Jean-Claude Juncker is a Luxembourgish politician who was the 23rd prime minister of Luxembourg from 1995 to 2013 and 12th president of the European Commission from 2014 to 2019. He also was Finance Minister from 1989 to 2009 and President of the Eurogroup from 2005 to 2013.
The Christian Social People's Party is the largest political party in Luxembourg. The party follows a Christian democratic and conservative ideology and has been described as centre to centre-right. Furthermore,akin to most parties in Luxembourg,it is strongly pro-European. The CSV is a member of the Christian Group,European People's Party,and the Centrist Democrat International.
Michel Jean Barnier is a French politician who has served as Prime Minister of France since September 2024. A member of a series of Gaullist parties,Barnier has served in several French cabinet positions under the governments from Édouard Balladur to François Fillon from 1993 to 2009. At the European Union (EU) level,Barnier was European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services from 2010 to 2014 and vice-president of the European People's Party (EPP) from 2010 to 2015. From October 2016 to 2021,he was the EU's chief negotiator on Britain's exit from the European Union.
Pierre Moscovici is a French politician who served as the European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs,Taxation and Customs from 2014 to 2019. He previously served as Minister of Finance from 2012 to 2014 and as Minister for European Affairs between 1997 and 2002.
Dimitris Avramopoulos is a Greek politician of the conservative New Democracy party,and former career diplomat. He has served in various high-level cabinet posts,including Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for National Defence,and was Mayor of Athens from 1995 to 2002. He served as EU Commissioner for Migration,Home Affairs and Citizenship in the Juncker Commission between 2014 and 2019.
Ján Figeľ is a Slovak politician. Figeľserved as European Commissioner from 2004 to 2009,then as Slovak minister of Transports from 2010 to 2012. From 2016 to 2019 he was European Commission special envoy for the promotion of freedom of religion outside the EU.
Claude Wiseler is a Luxembourgish politician,serving as the current and 40th President of the Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies since 21 November 2023 and who served as President of the Christian Social People's Party (CSV) from 2021 to 2023.
Joëlle F.G.M. Milquet is a Belgian politician from the Humanist Democratic Centre (CDH).
Catherine Day is a former European civil servant from Ireland. Appointed in November 2005 as Secretary-General of the European Commission,she served two terms with President Jose Manuel Barroso and continued with his successor,Mr Jean-Claude Juncker until she retired in September 2015. She was the first woman to hold the post of Secretary General of the European Commission.
The Juncker–Poos Government was the government of Luxembourg between 26 January 1995 and 7 August 1999. It was led by,and named after,Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker and Deputy Prime Minister Jacques Poos.
The 2014 European Parliament election was held in the European Union (EU) between 22 and 25 May 2014. It was the 8th parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979,and the first in which the European political parties fielded candidates for President of the Commission.
Dacian Julien Cioloș is a Romanian agronomist who served as Prime Minister of Romania from November 2015 to January 2017. He previously served as Agriculture Minister under Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu between October 2007 and December 2008. In November 2009,European Commission President JoséManuel Barroso nominated him to be the next Agriculture Commissioner,a position he assumed in February 2010 and held until his term expired in November 2014. In November 2015,President Klaus Iohannis named him prime minister;Cioloșassumed office after receiving approval from Parliament.
Sir Julian Beresford King is a British diplomat and civil servant who served as the final British European Commissioner from 2016 to 2019 prior to Brexit,having previously served as the British ambassador to Ireland (2009–2011) and France (2016).
Jonathan Hopkin Hill,Baron Hill of Oareford,is a British Conservative politician and former European Commissioner for Financial Stability,Financial Services and Capital Markets Union. Hill was Leader of the House of Lords and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 2013 to 2014. Prior to that,he served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools from 2010 to 2013 in the Conservative-Lib Dem Government.
Carlos Manuel Félix Moedas is a Portuguese civil engineer,economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (PSD),who is the current Mayor of Lisbon.
The Juncker Commission was the European Commission in office from 1 November 2014 to 30 November 2019. Its president was Jean-Claude Juncker,who presided over 27 other commissioners. In July 2014,Juncker was officially elected to succeed JoséManuel Barroso,who completed his second five-year term in that year.
Events in the year 2014 in the European Union.
Didier Seeuws is a Belgian civil servant and diplomat who has been appointed by the European Union (EU) to lead a special internal task force in connection with the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU.
Martin Selmayr is a European civil servant from Germany who was Secretary-General of the European Commission from 2018 to 2019 and chief of staff to Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker from 2014 to 2018. During his time in the Juncker Commission,Selmayr was widely described as one of the most influential figures within the European Union. After taking office as secretary-general,he was described in a debate in the European Parliament as "the most powerful bureaucrat in the world." A resident of Brussels since 2000,he is a member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V) party of Belgium. He is considered by many to be close to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany and its leadership,but the European Commission said he has never been a member of that party.
Clara Martínez Alberola is a Spanish lawyer and a European civil servant. From March 2018 to November 2019,she served as the Head of Cabinet to the President of the European Commission,Jean-Claude Juncker.
