regime in Hungary until he became MP in the Hungarian Parliament Gyula Hegyi had been the spokesman and the member of the presidency of several Hungarian organisation, such as Demokratikus Charta, Nyilvánosság Klub and Amnesty International. He is the member of the Association of Catholic Journalists, the Hungarian Writer's Association, and several environmental movements.

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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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Gábor Harangozó
Gábor Harangozó (born September 27, 1975 in Budapest) is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Hungarian Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
Harangozó spent his childhood years in Szekszárd. After completing his secondary education, he enrolled in the University of West Hungary in 1995, where he received a degree in Agribusiness. He then went on to study European Funds Management in the Dutch CAH Dronten. From 2002 he represented the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg in Brussels.
He was elected an MEP in the 2004 general elections, and he was the youngest Hungarian MEP then. In 2010 he became member of the National Assembly of Hungary.
He is married and has one child. His younger brother Tamás Harangozó is also a representative in the Hungarian Parliament.

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Gérard Deprez
Gérard M.J. Deprez (born on 13 August 1943 in Noville, Bastogne) is a Belgian politician and ex-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 and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets.
He is the Chairman of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee.

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Gérard Onesta
Gérard Onesta (born 5 August 1960 in Albi, Tarn) is a French politician and was Member of the European Parliament for the South West of France.
He is a member of Europe Écologie–The Greens, part of the European Greens. On 20 July 2004 he was re-elected a Member of the European Parliament, and he was elected four times one of its Vice-Presidents. His successor is José Bové.
In March 2010 regional election, he is the leader of Europe Écologie–The Greens in Midi-Pyrénées.
Onesta defines himself as a European federalist, with strong proclivities for regionalism.
His cousin Claude Onesta is the coach of the 3 fold champion France national handball team.

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Hanne Dahl
Hanne Dahl (born 30 August 1970) is a Danish priest and politician from Aalborg. She is a member of the European Parliament, representing the June Movement (Danish: Junibevægelsen).

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Hannes Swoboda
Hannes Swoboda (born 10 November 1946 in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg) is an Austrian social democratic politician. He has been a Member of the European Parliament since 1996. Within the Parliament, he represents the Social Democratic Party of Austria and since 17 January 2012 is also the President of the group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.
After studying law and economics at the University of Vienna, Swoboda worked in the Vienna Chamber of Labour (1971–86) and was director of the department for urban policies and housing policy. Swoboda also held a number of different functions within the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ). From 1983, he was a member of the municipal council and member of the city council of Vienna. In 1988 he became municipal councillor, regional minister, responsible for urban development, planning, transport and external relations. Swoboda is a member of the federal party executive committee of the SPÖ and the Viennese party executive committee. He is also a member of the Parliamentarian Working Group of the Advisory Board of "A Soul for Europe", an initiative that is building an international network with bases in Amsterdam, Berlin, Belgrade, Brussels, Porto and Tbilisi. Hannes Swoboda supported the European cause by signing the Spinelli Group Manifesto. In the European Parliament he is Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (Rapporteur for Russia), Substitute Member in the Committee on Energy, Research and Industrial Policies, Member of the Delegation for the Relations to the United States of America, Member of the Delegation to the Parliamentary Cooperation Committees in Central Asia.

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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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Harald Ettl
Harald Ettl (born 7 December 1947 in Gleisdorf, Styria) is an Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party, 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 Economic and Monetary Affairs, a member of the delegation to the EU–Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries.

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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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Harold Wincott
Harold Wincott CBE (13 September 1906 - 5 March 1969) was a British economist and journalist.
Wincott edited the Investors Chronicle for twenty-one years and was a columnist for the Financial Times. He was awarded a CBE in 1963 and wrote pamphlets for the Institute of Economic Affairs, a free-market think-tank. According to one contemporary, Wincott had an "enormous influence on City thinking"; it was Wincott who invented the character Solomon Binding in his column as a joke on the numerous "solemn and binding" pledges made at TUC Conferences.
The Conservative politician John Biffen has claimed: "If I had a mentor, it was probably Harold Wincott".
The Harold Wincott Press Awards were established in 1970 by the Wincott Foundation in honor of Wincott.

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Hartmut Nassauer
Hartmut Nassauer (b. 17 October 1942, Marburg) 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.

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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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Heinz Kindermann
Heinz Kindermann (born on 20 June 1942 in Welhotta (CZ)) 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 Agriculture and Rural Development and its Committee on Fisheries.
He is also a member of the Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe.
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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 Kuhne
Helmut Kuhne (born on 6 September 1949 in Soest) 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 Foreign Affairs.
He is also a member of the Delegation for relations with the United States.

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Helmuth Markov
Helmuth Markov (born on 5 June 1952 in Leipzig) is a German politician.
Helmuth Markov is the son of the German marxist historian Walter Markov.
From 1976 to 1976 he studied engineering at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, where he got his graduation in engineering in 1976. In 1984 he became Doctor of Engineering.
He is married and has 3 children.
In 1973 Markov became a member of the SED and was from 1993 to 1995 Regional Chairman of the PDS in Brandenburg.
From 1990 until 1999 he was a Member of Brandenburg's Regional Assembly.
After the European elections in 1999 he became a Member of the European Parliament with the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). He was treasurer of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade. He was a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.
Since 2009 Hemuth Markov is the Finance Minister and vice Minister President of Brandenburg in a Red-red coalition

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Henrik Lax
Henrik Lax (born Rolf Henrik Richard Lax on 6 May 1946 in Helsinki) is a Finnish politician and former Member of the European Parliament with the Swedish People's Party, Member of the Bureau of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
Lax was a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, a member of the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and a substitute for the Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.
Lax was the Swedish People's Party's candidate in the 2006 presidential election. He finished 7th out of the 8 candidates, with a vote share of 1.6% (48,703 votes). After the first round, he joined the other centre-right candidates in expressing his support for Sauli Niinistö in the runoff election between Niinistö and Tarja Halonen.
Lax has argued that Finland would be better off if it sought membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He has argued that the time is now, and the option would not be available if the current peaceful situation changed.

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Herbert Bösch
Herbert Bösch (born September 11, 1954 in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg) is an Austrian social democratic politician. He is Member of the European Parliament since 1995.
He studied sociology and politology at the University of Konstanz. After finishing his studies he was employed in the administration of the federal state capital Bregenz. From 1989 to 1994 he was Member of the Federal Council of Austria (Bundesrat) for the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), then Member of the National Council of Austria (Nationalrat) until he became MEP.
Since 31 January 2007 he is chairman of the Committee on Budgetary Control in the European Parliament.
Herbert Bösch is married and has three children.

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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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Hiltrud Breyer
Hiltrud Breyer (born 22 August 1957) is a German politician and former Member of the European Parliament with the German Green Party, part of the European Greens and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and its Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
She is a substitute for the Committee on Legal Affairs, substitute for the Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee.
In 2008, German television station RTL reported about members of the European Parliament—including Breyer—who signed the attendance register on Friday mornings to receive the EP's daily allowance of 284 Euro before leaving Strasbourg immediately for the weekend. Breyer later denied these allegations.

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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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Hubert Pirker
Hubert Pirker (born October 3, 1948 in Gries) is an Austrian politician and a Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Austrian People's Party, which is affiliated with the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats in the European Parliament.
He was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, the temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners, and the delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula. He was also a substitute for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
After studying education and communication theory and receiving his diploma and doctorate, Hubert Pirker worked as a teacher of mathematics from 1967 to 1980. He worked as a professor of education at a teacher training academy and became head of research projects at the University of Klagenfurt and for the Ministry of Science. He then became a communication and management consultant.

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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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Hélène Goudin
Hélène Goudin (born 25 November 1956 in Brussels) is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the June List; part of the Independence and Democracy group. Goudin is a Vice Chair of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and Co-President and Treasurer of the EUDemocrats - Alliance for a Europe of Democracies.

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Iain Dale
Iain Campbell Dale (born 15 July 1962) is best known for his conservative-minded British political blog Iain Dale's Diary (founded in 2002) and for his frequent appearances on UK news channels as a political commentator. He is also a publisher, broadcaster and former Conservative Party politician. In September 2003 he became the first openly gay Conservative candidate to contest a Parliamentary election. He is the publisher of Total Politics magazine and Managing Director of Biteback Publishing. Since September 2010, he has hosted a regular evening show on London's LBC 97.3 radio station.
Dale was educated at Ashdon County Primary School, Saffron Walden County High School, and obtained a 2(i) BA Honours degree in German, Linguistics, and Teaching English as a Foreign Language from the University of East Anglia in 1985. Prior to going to university he spent his gap year as a nursing assistant at the Werner Wicker Klinik in West Germany. During his degree course he spent a year teaching English at the Gymnasium Besigheim.

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Iain Duncan Smith
George Iain Duncan Smith (born 9 April 1954; often referred to by his initials "IDS") is a British Conservative politician. He is currently the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and was previously leader of the Conservative Party from September 2001 to October 2003. He was first elected to parliament at the 1992 General Election as the MP for Chingford and has represented its successor constituency of Chingford and Woodford Green since the 1997 General Election.
Duncan Smith was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and served in the Scots Guards from 1975 to 1981, with service in Northern Ireland and Rhodesia. He joined the Conservative Party in 1981, and was elected as a Member of Parliament in 1992. When William Hague resigned as Conservative Party leader in 2001, Duncan Smith won the subsequent leadership election, bolstered by the support of Margaret Thatcher and his Eurosceptic ideology. Duncan Smith was the first Roman Catholic to serve as Conservative Party leader, and the first born in Scotland since Arthur Balfour.

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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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Ieke van den Burg
Ieke van den Burg (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈikə vɐn dɛm ˈbʏrx]) (born 6 March 1952 in Apeldoorn, Gelderland) is a Dutch politician and a former Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Labour Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. She was also a substitute for the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and a member of the delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand.

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Ignasi Guardans
Ignasi Guardans i Cambó (Catalan pronunciation: [iɡˈnazi ɣwərˈðans]; born on 18 May 1964 in Barcelona, Catalonia) is a Spanish former politician. Up to now his last responsibilities have been as Director General of the Spanish Institute for Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA)[1], the Spanish Film Agency which is part of the Spanish Ministry of Culture. He held this job between April 2009 and October 2010. A lawyer by training and with some experience in legal practice, he started his political activity in 1995 to run for election in the Catalan Parliament [2], where he remained for a very short time before jumping to national politics in the Spanish Parliament (Congreso de los Diputados Congreso de los Diputados). He was elected within the lists of CDC Democratic Convergence of Catalonia in two consecutive terms, 1996–2000 and 2000-2004. In June 2004 he was elected to the European Parliament, where he joined the ALDE Group, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (2004–2009).
In 2009, following several debates with the leadership of his party on the status of Catalonia within Spain, and after accepting a high ranking job in the Spanish Government as head of the Film Agency (ICAA) he quitted Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC), and has remained an independent political figure afterwards.

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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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Iles Braghetto
Illes Braghetto (San Giorgio delle Pertiche, 9 March 1953) is an Italian politician.
He started teaching religion in upper secondary schools in 1976 and graduated in modern literature in 1984. Since his young years he was a member of Christian Democracy. Between 1980 and 1985 he was town councillor and deputy mayor of Padua. In 1995 he was elected to the Regional Council of Veneto for the United Christian Democrats. From 1995 through 2000 he was regional minister of Health in Galan I Government. From 1995 to 2000, during which time he was also a regional minister for health policies and national coordinator. From 2003 to 2005 he was chairman of the Committee on planning, the budget and institutional affairs.
In 2005 he entered the European Parliament representing the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (UDC). During his tenure he was vice-chairman of the Committee on Fisheries and member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, the delegation for relations with Iran, and the delegation for relations with Canada. In 2009 he was not re-elected and has since left UDC in order to become the leader of Alliance of the Centre in Veneto.

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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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Indira Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (Hindi: इंदिरा प्रियदर्शिनी गांधी Indirā Priyadarśinī Gāndhī

listen (help·info), née Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms (1966–77) and a fourth term (1980–84). Gandhi was the second female head of government in the world after Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, and she remains as the world's second longest serving female Prime Minister as of 2012. She was the first woman to become prime minister in India.
Gandhi was the only child of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India. She adhered to the quasi-socialist policies of industrial development that had been begun by her father. Gandhi established closer relations with the Soviet Union, depending on that nation for support in India’s long-standing conflict with Pakistan. She was also the only Indian Prime Minister to have declared a state of emergency in order to 'rule by decree' and the only Indian Prime Minister to have been imprisoned after holding that office. She was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards in retaliation for ordering Operation Blue Star.

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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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Inger Segelström
Inger Agneta Segelström (born 25 February 1952 in Stockholm) is a Swedish politician and former Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, part of the Socialist Group.
She sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. She is also a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Sweden)

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Ingo Friedrich
Ingo Friedrich (born January 24, 1942, in Kutno-Wartheland) was a German (Bavarian) Member of the European Parliament. He was elected on the CSU ticket and sits with the EPP-ED Group.
Herr Friedrich holds a University degree in Economics. He was a member of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district council (1972–1996) and was the head of the CSU delegation to the European Parliament between 1992-1999.
Herr Friedrich has been awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit, and the Federal Cross of Merit, first class.
From July 2004 to January 2007 he was one of the 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament.
From October 2002, he holds the position of Treasurer of the European People's Party (EPP).
On January 16, 2007, he was elected one of the 6 Quaestors of the European Parliament.
Since September 2009 he has been President of the European Economic Senate.

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Ingo Schmitt
Ingo Schmitt is a German politician who was Member of the European Parliament for Berlin from 1999 - 2005. On September 18, 2005 he was elected to the Bundestag and consequently resigned from the European Parliament. He is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union.

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Inés Ayala
Inés Ayala Sender (Born 28 March 1957 in Zaragoza) is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. She was re-elected in the 2009 European elections.

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Ioannis Gklavakis
Ioannis Gklavakis (Greek: Ιωάννης Γκλαβάκης) (born on 10 October 1949 in Thessaloniki) is a Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament with the New Democracy, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and its Committee on Fisheries.
He is also a vice-chair of the Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Greece)

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Ioannis Varvitsiotis
Ioannis Varvitsiotis (Greek: Ιωάννης Βαρβιτσιώτης) (b. 2 August 1933 in Athens) is a Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament for New Democracy from 2004–2009, part of the European People's Party. He didn't stand for reelection in the European elections, 2009. He was also twice a defense minister of Greece from 2 July 1989 till 7 October 1989 and again between 11 April 1990 till 13 October 1993.

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Iratxe García
Iratxe García Pérez (born 7 October 1974 in Barakaldo, Biscay) is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. She entered politics at the Spanish General Election of 2000 when she was elected to the Spanish Congress representing Valladolid Province.

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Irena Belohorská
Irena Belohorská (born on 13 March 1948 in Piešťany) is a Slovak politician and former Member of the European Parliament with the Ludova strana - Hnutie za demokraticke Slovensko, and is therefore a Non-Inscrit in the European Parliament.
She sits on its Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and is a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs and a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Slovakia)

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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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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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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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Jacques Toubon
Jacques Toubon (born 29 June 1941 in Nice, France) is a right-wing French politician who held several major national and Parisian offices.
Governmental functions
Minister of Culture : 1993–1995.
Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice : 1995–1997.
Electoral mandates
European Parliament
Member of European Parliament : 2004–2009. Elected in 2004.
National Assembly of France
Member of the National Assembly of France for Paris : 1981–1993 (Became minister in 1993). Elected in 1981, reelected in 1986, 1988, 1993.
Municipal Council
Deputy-mayor of Paris : 1983–2001. Reelected in 1989, 1995.
Councillor of Paris : 1983–2008. Reelected in 1989, 1995, 2001.
Mayor of the 13th arrondissement of Paris : 1983–2001. Reelected in 1989, 1995.
Councillor of the 13th arrondissement of Paris : 1983–2001. Reelected in 1989, 1995.
Jacques Toubon is known for the controversial so-called Toubon Law, enforcing the use of the French language in official French government publications, and advertisements published in France. Since the law can largely be described as being hostile to English, Jacques Toubon is sometimes referred to, jokingly, as "Mr Allgood" ("All Good" being a translation of "Tout bon").

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Jacqui Smith
Jacqueline Jill "Jacqui" Smith (born 3 November 1962) is a member of the British Labour Party. She was the Member of Parliament for Redditch from 1997 until 2010, the first female Home Secretary and the third woman to hold one of the Great Offices of State — after Margaret Thatcher (Prime Minister) and Margaret Beckett (Foreign Secretary).
Smith was one of the MPs investigated by the parliamentary commissioner for standards over a variety of inappropriate expense claims Smith, whose case was arguably among the most significant of the MPs' expenses cases but who was never prosecuted, was found to have "clearly" broken the rules on expenses and ordered to apologise. On 5 June 2009, she ceased to be Home Secretary in the Cabinet reshuffle, and then lost her seat as Member of Parliament for Redditch in the 2010 General Election.
Born in Malvern, Worcestershire, Smith attended Dyson Perrins High School in Malvern. Her parents were teachers, and both Labour councillors; although her mother briefly joined the SDP. Her local MP, Conservative backbencher Sir Michael Spicer, recalled in Parliament in 2003 how he had first met her when he was addressing the sixth form at The Chase School, where Smith's mother was a teacher. "So great was my eloquence that she immediately rushed off and joined the Labour Party." Smith read PPE at Hertford College, Oxford and gained a PGCE from Worcester College of Higher Education.

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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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James Forder
James Forder (born 1964) is a British academic / economist and Tutorial Fellow in Economics at Balliol College, University of Oxford. He is editor of Oxford Economic Papers. He co-authored the book "Both Sides of the Coin" along with Chris Huhne in 1998, arguing the case against Britain's membership of the euro.
A staunch academic opponent of the euro, Forder has argued that its inception was political and not economic, and that its introduction will ultimately destabilise the institutions of the European Union; thus it should be opposed by liberal pro-Europeans. He is firmly opposed to Central Bank independence and has written a string of academic articles on this topic. He has also written "The case against voting reform", attacking the principle of proportional representation and opposing the alternative vote for British Parliamentary elections.
Forder is a keen bridge player and senior member of the Balliol College Bridge Club.

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Jamila Madeira
Jamila Madeira (born 17 July 1975) is a Portuguese politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Socialist Party; part of the Party of European Socialists.
She was part of the National Board of Juventude Socialista from 1994 to 2000, and then became its General Secretary from 2000 to 2004. She was a member of the Assembly of the Republic from 1999 to 2004.

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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 Cremers
Jan Cremers (May 3, 1952 Limbricht) is a former Dutch politician and a sociologist.

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Jan Kułakowski
Jan Jerzy Kułakowski (25 August 1930 – 25 June 2011) was a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Greater Poland Voivodship (2004–2009) with the Unia Wolnosci, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
Kułakowski was a substitute for the Committee on Development, a member of the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community.
Kulakowski was a Member of the National Council of the European Integration, Advisory Group appointed by President Aleksander Kwasniewski. He was a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in Belgium. He was the Vice-President of Association France-Pologne pour l’ Europe and the Polish Council of the European Movement.
Knight of the Order of the White Eagle (2002)
Commander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold II of Belgium
Legion of Honour (France – January 19, 2007)
National Order of Grand Officer of Merit

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Jan Marinus Wiersma
Jan Marinus Wiersma (born 26 August 1951 in Groningen) is a Dutch politician and from 1994-2009 Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Labour Party, vice-chair of the Party of European Socialists group, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.
He was also a member of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism, a member of the delegation to the EU–Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee, and a member of the delegation to the EU–Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.

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Jan Masiel
Jan Tadeusz Masiel (born on 28 March 1963 in Siemiatycze) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Greater Poland Voivodship with the Self-Defense, and is therefore a Non-Inscrit in the European Parliament.
Masiel sits on its Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, and is a substitute for the Committee on Petitions and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. Masiel is also a member of the Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)

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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 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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Jana Bobošíková
Jana Bobošíková (born on 29 August 1964 in Prague) is a Czech politician and former Member of the European Parliament and was Non-Inscrit in the European Parliament.
She sat on many seats as: Committee on Regional Development, and is a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.
In Czech Republic she is mostly known for her involvement in the political conflict over Česká televize (2000–01).
The "Czech TV crisis" occurred at the end of 2000 and lasted until early 2001 as a battle for control of the airwaves, which included jamming, pirate broadcasts and accusations of censorship. On the evening during the Christmas holiday, viewers around the Czech Republic who had tuned into to the regular evening news broadcast watched the newscast broadcast by the news anchors they were used to being jammed and interrupted by Bobošíková, a former face at Czech TV sitting next to Jiří Hodač, who had been appointed general manager of Czech TV amid accusations by critics that he was close to Václav Klaus' Civic Democratic Party (ODS) and to the then director of private TV channel Nova, Vladimír Železný, and would undermine the editorial independence of the TV network.

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Jana Hybášková
Jana Hybášková (born on 26 June 1965 in Prague) is a Czech politician and diplomat, serving as the Ambassador of the European Union in Iraq (since 2011). From 2004 to 2009, she was a Member of the European Parliament for the European People's Party. She is chairwoman of the European Democratic Party (EDS).
As a Member of the European Parliament, she was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, a substitute on the Committee on Budgets and chairwoman of the European delegation for relations with Israel. Jana Hybášková is also a member of the Steering Committee of the World Movement for Democracy. She has been a strong critic of Iran and its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and has advocated closer relations between Israel and Europe.
She graduated in Arabic at Charles University, earning a doctorate in 1989, and worked at the Foreign Ministry of Czechoslovakia and then the Czech Republic from 1991 to 1997. She was Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Slovenia 1997–2001, and then in Qatar and Kuwait (2002–2004).

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Janelly Fourtou
Janelly Fourtou (born 4 February 1939 in Paris) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for central France. She is a member of the Union for French Democracy, which is part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Petitions and its Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
She is also a substitute for the Committee on Legal Affairs, a member of the delegation to the EU–Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with the countries of Central America.
Fourtou is married to Jean-René Fourtou, the CEO of Vivendi Universal. Fourtou has been active in the EU Parliaments decisions regarding Intellectual Property rights.
In 2004, she managed to pass a directive "after unofficial meetings with the Council working group and the Commission" suggesting among many other things up to four years of imprisonment for file-sharing. Also, the directive included an introduction of private police forces to enforce the law (in the EU member countries that should adopt the directive as-is).

