Shona McRory Robison is a Scottish politician serving as Deputy First Minister of Scotland and Cabinet Secretary for Finance since 2023. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP),she has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Dundee City East since 2003 and was an additional member for the North East Scotland region from 1999 to 2003.
Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou is a Greek politician and lawyer. She was Minister for Health and Social Solidarity (2009–2010),Alternate Minister for Foreign Affairs,responsible for European Affairs (2010–2012),Member of the Greek Parliament (2007–2012) and again from July of 2019 for Syriza,and of the European Parliament (2004–2007). She served as secretary of the National Committee of PASOK -Panhellenic Socialist Movement,member of the Party of European Socialists (2005–2006).
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.
C.M. (Corien) Wortmann-Kool is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 until 2014. She has a background in politics,public administration and business. During her time in parliament,she served as vice president on Economic and Financial Affairs of the European People's Party (EPP) Group. She has an MA in Political Science and Economics from VU University Amsterdam.
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.
Hedwig "Hedy" d'Ancona is a retired Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and political activist.
Roberta Alma Anastase is a Romanian politician and former first female President of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania between 19 December 2008 and 3 July 2012.
Kathleen Van Brempt,is a Belgian social-democratic politician and member of Vooruit. She currently serves as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) as part of the Party of European Socialists and is leader of the local branch of her party in Antwerp.
The Juncker–Polfer Ministry was the government of Luxembourg between 7 August 1999 and 31 July 2004. It was led by,and named after,Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker and Deputy Prime Minister Lydie Polfer.
Jean-Marie Vanlerenberghe is a French politician of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) who has been serving as a member of the Senate since 2001.
European Union (EU) concepts,acronyms,and jargon are a terminology set that has developed as a form of shorthand,to quickly express a (formal) EU process,an (informal) institutional working practice,or an EU body,function or decision,and which is commonly understood among EU officials or external people who regularly deal with EU institutions.
Giovanna Melandri is an Italian-American politician. She was an MP in the Italian Parliament for 18 years (1994–2012),holding the positions of Minister of Culture (1998–2001) and Minister of Youth and Sport (2006–2008). She is the president of MAXXI,the National Museum of the 21st Century Arts of Rome,as well as being the founder and chairwoman of the Human Foundation.
Scottish Parliament committees are small groups of Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) who meet on a regular basis to scrutinise the work of the Scottish Government,conduct inquiries into subjects within their remit and examine legislation. Much of the everyday work of the Scottish Parliament is done by these committees.
Elizabeth Dipuo Peters is a South African politician who is the Deputy Minister of Small Business Development of the Republic of South Africa from 7 March 2023. She was previously the Minister of Transport from 10 July 2013 until 30 March 2017,in the Zuma administration,and former Minister of Energy from 2009 to 2013 having served as successor to Manne Dipico as the second Premier of the Northern Cape Province,22 April 2004 to 10 May 2009. A member of the African National Congress (ANC),she serves on the Women's League National Executive Committee. Dipuo Peters resigned as a member of parliament for the African National Congress in April 2017.
Christos Papoutsis is a Greek socialist politician who has served as Minister for Citizen Protection (2010–12),Mercantile Marine Minister (2000–01) Member of the European Parliament (1984–95) and European Commissioner for Energy and Euratom Supply Agency,Small business and Tourism (1995–1999). He has also served as the Secretary of the Parliamentary Group and Parliamentary Spokesman for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK),the majority party in Greece (2009–2010). He also was candidate for Mayor of Athens (2002).
Dr. István Ujhelyi is a Hungarian politician from the Hungarian Socialist Party,who was MP in the National Assembly of Hungary between 2002 and 2014.
The 2005 Dissolution Honours List was issued after the General Election of the same year on the advice of the Prime Minister,Tony Blair.
Magdalene Hoff was a German Social Democratic Party of Germany politician who served five terms in the European Parliament as a member of the West Germany constituency and later the constituency of Germany on behalf of the Socialist Group later the Group of the Party of European Socialists then from July 1979 to July 2004. She was vice-president of the European Parliament between 1997 and 1999. Hoff was a member of several committees such as the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on Budgets. She was a recipient of the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Ursula Schleicher is a German Christian Social Union in Bavaria politician and harpist who served two terms in the Bundestag from 1972 to 1980 and five terms in the European Parliament between 1979 and 2004. She served as state chair of the Paneuropean Union in Bavaria between 1988 and 1994 before becoming its deputy federal chair in 1995 and was a Vice-President of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999. Schleicher was appointed Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic,the Bavarian Order of Merit and the Grand Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2001.
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