António Manuel de Carvalho Ferreira Vitorino is a Portuguese lawyer and politician of the Socialist Party (PS).
The Santer Commission was the European Commission in office between 23 January 1995 and 15 March 1999. The administration was led by Jacques Santer.
Alexander Gamal Radwan is a German politician.
The euro sign is the currency sign used for the euro,the official currency of the eurozone and adopted,although not required to,by Kosovo and Montenegro. The design was presented to the public by the European Commission on 12 December 1996. It consists of a stylized letter E,crossed by two lines instead of one. Depending on convention in each nation,the symbol can either precede or follow the value,e.g.,€10 or 10 €,often with an intervening space.
Theodor Waigel is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). He represented Neu-Ulm in the Bundestag from 1976 to 2002.
Gérard Mestrallet is a French manager who served as chairman of the board of directors of Engie and as CEO from 2008 to 2016. He is also the chairman of Suez.
Delphine Caroline Marie Arnault is a French businesswoman who is the daughter of Bernard Arnault and sister of Antoine Arnault. She is a director of LVMH and has been Executive Vice President of Louis Vuitton since 2013. She became the chairperson and chief executive officer of Christian Dior Couture in February 2023.
Xavier Musca is a French economist,writer,and public administrator. In February 2011,he was appointed the Secretary-General of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy and was in charge of economic affairs. He served as a deputy for two years.
Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell is an Austrian economist who served as a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from 2003 to 2011. She previously served as vice-governor of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank from 1998 to 2003. She has been a member of the Council of the University of Leoben.
Yves Mersch is a Luxembourgish jurist and lawyer who served as a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from 2012 to 2020. He previously served as first Governor of the Central Bank of Luxembourg from 1998 to 2012.
Events from the year 1998 in the European Union.
The Caisse des dépôts et consignations is an idiosyncratic French public financial institution created in 1816,often referred to as the investment arm of the French State. It is defined in the French Monetary and Financial Code as a "public group serving the public interest" and a "long-term investor". Its governance framework places it under the control of the Parliament.
Jens Weidmann is a German economist who served as president of the Deutsche Bundesbank between 2011 and 2021. He also served as chairman of the Board of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
Jörg Asmussen is a German economist and politician who served as State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Finance from 2008 to 2011 and Parliamentary State Secretary for the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs from 2014 to 2016. He has been serving as Chief Executive Officer of the German Insurance Association (GDV) since 2020.
Klaas Henderikus Willem Knot is a Dutch economist and central banker who is the current president of the Dutch central bank De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB). In this capacity he serves as a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB),as well as of the board of governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Knot also holds a position as Professor in Monetary Stability at the University of Amsterdam and honorary professor at the University of Groningen.
António Mendo de Castel-Branco do Amaral Osório Borges was a Portuguese economist and banker. He was also a Managing Director and International Adviser of Goldman Sachs.
Charles Wiener de Croisset is a French banker.
Gérard Worms was a French banker and businessman. He served as the Vice Chairman of Rothschild Europe and Senior Advisor of Rothschild &Cie Banque.
Pierre-Yves Roussel is CEO of Tory Burch LLC,a role he assumed in 2019. He was previously the chairman and chief executive officer of LVMH Fashion Group and a member of the LVMH Executive Committee before moving into an advisory role at the luxury conglomerate in 2018.
Frank Elderson is a Dutch lawyer who has been serving as a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank since 2020.