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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 Onyszkiewicz
Janusz Adam Onyszkiewicz (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjanuʂ ɔnɨʂˈkʲɛvʲitʂ], born 1937) is a Polish mathematician, alpinist, politician and was a vice-president of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee from January 2007 until mid-2009.
Janusz Onyszkiewicz was born on 18 December 1937 in Lwów (then Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine). He graduated in mathematics from Warsaw University. He became a famous mathematician and a alpinist in the 1970s. In the 1980s, he became the spokesman for the anti-communist Solidarity movement. He became popular among foreign journalists because of his fluent English. After the introduction of martial law in Poland on 13 December 1981, he was arrested and interned.
After the fall of communism in 1989, Onyszkiewicz became a member of the Polish Sejm. He served all subsequent terms from May 1989 until 2001. In the spring of 1990, Onyszkiewicz and Bronisław Komorowski became the first civilian vice-ministers of defence in the communist-dominated Ministry of Defence. Later, Onyszkiewicz was Minister of Defence twice, in the cabinets of Hanna Suchocka (1992–1993) and Jerzy Buzek (1997–2000).

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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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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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Jaroslav Zvěřina
Jaroslav Zvěřina

Czech pronunciation (help·info) (born on 18 December 1942 in Třebíč) is a Czech politician and former Member of the European Parliament with the Civic Democratic Party, part of the European Democrats and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs. He was candidate also in European Parliament election in 2009, but he was not reelected.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education and a vice-chair of the Delegation for relations with Japan.

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Jas Gawronski
Jas Gawronski (born on 7 February 1936) is an Italian journalist and politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament for North-West with the Forza Italia, Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Gawronski, who speaks Polish fluently, was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a Polish ambassador, Jan Gawronski, and Luciana Frassati Gawronska. He was correspondent for RAI (Italian State television) from New York, Paris, Moscow and Warsaw, and later hosted some political shows for Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset network. He also collaborated with the newspapers Il Giorno and La Stampa.
From 1981 to 1994 he was member of the European Parliament for the Italian Republican Party. He later switched to Berlusconi's Forza Italia, for which he was elected to the Italian Senate in 1996-1999.
Gawronski is a substitute for the Committee on International Trade, 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 the Korean Peninsula.

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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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Jean Marie Beaupuy
Jean-Marie Beaupuy (born 28 November 1943) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the east of France. He is a member of the Union for French Democracy, which is part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development.
He is also a substitute for the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, a member of the delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand, a member of the temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007–2013, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation and the delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community.

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Jean Spautz
Jean Spautz (born 9 September 1930 in Schifflange) is a politician in Luxembourg, and a Member of the European Parliament for the Christian Social People's Party, part of the European People's Party. 1930, Schifflange (L), Worker (ouvrier-lamineur) at ARBED-Belval, trade unionist and secretary of the worker's delegation.

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Jeffrey Titford
Jeffrey William Titford (born 24 October 1933, West Mersea, Essex) is a British politician who served as leader of the UK Independence Party from 2000 until 2002. He served again as interim leader in September to November 2010 following the resignation of Lord Pearson of Rannoch. He is also a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of England.
He had been at various times a member of the Conservative Party (for whom he was a local councillor), the New Britain Party and the Referendum Party. He was the most successful Referendum Party candidate in the 1997 general election, winning nearly 10 percent of the vote in Harwich. However, later that year he joined the UKIP.
In 1999, Titford became one of the first UKIP representatives to win a seat in the European Parliament. In 2000, UKIP's then leader, Michael Holmes, MEP, resigned amidst serious infighting. Jeffrey Titford narrowly won the ensuing leadership election, promising to reunite the party and restore its effectiveness as a campaigning organisation. This he largely succeeded in doing. The Guardian newspaper described him in 2001 as "an emollient man, a sort of Willie Whitelaw figure, and an ideal leader for such a fractious party". He led UKIP into the 2001 general election, in which it stood more than 420 candidates but failed to make any breakthroughs (although it did consolidate its position as the largest of the smaller parties). In October 2002, Titford stepped down as party leader to allow his successor time to lay out his strategy for the 2004 European Election. He also wanted to spend more time on political campaigns in the East of England, where he continued to be an active MEP. He was re-elected with a greatly increased share of the vote in the 2004 European elections. At this election, UKIP also returned a second MEP, Tom Wise.

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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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Jenny Willott
Jennifer Nancy Willott (b. 29 May 1974, Wimbledon, London) is a British politician and the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Cardiff Central since the 2005 general election and a junior whip since February 2012. She is the first woman and the first Liberal Democrat to represent her seat.
Willott has a history of work with charitable organisations such as OXFAM and a women's organisation in North India. She supports the movement of trade justice and has interests in human rights. She was a councillor in the London Borough of Merton from 1998 to 2000.
Willott was educated at Uppingham School and then studied Classics at St Mary's College, Durham University. She then attended the London School of Economics obtaining an MSc in Development Studies.
For a while after university she was chief researcher for Lembit Opik.
Willott's 2005 campaign was closely linked to specific local and national issues and her support was widespread across all wards.
In her maiden speech, Willott pledged to "make Cardiff proud" and celebrated the cultural diversity of her constituency. She declared her priorities in parliament would be local health services, tuition and top-up fees, and council tax. She supported Sir Menzies Campbell in the leadership election in 2006, and was later appointed Shadow Minister for Youth Affairs, Whip, and Deputy Chief Whip. In 2008 she was appointed as Shadow Minister for Justice and later Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. In January 2009 she was appointed Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. In December 2010 she resigned her post as parliamentary aide to Chris Huhne shortly before a vote to increase tuition fees as recommended by the Browne Review, in order to keep her pledge to constituents that she would vote against any increase in fees.

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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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Jim Allister
James Hugh "Jim" Allister, QC (born 2 April 1953) is a Northern Ireland Unionist politician and senior barrister. He is the leader of the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) political party, serving as MLA in the Northern Ireland Assembly, where he represents Antrim North.
He was formerly a member of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), for which he successfully stood for election in 2004 to the European Parliament (succeeding Ian Paisley). He continued as a member of the European Parliament following his resignation from the DUP, and his subsequent establishment of the TUV, but failed to retain his seat at the 2009 European parliamentary elections. In the European Parliament, although an avowed Euro-sceptic, he was also a strong supporter of the Common Agricultural Policy.^{[citation needed]}
Allister was born at Crossgar in County Down. After attending Regent House Grammar School in Newtownards, Allister graduated with a Bachelor of Law with Honours in Constitutional Law from Queen's University of Belfast. He was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland as a barrister in 1976, where he specialised in criminal law, and later called to the Senior Bar as a QC; he "took silk" in 2001.

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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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Jo Leinen
Jo Leinen (born April 6, 1948 in Bisten) is a Member of the European Parliament. He was elected on the SPD ticket and acts as a representative within the Party of European Socialists group. He is well known for his support for the European ideal.
He obtained a law degree in Germany in 1972 and a Certificate of Advanced European Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, in 1974. From 1977 on he has worked as a lawyer.
Leinen became publicly known as a spokesman of the Anti-nuclear movement Anti-AKW- and the Peace movement (1980), he was also active for the Bundesverband Bürgerinitiativen Umweltschutz (BBU). He received the nickname "container-Jo" during a demonstration, having climbed a container in order to coordinate protest actions by megaphone. Because of his participation at a demonstration against the Brokdorf Nuclear Power Plant Kernkraftwerk Brokdorf (1981), he was briefly charged with being "guide and headman" of a rioting 'mob', however the Federal Constitutional Court eventually dropped charges against him, ruling that there can not be a case of "guide and headman" during collective actions. (One of his defenders at the time was Gerhard Schröder, former Chancellor of the BRD.)

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Joachim Wuermeling
Joachim Wuermeling (born on 19 July 1960 in Münster) is since 19 December 2005, Secretary of State for the European Union in the German Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology.
From 1999 to 2005, he was a 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 Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
During his time in the Parliament, he was a substitute for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, a member of the Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Germany)

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Joan Calabuig
Joan Calabuig Rull (b. 24 May 1960, Valencia) is a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and the Spanish Maoist-Leninist Unionist Workers´ Party of Euskadi. Calabuig began his political career as a deputy in the local parliament, the Cortes Valencianas in 1983 serving until 1987. He also served as President of the Union of Young Socialists from 1985-1989. In 2004 he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament but stepped down in 2008 when elected to the Spanish national parliament as a deputy for Valencia province.

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Johan Van Hecke
Johan Jozef Marie Clara Van Hecke (born on 2 December 1954 in Ghent) is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Flanders with the Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade.
He is also a member of the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with South Africa.
He is married to Els de Temmerman, a journalist and activist who established Childsoldiers, an organization that works for the rehabilitation of child soldiers in Africa. He lives in Oosterzele.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Belgium)

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Johannes Lebech
Niels Johannes Lebech (born 12 September 1948) is a Danish politician and member of the European Parliament and former Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs for the Danish Social Liberal Party. Lebech was Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs from 21 December 2000 to 27 November 2001 in the Cabinet of Poul Nyrup Rasmussen IV and party chairman of the Danish Social Liberal Party from 1997 to 2000.
Lebech has been a member of the European Parliament since 29 November 2007, replacing Anders Samuelsen who was elected into the Danish parliament in the 2007 election for the New Alliance.

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Johannes Voggenhuber
Johannes Voggenhuber (born 5 June 1950 in Salzburg) is an Austrian politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Austrian Green Party, which is part of the European Greens. He is vice president of the parliament's Constitutional Affairs Commission.
From 1982 to 1987, he was member of the city council in Salzburg. From 1988 to 1992, he was federal spokesman for the Austrian Greens, and between 1990 and 1996, Member of the National Council of Austria (Nationalrat). From 1995 to 2009 he was Member of the European Parliament.
He is married and has two children.

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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 Bowis
John Crocket Bowis OBE (born 2 August 1945 in Brighton, East Sussex) is a former Conservative MP and MEP.
John Bowis was educated at Tonbridge School and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
He was first elected at the 1987 general election as Member of Parliament for Battersea. From 1993 to 1996 he was a health minister and from 1996 to 1997 he was a transport minister, before losing his parliamentary seat at the 1997 general election.
At the 1999 European Parliament election Bowis was elected to represent the London region. He was re-elected in 2004, and stood down at the 2009 election.
He has been National Secretary of the Federation of Conservative Students and worked at the Institute of Psychiatry.
He is an active member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
He has served as president of Gay Conservatives, an LGBT group within the Conservative Party.
He is the incumbent chairman of the Conservative Europe Group.
Personal life: Married to Caroline (née Taylor), one daughter (Imogen), two sons (Duncan and Alistair.

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John Purvis
John Purvis (born 6 July 1938 in St Andrews) is a British Conservative Party politician, who was a Member of the European Parliament for Scotland.
His first session in the European Parliament was from 1979 to 1984, for the Mid Scotland and Fife seat. He returned to the Parliament in 1999 on the Conservative Party's list for the new multi-seat Scotland constituency, and was re-elected in the 2004 European Parliament elections. He stood down in 2009.
In early 2007, Purvis found himself questioned by Conservative Party colleagues after it was claimed he had paid staff from his parliamentary office through a company of which he was a partner. This was part of a campaign launched by David Cameron in a bid to "clean up" Conservative Members' expense claims. However, Purvis and others maintained they did not know about new enforced EU Parliamentary rules prohibiting the channeling of parliamentary funds through any institution of which any MEP was a member or associate. Purvis made an enquiry to clarify whether or not he was in breach of regulations on conflict of interest in January 2007 and was completely exonerated by the European Parliament in August 2008. He received a full apology for the 18 months delay in answering his queries about procedures in making payments.

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John Sauven
John Sauven, (born in Ealing, west London, on 6 September 1954) is a trained economist and environmentalist and executive director of Greenpeace UK, a post he has held since 2008. Before that he was the director responsible for Greenpeace communications and specialized on solutions and working with business. Sauven starting working in a temporary position for Greenpeace in 1991 while waiting for a place at teacher training college. As director, Sauven helps to shape Greenpeace UK's commitment to defend the natural world and promote peace by investigating, exposing and confronting environmental abuse, and championing environmentally responsible solutions.
John Sauven was educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing and trained as an economist at University of Cardiff graduating as a BSc(Econ).
Sauven actively campaigns to ban underground nuclear testing in the Pacific and campaigns against the UK Trident programme, the United Kingdom's missile-based nuclear weapons programme.
He campaigns to protect the temperate rainforests on the west coast of Canada, helping to save the Great Bear Rainforest in northwest Canada from commercial logging. It was a highly organized campaign, mostly fought in the marketplace between logging companies, timber traders and their retail customers in Europe and North America. It also involved pushing the industry as a whole to accept Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified products that guaranteed legal and sustainable products, now widely recognised in both the timber and paper sectors as the mark of sustainability.

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Jolanta Dičkutė
Jolanta Dičkutė (born December 8, 1970 in Kaunas) is a Lithuanian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Labour Party; part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. She was studying at the Kaunas Medical University from 1989 to 2002 to earn PhD in public health.

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Jon Sopel
Jon Sopel (Jonathan B. Sopel, born 22 May 1959,London, England) is a television presenter and correspondent for the BBC. He was educated at a boys' grammar school in Finchley London, and then at Christ's College; he received an honours degree in politics from Southampton University.
Starting his broadcasting career in local radio at BBC Radio Solent, Sopel went on to become the chief political correspondent for BBC News 24 and later spent three years as the BBC's Paris correspondent. Stories he covered while he was in Paris included the French ban on the importation of British beef, the millennium celebrations in Paris, the oil spill in Brittany, the French presidency of the EU in 2000 and the Concorde crash in July 2000. Sopel was a freelance writer and broadcaster before joining the BBC in 1983 as a reporter and producer for Radio Solent. During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Sopel was the BBC's correspondent in Kuwait City.
In 2005 Sopel joined The Politics Show on BBC One replacing Jeremy Vine as the programme's main presenter. Broadcast every Sunday at noon, Sopel interviews key politicians and advisers, who in the past have included then Prime Minister Tony Blair, opposition leader David Cameron, Jack Straw, Gordon Brown and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The show will end in December 2011 and be replaced by Sunday Politics in January 2012, hosted by Andrew Neil.

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Jonas Sjöstedt
Jonas Sjöstedt (born 25 December 1964 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish politician and the current chairman of the Left Party since 2012. He is also a member of the Swedish parliament since 2010.
Opposed to Swedish membership of the European Union, he was elected Member of the European Parliament in 1995 for the Left Party as part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left, until he stood down in September 2006. He was elected as a member in the Parliament of Sweden in 2010, representing Västerbotten.
Sjöstedt became politically active as a union leader in the Volvo plant in the city of Umeå in the early 1990s. In his 2010 bid for Parliament, he was placed number one on the Left Party list (which generally receives one representative in this constituency) and was elected in a personal landslide of one third of all preference votes (a plurality above 8 % being sufficient for a one seat-party).
Living in New York City in from 2006 to 2010, he is also a member of the Socialist Party USA, during a period he also wrote for Swedish leftist publications, radio and print columns, as well as works of history and fiction. He is married to Swedish diplomat Ann Måwe, part of the Swedish delegation to the United Nations.

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Joop Post
Johannes (Joop) Post (born 5 July 1950, Velsen) is a Dutch business man and former politician.

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Joost Lagendijk
Joost Lagendijk (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjoːst ˈlaː.ɣə(n).ˌdɛi̯k]) (born 8 June 1957 in Roosendaal, Netherlands) is a Senior Advisor at the Istanbul Policy Center of Sabancı University. He is a former Green Left Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and served as the joint chairman of the Turkey-EU Parliamentarians delegation.
After finishing high school Lagendijk studied history at the University of Utrecht. He graduated in 1985. Before graduating Lagendijk worked as a book sales person at the publisher Van Gennep. After graduating Lagendijk became an adviser to the Pacifist Socialist Party (PSP) in the House of Representatives until 1987. He was elected vice-chairman and international secretary of the PSP for the period 1987-1991. During this period he oversaw the merger of the PSP with three other parties into the GreenLeft. He was one of the editors of the GreenLeft's party manifesto of 1991. In addition to international secretary of the PSP, he also was elected international secretary of the GreenLeft for the period 1989-1994. He also founded "De Helling" (The Slope) in 1987 a magazine closely linked to the GreenLeft, he was its publisher until 1990, and one of its writers until 1994.

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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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Josep Borrell
Josep Borrell Fontelles (La Pobla de Segur, 24 April 1947) is a Spanish politician. He was nominated President of the European University Institute on 12 December 2008, and assumed this position in January 2010. Borrell was President of the European Parliament from 20 July 2004 until 16 January 2007. Elected for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), he sits with the Party of European Socialists group, and is the leader of the Spanish delegation. As of January 2007 he is chair of the Committee on Development.
In the presidential vote, out of 700 MEPs he received an absolute majority with 388 votes at the first ballot. The other two candidates were the Polish Liberal Bronisław Geremek (208 votes) and the French communist Francis Wurtz (51 votes). As part of a deal with the conservative faction in the parliament, the EPP, he was succeeded as president of the parliament by the German conservative politician Hans-Gert Pöttering in the second part of this term, which is from 2007 to June 2009.

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Joseph Muscat
Joseph Muscat (born January 22, 1974) is a Maltese politician who has been leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives of Malta since 2008.
Muscat graduated Bachelor of Commerce in Management and Public Policy from the (University of Malta, 1995), Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Public Policy (University of Malta, 1996), Master of Arts in European Studies (University of Malta, 1997) and Ph.D in Management Research (University of Bristol, 2007).
Muscat worked as a journalist with the Party's radio station, Super One Radio (today One Radio). He later took on a similar role at Super One TV (today One TV).[1], becoming the station's assistant head of news in 1996. He was also editor of Party's online newspaper, maltastar.com [2] between 2001 and 2004.
Muscat was as a member of the youth section of the Labour Party, the Labour Youth Forum (Forum Żgħażagħ Laburisti) where he served as Financial Secretary (1994–97) and Acting Chairperson (1997). He later served as Education Secretary in the Central Administration of the Party (2001–2003) and Chairman of its Annual General Conference (November 2003). During the Labour government of 1996-98 he was a member of the National Commission for Fiscal Morality (1997–98). Between 1998 and 2003, Joseph Muscat campaigned actively against Malta's membership in the European Union.

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Josu Ortuondo Larrea
Josu Ortuondo Larrea (born on 13 February 1948 in Bilbao) is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Partido Nacionalista Vasco, Member of the Bureau of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Fisheries and the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. He is also a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Spain)

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Joëlle Milquet
Joëlle F.G.M. Milquet (born 17 February 1961 in Montignies-sur-Sambre, Charleroi) is a Belgian politician from the Humanist Democratic Centre (CDH).
She graduated in law at the Université Catholique de Louvain in 1984. In 1985, she graduated in European law at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA)
She started her career at the Bar in Brussels. From 1995 to 1999 she was a delegate to the Belgian Senate. She has been the president of the CDH party since, and played a prominent role in the 2007-2008 formation negotiations for the Leterme I Government. During the government formation negotiations she was given the nickname "Madame Non" (Mrs No) by the Flemish media for her fierce resistance against the constitutional reform that would give more autonomy to the different communities of Belgium.
She was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Employment and Equal Opportunities in the Leterme I Government, which took office on 20 March 2008.
When the Leterme I government failed, Joëlle Milquet retained her seat on the Van Rompuy I Government, then on the Leterme II Government.

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Jules Maaten
Jules Maaten (born 17 April 1961 in Nieuwer-Amstel) is a Dutch politician and since October 2010 country director for the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) in the Philippines, supporting projects for good governance, human rights, free trade and the "It's All About Freedom"-project that includes an annual Freedom Run against corruption.
From 1999-2009 he was a Member of the European Parliament with the Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie, Member of the Bureau of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He was a substitute for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. He was also a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Jules Maaten was elected as a member of the European Parliament in the European Elections of 10 June 1999, on the list of the Dutch Liberal Party VVD and he joined the Liberal Group in the Parliament. He currently sits on the Committee for the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Affairs and, since 2002, on the Foreign Affairs Committee. During the first part of the legislature he sat on Economic and Monetary Committee. He has done legislative work on such issues as the Tobacco Directive, the introduction of the euro currency, water quality, AIDS, completion of the EU's internal market in alcohol products, international banking fees, the European Central Bank, safety of children's toys, car exhaust emissions, food safety, and genetically modified organisms and human genetics, homeopathic and pharmaceutical products, Dutch prisoners in Thailand.

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Justine Greening
Justine Greening (born 30 April 1969) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Putney since 2005. She was appointed Economic Secretary to the Treasury in May 2010, and became Secretary of State for Transport on 14 October 2011. Her promotion followed the appointment of her predecessor, Philip Hammond, as Secretary of State for Defence following the resignation of Liam Fox.
Greening was born in Rotherham, where she attended Oakwood Comprehensive School. She attended the University of Southampton, where she studied Economics, and the London Business School (MBA). Prior to entering Parliament, she trained and qualified as an accountant, before working as an accountant/finance manager for, amongst others, Price Waterhouse Coopers, GlaxoSmithKline and Centrica.
Greening contested the constituency of Ealing, Acton & Shepherd's Bush in 2001, finishing second with a reduced share of the vote for the Conservatives. She won the seat of Putney in the 2005 General Election on 5 May 2005. Greening won 15,497 votes (42.4% of the vote) giving her a majority of 1,766 (4.8%). She unseated Tony Colman, who had held the seat for Labour since defeating David Mellor in 1997. As the first Conservative elected on the evening of the election, her victory was the first real sign that the Conservative Party was to achieve a degree of success and begin to recover from landslide defeats of the 1997 and 2001 General Elections. Michael Howard, who had visited Putney to give a speech on his first day as Conservative Leader, returned there on the morning after the Election to congratulate Putney Conservatives and give the speech in which he announced his intention to step down.

