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Wainwright, Richard
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Richard Wainwright joined the European Commission in 1973. From 1973 to 1984, he worked in the Legal Service (team agriculture, fisheries and internal market). From 1985 to 1987, he was member of the Cabinet of Commissioner Clinton Davies. From 1987 to 2000, he worked again in the Legal Service (team internal market), and became from from 1993 Director/Head of Team. From 2001 to 2005, has Director/Head of Team in the Legal Service (team competition).
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Walker, David
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Working in the European Commission's Legal Service from 1973 to 1980, David Walker joined the DG Information, Communication, Culture and Audiovisual policy as Assistant to the Director-General’s Assistant (1980-1988), Assistant to the Director-General (1988-1994), and Head of “Staff and Administrative Management” Unit (1994-1997). From 1997 to 2000, he was Head of “Staff Training” Unit in the DG Personnel & Administration, and in 2000, Senior Advisor for human and financial resources in the DG B
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Wall, John Stephen
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John Stephen Wall was between 1988 and 1991 Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretaries Geoffrey Howe, John Major and Douglas Hurd. From 1991 to 1993, he was Private Secretary to the Prime Minister John Major, responsible for Foreign Policy and Defence. He was British Ambassador to Portugal from 1993 to 1995, and Permanent Representative to the European Union from 1995 to 2000. From 2000 to 2004, he was Head of the European Secretariat in the Cabinet Office in London and EU adviser to the Prime
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Westlake, Martin
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Martin Westlake was from 1985 to 1986 Clerk to two parliamentary committees (Social Affairs, and Migration, Refugees, and Demography) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. He was then from 1986 to 1987 Administrator in the Secretariat General, EC Council of Ministers, Directorate General for the Internal Market. Between 1987 and 1995, he was Administrator, then Principal Administrator in the Secretariat General of the European Commission's DG for Relations with th
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Wilmott, Peter
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Assistant Principal (1968-1987) and Commissioner to the Board (1988-1990) at Her Majesty's Customs and Excise, Peter Wilmott was appointed in 1990 Director-General of the European Commission's DG Customs and Indirect Taxation, until 1996.
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Yataganas, Xénophon A.
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Xénophon Yataganas est agent temporaire (1979) puis membre (1982) du Service juridique de la Commission européenne, essentiellement chargé du contrôle de la conformité juridico-linguistique de l’ensemble de l’acquis communautaire à l’ordre juridique grec. De 1988 à 1990, il est Détaché dans l’intérêt du service au Ministère des Affaires étrangères en Grèce en tant que conseiller du Ministre chargé des Affaires européennes. De 1991 à 1995, il est Conseiller juridique au Service juridique de la Co
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Zangl, Peter
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Peter Zangl est Chef d'unité des prévisions budgétaires et évaluation économique et financière: à la DG Budget de 1986 à 1998, et travaille dans ce contexte pour la préparation et réalisation de la réforme financière de la Communauté (Paquet Delors I). Toujours à la DG Budget, il est Directeur responsable du financement du budget communautaire de 1988 à 1989, Directeur responsable de la préparation et de la négociation du nouveau cadre financier, de l'évaluation du budget à moyen terme, de la pr
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Hallstein, Walter
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Walter Hallstein, 1930 ordentlicher Professor für Privat- und Gesellschaftsrecht, war ab 1950 in der 'Christlich Demokratischen Union Deutschlands' (CDU) engagiert. Von 1951 bis 1958 war er Staatssekretär im Auswärtigen Amt unter Bundeskanzler K. Adenauer. Nachdem er Leiter der deutschen Delegation bei den Verhandlungen über die EWG- und Euratom-Verträge gewesen war, wurde er von 1958 bis 1967 erster Präsident der 'Europäischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft' (EWG). Seine Amtszeit war unter anderem bes
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Zepter, Bernhard
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Bernhard Zepter was Deputy Head of Cabinet of the President of the European Commission Jacques Delors from 1990 to 1995. From 1997 to 2002, he was Deputy Secretary General of the European Commission, responsible for policy coordination and relations to Council
and European Parliament representing the Commission in COPEPER. From 2002 to 2006, he was Head of EU-Delegation and Ambassador for Japan in Tokyo.
