Elmar Peter Brok is a German politician who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1980 until 2019. He was the chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs from 1999-2007 and from 2012-2017. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany,which is part of the European People's Party.
Joost Lagendijk is a Dutch politician who was a columnist with the Turkish dailies Zaman and Today's Zaman until these newspapers were closed by the Turkish government. From 2009 till 2012 he was a senior adviser at the Istanbul Policy Center at SabancıUniversity. He is a former GreenLeft (G/EFA) Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and served as the joint chairman of the Turkey-EU Parliamentarians delegation.
Ria Oomen-Ruijten is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) who has been serving as a member of the Senate since 9 June 2015.
Jan Marinus Wiersma is a Dutch politician and from 1994 to 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.
Antonio López-Istúriz White is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Spain. He is a member of the People's Party,member party of the European People's Party. He has served as the Secretary General of the European People's Party since March 2002 till May 2022.
Libor Rouček is a Czech politician who was Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2014 with the Czech Social Democratic Party. He was a former member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic from 2002 to 2004 and spokesperson for the Government of the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2002.
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.
Tonino Picula is a Croatian politician currently serving his fourth term as a Member of the European Parliament for Croatia,having successfully run in 2013,2014,2019 and 2024 European elections.
Tanja Fajon is a Slovenian politician,former leader of Social Democrats,part of the Party of European Socialists and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Slovenia. She has been serving as the minister of foreign and european affairs in the government of Prime Minister Robert Golob since 1 June 2022.
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.
The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) is the political group in the European Parliament of the Party of European Socialists (PES). The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats was officially founded as a Socialist Group on 29 June 1953,which makes it the second oldest political group in the European Parliament after the European People's Party Group. It adopted its present-day name on 23 June 2009. Centre-left in orientation,the group mostly comprises social democratic parties and is affiliated with the Progressive Alliance and Socialist International.
Evelyn Regner is an Austrian lawyer and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament from Austria since 2009. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria,part of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats and elected vice-president of the European Parliament.
Jeroen Lenaers is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from the Netherlands. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal,part of the European People's Party.
Petras Auštrevičius is a Lithuanian liberal politician,diplomat,civil society activist,former member of Seimas,and since 2014,a member of the European Parliament.
Kati Piri is a Hungarian-born Dutch politician serving as a member of the House of Representatives since 2021. A member of the Labour Party (PvdA),she previously was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) within the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats from 2014 until 2021.
Eugen Freund is an Austrian politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2014 until 2019. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party,part of the Party of European Socialists.
Paulo Artur dos Santos Castro de Campos Rangel is a Portuguese jurist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) who has been Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2024,in the XXIV Constitutional Government,led by Luís Montenegro.
Peter Simon was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) representing Germany from 2009 until 2019.
Petr Ježek is a former Czech politician and diplomat. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2014 to 2019,representing ANO 2011. While an MEP,he chaired a Parliamentary Committee and an External Delegation,and was ranked as the 20th most influential MEP of 751 by the Vote Watch Europe analyst group.
Andreas Schieder is an Austrian politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
