The South Tyrolean People's Party is a regionalist and mostly Christian-democratic political party in South Tyrol,an autonomous province with a German-speaking majority in northern Italy. Dieter Steger has been party leader since 2024,while party member Arno Kompatscher has been governor of South Tyrol since 2014.
Catherine Dalling Taylor Stihler is a Scottish former politician who was chief executive officer (CEO) of Creative Commons from 2020 to 2023. A member of the Scottish Labour Party,she was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Scotland from 1999 to 2019.
Elisa Maria da Costa Guimarães Ferreira,GCC is a Portuguese politician and economist who has served as the European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms in the administration of President Ursula von der Leyen between 2019 and 2024. She previously served as vice-governor of the Bank of Portugal from 2016 until 2019. She was as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Socialist Party;part of the Party of European Socialists between 2004 and 2016. In 2019,she was selected by Portugal to serve as a European Commissioner. Previously,she was in charge of the Ministries of Environment (1995-1999) and Public Works (1999-2001) during the governments of António Guterres.
The European Conservatives and Reformists Group is a soft Eurosceptic,anti-federalist political group of the European Parliament. The ECR is the parliamentary group of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party European political party,but also includes MEPs from other European parties and MEPs without European party affiliation.
Esther M. R. de Lange is a Dutch politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) between 2007 and 2024. A member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA),part of the European People's Party (EPP),she was elected as delegation leader in the European Parliament at a party conference on 2 November 2013 in Leeuwarden,a position she assumed the following year. In July 2014 she was elected as Vice President of the EPP Group in the European Parliament and in June 2018 as Vice President of the EPP Party. De Lange stepped down as MEP in February 2024.
Kristalina Ivanova Georgieva-Kinova is a Bulgarian economist serving as the 12th managing director of the International Monetary Fund since 2019,and the first person from an emerging market economy to lead the institution. Born in Sofia,her university education was at London School of Economics (LSE),followed by a return to her native Bulgaria where she witnessed some of the economic hardships of the post-Communist transition. She began her career by teaching economics,becoming a prominent figure in the field.
Future Italy was an Italian liberal-centrist think tank,formed in 2009 by Luca Cordero di Montezemolo,chairman of Alitalia and former chairman of Ferrari (1991–2014),FIAT (2004–2010) and Confindustria (2004–2008).
Civic Choice was a centrist and liberal political party in Italy founded by Mario Monti. The party was formed in the run-up of the 2013 general election to support the outgoing Prime Minister Monti and continue his political agenda. In the election SC was part of a centrist coalition named With Monti for Italy,along with Union of the Centre of Pier Ferdinando Casini and Future and Freedom of Gianfranco Fini.
Luigi Spaventa was an Italian politician and academic. He served as a cabinet minister at different Italian governments. He was a member of the Italian Parliament from 1976 to 1983.
Green Italia was a green political party in Italy.
Roberto Gualtieri is an Italian historian,academic and politician of the Democratic Party (PD),incumbent Mayor of Rome since 2021 and Minister of Economy and Finances in the second government of Giuseppe Conte from 2019 until 2021. He previously was a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2019,where he chaired the influential Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee within the Parliament from 2014 until 2019.
Eva Konstantinova Maydell is a Bulgarian politician who is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP). A member of the GERB party,she also served as the president of the European Movement International from 2017 to 2023.
Fulvio Martusciello is an Italian politician,and a member of the European Parliament since 2014.
Carlo Cottarelli is an Italian economist and former director of the International Monetary Fund.
Andrea Cozzolino is an Italian politician who is serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2009. Cozzolino began his political career in the 1970s with the Italian Communist Youth Federation (FGCI). He then joined the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and its legal successor parties,including the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS),the Democrats of the Left (DS),and the Democratic Party (PD). From 2005 to 2009,he was Assessor for Agriculture and Productive Activities in the Campania region.
Italia Viva is a liberal political party in Italy founded in September 2019. The party is led by Matteo Renzi,a former Prime Minister of Italy and former secretary of the Democratic Party (PD). As of 2021,Italia Viva is a member of the European Democratic Party.
Ana Lídia Fernandes Oliveira Pereira is a Portuguese politician of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. She is also president of the Youth of the European People's Party (YEPP).
Fabio Panetta is an Italian economist who has been serving as Governor of the Bank of Italy since 2023. He previously served as a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from 2020 until 2023. Prior to his ECB appointment,Panetta served as Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy and concurrently as President of the Institute for the Supervision of Insurance from May to December 2019.
Italy–Ukraine relations are the bilateral relations between Italy and Ukraine. Italy has an embassy in Kyiv. Ukraine has an embassy in Rome and consulates in Milan and Naples. Italy is a member of the NATO and EU which Ukraine applied for in 2022. Both nations are members of the Council of Europe.