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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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Ján Hudacký
Ján Hudacký (born on 24 February 1959 in Vranov nad Topľou) 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 Industry, Research and Energy.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, a member of the Delegation for relations with Mercosur 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 (Slovakia)

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Józef Pinior
Józef Pinior (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjuzɛf ˈpiɲɔr]; born on 9 March 1955 in Rybnik) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the DS & OP with the Socjaldemokracja Polska, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Development.
Pinior is a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs and a member of the Delegation for relations with the United States.
Graduate of the Faculty of Law at Wrocław University (1978), he continued his education in the Postgraduate College of Ethics and History of Religions at Wrocław University (1980) and the School of the Social Science at the Polish Academy of Science Institute of Philosophy and Sociology in Warsaw (1996). He was a grant holder at the New School University in New York.
Józef Pinior often appears in radio and TV, gives interviews. He is an author of many texts and commentaries. He also regularly chairs programs on European Union.
In 1980 - 1989 Pinior was a trade unionist of the NSZZ "Solidarność". After the imposing of the Martial Law in Poland he became a leader of the "Solidarność" working in the underground. A leader of "RKS Solidarność" of Lower Silesia and a member of the underground national management of the union – Provisional Co-ordination Committee of the NSZZ "Solidarność"- and since 1986 public Provisional Board of the NSZZ "Solidarność".

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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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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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Karel De Gucht
Karel Lodewijk Georgette Emmerence De Gucht (born 27 January 1954) is a Belgian politician who has been the European Commissioner for Trade since 2010. Previously, he was Belgium's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2004 to 2009 and then European Commissioner for Development & Humanitarian Aid from 2009 to 2010.
De Gucht was also chairman of the Flemish Liberals and Democrats (VLD), a Belgian political party, for a time. In January 2004 he was forced to step down as chairman and was temporarily replaced until after the elections of 4 June by Dirk Sterckx. The reason for his resignation was a conflict between Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and him about a proposal to give non-citizen immigrants the right to vote in municipal elections, which De Gucht opposed. The conflict severely damaged the party's reputation, as reflected in the 2004 Belgian regional elections results.
Born at Overmere, De Gucht was elected to the Federal Parliament in the general elections on 18 May 2003. He was a member of the Flemish Parliament 1999–2003 and a member of the European Parliament 1995–1999.

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Karin Jöns
Karin Jöns (born on 29 April 1953 in Kiel) 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 Employment and Social Affairs.
She is a substitute for the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. She is also 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.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Germany)

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Karin Resetarits
Karin Resetarits (born 15 December 1961) is an Austrian journalist and politician. She was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 until 2009.
Karin Resetarits was born in Vienna. From 1978 to 1979 she participated in AFS youth exchange and attended Huntington High School in Huntington on Long Island, Suffolk County, New York for one year. In 1980 she finished gymnasium school in Austria with honors.
Karin Resetarits was married to Peter Resetarits, prominent ORF host and brother of singer Willi Resetarits and actor Lukas Resetarits. She has four children.
She started her journalistic career at the National Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) as editor in the culture department, and became host of the news show Zeit im Bild and the culture show Treffpunkt Kultur. From 2003 to 2004 she worked as host of a daily radio talk show for the private Austrian radio station Krone Hitradio.
Her 2002 book entitled Ja, ich koche gerne! (Yes, I like to cook!) contains a number of recipes, but with 20 short stories about her life and family turns out to be a rather autobiographical work.

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Karin Scheele
Karin Scheele (born July 22, 1968 in Baden bei Wien) is an Austrian social democratic politician and was a member of the European Parliament from 1999 till 2008. In December 2008, she entered the regional government of her native Land of Lower Austria to become secretary in charge of Health and Social Affairs.
After graduating from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration she held various functions in the Austrian Socialist Youth Movement, in the International Union of Socialist Youth and in the Austrian Social Democratic Party.
She has been a member of the Austrian Western Sahara society since 1994 and was a member of the Western Sahara working group of the European Parliament.

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Karl von Wogau
Karl von Wogau was born 18 July 1941 in Freiburg and is a German politician. Karl von Wogau studied Law and Economics in Freiburg, Munich and Bonn and holds a Doctorate on the constitutional history of Further Austria (German: Vorderösterreich).
Karl von Wogau is a member of the German conservative party Christian Democratic Union and the European People's Party. From 1979 to 2008 he served as an elected Member of the European Parliament for the Land (federal state) Baden-Württemberg and was the chairman of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs from 1994 to 1999. From 2004-2009, he was chairman of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
In 2009, Wogau was defeated in his bid for a seventh term in the European Parliament. He is now Secretary General of the European Security Foundation.

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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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Katalin Lévai
Katalin Lévai (born May 22, 1954 in Budapest) is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Hungarian Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
Lévai is a maverick and social-liberal politician who is willing to use bombastic statements to draw attention to the social and equality issues. In 2003 was named the first minister without portfolio for equal opportunities, and was termed the 'Conscience of the Government'. In 2005 she became a Presidential candidate in Hungary. Due to 'inside issues' the left government in place managed to vote a right wing president, thus her aspirations were unsuccessful.
She is one of the most fervent supporters of same-sex marriage in Hungary. She also works to mainstream gender equality issues at all levels of decision making, for removing obstacles – physical and mental as well – that hinder disabled people in accessing social services as equal citizens, and for effective measures ensuring the social integration of Roma people in Hungary and in the region.

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Katerina Batzeli
Aikaterini Batzeli (Greek: Αικατερίνη Μπατζελή) (b. 25 May 1958, Athens) is a Greek politician, Member of Parliament in Greece and a former Member of the European Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, part of the Party of European Socialists. She served as the Minister for Rural Development and Food from 7 October 2009 to 7 September 2010, as part of the First Cabinet of George Papandreou.
As MEP, Batzeli advocated strongly for the retention of the European Union's subsidy program for vineyards One of her last acts as MEP, she co-sponsored the 2009 declaration in support of the Special Olympics

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Kathalijne Buitenweg
Kathalijne Maria Buitenweg (born 27 March 1970 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch politician. Between 1999 and 2009, she was a Member of the European Parliament for the Green Left, which is part of the European Greens, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
From 1985 to 1986 she was a member of the board of the youth organisation of the environmental organisation NIVON (Dutch Institute for People's Education and Nature Friends). After completing her VWO in 1989, Buitenweg studied History at the University of Amsterdam, where she specialised in European Studies and American Studies, graduating in 1994. In 1991 she became a member of the executive of the European Coordination Bureau of International Youth Organisations, and was elected Vice-Chairperson in 1993, which she remained until 1995. She also was a trainee at the European Commission from 1994 to 1995, and a member of the steering committee of European Youth Campaign against racism, xenophobia, antisemitism and intolerance, of the Council of Europe.

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Kathy Sinnott
Kathy Sinnott (born 29 September 1950) is a disability rights campaigner and a former politician. She represented the South constituency in Ireland in the European Parliament from 2004 to 2009.
She is secretary of the Hope Project, a charity that helps people with disabilities. Sinnott founded the Hope Project in 1996. She is mother of 9 children (3 daughters and 6 sons). In 2000, she took a court case to force the Irish government to provide a primary school education for her son Jamie who has multiple disabilities. In 2001, the High Court ruled that every person in Ireland had a constitutional right to primary education and it was based on need, not age. The government subsequently successfully appealed the case to the Supreme Court.
She was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for the South constituency at the 2004 European Parliament election. She campaigned on disability and education issues, euroscepticism and social conservatism.
She had stood previously at the 2002 general election for a seat in the Cork South–Central constituency, and narrowly losing the fifth and final seat to John Dennehy of Fianna Fáil. In the election count, she was initially ahead by 3 votes but lost by 6 votes after two recounts. She was an unsuccessful candidate at the subsequent Senate election in 2002 she had been nominated by 4 sitting Independent TDs , losing out by 3 votes to a Fine Geal Candidate. She required a high court judgement to allow her to run for the seanad on the Labour Panel.

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Katrin Saks
Katrin Saks (born November 29, 1956 in Tallinn) is an Estonian politician. She is the vice-chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDE), Estonia, and worked in Brussels as a Member of the European Parliament elected in October 2006, when she replaced Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who was elected President of Estonia. She lost her seat in 2009.
rapporteur on Finno-Ugric peoples in the Russian Federation (2003–2006)

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Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer, QC, (born 2 September 1962, Southwark) is a barrister in England and Wales. He became the fourteenth Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the sixth head of the Crown Prosecution Service on 1 November 2008. Until then, although he had prosecuted cases for the CPS during his career, he was mainly known as a defence lawyer, with special expertise in the law of human rights.
Starmer was the second of four children. He was named after former Labour Party leader and socialist Keir Hardie. He was educated at Reigate Grammar School. He gained a 1st class LLB from the University of Leeds in 1985 and a BCL from St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1986.
He became a barrister in 1987, became a Queen's Counsel in 2002, and was joint head of his chambers, Doughty Street Chambers.
Acting in several appeals to the Privy Council for defendants who had been sentenced to death in Caribbean countries, his legal submissions led to the abolition of the mandatory death penalty in those countries. He worked with lawyers in African countries towards the same end. In 2005 he persuaded the House of Lords that evidence obtained by torture should be inadmissible in court. In 2007 he represented two alleged terrorists in a case in the House of Lords in which he successfully challenged their control orders on human rights grounds. He has also acted in 15 other cases in the House of Lords since 1999, including two cases about the conduct of British soldiers in Iraq, and representing David Shayler in his appeal against conviction for breaching the Official Secrets Act 1989. He gave free legal advice to the defendants in the "McLibel" case, and was interviewed twice — ten years apart — in Franny Armstrong's 2005 documentary, McLibel.

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Kenneth Clarke
Kenneth Harry "Ken" Clarke, PC, QC, MP (born 2 July 1940) is a British Conservative politician, currently Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. He was first elected to Parliament in 1970; and appointed a minister in Edward Heath's government in 1972. One of Britain's best-known politicians, his past government roles include Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer. Since 1997 he has been President of the Tory Reform Group.
Clarke was a minister throughout the 18 years of successive Conservative governments from 1979 to 1997, serving in the cabinets of both Margaret Thatcher and John Major. After the Conservative defeat in the 1997 general election Clarke became a backbencher. He has contested the Conservative Party leadership three times—in 1997, 2001 and 2005—and was defeated each time. Although he is considered popular with the general public, his pro-European integration views conflict with the modern Conservative Party's EU-sceptic stance. Notably, he is President of the Conservative Europe Group and Vice-President of the European Movement UK. Despite this conflict, and his involvement with the tobacco industry, Conservative leader David Cameron returned Clarke to the Shadow Cabinet in March 2009 as Shadow Business Secretary. When Cameron became Prime Minister in May 2010 he appointed Clarke Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice.

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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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Klaus Hänsch
Klaus Hänsch (born 15 December 1938 in Sprottau) is a German Politician. He is a Member of the European Parliament representing the SPD, and sits with the Party of European Socialists group.
He has been Vice-chairman of the PES group since 1989, except during his service as President of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1997.

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Koenraad Dillen
Koenraad Francine Gaston "Koen" Dillen (born on 6 November 1964 in Mortsel) is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Flanders with the Vlaams Belang, sitting in the Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty group in the European Parliament. He is the son of Karel Dillen, founder of the Vlaams Blok.
He sits on its Committee on Development, and is a substitute for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and a member of the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Belgium)

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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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Kurt Joachim Lauk
Prof. Dr. Kurt Joachim Lauk (b. 19 May 1946, Stuttgart 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. He is President of the Economical Council of the Christian Democratic Party.

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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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Kyösti Virrankoski
Kyösti Tapio Virrankoski (born on 4 April 1944 in Kauhava) is a Finnish politician and former Member of the European Parliament with the Centre Party of Finland, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and its Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on Budgets.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Finland)

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Lapo Pistelli
Lapo Pistelli (born on 20 June 1964 in Florence) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Central Italy, first elected in the 2004 European Parliament election with the Democratic Party. He is the Vice-Chairman of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, chairman of the delegation for relations with South Africa, a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Committee on Constitutional Affairs and the Delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)

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Lars Wohlin
Lars Magnus Wohlin (born 24 June 1933 in Stockholm) is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament. He was elected into the European Parliament as a member of the June List, but later joined Kristdemokraterna.
He sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. He is also a substitute for the Committee on Budgets, a member of the temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007–2013, and a member of the delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

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Lasse Lehtinen
Lasse Lehtinen (born 23 January 1947 in Kotka) is a Finnish politician, former Member of the Finnish Parliament and former Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
He was also a substitute for the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, vice-chair of the delegation for relations with Canada, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation.
He hosted the Finnish version of the television quiz "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" (Haluatko miljonääriksi?) for years before becoming an MEP.
He was awarded the Freedom of the City of London on 21 September 2007. See: City of London news release.

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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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Leopold Rutowicz
Leopold Józef Rutowicz (born on 18 October 1932 in Kraków) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the MP & SW with the Self-Defense, and is therefore a Non-Inscrit in the European Parliament.
Rutowicz sits on its Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, and is a substitute for the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and a member of the Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)

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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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Liam Fox
Liam Fox (born 22 September 1961) is a British Conservative politician, Member of Parliament for North Somerset, and former Secretary of State for Defence.
Fox studied medicine at the University of Glasgow and worked as a GP and Civilian Army Medical Officer before being elected as an MP in 1992. After holding several ministerial roles in John Major's Conservative government, Fox served as Constitutional Affairs Spokesman (1998–1999), Shadow Health Secretary (1999–2003), Conservative Party chairman (2003–05), Shadow Foreign Secretary (2005) and Shadow Defence Secretary (2005–10).
Fox stood unsuccessfully in the 2005 Conservative leadership election. In 2010, he was appointed Secretary of State for Defence, a position from which he resigned on 14 October 2011 over allegations that he had given a close friend, lobbyist Adam Werritty, access to the Ministry of Defence and allowed him to join official trips overseas.
Fox was born and raised in East Kilbride, Scotland and brought up in a council house that his parents later bought. Along with his brother and two sisters he was educated in the state sector; he attended St. Bride's High School. He studied medicine at the University of Glasgow Medical School, graduating with MB ChB degrees in 1983. Fox is a general practitioner (he was a GP in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, before his election to Parliament), a former Civilian Army Medical Officer and Divisional Surgeon with St John Ambulance. He is a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners.

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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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Lilli Gruber
Dietlinde "Lilli" Gruber (born 19 April 1957) is an Italian journalist and television personality from South Tyrol.
Currently a talk show host for Italian private television channel La7, Gruber also served as Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to September 2008 under the Olive Tree ticket.
Gruber was born in Bolzano and is an Italian and German native speaker. She graduated in English Language and Literature at the University of Venice. In 1987 she became the first female anchor to present the TG1, Italy's most popular television news program on Rai Uno. In 1988, she became international political correspondent for RAI, covering events such as the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the war in the former Yugoslavia, the situation in the United States after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, and the Iraqi war.
In April 2004 Gruber resigned from her position at RAI in protest against the influence on state controlled media by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. She attacked his "unresolved conflict of interest", and considered that RAI had abandoned its tradition of pluralism in order to support the government's views. Gruber has also worked for the Italian daily newspaper La Stampa, and for "Io Donna", the women's magazine of Italy's leading newspaper Corriere della Sera, and for magazines TV Sorrisi e Canzoni and Anna.

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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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Lissy Gröner
Lissy Gröner (born on 31 May 1954 in Langenfeld) is a German politician and since 1989 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 Culture and Education and its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
She is a substitute for the Committee on Budgets, substitute for the Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).
Gröner is lesbian and is married to Sabine Gillessen. The couple married in Belgium in September 2005, with Gröner announcing, "There is no discrimination of same-sex couples in Belgium by law. And this is the signal we want to give to the people in Europe, to send the message out: it's possible to honor the love of same-sex people by law".

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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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Ljudmila Novak
Ljudmila Novak (born 1 August 1959) is a Slovenian politician and former Member of the European Parliament. She is the president of the New Slovenia – Christian People's Party. Since 21 December 2011, she has been the vice-president of the Slovenian National Assembly.
She was born in Maribor. She studied Slovene and German language at the University of Maribor. Between 1982 and 2001, she worked as a school teacher, first in Murska Sobota, and then in Višnja Gora and finally in Moravče. She entered politics in 2001, when she was elected mayor of Moravče. In 2002, she became member of the Executive Council of New Slovenia party. In 2004, she was elected to the European Parliament. As member of the European People's Party, she was named member of the Committee on Culture and Education. She is also a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development, a member of the delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Mercosur.
After the Slovenian parliamentary election of 2008, when New Slovenia failed to gain any seats in the National Assembly (NA), the lower house of the Slovenian parliament, Ljudmila Novak was elected president of the party. At the 2011 Slovenian parliamentary election, the party won 4 seats in the NA.

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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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Lord Privy Seal
The Lord Privy Seal (or, more formally, the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal) is the fifth of the Great Officers of State in the United Kingdom, ranking beneath the Lord President of the Council and above the Lord Great Chamberlain. The office is one of the traditional sinecure offices of state. Originally, its holder was responsible for the monarch's personal (privy) seal (as opposed to the Great Seal of the Realm, which is in the care of the Lord Chancellor). Today, the holder of the office is invariably given a seat in the Cabinet.
Though one of the oldest offices in government anywhere, it has no particular function today; thus the office has generally been used as a kind of Minister without Portfolio. Since the premiership of Clement Attlee, the position of Lord Privy Seal has frequently been combined with that of Leader of the House of Lords or Leader of the House of Commons.
During the reign of Edward I, prior to 1307, the Privy Seal was kept by the Keeper of the Wardrobe.

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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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Luca Romagnoli
Luca Romagnoli (born on 12 September 1961 in Rome) is an Italian politician and former Member of the European Parliament for Southern Italy with the neo-fascist party Fiamma Tricolore, being a Non-Inscrit (for a short time, ITS group member) in the European Parliament.
He sat on its Committee on Transport and Tourism, and was a substitute for the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and a member of the Delegation for relations with Mercosur.
Romagnoli is a mild holocaust denier and claimed in an interview that he has "no elements to say whether gas chambers of extermination camps existed or not". However, he later claimed that he was simply being misunderstood in an interview given to the journalist Enrico Mentana, clarifying his stance on the Holocaust.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)
^ Article referring to an interview to the Italian edition of Sky TV.

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Luciana Sbarbati
Luciana Sbarbati (born on 10 May 1946 in Rome) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Central with the Movimento Repubblicani Europei, Member of the Bureau of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and its Committee on Petitions.
She is a substitute for the Committee on Budgets and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)

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Luigi Cocilovo
Luigi Cocilovo (born October 7, 1947 in Palermo) is an Italian Member of the European Parliament and a University researcher in Law. He was elected on the Olive Tree ticket and sits with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group.
On July 20, 2004 he was elected one of the 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament.

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Luisa Morgantini
Luisa Morgantini (born November 5, 1940 in Villadossola) is an Italian Member of the European Parliament. She was elected as independent with the Communist Refoundation Party ticket and sits with the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group.
She is a leading member of the Italian peace movement and was one of the founders of the Italian branch of the Women in Black anti-war organisation.
In 1995 she received the 'Women in Black' Peace Prize from the eponymous Israeli left-wing anti-war organisation.
On 4 October 2008 she has been awarded with the 2008 Peacemaker Award by the Rebuilding Alliance, an US-based non-profit organization, committed to the respect of human rights and international law and in rebuilding homes and communities in regions of war and occupation. <http://www.rebuildingalliance.org/>
Luisa Morgantini is Member of the European Parliament in the European United Left–Nordic Green Left - elected the first time in 1999 and again in 2004.
During the last term, she was chairman of the Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council, member of the Committee on Development and Cooperation, of the Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation; substitute member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, the Committee on International Trade and of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.

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Lutz Goepel
Lutz Goepel (born 10 October 1942 in Gotha, Thuringia) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Saxony.
He is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party. In 1990 he was elected as a member of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, representing the Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany (DBD), which later merged with the CDU.

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Luís Queiró
Luís Queiró (born July 2, 1953 in Coimbra) 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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Lydia Schenardi
Lydia Schenardi (born 27 June 1952 in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-east of France. She is a member of the Front National, and is therefore a Non-Inscrit in the European Parliament. She sits on its Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
She is also a substitute for the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and a member of the delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union.
She was the FN candidate for mayor of Nice in the French municipal elections, 2008.

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Lydie Polfer
Lydie Polfer (born 22 November 1952 in Luxembourg City) is a Luxembourgian politician that has served in a number of capacities, including Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Mayor of Luxembourg City, as well as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and a member of the Chamber of Deputies. She is a member of the Democratic Party (DP).
Polfer succeeded her father, Camille Polfer, as mayor of Luxembourg City, when he was forced to resign from the position due to poor health after only two years. She was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 1984 election, representing Centre. She was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs in the government of Jean-Claude Juncker from August 1999 until July 2004.
In the 2004 legislative election, Polfer was elected, once again, top of the DP list, coming second overall to Luc Frieden. However, the DP polled poorly overall, losing five seats nationwide, and, with them, their position as the second-largest party and kingmakers. As such, the CSV entered instead into a coalition with the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP), ejecting Polfer from the government. The European Parliament election held on the same day also saw the DP lose votes, as well as fall to fourth, behind the Greens for the first time. Nonetheless, Polfer still came top of the DP list (and third overall), and took her place in the European Parliament, where the DP sit in the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.

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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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Maciej Giertych
Maciej Marian Giertych (['mat͡ɕej ˈmarjan ˈɡʲɛrtɨx], born March 24, 1936 in Warsaw) is a Polish dendrologist and social conservative politician of the League of Polish Families (LPR). He favours state intervention in the economy. He was a member of the Sejm (between 2001 and 2004) and a Polish member of the European Parliament (from 2004 to 2009). He was a candidate in the 2005 Polish presidential elections, but withdrew from the race because of low vote results (circa 3%).
Maciej Giertych was born March 24, 1936 in Warsaw, the son of notable politician of the nationalist National Democracy movement Jędrzej Giertych. In late 1945 his family left Poland for post-war Germany's British zone and finally settled in the United Kingdom. In 1954 Giertych passed his final school exams and entered Oxford University, where he founded the Polish Students Club during his studies. He received the BA and MA in forestry. Between 1958 and 1962 he studied at the University of Toronto, where he received his PhD for studies on tree physiology.^{[Need quotation to verify]}

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Magda Kósáné Kovács
Magda Kósáné Kovács (born November 4, 1940 in Budapest) is a Hungarian politician and a former Member of the European Parliament for the Hungarian Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
She left the Socialist Party and joined Democratic Coalition founded and led by Ferenc Gyurcsány in 2011 and became head of the new party's ethical committee.

