Claudia Benedikta Roth is a German politician. She was one of the two party chairs from 2004 to 2013 and previously served as one of the vice presidents of the Bundestag. She is currently serving as Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media[de] in the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021.
Alfred Gusenbauer is an Austrian politician who until 2008 spent his entire professional life as an employee of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) or as a parliamentary representative. He headed the SPÖfrom 2000 to 2008,and served as Chancellor of Austria from January 2007 to December 2008. Since then,he has pursued a career as a consultant and lecturer,and as a member of supervisory boards of Austrian companies.
Marie-Arlette Carlotti is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as a member of the French Senate since 2020,representing Bouches-du-Rhône. She previously was a Member of the European Parliament from south-east of France.
Adeline Hazan is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who served as a Member of the European Parliament for the east of France from 1999 to 2008,and mayor of Reims from March 2008 to April 2014.
Hannes Swoboda is an Austrian social democratic politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1996 until 2014. Within the Parliament,he represents the Social Democratic Party of Austria and from January 2012 to June 2014,he was also the President of the group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.
Harald Ettl is an Austrian politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1996 until 2009. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party,which is part of the Party of European Socialists.
Bernhard Rapkay is a German politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1994 until 2014. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany,part of the Socialist Group.
Patrizia Toia is an Italian politician and member of the European Parliament for North-West with Democratic Party,part of the group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.
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.
Joachim Wuermeling a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria. Between 2005 and 2008,he served as State Secretary for the European Union in the German Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology.
Jörg Leichtfried is an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party who has been serving as a member of the National Council since the 2017 elections. He previously served as Minister of Transport,Innovation and Technology in the government of Chancellor Christian Kern from 2016 until 2017.
Ulrike Lunacek is an Austrian politician who served as State Secretary for Cultural Affairs in the government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in 2020. She is a member of the Austrian Green party The Greens –The Green Alternative,part of the European Green Party.
Doris Bures is an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) who serves as Third President of the Austrian National Council. From 2014 to 2017,she was its President and from 2017 to 2024 its Second President. She served as Minister of Transport,Innovation and Technology from 2008 to 2014.
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.
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.
Katarina Barley is a German politician and lawyer who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019,serving as one of its Vice-Presidents. She served as Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection in the fourth Cabinet of Angela Merkel. Prior to that,she had served as Federal Minister of Family Affairs,Senior Citizens,Women and Youth and since 28 September 2017 also as the acting Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs,both until 14 March 2018.
Andreas Schieder is an Austrian politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
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.
