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Zoli, Giancarlo
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Giancarlo Zoli est issu d’une famille originaire de la Romagne et installée à Florence. Il est l’un des fils d’Adone Zoli qui a été plusieurs fois ministre et président du Conseil en 1957-1958.
Il obtient brillamment sa licence en Droit en 1939. Membre de l’Action catholique, il est l’un de ses dirigeants.
En raison de sa participation à la Résistance à Florence et à la fondation de la Démocratie chrétienne dans la période clandestine il est arrêté deux fois par les nazifascistes. Il est, ensuit
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Following a call in 1962 by European Commissioner and Vice-president of the Commission of the European Economic Community (EEC) Sicco Mansholt, to have member State's consumer organisations represented in the Commission's decision-making process of Common Agriculture Policy (CAP), BEUC and the “Comité de contact des consommateurs de la Communauté européenne" (CCCCE) were created.
BEUC was to act as an umbrella organisation for member States’ consumer associations and organisations, thus ensuring
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Böge, Reimer
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In 1970, Reimer graduated from high school from Jürgen Fuhlendorf School in Bad Bramstedt. He got his bachelor degree in agricultural engineering at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel. A year before he became an independent farmer in Hasenmoor.
He was a member of the European Parliament between 1989 and 2019. Since 1989 he was a member of Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats), Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (Germany), Committee on Budgets, Delegation to
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Costa, Silvia
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She is an Italian journalist and politician. She got a degree in modern literature from the Sapienza University of Rome. She worked as a journalist for newspapers, magazines, and television (RAI).
Silvia Costa was a member of the European Parliament between 2009 and 2019. Since 2009, she was a member of Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament and Partito Democratico. She was also a member of Committee on Culture and Education, Conference of Commi
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Eisma, Doeke
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Eisma Doeke is a former Dutch politician who was a member of the Upper House and Lower House.
He was a member of European Parliament two times. The first period he was a member was from 1981 until 1984. He was a member of the national party Democraten 66 (Netherlands), Committee on Social Affairs and Employment, Committee of inquiry into the situation of women in Europe, Delegation for relations with the Northern European Countries and the Nordic Council and Delegation for relations with Yugosla
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Guy-Quint, Catherine
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Catherine Guy-Quint is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for central France. She got her diploma of higher studies of environment/water treatment in 1971 in Poitiers. In 1982, she got her university diploma in management in Clermont-Ferrand.
She was a member of Group of the Party of European Socialists between 1999 and 2004. Since 2004, she was a member of Socialist Group in the European Parliament. She was also a member of the national party Parti socialiste (France).
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Hall, Fiona
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Fiona Jane Hall is a British politician who was a Member of the European Parliament for North East England. She served as leader of the Liberal Democrats in the European Parliament from 2009 to 2014. She was elected to the European Parliament in 2004 and then re-elected in 2009.
Since 2004 Fiona Hall was a member of Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. She was also a member of national party Liberal Democrats Party, Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, Delegation fo
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Kalfin, Ivailo
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Ivaylo Georgiev Kalfin is a Bulgarian politician. A three-term deputy, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria and Deputy Prime Minister from 2005 to 2009 in the Stanishev Cabinet. Kalfin was a Member of the European Parliament between 2009 and 2014.
He was a member of Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European and national party Coalition for Bulgaria (Bulgaria). He was also a member of Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ser
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Son of an Austro-Hungarian count and diplomat and a Japanese lady, the cosmopolite philosopher, writer and politician Count R. Coudenhove-Kalergi became one of the pioneers of European federation and unity by publishing in 1923 the book "Pan-Europa". In 1926 he founded the 'International Paneuropean Movement' which inspired A. Briand in his 'Memorandum on the Organization of a Regime of European Federal Union' in 1930. After the war, having come back from the United States of America to Europe,
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Individuals
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Leinen, Jo
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Joseph Leinen is a German politician who served as a member of the European Parliament from 1999 until 2019. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. He got a law degree in Germany in 1972 and two years later, a Certificate of Advanced European Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.
Leinen was elected Member of the European Parliament without interruption from 1999 until 2019. He was a member of the political group called Group of t
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McGowan, Michael
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Michael McGowan is a British journalist and a former Member of the European Parliament, with a special interest in international affairs, European politics, Africa, peace, development, and human rights.
He was elected in the European parliament between 1984 and 1999.
He was a member of the political group named Socialist Group from 1984. In 1993, he also became a member of the political group named Group of the Party of European Socialists.
