Louis Michel is a Belgian politician. He served in the government of Belgium as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2004 and was European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid from 2004 to 2009. From 2009 to 2019,he was a Member of the European Parliament. Michel is a prominent member of the French-speaking liberal party,the Mouvement Réformateur. He is the father of Charles Michel,the previous Prime Minister of Belgium and current President of the European Council.
Juan Fernando López Aguilar is a Spanish jurist and politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) who has been serving as a member of the European Parliament since 2009. He served as Minister of Justice in the government of JoséLuis Rodríguez Zapatero. He also represented Las Palmas in the Congress of Deputies between 1996 and 2007 and between 2008 and 2009.
Werner Langen is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994 until 2019. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union,part of the European People's Party.
Othmar Karas is an Austrian politician who has been serving as the First Vice-President of the European Parliament since January 2022,having been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 1999. He is a member of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP),which in turn affiliates with the European People's Party.
Markus Ferber is a German engineer and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 1994. He is a member of the Christian Social Union,part of the European People's Party. In addition to his parliamentary work,Ferber will serving as president of the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSS) from 2020.
Philippe Lamberts is a Belgian politician serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2009. He is a member of Ecolo,within the Greens–European Free Alliance.
Sven Giegold is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021. He was a member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2021.
Burkhard Balz is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany,part of the European People's Party. From 2009 until 2018,he served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany.
Emmanuel Maurel,is a French politician. He was a member of the board of the French Socialist Party. He was a candidate for the leadership of the Socialist Party but lost against Harlem Désir,winning almost a third of the votes.
João Nuno de Lacerda Teixeira de Melo,commonly known as Nuno Melo,is a Portuguese lawyer,conservative politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) representing the Democratic and Social Centre –People's Party (CDS-PP),of which he is its president.
Matt Carthy is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cavan–Monaghan constituency since the 2020 general election. He previously served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Midlands–North-West constituency from 2014 to 2020.
Ivan Štefanec is a Slovak politician and business manager,former member of the Slovak Parliament and current member of the European Parliament for Christian Democratic Movement.
Luxembourg Leaks is the name of a financial scandal revealed in November 2014 by a journalistic investigation conducted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. It is based on confidential information about Luxembourg's tax rulings set up by PricewaterhouseCoopers from 2002 to 2010 to the benefits of its clients. This investigation resulted in making available to the public tax rulings for over three hundred multinational companies based in Luxembourg.
Julian Carlton Knight is a British politician and former journalist who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Solihull since 2015. He is a member of the Conservative Party.
Ramón Jáuregui Atondo is a Spanish politician. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE),he served as Minister of the Presidency (2010–2011) during the Second Zapatero Government. He also was member of the European Parliament in two separate spells.
Peter Simon was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) representing Germany from 2009 until 2019.
Dietmar Köster is a German politician,social scientist and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) representing Germany since July 2014. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party,part of the Party of European Socialists.
Luděk Niedermayer is a Czech politician and economist,serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Czech Republic since July 2014,representing TOP 09,part of the European People's Party. He also currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs in the European Parliament.
Marcel Kolaja is a Czech software engineer,Internet freedom and digital rights activist and a Czech Pirate Party politician who serves as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since the 2019 election and Quaestor of the European Parliament since 2022. He is a member of the Greens–European Free Alliance parliamentary group along with three other European Pirate Party MEPs.
Pascal Durand is a French lawyer and politician of La République En Marche ! (LREM) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2014.
