Sir Malcolm Leslie Rifkind is a British politician who served in the cabinets of Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1986 to 1997,and most recently as chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament from 2010 to 2015. He is also known for his advocacy of a pro-European stance within his party's policies.
Dr Timothy Charles Ayrton Tannock is a British psychiatrist,independent politician and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London.
Sajjad Haider Karim is a British politician. He served as a Member of the European Parliament for the North West England between 2004 and 2019. Sajjad is one of 10 members of the executive of European Movement UK and Chair of Conservative European Forum Trade.
The European People's Party (EPP) is a European political party with Christian-democratic,liberal-conservative,and conservative member parties. A transnational organisation,it is composed of other political parties. Founded by primarily Christian-democratic parties in 1976,it has since broadened its membership to include liberal-conservative parties and parties with other centre-right political perspectives. On 31 May 2022,the party elected as its President Manfred Weber,who was also EPP's Spitzenkandidat in 2019.
Elmar Peter Brok is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1980 until 2019,who is best known for his role as chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs. He is a member of the CDU,which is part of the European People's Party.
Michael Gahler is a German diplomat and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 1999. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union,part of the European People's Party.
Manfred Weber is a German politician who has served as President of the European People's Party (EPP) since 2022 and as Leader of the EPP Group in the European Parliament since 2014. He has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany since 2004. He is a member of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU),part of the European People's Party.
Antonio López-Istúriz White is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Spain. He is a member of the People's Party,member party of the European People's Party. He has served as the Secretary General of the European People's Party since March 2002 till May 2022.
Alexander Sebastian Léonce Freiherr 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.
Mark Andrew Pritchard PC is a British Conservative politician and consultant. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for The Wrekin in Shropshire since the 2005 general election.
The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) is a soft Eurosceptic,anti-federalist political group of the European Parliament. The ECR is the parliamentary group of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party European political party (formerly known as the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe or Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists,but also includes MEPs from four other European parties and thirteen MEPs without European party affiliation.
Arnaud Danjean is a French politician of the Republicans (LR) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since the 2009 European election,representing France's East constituency. He was elected a member of the Burgundy Regional Council on 21 March 2010.
Peter van Dalen is a Dutch politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) between 2009 and 2023. He is a member of the Christian Union,which used to be part of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR),but switched to the European People's Party (EPP) in 2019 following the accession of the far-right Forum for Democracy.
The European Conservatives and Reformists Party,formerly known as Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (AECR) (2009–2016) and Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe (ACRE) (2016–2019),is a conservative,soft Eurosceptic European political party with a main focus on reforming the European Union (EU) on the basis of Eurorealism,as opposed to total rejection of the EU (anti-EU-ism).
Andrey Kovatchev,is a Bulgarian politician,Member of the European Parliament,a federalist and Head of the Bulgarian Delegation in the EPP Group in the European Parliament. Dr. Andrey Kovatchev is a chairman of the Union of European Federalists in Bulgaria. Since 2011 he has also been its vice-president. In January 2012 he was elected vice-chair of AFET –Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament.
VMRO –Bulgarian National Movement,commonly known as VMRO,is a national conservative political party in Bulgaria.
New Direction –The Foundation for European Reform is a political foundation at European level,think tank and publisher affiliated with the European Conservatives and Reformists Party (ECR). It was established in 2010,under the patronage of Baroness Thatcher. It is based in Brussels with satellite offices in London and Warsaw. New Direction is a free-market think tank that promotes European reform through the strengthening of accountability,transparency and democracy.
Amjad Mahmood Bashir is a British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament for the Yorkshire and the Humber region between 2014 and 2019. He was elected in 2014 for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and defected to the Conservative Party on 24 January 2015.
The Federal Trust for Education and Research is a research institute studying the interactions between regional,national,European and global levels of government. Founded in 1945 on the initiative of Sir William Beveridge,it has long made a powerful contribution to the study of federalism and federal systems. It has always had a particular interest in the European Union and Britain’s place in it.
Lars Patrick Berg is a German politician who is serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. He was elected with the Alternative for Germany party,he left the party and the Identity and Democracy group in the European Parliament to join the European Conservatives and Reformists in June 2021 and the Liberal Conservative Reformers party in Germany in July 2021. In January 2023 he left the Liberal Conservative Reformers party and joined the Bündnis Deutschland party. He was a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg from 2016–2019.
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