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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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Manolis Mavrommatis
Manolis Mavrommatis (born August 15, 1941 ) is a Greek politician and former Member of the European Parliament for New Democracy, belonging to the European People's Party.
Born in Platanias, Crete, he studied sociology in the University of Rome, as well as Cinema, Theater and Radio techniques. He started off as a director for short-films and documentaries and moved on directing theatrical acts for the radio as well as for the stage. In 1975 he started working as a sports journalist, covering all major sports events (Olympic Games, FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Championship etc.) up until his election to the European Parliament in 2004.
He is married to actress Rena Venieri and has a son, Michael Mavrommatis.

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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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Marcello Vernola
Marcello Vernola (born on 4 March 1961 in Bari) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Southern with the Forza Italia, part 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 Foreign Affairs, substitute for the Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)

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Marcin Libicki
Marcin Libicki (born February 2, 1939 in Poznań) is a Polish politician, former member of the Polish parliament (Sejm), elected for the Poznań constituency. He is one of the leaders of the Law and Justice party.
On 13 June 2004 he was elected member of the European Parliament, and when the Parliament convened he was elected Chair of its Committee on Petitions.
He is a member of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, also the alumnus of Adam Mickiewicz High School in Poznań. He is the father of Jan Filip Libicki, a member of Sejm.

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Marco Cappato
Marco Cappato (b. 25 May 1971 in Milan, Italy) is an Italian politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament from Italy until 2009. He represented the Lista Emma Bonino within the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe parliamentary group. He was Member of the Foreign Affairs, the Civil Liberties and Human Rights Committees. He also served as a Vice-President of the European Parliament Delegation for the Relations with the Mashrek Countries. He was the European Parliament Rapporteur on the human rights in the world for 2007.
Born in Milan, he has a degree in economics from the Bocconi University in Italy. He was the general advisor of the "Movement of the Pannella Club" from 1994 to 1995, when he was appointed national secretary of the Movement and of the General Council of the Transnational Radical Party.
After a brief experience in the field of human resource management at the Galbani de Melzo Institute, he started to collaborate with the radical group within the European Parliament in 1995. In 1996 he was appointed treasurer of the CORA (Radical Antiprohibitionist coordinator). In 1997 and 1998 he was the Transnational Radical Party representative at the United Nations in New York, where he became particularly involved in the campaign for the implementation of the International Criminal Court. From February 1999 to July 2001 he was Coordinator to the "Radical Committee for the liberal revolution of the United States of Europe". From June 1999 to July 2004 he was a MEP representing the Lista Bonino.

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Marco Pannella
Marco Pannella (born Giacinto Pannella on May 2, 1930) is an Italian politician.
He is the historic leader of the Radical Party (the first expression of the Radicals in post-World War II Italy was the Italian Radical Party, founded in 1955). Between 1979 and 2009, he was a Member of the European Parliament, where he sat as a full member in the Committee on Legal Affairs, in the Committee on Budgetary Control and in the Delegation for relations with Israel.
Pannella was born at Teramo (Abruzzi) from an Italian father and a Swiss mother on May 2, 1930. He is member of the European Parliament and President of the Nonviolent Radical Party.
At the age of 20, Marco Pannella was a national representative at the university level for the Italian Liberal Party (PLI), member of the student association Unione goliardica Italiana (UGI) and at 23 he was President of the Unione nazionale degli studenti, UNURI (National Union of Students).
At 24 he promoted the foundation of the Partito Radicale (hereinafter the “Radical Party”). From 1960 to 1963, he was in Paris as a correspondent of the Italian newspaper Il Giorno. In his political career, Mr. Pannella co-founded a series of organizations such as the Italian league for divorce, the League for objection of conscience, the League for the abrogation of the Agreement between the Catholic Church and the Italian State (Concordato), the Centre of legal initiative “Pietro Calamandrei”, as well as the Italian Association for Demographic Education (AIED). He has been at the forefront of the promotion important reforms regarding narcotics, facing incarceration on various occasions for his civil disobediences. He played a prominent role in the pro-choice movement in Italy that led to the legalization of abortion in the early 1980s. He also promoted actions to grant electoral rights for Italians aged 18.

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Marco Rizzo
Marco Rizzo (born on 12 October 1959 in Turin) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the North-West with the Party of Italian Communists, Member of the Bureau of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs and a vice-chair of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America.
A graduate in political science in 1985, he was a lecturer in vocational guidance (1985-1994).
In 1986-1991, he was a member of the Turin Province party executive of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), and joined the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) in 1991, serving as its representative to the Council of the Turin Province until 1995. Between 1994 and 2004, he served in the Chamber of Deputies of Italy. In 1995-1998, he was coordinator of the National Secretariat of the PRC, then left to become a founding member and Italian Parliament group-leader of the Party of Italian Communists (until 2004).

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Marek Czarnecki
Marek Aleksander Czarnecki (born on 22 March 1959 in Chorzów) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Masovian Voivodship with the Self-Defense, and is therefore a Non-Inscrit in the European Parliament.
Czarnecki sits on its Committee on Legal Affairs, and is a substitute for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and a member of the Delegation for relations with Israel. Chairman of the Group on South Asia - "South Asia Peace Forum" in the European Parliament.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)

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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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Margie Sudre
Margie Sudre (born 17 October 1943 in Vinh, Vietnam) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for France's "Outre-mer".
Before her election to the European Parliament, she held several political mandates, both local and national: chairwoman of the Réunion Island regional Council (1993–1998, member since 1998), Secretary of State for the French-Speaking World (1995–1997). She worked to make French the second official language of the Atlanta Olympic Games.
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 Fisheries and its Committee on Regional Development.
She is also a member of the delegation to the EU–Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, a substitute for the delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and, as Head of the French UMP MEP delegation, a member of the EPP-ED bureau.

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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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Maria Berger
Maria Berger (born 19 August 1956 in Perg, Upper Austria) is an Austrian politician and currently Judge at the European Court of Justice. She was a member of the European Parliament and a Minister of Justice.
Berger is a member of the European Parliament since 1996, interrupted by her tenure as Austrian Justice Minister (2007 – 2008). She is also the leader of the Social Democratic Party delegation which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sited on the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs She was also 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 substitute for the delegation for relations with Canada.
In January 2007 she was appointed as Justice Minister in the government of Alfred Gusenbauer as Chancellor of Austria. After leaving office in December 2008 she returned to serve in the European Parliament till July 2009. Since October 2009 she is a member of the European Court of Justice.

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Maria Martens
Maria Martens (born 8 January 1955 in Doetinchem, Gelderland) is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal, a member of the bureau of the EPP-ED group in the European Parliament, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Development.
She is also a substitute for the Subcommittee on Security and Defence and a member of the delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

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Maria Matsouka
Maria Matsouka (born 8 January 1974) is a Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement; part of the Party of European Socialists.

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Maria Petre
Maria Petre (born August 15, 1951) is a Romanian politician and economist, member of the Democratic Party (PD), part of the European People's Party–European Democrats. A representative to the Senate for Ialomiţa County, she became a Member of the European Parliament on January 1, 2007 with the Romania's accession to the European Union.
Born in Grindu, Petre is a graduate of the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest. She later specialized in public administration and commerce, and took additional training courses in the United Kingdom, United States and Denmark. In 1975-1983, she worked as an economist for the Ialomiţa County Council, moving on to a similar position for a construction enterprise in the area. in 1986, she became a director at the County Council, in which capacity she served until after the Romanian Revolution of 1989.
In 1990, Petre became a director for the Ialomiţa Prefecture representing the National Salvation Front (FSN), and its vice president in 1992-2000. She followed the FSN wing led by Petre Roman into their split, and became a member of the newly formed PD. She was the PD's vice president for Ialomiţa (1992), becoming the branch's secretary in 2001, and its president in 2003. She was first elected to the Senate during the 2000 suffrage, being reelected in the 2004 suffrage. Petre was a secretary of the Senate Committee for Public Administration and Territorial Improvement, and member of the Committee for Equal Opportunities for Men and Women.

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Maria Robsahm
Maria Robsahm, before June 2008 Maria Carlshamre, (born Maria Kelldén 3 February 1957 in Enköping), is a Swedish politician and was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2009. She was elected as a member of the Liberal People's Party, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. However, on March 1, 2006, she defected to the Feminist Initiative.
She sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality. She was also a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.
In August 2005 Robsahm was convicted of accounting irregularities following the bankruptcy in a company owned jointly by Robsahm (then Carlhamre) and her former husband. She was given a suspended sentence. As a result of the conviction, the leadership of the Liberal People's Party called on her to resign from her seat in the European Parliament. Instead, she left the party and joined Feminist Initiative. This move received some Swedish media attention for the fact that one of the two co-leaders of the Feminist Initiative, Gudrun Schyman, had been convicted on another finance-related crime, tax evasion.

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Marialiese Flemming
Marialiese Flemming (b. 16 December 1933 in Wiener Neustadt, Austria) is an Austrian Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the European People's Party (Austrian People's Party domestically) and was first elected during the 1996 European Parliament election for Austria. Her European Parliamentary career ended on 19 July 2004.
Since 1999, Flemming has served on various European Union-related delegations, committees and groups, including the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy, and sporadically as a substitute on the Committee on Women's Rights (a precursor to the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality which exists today) and the Committee on Research, Technological Development and Energy.
Flemming also held views on human cloning in line with that of the other Christian Democrat Members of the European Parliament. In 2003, she tabled more than 80 amendments in the European Parliament to further restrict cloning research in European Union member states, suggesting the use of adult stem cells for use in research as opposed to embryos. Flemming was reported by The Telegraph as saying that the creation of embryos for the purpose of medical treatment is immoral because the "individual characteristics of a person" are created at the moment of conception.

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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 Mikko
Marianne Mikko (b. 26 September 1961, Võru) is an Estonian politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
Marianne Mikko was the head of the European Parliament's Commission on Cooperation with the Republic of Moldova.

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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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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 Mantovani
Mario Mantovani (born on 28 July 1950 in Arconate) is an Italian politician, Member of the European Parliament 1999-2009 for North-West with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's Party, Italian Senator and Vice-minister of Infrastructures and Transports since 2008. Since 2001 he is also mayor of the municipality of Arconate

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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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Marios Matsakis
Marios Matsakis (born August 2, 1954 in Limassol) is a Cypriot politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Democratic Party, and sat with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group. Although a medical doctor by profession, he became involved in politics in the mid-1990s and has sparked controversy on several occasions. Marios Matsakis announced on 29 December 2007 that he would run for president in the 2008 Cypriot presidential elections. He gained 0.77% coming fourth behind the three main candidates.
He graduated from the University of London in 1976 with a B.Sc. in microbiology and was awarded a Ph.D in biochemistry in 1981. He was awarded his medical degree from the University of Cambridge in 1984 and specialised in forensic medicine at the University of Glasgow where he was awarded an MPhil in 1992. He then moved to Greece where he continued his studies in forensic pathology. He returned to Cyprus in 1994. At first he assumed a position in the medical field but he soon became interested in politics and was elected as an MP in 1996.

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Mark Francois
Mark Gino Francois (born 14 August 1965) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rayleigh and Wickford.
Mark Gino Francois was born in Islington, London. He was educated at the Nicholas Comprehensive School in Basildon, Essex and at the University of Bristol where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in History in 1986. He was also the chairman of the University's Conservative Association. He completed his studies at King's College London where he earned a MA in War Studies in 1987.
On leaving university he became a management trainee with Lloyds Bank. In 1988 he joined lobbying company Market Access International, leaving as a director in 1996 to set up his own lobbying firm Francois Associates.
He was a member of Basildon District Council for four years from 1991. He stood for Brent East during the 1997 general election, and lost to Ken Livingstone (who later became the Mayor of London). Following the death of Alan Clark in 1999, he narrowly lost out to Michael Portillo in the selection for the 1999 Kensington and Chelsea by-election. On the retirement of Dr. Michael Clark at the 2001 general election he beat Boris Johnson to be selected to fight the safe Tory seat of Rayleigh.

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Mark Oaten
Mark Oaten (born 8 March 1964 in Watford, Hertfordshire) is a former British Liberal Democrat politician. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Winchester from 1997 to 2010, and was his party's Home Affairs spokesperson from 2003 to 2006. He stood for the leadership of the Liberal Democrats in the election in 2006, but withdrew from the contest when he was hit by a series of scandals which also led to his resignation as Home Affairs spokesperson. He did not run for re-election to the House of Commons at the 2010 general election.
Oaten was educated at Queens' School, Bushey, and Hatfield Polytechnic.
Before entering Parliament, Oaten had been a councillor and was employed as a lobbyist by various Westminster public affairs companies. He was leader of the Social Democratic Party group on Watford Borough Council. He stood for the Watford seat at the 1992 general election and polled 10,231 votes, coming third.
He won the Winchester seat in the 1997 election with a majority of 2, but his election was later declared void by the Election Court. The defeated Conservative former MP Gerry Malone successfully challenged the election on the basis of an established precedent which voided the result where it had been affected by a decision not to count ballot papers which had not been properly stamped.

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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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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 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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Martine Roure
Martine Roure (born 28 September 1948 in Lyon) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-east 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 Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
She is also vice-chair of the delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China, and a substitute for the Committee on Budgets.

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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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Mary Lou McDonald
Mary Lou McDonald (born 1 May 1969 in Dublin) is an Irish politician, the current Vice President of Sinn Féin and a Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin Central. McDonald was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), from 2004–2009 representing the Dublin constituency.
Mary Lou McDonald was educated in Trinity College, Dublin, the University of Limerick and Dublin City University studying English Literature, European Integration Studies and Human Resource Management. Her career to date has her involved in diverse roles, including consultant for the Irish Productivity Centre, Institute of European Affairs researcher and trainer in the Partnership Unit of the Educational and Training Services Trust.
Originally a member of Fianna Fáil, she left the party in 1998 in opposition to its economic and social policies. Her sister, Joanne, is a member of the republican group éirígí.
McDonald first ran for office when she unsuccessfully contested the Dublin West constituency for Sinn Féin at the 2002 general election polling 8.02% of first preference votes. She was an unsuccessful candidate in the Dublin Central constituency at the 2007 general election. She contested the Dublin Central again in the 2011 general election this time picking up 13.1% of first preference; she was successful in picking up the last seat in the constituency ahead of the Fianna Fáil candidate Mary Fitzpatrick.

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Mary Whitehouse
Constance Mary Whitehouse, CBE (born Constance Mary Hutcheson, 13 June 1910 – 23 November 2001) was an English social activist known for her prominent opposition to social liberalism and the mainstream British media, both of which she accused of encouraging a more permissive society. She was the founder and first president of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, through which she led a longstanding campaign against the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). A staunch social conservative, the motivation for her activities derived from her traditional Christian beliefs and her work as a teacher of sex education.
Born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, Whitehouse became an art teacher, at the same time becoming involved in evangelical Christian groups such as the Student Christian Movement and Moral Re-Armament. She became a public figure via the 'Clean-Up TV' pressure group, established in 1964, in which she was the most prominent figure. The following year she founded the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, using it as a platform to criticise the BBC for what she perceived was a lack of accountability in the BBC, and an excessive portrayal of sex, violence and bad language.

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María Isabel Salinas
María Isabel Salinas García (born 23 June 1966 in Níjar, Spain) is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. Salinas also sat in the Spanish parliament from 1996 to 2000, representing Almería Province.

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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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Mauro Zani
Mauro Zani (born on November 22, 1949) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the North-East with the Democrats of the Left (DS), part of the Socialist Group, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Development.
Mauro Zani was born in Sala Bolognese (province of Bologna, Emilia-Romagna).
He is a substitute for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, a member of the Delegation to the ACP countries-European Union Joint Parliamentary Assembly and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council.

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Max van den Berg
Margrietus Johannes (Max) van den Berg (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmɑr.ˌɣri.tʏs ˈjoː.ˌɦɑ.nəs (ˈmɑks) vɐn dən ˈbɛrx]) (born March 22, 1946) is a Dutch politician and member of the Dutch Labour Party. From 1979 to 1986 he was the chairperson of that party and from 1999 to 2007 he was a Member of the European Parliament. Since 2007 he has been the Queen's Commissioner in Groningen.
Margrietus Johannes van den Berg was born on March 22, 1946 in Ammerstol, Netherlands.
His high school was the Carmelieten Paters in Oldenzaal. In 1969 he received his degree in sociology in Groningen, where he specialized in urban planning and political science. From 1969 to 1970 he was an academic staff member and lecturer at the sociology faculty of the Groningen University.
From September 1, 1970 to September 5, 1978 Max van den Berg was an alderman in Groningen, the last six years he was also the deputy mayor of Groningen.
From April 26, 1979 to April 25, 1986 he was the chairperson of the Labour Party.
From 1986 to 1999 he was the secretary-general of the non-governmental organisation Novib.

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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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Mechtild Rothe
Mechtild Rothe (born on 10 August 1947 in Paderborn) 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 Industry, Research and Energy.
She is a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs, a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe and a substitute for the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Germany)

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Menzies Campbell
Sir Walter Menzies "Ming" Campbell, CBE, QC, MP (

/ˈmɪŋɨs/ MING-iss; born 22 May 1941) is a British Liberal Democrat politician and advocate, and a retired sprinter. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Fife, and was the Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2 March 2006 until 15 October 2007.
Campbell held the British record for the 100 metres sprint from 1967 to 1974, having run the distance in 10.2 s. He captained the Great Britain athletics team in 1965 and 1966. He is currently the Chancellor of the University of St Andrews.
"Menzies" is a Scottish name, originally written Minȝies, the "z" being a graphic approximation of the (Middle English) yogh (ȝ), originally found in the name. Born in Glasgow, Campbell was educated at Hillhead High School and the University of Glasgow, graduating with an MA and an LLB.^{[citation needed]} He was elected President of the Glasgow University Liberal Club in 1962, and of the Glasgow University Union for 1964–65. He was involved in debating at the Union and with the Glasgow University Dialectic Society, where his contemporaries included Derry Irvine, Donald Dewar and John Smith, who attempted to recruit him for the Labour Party. He later received a scholarship study at Stanford University in California.

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Mercedes Echerer
Raina A. Mercedes Echerer (born 16 May 1963 in Linz) is an Austrian film and stage actress, host of TV and radio shows, and politician.
From 1999 to 2004 she was Member of the European Parliament for the Austrian Green Party, part of the European Greens, although she was not member of the party. During her term she was member of the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport, and substitute for the Committee on Budgets and the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market.
In 1994 she also hosted the Prix Ars Electronica. As of 2006, she is playing Elmire in Molière's Tartuffe at the Lower Austrian state theater in St. Pölten.

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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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Mia De Vits
Marie Louise "Mia" De Vits (born on 31 March 1950 in Gooik) is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Socialistische Partij-Anders, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
She is a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Belgium)

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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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Michael Gove
Michael Andrew Gove (born 26 August 1967) is a British politician, who currently serves as the Secretary of State for Education and as the Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for the Surrey Heath constituency. He is also an author and former Times journalist who remains on friendly terms with proprietor Rupert Murdoch.
Born in Edinburgh, Gove was raised in Aberdeen and made an early career as a journalist. He was first elected to parliament in the 2005 general election, as the MP for the safe Conservative seat of Surrey Heath in South East England. He was first promoted to the shadow cabinet in 2007 under David Cameron, as the Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families.
After the formation of the coalition government in 2010, Gove was appointed the Secretary of State for Education.
Gove was born in Edinburgh. At four months old, he was adopted by a Labour-supporting family in Aberdeen, where he was brought up. His father ran a fish processing business; his mother was a lab assistant at the University of Aberdeen before working at the Aberdeen School for the Deaf.

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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 Daerden
Michel Daerden (born 16 November 1949 in Baudour, Belgium) is a francophone Belgian politician, a member of the Parti Socialiste, and a Finance auditor. Popular for his reputation as a 'bon vivant', his undenied penchant for a drink (especially Pomerol) has led him to be lovingly nicknamed "the Gainsbourg of Belgian Politics" both by himself in a famous TV interview and by Belgium's much respected weekly news magazine Le Vif/L'Express.
Michel Daerden has two daughters. Aurore Daerden is a DJ and a stylist: Elena Daerden is a student. His son, Frédéric Daerden, is the mayor of Herstal and an MEP.
Expressing a certain sense of spectacle in his political activities, Daerden said he wanted to be a singer.
On 6 December 2006, Daerden laid the first stone of the renovated Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.
Michel Daerden was the subject of special attention after the Belgian municipal elections of 2006. Excerpts of his post-election interview on RTBF and on local television RTC-TV Liège, where he appears intoxicated, were circulated widely on YouTube. A week later, Daerden was asked on the TV show Mise au Point whether he had had too much to drink at that time. His humorous response was "Pas plus que d'habitude" ("No more than usual").

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Michel Rocard
Michel Rocard (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl ʁɔkaʁ]; born 23 August 1930) is a French politician, member of the Socialist Party (PS). He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1988 to 1991, during which he created the Revenu minimum d'insertion (RMI), a social minimum welfare program for indigents, and led the Matignon Accords regarding the status of New Caledonia. He is currently a member of the European Parliament, and has been strongly involved in European policies. As of August 2007, he has accepted a mission in a Commission under the authority of Sarkozy's Minister of Education, Xavier Darcos.
He was born at Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine) in a Protestant family, son of the nuclear physicist Yves Rocard, and entered politics as a student leader whilst studying at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (a.k.a. Sciences-Po). He became Chair of the French Socialist Students (linked to the main French Socialist party at the time, the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO)), and studied at the École nationale d'administration (ENA). A finance inspector (senior official) and anti-colonialist, he went to Algeria and wrote a report regarding the widely ignored refugee camps of the Algerian War (1954–62). This report was leaked to the newspapers Le Monde and France Observateur in April 1959, almost costing Rocard his job.

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Michel Teychenné
Michel Teychenné (born 22 July 1957 in Foix, Ariège) is a French politician and a former Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France. He is a member of the Socialist Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists.
He entered the European Parliament in October 2008, after the resignation of Robert Navarro, up until the 2009 elections.
A local councillor in Pamiers, Ariège, he is openly gay. He has claimed to be discriminated against for being gay in the 2010 regional elections.

