Roveredo is a municipality in the Moesa Region in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
A jurist is an expert of law or someone who researches jurisprudence. Such a person can work as an academic, legal writer, law lecturer and practice law (lawyer), depending on legislation in the respective jurisdiction. Professionally, in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and in many other Commonwealth countries, the word jurist sometimes refers to a barrister and solicitor, whereas in the United States of America and Canada it often refers to a judge.
Wallimann-Bornatico worked in various posts in the Swiss federal administration during the 1970s and 80s, including as a personal advisor to Federal Councillor Flavio Cotti.[1] After a stint as deputy press officer of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation in the 1990s, in 2000 the Federal Assembly elected her to head the Parliamentary Services, the administrative body of the Swiss federal parliament, as Secretary-General.[2] She resigned her post in 2008.[3]
The Inter-Parliamentary Union is a global inter-parliamentary institution established in 1889 by Frédéric Passy (France) and William Randal Cremer. It was the first permanent forum for political multilateral negotiations. Initially, the organization was for individual parliamentarians, but has since transformed into an international organization of the parliaments of sovereign states. The national parliaments of 178 countries are members of the IPU, and 12 regional parliamentary assemblies are associate members. The IPU has permanent observer status at the United Nations General Assembly.
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is a political party in Switzerland. It has had two representatives on the Swiss Federal Council since 1960 and received the second highest total number of votes in the 2015 national elections.
Margaret Olivia Hillier is a British Labour Co-operative politician who was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney South and Shoreditch at the 2005 general election, and was a junior government minister (2007–10) and was succeeded by Caroline Flint as Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in the Labour Party October 2011 reshuffle.
Angela Lavinia Bray is a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ealing Central and Acton from 2010 to 2015.
Theodora "Dora" Bakoyanni is a Greek politician. From 2006 to 2009 she was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece, the highest position ever to have been held by a woman in the Cabinet of Greece at the time; she was also Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in 2009. Previously she was the Mayor of Athens from 2003 to 2006, the first female mayor in the city's history, and the first woman to serve as mayor of a city hosting the Olympic Games. She also served as Minister for Culture of Greece from 1992 to 1993.
Marielle de Sarnez is a French politician, currently representing the Paris 11th in the National Assembly. She was the Minister for European Affairs in the Philippe Government from May to June 2017.
Annemarie Huber-Hotz was a Swiss politician who served as the Federal Chancellor of Switzerland between 2000 and 2007. She was nominated by the FDP for the office, and elected to it on 15 December 1999. In 2011, she became President of the Swiss Red Cross and ex officio vice-president of the IFRC.
Andrea Maria Nahles is a German politician who served as Leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from April 2018 until June 2019 and the leader of the SPD in the Bundestag from September 2017 until June 2019. She served as a Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs from 2013 to 2017 and SPD Youth leader. She is known within the party for criticising Gerhard Schröder's Agenda 2010. In June 2019, in the aftermath of the SPD's result in the 2019 European elections, she announced her resignation as leader of the SPD and as parliamentary leader of the SPD. For the transition period until a new SPD-leader is voted in, Manuela Schwesig, Malu Dreyer and Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel act as her successors. Nahles left the Bundestag on 31 October 2019.
Doris Leuthard is a Swiss politician and lawyer, and was a member of the Swiss Federal Council between 2006 and 2018. She was elected as President of the Swiss Confederation for 2010 and 2017.
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Marie Arena is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Belgium. She is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
The federal administration of Switzerland is the ensemble of agencies that constitute, together with the Swiss Federal Council, the executive branch of the Swiss federal authorities. The administration is charged with executing federal law and preparing draft laws and policy for the Federal Council and the Federal Assembly.
Wallimann is the name of the following people:
Lisa Maria Singh is an Australian politician who was a Labor Party member of the Australian Senate for Tasmania from 2011 to 2019. She had previously been a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, representing the division of Denison from 2006 to 2010. The granddaughter of an Indo-Fijian member of the Parliament of Fiji, Singh was Australia's first federal parliamentarian of Indo-Fijian ancestry.
Natasha Wendy Anita Mazzone is a South African politician who is currently serving as Chief Whip of the Official Opposition in the National Assembly of South Africa. She has been a Member of the National Assembly, representing the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), since 2009. She is the second Deputy Federal Council Chairperson of the DA and the party's spokesperson on state capture. She was previously Shadow Minister of Public Enterprises and Shadow Minister of Communications.
Dorothee Bär is a German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU).
Franziska Katharina Brantner is a German politician of the Green Party. She was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2013, and since 2012 she has been a member of the German Parliament.
Katarina Barley is a German politician and lawyer who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. She served as Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection and as Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in the fourth Cabinet of Angela Merkel. Prior to that, she had served as acting Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs from 28 September 2017, both until 14 March 2018. She is a member of the European Parliament.
Marija Pejčinović Burić is a Croatian politician of the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union party who has worked as the 14th Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Croatia and Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia from 19 June 2017 to 19 July 2019. She is the third woman to hold the post of foreign minister, following Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović and Vesna Pusić. Pejčinović Burić previously served as a Member of Parliament during its Sixth Assembly (2008–2011), representing the 6th electoral district.
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