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Zourek, Heinz
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Heinz Zourek was from 1995 to 2001 Deputy Director-General at the DG Internal Market and was responsible for coordinating “free movement of goods and services, public procurement, regulated professions, industrial and intellectual property rights and postal services”, as well as in charge of infringement procedures and parliamentary affairs. He was appointed Deputy Director-General at the DG Enterprise and Industry in 2001 until becoming its Director-General in 2005.
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Armstrong, Lindsay
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Né d’une mère italienne et d’un père écossais. Lindsay obtient, en 1965 son Doctorat en Sciences Economiques, Université de Gênes, et est ensuite diplômé en Economie au Collège d’Europe, Bruges. De 1966 à 1970, il travaille en tant que journaliste à l’Agence Europe, Bruxelles. Il est de 1970 à 1972 rédacteur en chef du magazine européen VISION, Paris. De 1973 à 1992, il est porte-parole à la Représentation de la Commission européenne à Paris. En collaboration des Directions Générales de la Commi
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Bisarre, Sylvain
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Sylvain Bisarre entre à la Commission en 1975 en tant qu’administrateur dans l’unité « FEOGA-Garantie » de la Direction générale du Contrôle financier (DGXX). De 1977 à 1980, il est chargé du suivi des affaires budgétaires et du contrôle financier au sein du cabinet du Commissaire au Budget, Christopher Tugendhat. Il est, de 1981 à 1986, assistant du Directeur Financier (Budget et FED) à la Direction Générale du Développement (DGVIII). Il est ensuite chef de l’unité FEOGA-Garantie dans la Direct
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Calamia, Pietro
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Pietro Calamia obtient un doctorat en sciences politiques à l’Université Cesare Alfieri de Florence en 1952, et entame sa carrière diplomatique en 1955. Après un temps à la Direction des affaires politiques, il est nommé au Consulat général à Marseille, puis retourne à Rome, d’abord au service de presse et d’information, puis au bureau du porte-parole, avant de prendre ses fonctions à l’Ambassade à Vienne. Nommé à la Représentation permanente de l’Italie auprès des Communautés européennes en 196
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Hahn, Ottokar Wilhelm
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Nach dem Studium der Rechtswissenschaften und der Volkswirtschaft an den Universitäten Berlin und Universität Köln, promovierte er 1965 in Köln. Er begann seine berufliche Laufbahn 1972 bei den Europäischen Gemeinschaften im Kabinett von Wilhelm Haferkamp, ab 1980 war er Direktor in der Generaldirektion für Kredit und Investitionen.
Von 1985 bis 1990 war er Minister im ersten Kabinett des saarländischen Ministerpräsidenten Oskar Lafontaine. 1990 bis 1996 war Hahn als Sonderberater der EU-Kommis
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Liikanen, Erkki
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Erkki Liikanen was from 1990 to 1994 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Head of Finnish Mission to the European Union, in Brussels. In 1995, he was appointed European Commissioner for Budget, Personnel and Administration, and in 1999, European Commissioner for Enterprise and Information Society, until 2004.
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Westhoff, Johannes
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Johannes Westhoff studied at the Royal University of Leiden and then at the Institut des Sciences Politiques in Paris, where he obtained a PhD in Law. He began his legal career in The Hague (1948-1951) and then specialised in the United States, in New York. From the first year (1951-1952) until 1955 he served as registrar of the Constitutional Committee of the Ad hoc Assembly Instructed to Work out a Draft Treaty setting up a European Political Community. Later, he entered the Dutch Ministry o
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Santaniello, Roberto
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Roberto Santaniello was born in Rome. He obtained a degree in Political Science with a specialization in International Politics in November 1985. He joined the European Parliament and the European Commission for a traineeship between 1986 and 1988.
He was a teacher, researcher, journalist and consultant for the Italian Ministry for EU Affairs from March 1984 to October 1991.
He returned to the European Parliament from March 1988 to March 1990 as an assistant to a MEP.
He later became administrat
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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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