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Michl Ebner
Michl Ebner (born on 20 September 1952 in Bolzano) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for North-East with the Südtiroler Volkspartei, Member of the Bureau 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 Foreign Affairs and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)

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Mieczysław Janowski
Mieczysław Edmund Janowski (born on 16 November 1947 in Zduńska Wola) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Subcarpathian Voivodship with the Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc, part of the Union for a Europe of Nations and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development.
Janowski is a substitute for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and the Committee on Petitions. Janowski is also a member of 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 (Poland)

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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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Mihael Brejc
Mihael Brejc, also known as Miha Brejc (born 15 November 1947) is a Slovenian politician and former Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Slovenian Democratic Party.
In 2004, Brejc was elected to the European Parliament. He was part of the European People's Party parliamentary group and served as member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. He was also vice-chairman of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, a substitute for the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, member of the delegation for relations with South Africa, and a substitute for the delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
Miha Brejc was born to a Slovene family in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. His father was Tomo Brejc, an influential antifascist left-wing trade unionist who had emigrated from the Julian March to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the 1920s and fought as a partisan in the Yugoslav People's Liberation War. The family moved back to Slovenia when Miha Brejc was still a child. He studied at the University of Ljubljana, where he graduated in sociology in 1975. He continued his studies at the same university, obtaining a master's degree in 1983 and a PhD in organisational sciences in 1985. He worked at the University of Ljubljana since 1988, first as a senior lecturer and later as a professor.

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Mihaela Popa
Mihaela Popa (born April 16, 1962) is a politician from Romania. A member of the Democratic Liberal Party, she served as a member of the European Parliament (2007–2009). Mihaela Popa has been a member of the Senate of Romania since 2008.
The initiative regarding founding Valeriu Boboc Prize for the liberty of press and defending of democratic values was launched on April 19, 2010 by Mihaela Popa. She said in front of the Senate that "April 7 events opened the way of Moldova to Europe and Boboc is no longer just a name, but a symbol of struggle for democratic values and freedom of expression." On April 23, the newspaper of a former ally of Communists Iurie Roşca, Flux, had a very hostile reaction to the initiative. The memorandum regarding founding the Prize "Valeriu Boboc" for the liberty of press and defending of democratic values was adopted on April 30, 2010 by the permanent bureau of the Romanian Senate.

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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 Gaľa
Milan Gaľa (January 21, 1953 in Jarovnice – June 1, 2012 near Košice) was a Slovak politician and Member of the Parliament with the Slovenská demokraticka a krestanska unia, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education.
He was a substitute for the Committee on Development and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He was also a member of the Delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen.

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Milan Horáček
Milan Horáček (born 30 October 1946 in Velké Losiny, then in Czechoslovakia), is a Czech-born German politician, a founding member of the German Green Party, a former member of the Bundestag (1983–1985) and a former Member of the European Parliament (2004–2009).
From 1965 to 1967 his political activism got him into trouble with the Czechoslovak communist regime, and he was arrested several times. After the suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968, he fled from Czechoslovakia and settled in West Germany. There he worked in industry and for a trade union magazine. From 1976 to 1981 he studied political science in Frankfurt, and in 1979 was involved in the establishment of Die Grünen. In the 1980s he was active in Hesse for the party, was a municipal councillor in Frankfurt 1981–1983, and was elected to the Bundestag in 1983, serving until 1985, as a member of its Foreign Affairs Committee. His main interests there were foreign affairs and security, Central and Eastern Europe and human rights. From 1985 to 1990, he was a group specialist on foreign and security policy, human rights and Eastern Europe.

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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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Miloš Koterec
Miloš Koterec (born on 11 October 1962 in Partizánske) is a career diplomat from Slovakia. He was sent to the Permanent Mission of Slovakia to the U.N. from '95-'99. He then went on to work at the Permanent Mission to NATO for Slovakia in 2001. In 2005 he was elected as an MEP for Slovakia.
In 2009 he was appointed as the Permanent Representative to the U.N. for Slovakia.

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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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Mogens Camre
Mogens Niels Juel Camre (born on 29 March 1936 in Randers) is a Danish politician and former Member of the European Parliament with the Danish People's Party (Danish: Dansk Folkeparti), a Vice-Chairman of the Union for a Europe of Nations and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
He was also substitute for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs.
Camre has made statements on several occasions which occasioned controversy. Most recently he stated that
This statement was interpreted by several other MEPs, among them Hannes Swoboda, an Austrian Social-Democrat and Renate Weber, a Romanian MEP, to mean that Camre had stated that Danes were more clever than Bulgarians and Romanians.
On 13 November 2007 he was elected to the Danish parliament, but only two days later announced that he declined his seat in parliament because it would mean that he couldn't finish his term in the European Parliament.
Mogens Camre, Danish People's Party's annual meeting (September 16, 2001):

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Mojca Drčar Murko
Mojca Drčar Murko (born 2 July 1942 in Ljubljana) is a Slovenian politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of Liberal Democracy of Slovenia, which is 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.
She is also a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development, a member of the delegation to the EU–Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee, a substitute for the delegation to the EU–Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee, and a substitute for the delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly.

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Monica Frassoni
Monica Frassoni (born September 10, 1963 in Veracruz, Mexico) is an Italian politician and was a Member of the European Parliament for the North West of Italy until 2009. She is a member of the Italian Green Party, part of the European Greens. Frassoni was co-chair, together with Daniel Cohn-Bendit, of the European Greens–European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament until 2009. Before first being elected as an MEP of the Francophone Green party Ecolo from Belgium in 1999, she served for 10 years as an officer of the Greens group in the European Parliament. She was previously Secretary General of the Young European Federalists.
In 2010, she along with Cécile Duflot, Renate Künast, and Marina Silva were named by Foreign Policy magazine to its list of top global thinkers, for taking Green mainstream.

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Monica Iacob Ridzi
Monica Maria Iacob Ridzi (born 30 June 1977 in Petroşani) is a Romanian politician. She is the head of the youth wing of the Democratic Liberal Party, and a representative in the Chamber of Deputies of Romania since 2008. She is a former member of the Boc cabinet, and was a Member of the European Parliament during 2007-2008.
She became a MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Romania to the European Union, and like other members of the Democratic Liberal Party she was part of the European People's Party–European Democrats.
On 22 December 2008, she was appointed the head of the newly re-founded Ministry of Youth and Sport in the Boc Cabinet. She resigned on 14 July 2009, after being investigated by a parliamentary commission regarding the possible embezzlement of money spent by the Ministry she was running on the Youth Day festivities.

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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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Ned Temko
Ned Temko (born Edward Temko, 1952) is an American Jewish journalist and newspaper editor who has worked much of his life in the United Kingdom. His articles appear mainly in The Observer newspaper and focus on political and social issues. He has previously written for The Guardian and was, until 2005, editor of the Jewish Chronicle. Temko is a regular panelist on the BBC World programme Dateline London and BBC TV's Question Time.
Temko was born into a Jewish family in Washington D.C. but currently resides with his family in London.

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Neena Gill
Neena Gill was a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands for the Labour Party from 1999 to 2009. Prior to becoming a Member of the European Parliament, she was Chief Executive of ASRA and the Newlon Housing Group. Gill sat on the Urban Housing intergroup in the European Parliament.
Gill was awarded her first degree by Liverpool Polytechnic (BA Hons Social Studies) in 1979 and a postgraduate professional qualification from the Chartered Institute of Housing in 1986. She completed the London Business School senior executive programme in 1996. She is fluent in several Asian languages, Italian, and is currently studying French and German. She claims this has proved invaluable in promoting trade links with South Asia as part of her work as President of the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with India, to which she was elected in 2007.
Gill was a member of the European Parliamentary Labour Party (EPLP) which is a member of the Party of European Socialists (PES) in the European Parliament (EP).

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Neil Parish
Neil Quentin Gordon Parish (born 26 May 1956) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tiverton and Honiton, elected at the 2010 general election. He had been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South West England from 1999 to 2009.
Prior to beginning his career in politics, Parish managed his family's farm in Somerset. He began his career in local government, serving as a Parish, District and County Councillor. In the 1997 general election he contested Pontypool in Wales. He was soundly defeated by 24,536 votes.
Parish was elected to the European Parliament in the 1999 European Parliament election for the South West England region. He was re-elected in 2004 on the top of the Conservatives' party list.
Parish acted as an election monitor during Zimbabwean parliamentary election, 2000, where he criticised the conduct of Robert Mugabe's regime. During the 2008 Presidential election Neil Parish called on the British Government to reject the legitimacy of ZANU-PF and to recognise Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC party as the democratically elected Government of Zimbabwe. Neil is still banned from re-entering the country after voicing his criticism.

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Nello Musumeci
Sebastiano (Nello) Musumeci (born on 21 January 1955 in Militello in Val di Catania, Sicily) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Islands, part of the Union for a Europe of Nations and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries and its Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. He is the founder and the current leader of Sicilian Alliance, an autonomist party of Sicily, after having left National Alliance in 2005. He ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of the Sicily region in 2006, obtaining 5,3% of the votes.
He sits on the infamous 666 seat in Strasbourg.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, substitute for the delegation to the EU-Turkey joint parliamentary committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)

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Nick Clegg
Nicholas William Peter "Nick" Clegg (born 7 January 1967) is the British Liberal Democrat Leader since 2007 and currently the Deputy Prime Minister and Lord President of the Council (with special responsibility for political and constitutional reform) in the coalition government of which David Cameron is the Prime Minister. Clegg has been the Leader of the Liberal Democrats since 2007, and a Member of Parliament (MP) representing Sheffield Hallam since 2005. He was previously a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and an award winning journalist for the Financial Times.
Clegg was elected to the House of Commons at the 2005 general election and became the Liberal Democrats' Home Affairs spokesperson in 2006. Clegg became Deputy Prime Minister following the 2010 general election, when the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government with the Conservative Party. As well as his parliamentary roles, Clegg has contributed to many pamphlets and books on political issues. He has also had a large number of jobs, including being a skiing instructor and working in the office of a bank in Helsinki.

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Nicola Zingaretti
Nicola Zingaretti (Rome, October 11, 1965) is an Italian politician; since April 2008 he is the president of the Province of Rome. He lives in Rome with his wife and two daughters. He is the younger brother of actor Luca Zingaretti.
He was National Secretary of Democrats of the Left youth federation (1991–1995), member of the Rome Municipale Council (1991–1993), international relations spokesman of Democrats of the Left (1998–2000), Member of European Parliament (2004–2008) for Uniti nell'Ulivo and Regional Secretary of Democratic Party for Lazio (2007–2008). On April 28, 2008 he was elected President of the Province of Rome with more than a million votes (1,001,490), representing 51.48% of the vote.
He began his commitment in associations taking part in the peace movement in 1982. At seventeen years old is one of the founders of the anti-racist association "Nero e non solo", commetted to immigration politics and in a multicultural and multiethnic society.
In 1991 he was elected National Secretary of Democrats of the Left youth federation (Sinistra Giovanile) and in the following year he was a member of the Rome Municipale Council. Those were years of commitment to sustainable development and environmental protection, against the Mafia, during which he organized the first Antimafia youth camp in San Vito Lo Capo and numerous initiatives in memory of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. From 1995 to 1997 he was President of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) and Vice President of the Socialist International. In these years, he was committed to rebuild the network with the parties and with the democratic and progressive youth organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the signing of the Dayton Accords in December 1995, spoke in the United Nations General Assembly for the Year of World Youth Day, as a Representative in the United Nations Committee.

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Nicole Fontaine
Nicole Fontaine (born 16 January 1942 in Grainville-Ymauville, Seine-Maritime) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, part of the European People's Party. Fontaine was the President of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2001, and was then replaced by Pat Cox, from the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party, in accordance with an agreement between the two groups at the start of the term.

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Niels Busk
Niels Busk (born on 2 August 1942 in Vadum) 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 Agriculture and Rural Development and its Committee on Fisheries.
He is a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and a member of the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Denmark)

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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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Nikolaos Sifounakis
Nikolaos Sifounakis (Greek: Νικόλαος Σηφουνάκης) (born 21 December 1949 in Rethymno) is a Greek politician, former Minister for the Aegean and ex-member of the European Parliament. He was elected on the Panhellenic Socialist Movement ticket and sat with the Party of European Socialists group. On 23 July 2004 he was elected Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education.
In the 2007 Greek legislative election he was elected to the Greek Parliament for Lesbos, and consequently resigned from the European Parliament.

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Nikolay Mladenov
Nickolay Evtimov Mladenov (Bulgarian: Николай Евтимов Младенов) is a Bulgarian politician who has been Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov since 2010. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 2007 to 2009 and was Minister of Defense from 27 July 2009 to 27 January 2010.
Nickolay Mladenov was born on 5 May 1972 in Sofia. In 1995, he graduated from the University of National and World Economy, majoring in International Relations. The following year he obtained a MA in War Studies from King's College London.
Between 1996 and 1998 he was Program Director of the Open Society Foundation in Sofia, followed by an appointment as a program coordinator in the social department of the World Bank for Bulgaria. In 1999 he founded the European Institute in Sofia and was its director until 2001. He was a member of parliament for the United Democratic Forces in the 39th National Assembly, Parliamentary Secretary (until March 2002), and Vice Chairman of the Committee on European Integration and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and Security.

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Nikos Vakalis
Nikos Vakalis, Member of the European Parliament (2004-2009) was born December, 1939. He studied Physics with a scholarship at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He served as a reservist officer (head of Faculty) in the Artillery. He founded the Frontistirio Vakalis in 1967. After studying the British educational system he founded in 1972 the College of Advance Education collaborating with the British examining bodies Cambridge, AEB and JMB.
In 1999 he extended his activities founding the publishing house Publications Vakali. He also entered the market of Information Technology with the founding of the training company e-master, and the company executive training market with the founding of the Business Training Centre.
He has written and published the books "About Friction", "Mechanics", "Electricity" and "Thermodynamics" and many collections of exercises.
He is married to Helen Mpousiou and have two sons, Andonis who is 38 (Bachelor and Master in Finance from the University of London, England. Master in Educational Management from the Institute of Education, University of London, England) and Manolis who is 33 (Bachelor in Information Technology from the University of Sussex, England).

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Nils Lundgren
Nils Gustav Herman Lundgren (born 13 July 1936 in Skövde) is a Swedish politician, economist, eurosceptic and former Member of the European Parliament. He was the leader of the eurosceptical June List, which he also co-founded.
He was elected to the European Parliament in 2004. He is a member of the bureau of the Independence and Democracy group, and vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control.
He is also a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, and a member of the delegation to the EU–Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee.

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Nina Škottová
Nina Škottová (born on 6 October 1946 in Prostějov) 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.
She is a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education and a member of 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 (Czech Republic)

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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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Norman Baker
Norman John Baker (born 26 July 1957) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewes in East Sussex since 1997. Since May 2010 he has been Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Department for Transport.
Born in Aberdeen, Baker's family moved to Hornchurch in East London in 1968. He was educated at the Royal Liberty School in Gidea Park, near Romford, and at Royal Holloway College, University of London, where he earned a BA degree in German & History in 1978.
Baker was a regional director for Our Price Records for five years from 1978. He worked at Malling Street Service Station from 1983 to 1985. He taught English as a foreign language from 1985–97, with a spell as a Liberal Democrat environment researcher in the House of Commons in 1989–90. In 1987, he was elected as a councillor on the Lewes District Council, and two years later was also elected to the local county council of East Sussex. He became the Leader of Lewes District Council in 1991, a position he held until his election as an MP.

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Norman Lamb
Norman Peter Lamb (born 16 September 1957) is a British Liberal Democrat politician, and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Employment Relations, Consumer and Postal Affairs. He was formerly Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg.
He is the Member of Parliament for North Norfolk.
Lamb was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, the son of climatologist Professor Hubert Lamb. He went to Wymondham College, then the University of Leicester, getting an LLB
After graduating from the University of Leicester, Lamb worked as a solicitor. He began to specialise in employment law whilst working for Steele and Co Solicitors (now called Steeles Law). In 1998 he wrote a book, Remedies in the Employment Tribunal: Damages for Discrimination and Unfair Dismissal, but any chances of a follow up or update to this book were put aside when Lamb was elected to Parliament in June 2001.
Lamb worked for a year for Labour MP Greville Janner in the early 1980s, working as a researcher. His politics were always in the centre ground, but a meeting with Shirley Williams in Parliament at this time, shortly after the formation in 1981 of the SDP-Liberal Alliance, spurred Lamb in to front line active politics and he was elected to Norwich City Council where he led the Lib Dem group until he stood down in 1991 in order to pursue his Westminster ambitions.

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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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Oliver Letwin
Oliver Letwin MP FRSA (born 19 May 1956, in Hampstead)^{[citation needed]} is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he is currently the Minister of State at the Cabinet Office, and a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the constituency of West Dorset. He is also the Chairman of the Conservative Research Department and Chairman of the Conservative Party's Policy Review.
Letwin is the son of William Letwin, Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics, and conservative academic Shirley Letwin. Letwin was educated at Hall School in Hampstead and Eton College. He went on to study at Trinity College, Cambridge. Whilst a student at Cambridge, he was an active member of the Cambridge University Liberal Club. When asked about his membership of the Liberal club he explained:
"I was also a member of the Fabian Society. But I am sorry to have to tell you that this was because I was interested in the thoughts of Liberals and Fabians (and still am) rather than because I was ever a Liberal Democrat or a Fabian."

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Ona Juknevičienė
Ona Juknevičienė (born April 28, 1955 in Trakai) is a Lithuanian politician and Member of the European Parliament, part of the European Democrat Party and Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.

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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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Owen Paterson
Owen William Paterson (born 24 June 1956) is a British Conservative Party politician and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Shropshire.
Paterson was born in Whitchurch, Shropshire. He attended Abberley Hall School and Radley College, before going to Cambridge University, where he studied History at Corpus Christi College and graduated in 1978. He then went on to the National Leathersellers College (now the British School of Leather Technology at the University of Northampton).
He joined the British Leather Company in 1979, becoming Sales Director in 1983 and Managing Director from 1993 to 1999. He was President of COTANCE, the European Tanners Confederation from 1996–1998. He was a Director of Parsons and Sons leather company in Halesowen in the 1990s. Paterson is a Liveryman of the Leathersellers' Company.
He contested, but failed to win, the Wrexham seat in the 1992 general election. He is Member of Parliament for North Shropshire, being first elected at the 1997 general election and has won at all general elections there since.

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Paavo Väyrynen
Paavo Matti Väyrynen (born 2 September 1946) is a Finnish veteran politician of the Centre Party and currently a candidate to be party chairman. Väyrynen was a member of Finnish Parliament from 1970 to 2003 and again from 2007 to 2011 and has held many ministerial portfolios. He was also a Member of the European Parliament from 1995 to 2007. Väyrynen has been the Centre Party candidate for Finnish president three times – finishing second in 1988, third in 1994 and third in 2012.
Paavo Väyrynen was born in a farmer family in Keminmaa, southwest Lapland. After finishing his gymnasium he graduated in 1970 as a Bachelor of Social Sciences in the University of Helsinki. In Väyrynen's doctoral thesis in 1988, Finlands utrikespolitik – den nationella doktrinen och framtidens mänsklighetspolitik ("Foreign politics of Finland - the national doctrine and the politics of the future of mankind"), he made an assumption that the Soviet Union would prevail — an assumption which has ever since haunted him in the media. In 1996, Väyrynen was granted docentship of International Relations in University of Lapland.

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Paddy Ashdown
Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, GCMG, KBE, PC (born 27 February 1941), usually known as Paddy Ashdown, is a British politician and diplomat.
After service as a Royal Marine and as an intelligence officer for the UK security services, Ashdown was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Yeovil from 1983 to 2001, and leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until August 1999; later he was the international High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 27 May 2002 to 30 May 2006, following his vigorous lobbying for military action against Yugoslavia in the 1990s. A gifted polyglot, Ashdown is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and other languages. He was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (GCMG) in the New Year Honours 2006.
Ashdown is the eldest of seven children, and was born in New Delhi in British India, to a family of soldiers and colonial administrators who spent their lives in India. His father was a lapsed Catholic, and his mother a Protestant. His mother was a QA nurse. Ashdown's father, John, was an Indian Army officer in the 14th Punjab Regiment and the Indian Army Service Corps. During the retreat to Dunkirk in May 1940, John Ashdown ignored an order to abandon the Indian troops under his command, instead leading them to the port and on to one of the last ships to leave, without losing a single man. Although court martialled for disobeying orders, he was exonerated, and by the end of the War had risen to the rank of colonel.

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Panagiotis Beglitis
Panagiotis Beglitis (Greek: Παναγιώτης Μπεγλίτης) (b. 25 February 1958, Velo) is a Greek politician, who from 2004-07 was a Member of the European Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, part of the Party of European Socialists.
In the 2007 Greek legislative election he was elected to the Hellenic Parliament for Corinthia, and consequently resigned from the European Parliament. Beglitis served as Minister for National Defence between 17 June and 11 November 2011.

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Panayiotis Demetriou
Panayiotis Demetriou (born May 6, 1939) is a Cypriot politician and Member of the European Parliament for the European People's Party. He is a member of the Democratic Rally.

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Paolo Costa
Paolo Costa (born 23 July 1943 in Venice) is an Italian Member of the European Parliament. He was elected on the Olive Tree ticket and sits with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group. On July 23, 2004 he was elected Chair of the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism.
Before entering politics he held numerous posts in Planning and Economics at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, University of Reading, U.K., and New York University. He served as Pro-Rector of Ca' Foscari University in Venice (1992–1996). He was a member of Venice City Council (1997–2000) and Mayor of Venice (2000–2005). He was Chairman of the Council of AISRE (Italian Association of Regional Science) (1982–1984); member of the Scientific Committee for the Italian General Transport Plan (1985–1987), and Italian Minister for Public Works (1996–1998).
He received the honour of Knight of the Grand Cross, Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1998.

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Patrick Gaubert
Patrick Gaubert (born 6 July 1948 in Paris) is a French politician and was a Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France through 2009. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, which is part of the European People's Party, and was vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. He was also a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs and a member of the delegation for relations with Israel.
Gaubert was one of six Members of the European Parliament who participated in the European Union's observer mission in Togo for the October 2007 Togolese parliamentary election.

