Anna Cecilia Malmström is a Swedish politician who served as European Commissioner for Trade from 2014 to 2019. She previously served as European Commissioner for Home Affairs from 2010 to 2014 and Minister for European Union Affairs from 2006 to 2010. She was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Sweden from 1999 to 2006.
Elisa Maria da Costa Guimarães Ferreira,GCC is a Portuguese politician and economist who has been serving as European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms in the administration of President Ursula von der Leyen since 2019. 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.
Valdis Dombrovskis is a Latvian politician serving as Executive Vice President of the European Commission for An Economy that Works for People since 2019 and European Commissioner for Trade since 2020. He previously served as European Commissioner for Financial Stability,Financial Services and Capital Markets Union from 2016 to 2020 and Prime Minister of Latvia from 2009 to 2014.
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.
Margrethe Vestager is a Danish politician currently serving as Executive Vice President of the European Commission for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age since December 2019 and European Commissioner for Competition since 2014. Vestager is a member of the Danish Social Liberal Party,and of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (ALDE) on the European level.
Adina-Ioana Vălean is a Romanian politician who has been serving as European Commissioner for Transport under the leadership of President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen from 2019 until June 2024. She served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2007 until 2019,where she chaired of the European Parliament Committee on Industry,Research and Energy in 2019. In the 2024 European elections she was again elected and became a member of the European Parliament.
Janez Lenarčič is a Slovenian diplomat who has been serving as European Commissioner for Crisis Management in the Von der Leyen Commission since 2019. He is a former director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights within the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
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.
Alenka Bratušek is a Slovenian politician,who was the Prime Minister of Slovenia from March 2013 until May 2014 as the first woman in Slovenia to hold this position. She was president pro tempore of the Positive Slovenia party from January 2013 until April 2014. On 5 May 2014,Bratušek submitted her resignation as prime minister.
Miroslav Cerar Jr. is a Slovenian law professor and politician. He was Prime Minister of Slovenia,leading the 12th Government. He served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the 13th Government. He is a full professor at the Chair of Theory and Sociology of Law at the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Law.
The Modern Centre Party was a social-liberal political party in Slovenia led by Minister of Economical Development and Technology Zdravko Počivalšek,who succeeded former Prime Minister and former Minister of Foreign Affairs Miro Cerar as the party president. It formed in 2014 and merged with Economic Active Party in 2021,to form a party Concretely.
Miroslav Cerar is a Yugoslav former gymnast and lawyer of Slovene ethnicity who won the pommel horse event at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics. He also won three world and nine European championships.
The Juncker Commission was the European Commission in office from 1 November 2014 to 30 November 2019. Its president was Jean-Claude Juncker,who presided over 27 other commissioners. In July 2014,Juncker was officially elected to succeed JoséManuel Barroso,who completed his second five-year term in that year.
2014 European Parliament elections were held in Slovenia on 25 May 2014. It was the first in the series of three elections held in the 2014,and the major test leading up to the parliamentary elections in July. The political atmosphere was in a crisis that started with the fall of Borut Pahor's government,then Janez Janša's government in 2013,the latter coming after Janša was accused of corruption. The cabinet of Alenka Bratušek was breaking up,as the former leader of the Positive Slovenia Zoran Janković,who was under the suspicion of corruption,announced his candidature for party president,even though the coalition parties threatened to leave the government if he was to be elected,which later he was.
The 12th Government of Slovenia,led by Prime Minister Miro Cerar,was announced on 18 September 2014. It was formed following the 2014 parliamentary election won by the centre-left Party of Miro Cerar;it was the third government formed over four years. At 51 years,Cerar was the second oldest Prime Minister of Slovenia since Independence,following Andrej Bajuk at 56 years. The cabinet had on the day of inauguration the highest number of women ministers representatives,as there were seven women ministers out of sixteen ministers in total. Cerar's cabinet was the highest educated cabinet to date,with six members with a doctorate.
Alenka Smerkolj is a Slovenian politician appointed Secretary-General of the Alpine Convention,starting on 1 July 2019 as first woman holder of this post. From November 2014 to September 2018 she was the Minister without Portfolio responsible for Development,Strategic Projects and Cohesion in Miro Cerar's cabinet. From July to September 2016,she was acting Minister of Finance,after Dušan Mramor resigned.
Vesna Györkös Žnidar is a Slovenian politician who was Minister of Interior in the Cabinet of Miro Cerar between 18 September 2014 and 13 September 2018. She is a member of the Modern Centre Party.
The von der Leyen Commission is the current European Commission,in office since 1 December 2019 and is to last until the formation of the forthcoming Second Von der Leyen Commission. It consists of one commissioner from each of the member states of the European Union –including Ursula von der Leyen,its president,who is from Germany.
Slovenia has been a member of the European Union since 2004.
