Sandra Kalniete is a Latvian politician,author,diplomat and independence movement leader. She served as Foreign Minister of Latvia 2002–2004 and as European Commissioner for Agriculture,Rural Development and Fisheries in 2004. Since 2009,she has served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the European People's Party.
Michael Gahler is a German diplomat and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 1999. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union,part of the European People's Party.
Peter Liese is a German physician and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 1994. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union,part of the European People's Party.
Herbert Reul is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as State Minister for Internal Affairs in the government of successive Ministers-President Armin Laschet (2017–2021) and Hendrik Wüst. He previously served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
Andreas Schwab is a German politician and member of the European Parliament for Germany. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union,part of the European People's Party. Since 2009,he has been Of Counsel with CMS Hasche Sigle.
Othmar Karas is an Austrian politician who served as the First Vice-President of the European Parliament since January 2022,having been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 1999. He is a member of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP),which in turn affiliates with the European People's Party.
Markus Ferber is a German engineer and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 1994. He is a member of the Christian Social Union,part of the European People's Party. In addition to his parliamentary work,Ferber has been serving as president of the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSS) since 2020.
Wolf Klinz is a German politician. He served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with the Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP),part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE),from 2004 until 2014 and from 2017 until 2019.
Angelika Niebler is a German lawyer and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 1999. She is a member of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria,part of the European People's Party. Since 2015,she has been serving as her party's deputy chairwoman,under the leadership of successive chairmen Horst Seehofer and Markus Söder.
Alexander Gamal Radwan is a German politician.
Anja Weisgerber is a German lawyer and politician. She currently is a member of the German Bundestag representing Schweinfurt for the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU),part of the European People's Party (EPP). She previously served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Bavaria. In addition to her political work,she serves as of counsel at the Frankfurt office of German law firm GSK Stockmann &Kollegen.
Alexander Sebastian Léonce von der Wenge Graf Lambsdorff,commonly known as Alexander Graf Lambsdorff is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP),part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe,who has been serving as the German ambassador to Russia since 2023.
Edelgard Bulmahn is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She served as Member of the German Bundestag between 1987 and 2017. She was Federal Minister of Education and Research from 1998 to 2005. From 2013 until 2017 she was elected as one of the Vice Presidents of the Bundestag.
Sven Giegold is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021. He was a member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2021.
Ismail Ertug is a German politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany from 2009 to 2023. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany,part of the Party of European Socialists.
Andrey Kovatchev,is a Bulgarian politician,Member of the European Parliament,a federalist and Head of the Bulgarian Delegation in the EPP Group in the European Parliament. Kovatchev is a chairman of the Union of European Federalists in Bulgaria. Since 2011 he has also been its vice-president. In January 2012 he was elected vice-chair of AFET –Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament.
Herbert Dorfmann is an Italian agronomist and politician of the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2009.
Viola von Cramon-Taubadel,often officially referred as simply Viola von Cramon is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who served as a member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024 and of the Bundestag,the German federal parliament,from 2009 to 2013.
Barbara Lochbihler is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 until 2019. She is a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens,part of the European Green Party.
Ivars Ijabs is a Latvian political scientist and politician. He is a lecturer and professor at the University of Latvia and holds a PhD in political science. In May 2019,representing political alliance Development/For!,he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament. He then joined Renew Europe Group.
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