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Patrick Louis
Patrick Louis (born 22 October 1955, Vitry-le-François) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-east of France. He is a member of the Movement for France, which is part of the Independence and Democracy group, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism.
He is also a substitute for the Committee on International Trade and a member of the delegations for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen, for relations with the Mashreq countries, and to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

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Patrick McLoughlin
Patrick Allen McLoughlin (born 30 November 1957, in Stafford) is a British Conservative Party politician. He has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1986, initially for West Derbyshire and since 2010 for its successor, the Derbyshire Dales constituency. He is currently the coalition government's Chief Whip in the House of Commons, having held the same portfolio in opposition prior to the 2010 election.
McLoughlin was born in Stafford, the son and grandson of coal miners. He was educated at the Cardinal Griffin Roman Catholic School in Cannock, Staffordshire, and Staffordshire College of Agriculture at Rodbaston College. From 1974 he worked for five years as a farm worker and after 1979 worked underground at the Littleton Colliery in Cannock. He was a member of the National Union of Mineworkers, he became an industrial representative for the National Coal Board's Western Area Marketing Department.
McLoughlin was elected as a councillor on the Cannock Chase District Council for seven years from 1980, and also a councillor on Staffordshire County Council from 1981-87.

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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 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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Paul van Buitenen
Paul van Buitenen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈpoːl vɐn ˈbœy̯.tən.ə(n)]) (born 28 May 1957 in Breda) was a Member of the European Parliament for the Netherlands and a European civil servant on unpaid leave during his stint as MEP.
He was a Dutch assistant-auditor in the European Commission’s Financial Control Directorate becoming the whistleblower who first drew the attention of a Member of the European Parliament to the irregularities, fraud and mismanagement within the Commission in 1998. In May 2005, he also asked the European Commission to create an investigation, after learning that Frits Bolkestein (famous for the Directive on services in the internal market) was a member of the Russian Bank Menatep's international consultative council (owned by Mikhail Khodorkovsky) and that he had worked for the Shell British-Dutch petrol company, two firms "detaining secret accounts in Clearstream".
His whistleblowing on 9 December 1998 indirectly led to the resignation of the Commission presided by Jacques Santer (who has also been prime minister of Luxembourg) and the fall of Edith Cresson. For this, he was suspended, had his salary halved and ordered to face disciplinary action. He fought on and the combination of his exposures with the public indignation of his treatment by the Commission triggered the collapse of Jacques Santer's Commission, of which Edith Cresson was particularly criticised.

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Paul Vergès
Paul Vergès (born 5 March 1925 in Ubon Ratchathani, Siam) is a Réunionese politician. Vergès founded the Communist Party of Réunion in 1959, a party which he led until he retired in 1993. He made a political comeback at the 2004 European Parliament elections, when he was elected as the third candidate on the list of the French Communist Party, which is part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group. Vergès sat in the European Parliament's Committee on Development.
He was MP in National Assembly of France from 1956 to 1958, 1986 to 1987, and from 1993 to 1996.
He was senator in French Parliament from 1996 to 2004 and again since 2011.
Member of European Parliament from 1979 to 1989 and from 2004 to 2007.
He had been President of the regional council of Réunion from 1998 to 2010. Regional councillor since 2010.
Mayor of Le Port from 1971 to 1989.
General councillor of La Réunion from 1955 to 1967.
In the European Parliament he was also a member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights, a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development, vice-chair of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and a substitute for the delegation for relations with the countries of Central America.

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Paulo Casaca
Paulo Casaca (born 2 July 1957, Lisbon) is a Portuguese politician and was a Member of the European Parliament for Portugal's Socialist Party (Partido Socialista); part of the Party of European Socialists till 2009.
He is currently running for the presidency of the city council of Ponta Delgada in the Azores.
He is a regular contributor to the regional and national press on economic and political subjects and author of many books and shorter publications.
Career:

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Paweł Piskorski
Paweł Bartłomiej Piskorski (born on February 25, 1968 in Warsaw) is a Polish politician.
He was Mayor of Warsaw from 30 March 1999 to 14 January 2002. In 1997 he was elected to the Sejm from the Unia Wolności electoral list, and in 2001, after participating in a secession from that party, he successfully ran under the Civic Platform banner. In 2004 he was the Secretary General of Civic Platform. He has been elected Member of the European Parliament in 2004. April 26, 2006 excluded from the Civic Platform^{[citation needed]}. Since February 2009 he has been the chairman of the Democratic Party.

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Pedro Guerreiro
Pedro Miguel Neves Guerreiro (born 25 February 1966, Lisbon) 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. He took his seat in the European Parliament on 13 January 2005, replacing Sérgio Ribeiro of the same party.

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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 Baco
Peter Baco (born 9 April 1945; Opatová) 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 Agriculture and Rural Development, and is a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Slovakia)

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Peter Liese
Peter Liese (born on 20 May 1965 in Olsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for North Rhine-Westphalia with the conservative Christian-Democratic Union, part 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 Industry, Research and Energy, 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 (Germany)

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Peter Sichrovsky
Peter Sichrovsky (born 5 September 1947) is an Austrian journalist, writer, former politician and Member of the European Parliament. He belonged to the Freedom Party of Austria during his two terms in the European Parliament, although he was officially non-attached.
Peter Sichrovsky was born and raised in Vienna, Austria. From 1963 to 1968, Sichrovsky studied at the Higher Technical School of Biochemistry in Vienna, graduating from there to study pharmacy and chemistry at the University of Vienna from 1970 to 1975. After receiving his university qualifications, Sichrovsky became a high school chemistry and physics teacher, leaving education in 1976 to take up management positions in various pharmaceutical companies. From 1980, Sichrovsky found employment as a journalist in a variety of newspapers, including Der Spiegel, Männer Vogue, and Der Standard, which he co-founded in 1988. After positions in Europe, Sichrovsky travelled abroad to New Delhi and Hong Kong to become a foreign correspondent there. During the 1990s, he continued his trips abroad through Hong Kong, Vienna, Chicago and Los Angeles.

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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 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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Petr Duchoň
Petr Duchoň (born on 6 September 1956 in Brno) is a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Civic Democratic Party, part of the European Democrats and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Transport and Tourism.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and a member of the Delegation for relations with the United States.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Czech Republic)

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Petru Filip
Petru Filip (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈpetru ˈfilip]; born 23 January 1955 in Slobozia) is a Romanian politician, member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). Since 2008, he has been a member of the Senate, representing Bihor County.
Filip served as mayor of Oradea (1992–1996, 2000–2007). He and his wife Valeria, a medical doctor, have one daughter.
Filip holds two PhD degrees, one in engineering, the second in public administration. For the latter of the two subjects, he is holding a chair at the "Agora" University in Oradea, as Associate Professor. Several years spent as an Expert of the Urban Institute in Washington add value to both his experience as a public official as well as his academic achievements in the field of Public Administration.
Elected as leader of the Bihor County chapter of the Democratic Party in 1998, he became vice-president of the National Permanent Bureau (BPN) of the same party in 2005. On April 30, 2010, Filip resigned his position as chairman of the county party chapter.

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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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Philip Hammond
Philip Hammond MP (born 4 December 1955) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the current Secretary of State for Defence in the Coalition government led by David Cameron, having succeeded Liam Fox on 14 October 2011. He previously served as Secretary of State for Transport from 13 May 2010, when he was appointed as a Privy Counsellor. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Runnymede and Weybridge.
Philip Hammond was born in Epping, Essex, the son of a civil engineer, he first attended Brookfield Junior school, further educated at Shenfield School (now Shenfield High School) in Brentwood, Essex, and University College, Oxford, where he was awarded a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.
He joined the medical equipment manufacturers Speywood Laboratories Ltd in 1977, becoming a director of Speywood Medical Limited in 1981. In 1982, an automatic electrocardiograph electrode manufacturing plant figured among his notable achievements. He left in 1983. From 1984, he was a director in Castlemead Ltd, and from 1993–95 he was a partner in CMA Consultants, and from 1994, a director in Castlemead Homes. He has had many business interests including house building and property, manufacturing, healthcare and oil and gas. He has undertaken various consulting assignments in Latin America for the World Bank in Washington, D.C., and was a consultant to the government of Malawi from 1995 until his election to Parliament.

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Philippe Busquin
Philippe Busquin (born on 6 January 1941 in Feluy) is a Belgian politician. He was Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2009 for the French Community of Belgium with the Parti Socialiste, part of the Socialist Group and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. Busquin was the chairman of the Science and Technology Options Assessment Panel. He also was a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.
From 1999 to 2004, he was Member of the European Commission with responsibility for research.
His tendency to stutter has been ridiculed on a number of viral videos posted on YouTube, most famously in response to his term "artchurptéfnichmnéfnichchangement."
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 Morillon
Philippe Morillon (born 24 October 1935 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a former French general and was a Member of the European Parliament until 2009. He was elected on the Union for French Democracy ticket with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group. On 23 July 2004 he was elected Chair of the Committee on Fisheries.
Before turning to politics he was an army General, and commanded the United Nations Forces in Bosnia (1992-1993). After Bosnia, Morillon commanded the Rapid Reaction Force, after which he retired with the rank of général de corps d'armée. He is a Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur.
In September 2010, Morillon was denied access to Srebrenica Genocide memorial by Bosniak women who believed that he had allowed the Srebrenica genocide.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (France)

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Phillip Whitehead
Phillip Whitehead, (30 May 1937 – 31 December 2005) was a British Labour politician, television producer and writer.
Born in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, he was adopted by a local family, and attended Lady Manners School in Bakewell and Exeter College at Oxford University, where he obtained his BA (and MA).
Whitehead apparently went to Oxford following in his adoptive parents' footsteps as a Conservative. He was President of the Oxford University Conservative Association and the Oxford Union in 1961. However, by the end of his time there he had convinced himself that his true place was in the Labour Party (see ref 1, from Exeter College Register).
He retained a close association with Derbyshire, especially the Bakewell area, throughout his life. He died of a heart attack on New Year's Eve 2005, aged 68 at a hospital in Chesterfield.
Whitehead was an independent documentary producer in early 1960s and later as an editor with the BBC and ITV from 1967 to 1970.
His political career began as a Labour Member of Parliament for Derby North from 1970 to 1983.

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Pia Elda Locatelli
Pia Elda Locatelli (born on 13 August 1949 in Villa d'Almè, Bergamo) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for North-West with the Socialisti Democratici Italiani, part of the Socialist Group and 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 Employment and Social Affairs and a member of the Delegation for relations with Iran.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)

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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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Pierre Jonckheer
Pierre Jonckheer (born 5 May 1951, Namur, Belgium) is a Belgian economist and politician, member of the Belgian French-speaking Green party, Ecolo.
He grew up in Wallonia and Brussels in a middle-class family. He studied Economics at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL). During his studies he rapidly became an activist in student movements linked to the "Third World" as well as the left radical political movement. He graduated in 1974 and became assistant professor in the department of Economics of the Catholic University of Louvain. He then worked closely with different NGOs and in 1982 spent 3 months in Sri Lanka where he discovered the dismal working conditions of the Tamils. These different experiences forged his political and social convictions. From 1984 to 1991, Pierre Jonckheer worked as a researcher, for OSE then became its director (European Social Observatory). In 1986 he joined Ecolo, a party he believed could offer an alternative to society. In December 1991 he became provincial senator and in 1995, led the Ecolo list for the Senate. During his 8 years as senator, he specialized in European politics. In 1999, he was elected to the European Parliament and was re-elected in 2004. In 2008, he co-founded the Green European Foundation (GEF).

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Pierre Schapira
Pierre Lionel Georges Schapira (born 10 December 1944 in Algiers) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. He 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 Development.
He is also a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs and a member of the delegation for relations with Israel and the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

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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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Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
Poul Oluf Nyrup Rasmussen (Danish pronunciation: [ˈpɒʊ̯l ˈnyːˀɔb ˈʁɑsmusn̩], informally Poul Nyrup, born 15 June 1943), was Prime Minister of Denmark from 25 January 1993 to 27 November 2001 and President of the Party of European Socialists (PES) from 2004 to 2011. He was the leader of the governing Social Democrats from 1992 to 2002. He was a member of the European Parliament from 2004–09.
Rasmussen was born to a working-class family in Esbjerg in 1943. His parents were Oluf Nyrup Rasmussen and Vera Eline Nyrup Rasmussen. He was educated at the University of Copenhagen, earning a M.sc. degree in Economics in 1971. While studying he was active in the social democratic student union Frit Forum, where he met some of his future political colleagues. He paid his way through university by doing several jobs, like counting traffic and being a part-time delivery boy.
Rasmussen replaced Svend Auken, the long serving leader of the Social Democrats, after his failure to form a government with the Radikale Venstre after the 1990 election, despite good results for both parties. Many in the party felt that Auken had stuck to a too left wing agenda, scuttling a possible deal with the more centrist Radikale Venstre.

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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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Péter Olajos
Péter Olajos (born on 18 April 1968 in Budapest) is a Hungarian (conservative green) politician and was Member of the European Parliament with the Hungarian Democratic Forum, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, later he was member second Orban Government, responsible for Green Economy Development and Climate Policy. He was the Hungarian Delegation Leader in Cancun on UNFCCC COP-16, and a head of the Hungarian Climate Team under the Hungarian EU Presidency in 2011.
In the Europen Parliament Olajos was a substitute for the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, 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 EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee.
In the Government as Deputy State Secretary Olajos's main responsibilities were: Climate Policy, Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency, Building Retrofitting Programs, Green Innovations and Sustainable Development

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R v Huhne and Pryce
Regina v Christopher Huhne and Vasiliki Pryce is the criminal prosecution of the former British Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Chris Huhne MP and his former wife, Vicky Pryce for perverting the course of justice, contrary to common law. Huhne became the first Cabinet minister in British history to be forced to resign as a consequence of criminal proceedings.
Huhne was appointed Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change on 12 May 2010 as part of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition that had formed after the 2010 general election, in which he had been returned as Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Eastleigh. In June 2010, Huhne announced that he was leaving his wife Pryce after 26 years after he confirmed that he had been having a long-term affair with a media adviser. The couple divorced in January 2011.

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Raffaele Lombardo
Raffaele Lombardo (born on 29 October 1950 in Catania) is an Italian politician, President of Sicily and former Member of the European Parliament for Islands with the Movement for Autonomies and has sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
He is a substitute for 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 Canada.
In 2005 he split off from the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (UDC) to form the autonomist Sicilian-based Movement for Autonomy, after he had accused the UDC leadership of being too centralist. On 2008 he was elected as President of Sicily, obtaining over 65% of the regional votes and defeating Anna Finocchiaro.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)

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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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Ralf Walter
Ralf Walter (born on 15 March 1958 in Andernach) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Socialist Group and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on Development.

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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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Raymond Langendries
Raymond A. Langendries (born on 1 October 1943 in Tubize) is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the French Community of Belgium with the Centre Démocrate Humaniste, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Development, a member of the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China.
On July 17, 2008, he was one of three senior Belgian politicians commissioned by King Albert II to investigate ways of enabling constitutional reform talks in the light of the long-running Belgian constitutional crisis.
European Parliament election, 2004 (Belgium)

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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 Rack
Reinhard Rack (born 7 August 1945 in Leoben, Styria) is an Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Austrian People's Party, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism.
He is also a substitute for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, a member of the delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Japan.

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Reino Paasilinna
Reino Paasilinna (born 5 December 1939 in Arctic Ocean) is a Finnish politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, which is part of the Party of European Socialdemocrats, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. Reino Paasilinna was born in Aunus, a ship on the Arctic Ocean, on the coast of Norway. Reino Paaslinna's family is from Petsamo but they moved to Kittilä because the Soviet Union invaded Petsamo during the Winter War.
He is also a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education, vice-chair of the delegation to the EU–Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with the countries of Central America.
The writers Erno, Mauri and Arto Paasilinna are his brothers.

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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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Renato Brunetta
Renato Brunetta (Venice, May 26, 1950) is an Italian economist and politician and, as of May 2008, a minister in the Berlusconi government.
He is a former member of the Italian Socialist Party, Member of the European Parliament for the North-East from 2004 to 2009 with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's Party, and vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.

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Riccardo Ventre
Riccardo Ventre (born on 20 June 1944 in Formicola) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Southern with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's Party and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Constitutional Affairs.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development, a member of the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries and a substitute for the Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly.

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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 Corbett
Richard Corbett (born 6 January 1955, Southport, Lancashire) was a Member of the European Parliament for the Labour Party for Yorkshire and the Humber, serving between 1996 and 2009. Under the single member constituency system that predates the present proportional representation system, he represented Merseyside West from 1996 to 1999.
He lost his seat in the 2009 European Parliament elections. He is now advisor to President Herman Van Rompuy.
Corbett was educated at Farnborough Road School in Southport, the International School of Geneva and Trinity College, Oxford and later did an external doctorate at the University of Hull. At school, he was captain of the football team and played for the junior team of a Swiss second division club. At university, he was the secretary of the Labour Club and chairman of the student Oxford Committee for Europe. He co-ordinated the Oxford student "Yes" campaign in the 1975 referendum on membership of the European Community. He also skied for Oxford against Cambridge.

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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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Rihards Pīks
Rihards Pīks (born December 31, 1941 in Riga) is a Latvian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the People's Party; part of the European People's Party.

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Riitta Myller
Riitta Myller (born 12 July 1956 in Joensuu, North Karelia) is a Finnish politician and former Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
She was also 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 to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly.
Myller was a member from January 1995 to July 2009.

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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 Goodwill
Robert Goodwill (born 31 December 1956) is a British farmer and Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Scarborough and Whitby and a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
Goodwill was born in North Yorkshire and was educated at the Quaker Bootham School in York, and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture in 1979. He is a farmer of 250 acres (100 ha) of mainly arable land near Malton which has been in his family since 1850. He has been the managing director of Mowthorpe (UK) Ltd since 1995 which offers environmentally friendly burials in the North Yorkshire countryside [1].
Goodwill unsuccessfully contested Redcar at the 1992 general election where he finished second, some 11,577 votes behind the sitting Labour MP Mo Mowlam. He unsuccessfully contested Cleveland and Richmond at the 1994 European election. He again attempted to enter the House of Commons at the 1997 general election when he was selected for the marginally held Conservative seat of North West Leicestershire following the deselection^{[citation needed]} of the sitting MP David Ashby. Goodwill was defeated by Labour's David Taylor by 13,219 votes. In 1998, he contested the Yorkshire SouthEuropean Parliament by-election, but was again defeated.

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Robert Maxwell
Ian Robert Maxwell MC (10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and former Member of Parliament (MP), who rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire. His death revealed huge discrepancies in his companies' finances, including the Mirror Group pension fund, which Maxwell had fraudulently misappropriated.
Robert Maxwell was born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch into a poorYiddish-speaking Jewish family in the small town of Slatinské Doly (now Solotvino, Ukraine) in the easternmost province of pre-World War II Czechoslovakia. His parents were Mechel Hoch and Hannah Slomowitz. He had six siblings. In 1939, the area was reclaimed by Hungary. Most members of his family died in Auschwitz after Hungary was occupied in 1944 by its former ally, Nazi Germany, but he had already escaped to France. In Marseille he joined the Czechoslovak army in exile in May 1940.
After the defeat in France and the retreat to Great Britain, Maxwell took part in the protest against the leadership of the Czechoslovak army and, together with 500 other soldiers, was transferred to the British Pioneer Corps, and later to the North Staffordshire Regiment in 1943. He was then involved in action across Europe, from the Normandy beaches to Berlin, and achieved the rank of sergeant. He gained a commission in 1945 and was promoted to captain. In January 1945 he received the Military Cross from Field Marshal Montgomery. It was during this time that British Intelligence changed his name several times, finally settling on Ian Robert Maxwell.^{[citation needed]}

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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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Roberto Musacchio
Roberto Musacchio (born on 3 September 1956 in Miami, United States) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the North-East with the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (PRC), Member of the Bureau of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand.
He obtained a secondary school-leaving certificate in classical subjects (1975).
A former member of the national executive of the party of Partito di Unità Proletaria (PdUP), and then of the Italian Communist Party (national official responsible for the environment department and member of the national political committee), he became a member of the national party executive of the PRC (national official responsible for the environment and member of the national executive).

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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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Roger Knapman
Roger Maurice Knapman (born 20 February 1944 in Crediton, Devon) is a British politician and the former leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP).
As a member of the Conservative Party, he was elected MP for Stroud in 1987. Between 1990 and 1992, he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the armed forces minister, Archie Hamilton. He resigned from this position in order to oppose the Maastricht Treaty. He successfully defended his seat in the 1992 general election. In 1995 he became a government whip. In 1997, however, he lost his seat to Labour candidate, David Drew.
Shortly afterwards, Knapman left the Conservative party to join UKIP. He stood as their candidate in the 2001 general election for North Devon, coming fourth yet narrowly retaining his deposit.
From 2000, he was UKIP's political advisor, and in 2002 he was elected unopposed as party leader. In 2004 he was elected a Member of the European Parliament for the South West England constituency. As leader of the only British party in the European Parliament to vote against the expansion of the EU in 2004, there was some amusement in May 2006 when it was revealed that he had employed a team of Polish builders to renovate his Grade II listed home in Devon, claiming there were no suitable local workers - a claim denied by local builders.

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Rolandas Pavilionis
Rolandas Pavilionis (July 3, 1944 – May 10, 2006) was a Lithuanian philosopher, politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Liberal Democratic Party; part of the Union for a Europe of Nations.
In 1962 Pavilionis graduated from a night-school for workers in Šiauliai. He attended the school at night after finishing his work at a bicycle factory. The same year he was admitted to the Vilnius University to study foreign languages. In 1968 he graduated the university with a degree in philology. From 1968 to 1971 he continued postgraduate studies at the Science Academy of Ukraine and earned doctor's degree in logic. Pavilionis then returned to Lithuania and joined Vilnius University as member of the faculty (1971–1977 docent, 1982–1990 professor). For some time he was the head of the Department of History of Philosophy and Logic.
Pavilionis took courses at the Sorbonne University of Paris with prof. Algirdas Julius Greimas. In 1981 Pavilionis defended his thesis in the field of language logic and philosophy of logic, earning degree of Habilitated Doctor of Logic.