He was also a member of a national party Labour Party (
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Maletic, Ivana
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Ivana Maletić was born on October 12, 1973, in Šibenik, Croatia. She is a Croatian Democratic Union politician who served as Member of the European Parliament from 2013 until 2019.
Maletić is a graduate of the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, and before her election, she held various positions in the Croatian Ministry of Finance and was a member of the team that negotiated Croatia's accession to the EU.
She was a member of the European Parliament between 2013 and 2019.
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Medina Ortega, Manuel
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Manuel Medina Ortega studied Law at the University of La Laguna and graduated in 1957. Ortega also holds a PhD in Law from the University of Madrid and a Master of Comparative Law from the University of Columbia.
Medina Ortega began his career in academics, working as a teacher at the Complutense University of Madrid. He was also a professor at the University of Redlands in California. In 1975 he was appointed dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the Complutense University o
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Roth, Claudia
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Claudia Roth graduated from the Simpert-Kraemer-Gymnasium in 1974. She worked as dramaturgy and assistant director at the Landestheater Schwaben in Memmingen.
She began her political career in 1985 when she became the press spokesperson for the Green Party's parliamentary group in the Bundestag. In 1989, Roth was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for Germany and she remained as an MEP until 1998. During that period she was Chair of the Green Group in the European Parliament, Vice-Ch
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Takkula, Hannu
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Hannu Aapa Takkula studied music at the Tampere Conservatory. Later, he studied Education at the University of Lapland and he graduated in 1993. Takkula also holds a PhD in Education from the University of Lapland.
He worked in the music industry during the 80s. From 1992 to 1995, Takkula worked as a school teacher in Posio and, between 1990 and 1991, he was editor-in-chief of a radio station in Rovaniemi.
He started his political career in 1995 when he became a member of the Finnish Parliament
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O'Dwyer, Una
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Una O'Dwyer became First Secretary (General Co-ordination, ANTICI Group and coordination responsibilities for the 1979 Presidency) at the Irish Permanent Representation to the European Communities in Brussels in 1977. She then became, in 1982, First Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs (Overseas Development Aid) and was responsible for relations with international organisations such as UNCTAD and UNIDO, which included chairing EC co-ordination meetings and negotiating on behalf of EC d
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De Groote, Julie
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Après avoir été en charge des Affaires intérieures et judiciaires, des Réformes institutionnelles et des Relations extérieures au sein du Cabinet du Vice-Premier Ministre belge Melchior Wathelet, entre 1989 et 1991, Julie de Groote suit ce dernier comme
Ministre des Affaires économiques où elle traite les dossiers relatifs à la Protection du consommateur et à la réglementation commerciale, à l’Environnement et à la Propriété industrielle, jusqu’en 1995. De 1995 à 1999, elle assure, au sein du Ca
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Denuit, Renaud
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Journaliste politique à la RTBF de 1972 à 1985, Renaud Denuit entre dans la Commission européenne en 1985 en tant qu’administrateur à la Direction générale Marché intérieur et affaires industrielles. Il devient, en 1987, administrateur à la Task Force PME, puis, de 1989 à 1994, administrateur principal et assistant du Directeur général au Service Politique des consommateurs. De 1994 à 1999, il est chef d’unité à la DG Information, Communication, Culture et Audiovisuel, avant de devenir, de 2000
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Lock, William Owen
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William Owen Lock, a British physicist, was a high ranked member of the "Centre européen de Recherche nucléaire" (CERN) in Meyrin from 1960 to 1992. After graduation and lecturing at the Universities of Bristol and Manchester, William Owen Lock joined the Nuclear Physics Division of CERN. In 1966 he was head of the Scientific Conference Secretariat of the working group on the European Space Research Organization (ESRO) which produced the ‘Bannier report’. As head of CERN’s Fellows and Visitors S
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Martino, Edoardo
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Edoardo Martino obtient sa licence à l'Ecole normale supérieure de Pise, puis exerce comme professeur de philosophie et d'histoire dans l'enseignement secondaire. A l'entrée en guerre de l'Italie, rappelé au service auprès de l'Etat-major de l'Armée, il participe à la campagne de Russie et se trouve entraîné dans la retraite de 1943.
En septembre 1943, Edoardo Martino adhère à la Democrazia Cristiana. Il s'engage dans la Résistance et participe activement dans la région de Montferrat, à la lutte
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