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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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Rosa Díez
Rosa Díez González (born May 27, 1952 in Güeñes, Biscay, Spain) is a Spanish politician. She is a former Member of the European Parliament for the PSOE ("Partido Socialista Obrero Español" or Spanish Socialist Workers' Party), integrated in the Party of European Socialists.
In 2007 she gave up her seat and left the PSOE due to strong disagreement on what she perceived to be the Socialists' drift on individual liberties, ETA, and more. Subsequently she founded a new political party, UPyD ("Unión, Progreso y Democracia" or Union, Progress and Democracy), based on an already existing movement of basque citizens against terrorism of ETA. In 2008 and 2011, she was elected to the Congress of Deputies (Spain) representing Madrid district. In the last Spanish General Elections of 2011, she was re-elected, and her party was the fourth most voted party in Spain.

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Rosa Miguélez
Rosa Miguélez Ramos (born August 27, 1953 in Ferrol) is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.

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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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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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Ruth Hieronymi
Ruth Hieronymi (b. 8 November 1947, Bonn) 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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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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Sahra Wagenknecht
Sahra Wagenknecht (born July 16, 1969 in Jena, Thuringia) is a German politician. She is a Member of the Bundestag, author, and a member of the National Committee of the Left Party. Since May 2010 she is deputy chairperson of Die Linke.
Wagenknecht was born on July 16, 1969, in the East German city of Jena. Her mother worked for a state-run art distributor. Her father, whom she never met, was Iranian. She was cared for primarily by her grandparents until 1976, when she and her mother moved to East Berlin. While in Berlin, she became a member of the Free German Youth (FDJ). She completed her Abitur exams in 1988 and joined the Socialist Unity Party (SED) in early 1989.
From 1990 until 1996 she studied Philosophy and New German Literature in Jena, Berlin and Groningen. Her final thesis covered the topic of the young Karl Marx's interpretation of Hegel. The dissertation was published as a book in 1997.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the transformation of the SED into the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), Wagenknecht was elected to the new party's National Committee in 1991. She also joined the PDS's Communist Platform, an orthodox Marxist faction.

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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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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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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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Sepp Kusstatscher
Sepp Kusstatscher (born on 17 March 1947 in Villanders) is an Italian politician and former Member of the European Parliament for North-East with the Federation of the Greens, part of the European Greens and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. Furthermore he is speaker of the Green Party of South Tyrol.
He was a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism, a member of the Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee and a substitute for the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)

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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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Seán Ó Neachtain
Seán Ó Neachtain (born 22 May 1947) is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament for the North–West constituency from 2002, when he was substituted for Pat the Cope Gallagher, until 2009.
He was a member of the Transport and Tourism Committee, as well as the Fisheries Committee. Ó Neachtain was instrumental to the recognition of the Irish language as an official working language of the European Union.
After obtaining a BA (hons) in 1969, Ó Neachtain became a school teacher. He worked in this capacity through the 1970s and 1980s. He was involved in regional politics around Galway and western Ireland from 1979, and served as a member of Galway County Council from 1991 to 2002. He made his first foray into European politics when he was appointed as a member of the Committee of the Regions in 1994. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Galway West constituency at the 1997 general election.
On 20 April 2009, he announced that he would not be contesting the 2009 European Parliament election due to health concerns.

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Shailesh Vara
Shailesh Lakhman Vara (born 4 September 1960) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Cambridgeshire in the 2005 general election, succeeding Brian Mawhinney as the Conservative MP for the seat. Shailesh Vara has previously been a Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party. In 2006, he was appointed to the shadow ministerial post of Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Commons. Following the 2010 general election, he was appointed to the position of Assistant Whip in the coalition government.
Born in Uganda to Hindu Indian Immigrants. Vara came to Britain with his family in 1964 when he was four. Educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and Brunel University, Vara qualified as a solicitor. He worked in the City and West End of London, and during 1989-1990, he worked in Hong Kong. Vara has been a senior legal adviser and business consultant for London First, and is vice-president of the Small Business Bureau. He also has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and set up his own club where he taught for a while. Vara is married with two children.

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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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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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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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Simon Coveney
Simon Coveney (born 16 June 1972) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Cork South–Central since 1998. In March 2011 he became Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in Enda Kenny's coalition government.
Born in Cork, Coveney was the son of Hugh Coveney, a chartered quantity surveyor and a member of one of the famous merchant prince families in the city. He was educated locally in Cork before later attending Clongowes Wood College, County Kildare. He was expelled from the college in Transition Year and completed his secondary school education in Presentation Brothers College, Cork. Coveney subsequently attended University College Cork and Gurteen Agricultural College, before completing a BSc in Agriculture and Land Management from Royal Agricultural College, Gloucestershire.
Coveney married his longtime girlfriend Ruth Furney, an IDA Ireland employee, in July 2008. They have two daughters.
Coveney was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fine Gael candidate for Cork South–Central in a by-election caused by the death of his father in 1998. In spite of being a strong supporter of party leader John Bruton, he remained on the opposition backbenches for a number of years.

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Simon Hughes
Simon Henry Ward Hughes (born 17 May 1951) is a British politician and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats. He is Member of Parliament for the constituency of Bermondsey and Old Southwark. Until 2008 he was President of the Liberal Democrats (the party president chairs a number of party committees and also represents the party at official functions). Hughes has twice run unsuccessfully for the leadership of the party and was its unsuccessful candidate for Mayor of London in the 2004 election. He is also Chair of the trustees for the Thames Festival, a weekend of events on London's South Bank.
He was appointed as a Privy Counsellor on 15 December 2010.
Hughes was born in Cheshire, England, and partly brought up in Wales. He was educated at The Cathedral School, Llandaff where he was Dean's Scholar and Head Boy in 1964; Christ College, Brecon; Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a 2:1 in Law; and the College of Europe in Bruges, where he earned a postgraduate Certificate of Advanced European Studies (equivalent to a Master's degree). Hughes was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1974. He moved to Bermondsey in 1981.

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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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Sorin Frunzăverde
Sorin Frunzăverde (born 26 April 1960) is a Romanian politician, former president of the Caras-Severin County Council, former Member of the European Parliament.
Sorin Frunzăverde is a Romanian political figure, a former leader of the Democratic Liberal Party, founder of Caraş-Severin party branch from the very beginning of the Democratic Party's creation in 1993. His work in the international relations department of the party became acknowledged when, in 2005, the party became a full member of the EPP family. On 27 March 2012 he announced his resignation from PDL and enter the Opposition branches of the National Liberal Party and the larger alliance Social Liberal Union of which PNL is part.
He has twice served as Minister of National Defense. The first appointment, from 13 March 2000 to 28 December 2000, came when President Emil Constantinescu chose him to replace defence minister Victor Babiuc, who had left the Democratic Party but refused to leave the ministerial post. He was returned to the post from 25 October 2006 to 5 April 2007, after defence minister Teodor Atanasiu resigned following a long running dispute with President Traian Băsescu.

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Stanisław Jałowiecki
Stanisław Jałowiecki (born on 26 December 1946 in Tanvald) 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 Transport and Tourism.
Jałowiecki is a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)

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Stavros Arnaoutakis
Stavros Arnaoutakis (Greek: Σταύρος Αρναουτάκης; born 25 May 1956) is a Greek politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK); part of the Party of European Socialists. He has also served as the Deputy Minister for the Economy.
In the November 2010 elections, he was elected as the governor for the Crete Region, supported by PASOK.

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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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Stefano Zappalà
Stefano Zappalà (born on 6 February 1941 in Aci Bonaccorsi) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Central with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's Party and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
He is a substitute for the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, a member of the Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council and a substitute for the Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)

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Stephen Crabb
Stephen Crabb (born 20 January 1973) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Preseli Pembrokeshire.
Crabb was born in Inverness and brought up in council housing in Pembrokeshire. He was educated at the Fenton Infants School, Barn Street Junior School (now both called Fenton Community Primary School) on Portfield and Tasker Milward V.C. School in Haverfordwest from 1984-91. He was awarded a BSc (1st) in Politics at the University of Bristol in 1995 and a Master of Business Administration from the London Business School.
In 1996 he became a parliamentary affairs officer for the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services, before working at the London Chamber of Commerce in 1998: he left them in 2002 as the policy and campaigns manager. He has been a business consultant since.
From 1995 to 1996 he was a Christian Action Research and Education parliamentary intern.
He was elected as the chairman of the Southwark North and Bermondsey Conservative Association for two years in 1998 and in the same year was an election monitor in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Stephen Milligan
Stephen David Wyatt Milligan (12 May 1948 in Godalming, Surrey - 5 February 1994) was a British Conservative politician and journalist. He held a number of senior journalistic posts until his election to serve as Member of Parliament for Eastleigh in 1992. He was found dead in his flat in Chiswick, London in February 1994, strangled by an electrical cord during an act of autoerotic asphyxiation.
Milligan was born in Godalming, Surrey on 12 May 1948, the son of David Milligan, a Company Secretary at House of Fraser and Ruth Seymour, a ballet teacher. Educated at Bradfield College, he gained entry to Magdalen College, Oxford where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics. At Oxford, he became president of both the Oxford Union and the Oxford University Conservative Association. He was a contemporary of journalist Libby Purves, whom he once partnered to a College Ball.
Milligan joined The Economist in 1970, and was industrial editor and chief EC correspondent between 1972 and 1980. In 1976, he published a book, The New Barons, on British trade unions in 1970s. Still working for The Economist, he took a position as presenter of The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4 from 1980 until 1983. He later became foreign editor and Washington correspondent at The Sunday Times from 1984 until 1987, before rejoining the BBC in 1988 as a European correspondent.Sunday Times editor Andrew Neil described Milligan: "He possessed an enquiring, original intelligence, a wide knowledge of foreign and domestic affairs and he was great fun to work with, his infectious laugh filling our editorial meetings, where he played a major role in defining the paper's policy positions".

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Steve Webb
Steven John Webb, better known as Steve Webb (born 18 July 1965), is an English Liberal Democrat politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Thornbury & Yate and the Minister of State for Pensions.
Webb was born in West Bromwich to Brian and Patricia Webb, and attended the local comprehensive school (Dartmouth High School), before going on to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Hertford College, Oxford. He then worked at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London, where he specialised in researching into poverty, taxes and benefits. In 1995, he became a Professor of Social Policy at the University of Bath.
At the 1997 General Election Webb was elected as MP for Northavon, just north of Bristol, overturning a Conservative majority of over 11,000. He increased a 2,137 majority to 9,877 in the 2001 Election and again to 11,033 in the 2005 Election.
In 2001, Webb was promoted by Charles Kennedy to lead spokesman for the Liberal Democrats on Work and Pensions, a portfolio he had worked in since 1999. He continued in this position until being appointed as Liberal Democrat Health spokesman in 2005. At the end of 2006, he started a new role co-ordinating the party's manifesto for the next general election. In the first reshuffle after the leadership election, he was appointed Liberal Democrat Environment, Energy, Food and Rural Affairs spokesman. Following Gordon Brown's reshuffle in October 2008, he shadowed Ed Miliband in the newly formed Department for Energy and Climate Change. On 8 January 2009 Nick Clegg announced his "General Election Team" and an "economic recovery group" with Webb appointed as Work and Pensions spokesman.

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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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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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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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Sylwester Chruszcz
Sylwester Arkadiusz Chruszcz (born on 22 August 1972 in Głogów) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Lower Silesian Voivodship and Opole Voivodship with the Naprzód Polsko, part of the Union for Europe of the Nations and is member of the European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism.
Chruszcz is a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development and a member of the Delegation for relations with Canada.
After 2007 parliamentary election, when Liga lost all seats in Sejm and Senat, leader Roman Giertych resigned and announced his withdrawn from policy. Chruszcz was named acting leader.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)

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Szabolcs Fazakas
Szabolcs Fazakas (born October 26, 1947 in Budapest) is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Hungarian Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. On 23 July 2004 he was elected Chair of the Committee on Budgetary Control. Mr. Szabolcs Fazakas was elected to the European Court of Auditors, despite the fact that he had voluntarily joined the Hungarian Secret Service during the communist dictatorship and worked there for more than 13 years as a secret agent.

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Sérgio Marques
Sérgio Marques (born February 25, 1957 in Funchal, Madeira) is a Portuguese politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party–People's Party coalition. He is part of the European People's Party–European Democrats group.

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Sérgio Sousa Pinto
Sérgio Sousa Pinto (born July 29, 1972 in Lisbon) 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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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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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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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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Teresa Riera
Teresa Riera Madurell (born 13 October 1950 in Barcelona) is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. Riera was elected to the parliament of the Balearic Islands in 1989 and then to the national parliament in 1996 as deputy for The Balearic Islands serving until 2004.

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Terry Wynn
Terence ‘Terry’ Wynn (born 27 June 1946 in Wigan, Lancashire, England) was a Member of the European Parliament for North West England for the Labour Party. He was a member of the European Parliament between 1989 and 1994 for Merseyside East and between 1994 and 1999 for Merseyside East and Wigan. In 1999 he was elected on the regional list until his resignation in 2006.
He used to work in the Merchant Navy and is a Methodist local preacher in Wigan.

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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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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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Theresa May
Theresa Mary May (née Brasier, born 1 October 1956) is a British Conservative politician who is Home Secretary in the Conservative – Liberal Democrat Coalition government. She was elected to Parliament in 1997 as the Member of Parliament for Maidenhead, and served as the Chairman of the Conservative Party, 2003–04. Appointed to the Privy Council in 2003, she became Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Shadow Minister for Women before being appointed Home Secretary and the Minister for Women and Equality in David Cameron's Cabinet on 11 May 2010.
May was born 1 October 1956 in Eastbourne, Sussex. She is the daughter of Rev Hubert Brasier, a Church of England clergyman and Mrs Zaidee Brasier. Her education was completed at a combination of state primary, independent convent and state secondary schools. She initially attended Heythrop Primary School, Oxfordshire, followed by St. Juliana's Convent School for Girls, a Roman Catholic independent school in Begbroke, which closed in 1984. At the age of 13, she gained a place at the former Holton Park Girls' Grammar School in Wheatley in Oxfordshire. In 1971, the school was abolished and became the site of the new Wheatley Park Comprehensive School during her time as a pupil. May then attended the University of Oxford where she read Geography at St Hugh's College, taking a BA (Hons) in 1977.

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Theresa Villiers
Theresa Anne Villiers (born 5 March 1968) is a British Conservative Party politician. She is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chipping Barnet and the Minister of State for Transport.
She was appointed as a Privy Counsellor on 9 June 2010.
Villiers was born in London in 1968, the daughter of George Edward Villiers and Anne Virginia (née Threlfall). On her father's side she is a descendant of the Honourable Edward Ernest Villiers (1806–1843), brother of George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, Charles Pelham Villiers and Henry Villiers. She is also a distant relative of the actor James Villiers.
Growing up in North London, she was educated at the independent Francis Holland School. Villiers gained a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree with first class honours in 1990 from the University of Bristol, and went on to obtain a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) from Jesus College, Oxford, in 1991. After graduating she worked as a barrister and as a lecturer at King's College London (1994–99).
She was elected Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the London constituency in 1999, and was re-elected in 2004. She stood down after the 2005 general election when she was elected as the Member of Parliament for Chipping Barnet.

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Thierry Cornillet
Thierry Cornillet (born 23 July 1951 in Montélimar, Drôme) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-east of France. He is a member of the Union for French Democracy, which is part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Development. He was president of the center-right Parti radical valoisien from 1997 to 1999.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, a substitute for the Subcommittee on Human Rights, vice-chair of the delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, and a member of the delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly.

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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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Titus Corlăţean
Titus Corlăţean (born January 11, 1968) is a Romanian politician and diplomat. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), part of the Party of European Socialists, and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Braşov County in the 2004 elections. He became a Member of the European Parliament on January 1, 2007, with the accession of Romania to the European Union.
Corlăţean was born in Medgidia, and graduated from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Law in 1994. He also earned a certificate from the International Institute of the École Nationale d'Administration in Paris (1995).
Between 1994 and 2001, Corlăţean worked as a diplomat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before joining Prime Minister's Adrian Năstase's Chancellery in 2001-2003 (first as Adviser on Foreign Policy Issues, and, after 2003, as Secretary of State for the Romanian diaspora). He has been a member of the PSD since 2002, serving as spokesperson for its Coordinating Committee after 2004.
Corlăţean is married and the father of one.

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Tobias Pflüger
Tobias Pflüger (born on 1 February 1965 in Stuttgart) is a German politician and former Member of the European Parliament (2004 - 2009). He represented the Die Linke, part of the European Left and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. He was a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, substitute for the Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee.

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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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Tom Wise
Tom (Thomas) Wise (born 13 May 1948, in Bournemouth) was an Independent Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of England. A former police officer, he was elected in 2004 as a member of the United Kingdom Independence Party but later had the whip withdrawn when allegations of misuse of parliamentary expenses surfaced in The Sunday Telegraph. Following an inquiry carried out by the European Anti-Fraud Office, Wise was formally charged with false accounting and money laundering by Bedfordshire Police. After initially pleading not guilty, he admitted the charges and was sentenced in November 2009 at Southwark Crown Court to a two-year term of imprisonment. He is thought to be the first MEP to be jailed for expenses fraud. Sentencing him, the judge said that Wise had engaged in "deliberate and blatant dishonesty" and had set about to defraud the European Parliament almost as soon as he was elected.
Born in Bournemouth on 13 May 1948, Wise attended Bournemouth School between 1959 and 1965, before completing a Diploma in Public Speaking in 1967. He served with Dorset Police before embarking on a career in the food distribution and processing industry. He became the UK Managing Director of a German herbs and spices company. From 1981 to 1989 he was a member of the Liberal Party.

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Tomáš Zatloukal
Tomáš Zatloukal (b. August 3, 1969 in Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Union of Independents, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Budgets 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.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Czech Republic)

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Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Toomas Hendrik Ilves (Estonian pronunciation: [ˈtoːmɑs ˈhendrik ˈilves]; born 26 December 1953) is the fourth and current President of Estonia. He is a former diplomat and journalist, was the leader of the Social Democratic Party in the 1990s and later a member of the European Parliament. He was elected to the post by an electoral college on 23 September 2006 and his term as President began on 9 October 2006.
Ilves was born in Stockholm, Sweden; his parents were Estonian refugees. He grew up in the United States in Leonia, New Jersey and graduated from Leonia High School in 1972 as valedictorian. He received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Columbia University in 1976 and a master's degree in the same subject from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. In addition to his native Estonian, he is fluent in English, German and Spanish.
During the 1980s, Ilves worked as a journalist for Radio Free Europe and became actively involved in politics prior to Estonia's independence in 1991. Ilves subsequently became Ambassador of Estonia to the United States in 1993; he also served as Ambassador to Canada and Mexico for several years.

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Toomas Savi
Toomas Savi (born 30 December 1942 in Tartu, Estonia) is an Estonian politician and in 2004-2009 was a Member of the European Parliament for the Estonian Reform Party, part of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.
Toomas Savi is a doctor by profession. He graduated in medicine from University of Tartu in 1970, getting a medical degree in sports physiology in 1975. Over the years he has worked both as a practising doctor and a researcher. From 1979 to 1993, Toomas Savi was a Chief Medical Officer at Tartu Physical Culture Medical Centre. He has practiced in Kuopio University Central Hospital and Kajaani Central Hospital, Finland.
His political activities started in the end 1980s. 1989 to 2000 he served several terms as a member of Tartu City Council. From 1993 to 1995 Toomas Savi was a Vice Mayor of Tartu. 1994 he became a member of the Estonian Reform Party (Reformierakond). 1995 he was elected to the Estonian Parliament, Riigikogu, where he served two terms as Speaker. From 2003 to 2004 he was Deputy Speaker of Riigikogu and an observer in the European Parliament.

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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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Ulrich Stockmann
Ulrich Stockmann (born on 1 January 1951 in Oebisfelde) 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 Transport and Tourism.
He is a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, a member of the Delegation for relations with Israel and a substitute for the Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee.

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Umberto Bossi
Umberto Bossi (born September 19, 1941) is an Italian politician, former leader of the Northern League, a party seeking autonomy or independence for Northern Italy or Padania. He is married to Manuela Marrone and has four sons (one of which was from his first wife).
Umberto Bossi was born in 1941 in Cassano Magnago, in the province of Varese, Lombardy. He graduated from scientific high school (liceo scientifico) and later began studying medicine at the University of Pavia, though he did not get a degree. While there, in February 1979 he met Bruno Salvadori, leader of the Valdotanian Union.
Before becoming a politician, Bossi was a sympathiser of the Italian Communist Party in his early years. After the death of Salvadori in a car accident during the summer of 1980, Bossi began focusing more on Lombardy. After two years, the autonomist Lega Lombarda was born. In that period Bossi met his second wife, Manuela Marrone.
The Lega Lombarda would later seek alliances with similar movements in Veneto and Piedmont, forming the Northern League, of which he is still the federal secretary. He became the undisputed and unchallenged leader of the party, a position that he has maintained to this day, even after a serious stroke.

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Umberto Guidoni
Umberto Guidoni (born in Rome 18 August 1954) is an Italian politician and a former ESA astronaut. He is a veteran of two NASA space shuttle missions. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 to 2009.
Guidoni earned a doctorate in astrophysics from the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1978 and worked in the Italian Space Agency (ASI) as well as in the European Space Agency (ESA). One of his research projects was the Tethered Satellite System, which was part of the payload of the STS-46 mission. Guidoni trained as an alternate payload specialist for this mission and made his first spaceflight aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia STS-75 in 1996, which included another test of the TSS system.
In 2001, Guidoni participated in the Space Shuttle's STS-100 mission, being the first European on board the International Space Station (ISS). On that flight, the Space Shuttle Endeavour carried the Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module for its maiden flight as well as the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS), the Canadian robotic arm used extensively to assemble the ISS.

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Umberto Pirilli
Umberto Pirilli (born on 25 September 1940 in Gioia Tauro) is an Italian politician; he was Member of the European Parliament for Southern with the Alleanza Nazionale, part of the Union for a Europe of Nations and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.
He was a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee.
In 2009 he was not re-elected.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)

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Ursula Stenzel
Ursula Stenzel (born September 22, 1945, Leopoldstadt, Vienna) is an Austrian politician and was a Member of the European Parliament until 2006. She is a member of the Austrian People's Party, a member of the bureau of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.
She is also chair of the delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula, a member of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, and a substitute for the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
Stenzel has been Bezirksvorsteherin of Innere Stadt since 2005.
Stenzel was born in a Catholic family of Jewish descent. Her father was engineer of the North railway. Her mother was the daughter of a rabbi and chazzan in the Rotensterngasse, Leopoldstadt.
Stenzel has been criticised by local and national artists for her conservative positions and most notably for her outspoken support of a closing hour in Vienna's 1'st district ("Innere Stadt"). This culminated in a satirical video which covered the Duck Sauce hit "Barbra Streisand". This video became known as Ursula Stressned (Ursula don't stress) and gained wide popularity within days and became a youtube fad.

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Urszula Krupa
Urszula Krupa (born on 20 October 1949 in Łódź) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Łódź Voivodeship with the Liga Polskich Rodzin, part of the Independence and Democracy and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and its Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
Krupa is also a member of the Delegation for relations with South Africa and a substitute for the Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)

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Valdis Dombrovskis
Valdis Dombrovskis (born 5 August 1971) is the Prime Minister of Latvia. He previously served as Minister for Finance of Latvia and as a Member of the European Parliament for the New Era Party.
Born in Riga to a family with Polish roots, Dombrovskis graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Latvia. He earned a Bachelor's degree in economics for engineers from Riga Technical University in 1995 and a Master's degree in physics from the University of Latvia in 1996. He has worked as a laboratory assistant at the Institute of Physics of Mainz University, Germany from 1995 to 1996, as an assistant at the Institute of Solid-State Physics of the University of Latvia in 1997, and as a research assistant at the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1998.
Dombrovskis has been a Member of the Board of the New Era Party since 2002. He was Minister of Finance of Latvia from 2002 to 2004 and a Member of the Latvian Parliament during its 8th parliamentary term (2002–2004). Then he was Observer at the Council of the European Union (2003–2004).

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Vasco Graça Moura
Vasco Navarro da Graça Moura, OSE (born 3 January 1942 in Foz do Douro, Porto) is a Portuguese lawyer, writer, translator and politician, son of Francisco José da Graça Moura and wife Maria Teresa Amado da Cunha Seixas Navarro de Castro, of Northern Portugal bourgeoisie.
He was a Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party–People's Party coalition; part of the European People's Party–European Democrats group.
He married three times, firstly in 1964 to Maria Fernanda de Carvalho de Sá Dantas, secondly in 1985 to Clara Crabbé da Rocha (daughter of Miguel Torga) and thirdly in 1987 to Maria do Rosário Bandeira de Lima de Sousa Machado (b. c. 1951), former and first wife of António Carlos Guerra Raposo de Magalhães, who died in 2004).

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Vicky Pryce
Vicky Pryce CB (born Vasiliki Courmouzis, 1952) is an economist, and former Joint Head of the United Kingdom's Government Economic Service.
She was born in Athens, the daughter of Nicolas and Voula Courmouzis. She studied at the LSE, gaining a BSc in Economics and an MSc in Monetary Economics.
After university she had a "glittering career" at Williams & Glyn's Bank (now part of the Royal Bank of Scotland) from 1973 to 1983 where she worked as an economist and became chief economist, chief economist for KPMG from 1986 to 2001 starting as Peat Marwick McLintock, and corporate economist for Exxon Europe from 1983 to 1986. When having children, she took six weeks off for each child. She left KPMG at Blackfriars in late 2001, and worked for the London Economics consultancy.
Pryce joined the Department for Trade and Industry in August 2002 as Chief Economic Adviser, the first woman to be appointed to the post, for which the salary was about £110,000. She was also Chairman of the GoodCorporation, an organisation promoting ethical business practices.

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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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Viktória Mohácsi
Viktória Mohácsi (born April 1, 1975 in Berettyóújfalu) is a Hungarian politician of Roma ethnicity. Between 2004 and 2009 she was a Member of the European Parliament, one of only a small caucus of Roma MEPs (another ethnic Romani member is Lívia Járóka). She was a member of the Alliance of Free Democrats, part of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party). She replaced a party colleague, Gábor Demszky, on 1 December 2004. In the July 2009 European elections, she lost her seat.
In 2008 in Rome she was granted the "Premio Minerva" for her activity in defense of human rights of Roma. On 21st October, Mohácsi, who has taken the lead in documenting violence toward the Roma in Hungary, received Human Rights First's 2010 annual award in New York.
The Movement for Desegregation Foundation led by the former European Parliament Member Viktória Mohácsi, the leading domestic monitor of anti-Roma attacks and hate crimes documented 68 attacks, of which 12 lead to death between January 2008 and June 2010.

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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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Vince Cable
John Vincent "Vince" Cable (born 9 May 1943) is a British Liberal Democrat politician and economist who is currently the Business Secretary in the coalition cabinet of David Cameron. He has been Member of Parliament for Twickenham since 1997.
Cable studied economics at university and became an economic advisor to the Kenyan government in 1966. He was an advisor to the British government and to the Commonwealth Secretary-General in the 1970s and 1980s. Later, he served as Chief Economist for the oil company Shell from 1995 to 1997. In 1970s, Cable was active in the Labour Party and became a Glasgow councillor. However in 1982, he joined the Social Democratic Party which would later join the Liberal Party to form the Liberal Democrats, and he unsuccessfully contested seats in the elections of 1983 (York), 1987 (York) and 1992 (Twickenham) until being elected as the MP for the London constituency of Twickenham in the 1997 general election.
Cable was the Liberal Democrats' senior economic spokesperson from 2003 to May 2010. He was elected Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Commons in March 2006, and following Sir Menzies Campbell's resignation, he was Acting Leader for two months—from October 2007 until the election of Nick Clegg. He resigned from his position as Deputy Leader in May 2010.

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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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Vincenzo Aita
Vincenzo Aita (born September 14, 1948 in Eboli) is an Italian politician and a member of the European Parliament with the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left. He sits on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and is a substitute on the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
From 1972 to 1976, Aita was a member of the Salerno Provincial Committee of the Alleanza Contadini Party. From 1976 to 1980 he was a member of the Central Committee of the Italian Communist Party, and he was a member of the Central Committee of the Italian Communist Party from 1975 to 1983. From 1983 to 1996, he was a municipal councillor for Eboli. He was a Deputy Major of Eboli with responsibility for finance from 1987 to 1988. From 1980 to 1985, he was a member of the Campania Regional Council. Most recently, from June 2000 until September 2004, he was a member of the Campania Regional Executive with responsibility for agriculture.

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Vincenzo Lavarra
Vincenzo Lavarra (born January 27, 1954) is an Italian politician and a Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Democrats of the Left (DS), which is a part of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament. Lavarra is a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and the delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. He is a substitute on the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China.
Lavarra was born in Gioia del Colle, Apulia. In 1977 he obtained a degree in literature and philosophy. From 1979 to 1982 he was the chief editor of the Italian communist newspaper L'Unità in Apulia. He was a DS Regional Secretary for Apulia and a member of the DS national executive. In July 2004 he was a vice-chairman of the provincial government of Bari.
Vincenzo Lavarra was first elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 1999 and continued to serve until 2004. During this time he was a vice-chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development from July 21, 1999 to January 14, 2002 and also a member from January 17, 2002 to July 19, 2004. He was a member of the Committee on Fisheries from July 21, 1999 to January 14, 2002 and from January 17, 2002 to July 19, 2004. He was also a member of the delegation for relations with the countries of southeast Europe from June 10, 1999 to January 14, 2002 and from February 7, 2002 to July 19, 2004.

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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 Agnoletto
Vittorio Emanuele Agnoletto (born on 6 March 1958 in Milan) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Southern Italy constituency. He was first elected in the 2004 European Parliament elections on the Communist Refoundation Party (Italian: Partito della Rifondazione Comunista, PRC) list, part of the European Left. He was re-elected in the 2009 European Parliament elections.
Agnoletto sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs and is a substitute for the Committee on International Trade, substitute for the Delegation for relations with the United States.
A graduate in medicine and surgery at the University of Milan (1985), he specialized in occupational medicine, and became co-founder (1987) and national chairman (1992–2001) of LILA - Italian League against AIDS. Since 1992, Agnoletto has been a lecturer and director of studies for training courses on AIDS at the Higher Institute of Health in Rome.
Between 1993 and 2001, he served as member of the National Committee on AIDS of the Italian Ministry of Health, and member of the National Coordinating Committee for action to combat drugs established under the Italian Prime Minister's office. Since 1994, he is a member of the International AIDS Society. He works with the International Organization for Migration on preventive medicine projects in the Balkans. Vittorio Agnoletto was a member of the European AIDS Treatment Group between 1994 and 2000. In 1994, he was awarded the title Doctor of the Year in 1994 by the journal Stampa medica.

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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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Vladimír Remek
Vladimír Remek (born 26 September 1948) is the first Czechoslovak in space and the first cosmonaut from a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States. As of 2004, with the entry of the Czech Republic into the European Union Vladimír Remek is considered to be the first astronaut from the EU. He flew aboard Soyuz 28 from March 2nd to March 10th 1978, for seven days, 22 hours, and 17 minutes. In 2004 he was elected into the European Parliament.
Vladimír Remek was born in České Budějovice to Czech mother and Slovak father. His father, Jozef Remek, was Lieutenant General of the Czechoslovak army (1973-75 deputy of the Minister of Defense responsible for air force and air defense, 1976-89 commander of the air force). In 1970 Vladimír Remek became military pilot. In 1976 he finished a military air force academy.
Remek joined the Intercosmos program in 1976; his backup was Oldřich Pelčák. After the flight, on March 16, 1978, he and Aleksei Gubarev, the other member of the crew, were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

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Vladimír Železný
Vladimír Železný (born 3 March 1945 in Samara, Soviet Union) is a media businessman, politician and convicted criminal in the Czech Republic. He was the first CEO of TV NOVA, a popular Czech television station and was a member of the European Parliament between 2004 and 2009. As a media mogul with political influence, he has been compared to Rupert Murdoch and Silvio Berlusconi.
In 1968, aged 23, Železný made headlines when he broadcast in defiance of orders pictures of Russian tanks driving through Prague during the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.
In 1993 he applied with five others for a license to broadcast a private television channel to show classical music, cultural programmes and current affairs. He obtained a €140m investment from the American firm, Central European Media Enterprises (CME) to fund the enterprise. Due to the Czech Media Council's rules against foreign ownership, the license was granted to a company controlled by Železný - CET21 - which, with the legal assistance of Miroslav Šipovič signed a licensing agreement with a joint venture partly owned by CME. In February 1994 he launched TV NOVA which became the most popular network, although it was criticised as undermining the cultural tradition of Czechs.

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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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Vural Öger
Vural Öger (born on 1 February 1942 in Ankara, Turkey) is a German politician of Turkish descent, 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 Foreign Affairs.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism, a member of the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula.

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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 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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Věra Flasarová
Věra Flasarová (born on 19 December 1952 in Ostrava) 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. She is also a member of CULT and FEMM Committee.

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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.

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Westminster School
Coordinates: 51°29′54″N 0°07′42″W / 51.4984°N 0.1284°W
The Royal College of St. Peter in Westminster, better known as Westminster School, is one of Britain's leading independent schools, with the highest Oxford and Cambridge acceptance rate of any secondary school or college in Britain. Standing in the precincts of Westminster Abbey in central London, and with a history stretching back to the 11th century, the school's notable alumni include Ben Jonson, Robert Hooke,Christopher Wren, John Locke, Jeremy Bentham,Edward Gibbon, Henry Mayhew, A. A. Milne, Tony Benn and seven Prime Ministers. The school traditionally encourages independent and individual thinking. Boys are admitted to the Under School at age seven, and to the senior school at age thirteen; girls are admitted only at sixteen. The school has around 750 pupils; around a quarter are boarders, most of whom go home at weekends, after Saturday morning school. It is one of the original nine British public schools as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868.

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Wiesław Kuc
Wiesław Stefan Kuc (born on 2 September 1949 in Sokołów Podlaski) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for LU, is the economist and agriculture expert of EP delegation of Self-Defense and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets.
Initially, he was a non-attached like the other members of his party, but on 1 December 2004, he joined [1] the Socialist Group together with Bogdan Golik. He rejoined his Samoobrona colleagues in the Union for Europe of the Nations group in December 2006, leaving Golik alone with the Socialists.
Kuc is a substitute for the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)

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Willem Schuth
Willem Schuth (born on 14 June 1954 in Assen) is a Dutch politician and former Member of the European Parliament for Germany 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 Agriculture and Rural Development.
He is a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism, 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 to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee.

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Willi Piecyk
Willi Piecyk (born 11 August 1948 in Munich; died 1 August 2008 in Großhansdorf) was a German politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Socialist Group and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries and its Committee on Transport and Tourism.
He was a substitute for the Committee on Budgets and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee.
From 1966 to 1968, he served as a police officer.

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William Hague
William Jefferson Hague MP FRSL (born 26 March 1961) is a British politician, who is the current Foreign Secretary and First Secretary of State. He served as Leader of the Conservative Party from June 1997 to September 2001. In Parliament, he has represented the constituency of Richmond (Yorks) since 1989.
Educated at Wath-upon-Dearne Grammar School, a state grammar school, then the University of Oxford (graduating with First Class Honours in Philosophy, Politics and Economics) and INSEAD, Hague was first elected to the House of Commons in a by-election in 1989. Hague rose through the ranks of John Major's government and entered the Cabinet in 1995 as the Secretary of State for Wales. Following the Conservatives' defeat in the 1997 general election, he was elected as leader of the Conservative Party. He resigned as party leader after the 2001 general election following a landslide defeat to the Labour Party. He was the first leader of the Conservatives not to have become Prime Minister since Austen Chamberlain in the early 1920s.

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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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Witold Tomczak
Witold Tomczak (born on 5 April 1957 in Kępno) is a right-wing Polish politician, currently a member of the European Parliament.
Before his political career, Tomczak worked as a physician He graduated from the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice in 1987 and specialized in general medicine. He practiced as a family physician in Łęka Opatowska near Kalisz, where he was a local councilman from 1990 through 1998.
From 1997 to 2001, he was a Sejm member for the conservative party Christian-National Union (ZChN), which at that time was part of the Solidarity Electoral Action party (AWS). He left the AWS in 1999 to co-found the Polish Agreement party. In 2001, he ran on the ticket of the then newly established League of Polish Families in the Kalisz constituency and won a seat again.
Before Poland's EU accession, Tomczak served as a Polish observer to the European Parliament. In 2004, he was elected to the European Parliament in the Greater Poland Voivodship constituency. He is a member of the euroskeptical Independence/Democracy Group in the parliament. He sits on the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and is a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee.

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Wojciech Roszkowski
Wojciech Roszkowski (born on 20 June 1947 in Warszawa) is a Polish economist and politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Silesian Voivodeship with the Law and Justice, part of the Union for a Europe of Nations and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets.
Roszkowski is a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education and a member of the Delegation for relations with Japan.
He is a fellow of Collegium Invisibile and a signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)

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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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Wolfgang Ilgenfritz
Wolfgang Ilgenfritz (b. January 10, 1957) is a former non-attached Austrian Member of the European Parliament. He served for one parliamentary term (July 20, 1999-July 19, 2004) and was a member of the Freedom Party of Austria.
Wolfgang Ilgenfritz was born on January 10, 1957, in Villach, Austria. Attending a local primary school from 1963 to 1967, Ilgenfritz began attending another Villach school in 1967, graduating from there in 1971. Until 1976, Ilgenfritz studied at a local business school, continuing his education in business administration at the University of Graz until 1981. After receiving his qualifications, Ilgenfritz worked for one of the largest tax firms in Carinthia from 1981 to 1986, until opting to become an independent tax advisor from 1986 to 1991. From 1991 Ilgenfritz was an independent auditor and tax consultant, becoming a member of the Day Chamber of Chartered Accountants Carinthia in 1993.
On July 20, 1999, Ilgenfritz became a Member of the European Parliament, representing his home country of Austria. A one-term member, he served on various committees and delegations during his parliamentary career, including the Committee on Budgets, the Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and the Delegation to the EU-Hungary Joint Parliamentary Committee. He also served as a substitute on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy and the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport. On July 19, 2004, Ilgenfritz' term ended, and his European Parliamentary career came to a close.

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Yannick Vaugrenard
Yannick Vaugrenard (born 25 June 1950 in Trignac, Loire-Atlantique) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the west of France. He 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 Budgets.
He is also a substitute for the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, a member of the delegation to the EU–Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee, and a substitute for the delegation to the EU–Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee.

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Yiannakis Matsis
Yiannakis Matsis (Born October 24, 1933) is a Cypriot politician and was Member of the European Parliament for the European People's Party from June 14, 2004 until June 2009. He didn't stand for re-election in the European elections, 2009.

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Zbigniew Kuźmiuk
Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk (born on 19 September 1956 in Komorowo) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Masovian Voivodship with the Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets.
Kuźmiuk is a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)

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Zbigniew Zaleski
Zbigniew Zaleski (born on 29 April 1947 in Rogoziniec) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Lublin Voivodship with the Platforma Obywatelska, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade.
Zaleski is a substitute for the Committee on Development and a member of the Delegation for relations with Israel.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)

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Zdzisław Chmielewski
Zdzisław Chmielewski (born 4 October 1942 in Falborz) is a Polish historian, rector of Szczecin University, member of the European Parliament (elected on 13 June 2004).

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Zdzisław Podkański
Zdzisław Zbigniew Podkański (born on 18 October 1949 in Guzówka, Poland) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Lublin Voivodship with the Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education.
Podkański is a substitute for the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and a vice-chair of the Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)

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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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Zita Pleštinská
Zita Pleštinská (born Zita Kányai on 13 June 1961 in Nitra) is a Slovak politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Slovenská demokratická a kresťanská únia, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
She is a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development, a member of the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand.

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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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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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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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Šarūnas Birutis
Šarūnas Birutis (born September 20, 1961 in Šiauliai) is a Lithuanian politician. He was a member of the European Parliament for the Labour Party from 2004 to 2009. In the parliament he joined the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
He received bachelor's degree in economics from Vilnius University in 1984 and master's degree in law from Mykolas Romeris University in 2003. After Lithuania's independence in 1990, Birutis worked establishing and developing tourist industry. In 1999 he joined the Ministry of the Economy as adviser for small and middle businesses. He was a member of the team, negotiating Lithuania's membership in the European Union. In 2004, he was elected to the European Parliament, where he joined the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection. Birutis ran again in 2009, but Labour Party gained only one seat which went to Viktor Uspaskich, leader and founder of the party.

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The Right Honourable Chris Huhne MP

Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
In office 12 May 2010 – 3 February 2012
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Preceded by	Ed Miliband
Succeeded by	Ed Davey
Liberal Democrat Spokesman for Home Affairs
In office 20 December 2007 – 12 May 2010
Leader	Nick Clegg
Preceded by	Nick Clegg
Succeeded by	Vacant
Liberal Democrat Spokesman for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
In office 3 March 2006 – 19 December 2007
Leader	Menzies Campbell Vince Cable (Acting)
Preceded by	Norman Baker
Succeeded by	Steve Webb
Liberal Democrat Spokesman for Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office 16 May 2005 – 3 March 2006
Leader	Charles Kennedy Menzies Campbell
Preceded by	David Laws
Succeeded by	Colin Breed
Member of Parliament for Eastleigh
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 May 2005
Preceded by	David Chidgey
Majority	3,864 (7.2%)
Member of the European Parliament for South East England
In office 10 June 1999 – 12 May 2005
Preceded by	Constituency created
Succeeded by	Sharon Bowles
Personal details
Born	Christopher Murray Paul-Huhne (1954-07-02) 2 July 1954 (age 57) Westminster, United Kingdom
Political party	Liberal Democrats
Spouse(s)	Vicky Pryce (1984–2010)^[1]
Children	3 (also 2 step-daughters)
Alma mater	University of Paris Magdalen College, Oxford
Website	Official website

European Parliament
New constituency	Member of the European Parliament for South East England 1999–2005	Succeeded by Sharon Bowles
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by David Chidgey	Member of Parliament for Eastleigh 2005–present	Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by Ed Miliband	Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 2010–2012	Succeeded by Ed Davey

Persondata
Name	Huhne, Chris
Alternative names	Paul-Huhne, Christopher Murray
Short description	politician
Date of birth	1954-7-2
Place of birth	Westminster, United Kingdom
Date of death
Place of death

Nigel Farage MEP

Leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 November 2010
Preceded by	Jeffrey Titford
In office 27 September 2006 – 27 November 2009
Preceded by	Roger Knapman
Succeeded by	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
Member of the European Parliament for South East England
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 July 1999
Personal details
Born	(1964-04-03) 3 April 1964 (age 48) Kent, England, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Political party	UK Independence Party
Spouse(s)	Gráinne Hayes (1988-1997, divorced) Kirsten Mehr (1999-present)
Children	4
Alma mater	Dulwich College
Religion	Church of England
Website	Nigel Farage MEP

Party political offices
Preceded by ?	Chairman of the UK Independence Party 1998–2000	Succeeded by Mike Nattrass
Preceded by Roger Knapman	Leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party 2006–2009	Succeeded by The Lord Pearson of Rannoch
Preceded by Jeffrey Titford	Leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party 2010–present	Incumbent

Persondata
Name	Farage, Nigel
Alternative names
Short description	British politician
Date of birth	3 April 1964
Place of birth	Kent, United Kingdom
Date of death
Place of death

Tim Farron MP

President of the Liberal Democrats
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 January 2011
Leader	Nick Clegg
Preceded by	The Baroness Scott of Needham Market
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Leader of the Liberal Democrats
In office 22 March 2006 – 20 December 2007
Leader	Menzies Campbell
Succeeded by	Mark Hunter
Member of Parliament for Westmorland and Lonsdale
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 May 2005
Preceded by	Tim Collins
Majority	12,264 (23.8%)
Personal details
Born	(1970-05-27) 27 May 1970 (age 42) Preston, Lancashire, England
Nationality	British
Political party	Liberal Democrat
Spouse(s)	Rosie
Children	2 daughters, 2 sons
Alma mater	Newcastle University
Religion	Church of England

Persondata
Name	Farron, Tim
Alternative names
Short description	British politician
Date of birth	27 May 1970
Place of birth	Preston
Date of death
Place of death

Persondata
Name	Pryce, Vicky
Alternative names
Short description	Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service
Date of birth	1953
Place of birth	Athens, Greece
Date of death
Place of death

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