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Reimer Böge
Reimer Böge (born 18 December 1951) is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1989 until 2019. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, part of the European People's Party. Member of the European Parliament, 1989–present Böge served as cice-Chair of the Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand, member of the Committee on Budgets and the Special committee on the policy challenges and budgetary resources for a sustainable European Union after 2013 and substitute of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Delegation for relations with Japan. In addition, he was standing rapporteur on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007–2013. Böge served as vice-chairman of the Budget Committee and the Parliament’s lead negotiator on the EU’s financial framework for 2007-13; under his stewardship, the Parliament got an extra €4 billion and the chance to vote on the budget review. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of The European Parliament
A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been Election, elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community) first met in 1952, its members were directly appointed by the governments of member states from among those already sitting in their own national parliaments. Since 1979, however, MEPs have been elected by direct universal suffrage every five years. Each Member state of the European Union, member state establishes its own method for electing MEPs – and in some states this has changed over time – but the system chosen must be a form of proportional representation. Some member states elect their MEPs to represent a single national constituency; other states apportion seats to sub-national regions for election. There may also be non-voting observers when a Enlargement of the European Union, new country is seeking membershi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Ashton
Catherine Margaret Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland (born 20 March 1956) is a Labour Party (UK), British Labour politician who served as the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, First Vice President of the European Commission in the Barroso Commission from 2009 to 2014. Her political career began in 1999 when she was created a life peer as ''Baroness Ashton of Upholland, of St Albans in the County of Hertfordshire'', by Tony Blair's Labour government. She became the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Education and Skills (United Kingdom), Department for Education and Skills in 2001 and subsequently in the Ministry of Justice in 2004. She was appointed a Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Privy Counsellor in May 2006 and Lady Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter in 2023 Special Honours, April 2023. Ashton became Leader of the House of Lords and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamburger Abendblatt
''Hamburger Abendblatt'' () is a German daily newspaper in Hamburg belonging to the Funke Mediengruppe, publishing Monday to Saturday. The paper focuses on news in Hamburg and its surrounds, and produces regional supplements with news from Norderstedt, Harburg, Hamburg, Harburg, and Pinneberg. Its authors have won journalistic prizes including the Theodor Wolff Prize (Jan Haarmeyer, Barbara Hardinghaus, Miriam Opresnik, Özlem Topçu), the ''Wächterpreis der Tagespresse'' (Christian Denso, Marion Girke, and the (German Reporter Prize) (Volker ter Haseborg, Antje Windmann). The paper was also awarded the six times since 2004 by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. History and profile Four previous Hamburg newspapers had the word ''Abendblatt'' () in their title, including ''Hamburger Abendblatt'' founded on 2 May 1820. However, the incarnation of ''Hamburger Abendblatt'', was first published after World War II on 14 October 1948 with an initial edition of 60,000 copies. The pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conseil Européen Des Jeunes Agriculteurs
The Conseil Européen des Jeunes Agriculteurs (CEJA) ("European Council of Young Farmers") is an umbrella organisation gathering young farmers from all over Europe and is one of the key advocacy group, advocates for the agriculture, agricultural sector in Europe. This non-profit organisation currently has 33 member organisations from 22 EU member states and two observer members from non-EU countries, representing around two million young farmers. Its office is located in Brussels. History CEJA was founded in Rome, Italy in 1958. Through a series of bilateral contacts, organisations representing young farmers from the six initial members of the European Economic Community, EEC set up a European organisation of young farmers in order to concentrate their action at the European level and to concretely participate in the realisation of European integration. To this end, a "Comité d’Entente" was set up, which was later renamed the "European Council of Young Farmers". In Janu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Cooperative Financial Group
The German Cooperative Financial Group (, sometimes referred to in English as "Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken Cooperative Financial Network") is a major cooperative banking network in Germany that includes local banks named Volksbanken ("people's banks") and Raiffeisenbanken ("Raiffeisen banks"), the latter in tribute to 19th-century cooperative movement pioneer Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen. The Cooperative Group represents one of the three "pillars" of Germany's banking sector, the other two being, respectively, the of public banks, and the commercial banking sector represented by the Association of German Banks. The Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken (BVR) is the nationwide representative body of the Cooperative Financial Group. It operates under the Deutscher Genossenschafts- und Raiffeisenverband, the umbrella organization of the German cooperative movement. Most ''Volksbanken'' and ''Raiffeisenbanken'' in Germany are quite small and have thus bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankfurter Rundschau
The ''Frankfurter Rundschau'' (''FR'') is a German daily newspaper, based in Frankfurt am Main. The ''Rundschaus editorial stance is social liberal. It holds that "independence, social justice and fairness" underlie its journalism. In Post-war Germany ''Frankfurter Rundschau'' was for decades a leading force of German press. The newspaper was one of the first licensed by the US military administration in 1945 and had a traditional social democratic, antifascist and trade union stand. Starting with the decline of printed daily newspapers in the 2000s, the ''FR'' changed ownership several times, reduced its editorial team dramatically and today has little national significance. Frankfurter Rundschau Druck and Verlagshaus GmbH filed for bankruptcy on 12 November 2012. Then the paper was acquired by ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'' and Frankfurter Societät (publisher of the ''Frankfurter Neue Presse'') in 2013, by taking over just 28 full-time journalists. The ''FR'' editori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 European Parliament Election In Germany
The 2019 European Parliament election in Germany was held on 26 May 2019, electing the List of members of the European Parliament for Germany, 2019–2024, 96 members of the national Germany (European Parliament constituency), Germany constituency to the European Parliament. Both the CDU/CSU and SPD suffered major losses, while the Greens became the second largest party in a national-level election for the first time in German history. Background The 2019 European Parliament election was first national election to be held in Germany since the 2017 German federal election, 2017 federal election, in which Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition between the CDU-CSU, Christian Democrats and Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democrats suffered major losses, while the right-wing, Euroscepticism, Eurosceptic party Alternative for Germany (AfD) entered parliament in third place. In 2018, the Alliance 90/The Greens, Greens and the AfD made large gains in state elections in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurozone
The euro area, commonly called the eurozone (EZ), is a Monetary union, currency union of 20 Member state of the European Union, member states of the European Union (EU) that have adopted the euro (Euro sign, €) as their primary currency and sole legal tender, and have thus fully implemented Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union, EMU policies. The 20 eurozone members are: : Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain. The seven non-eurozone members of the EU are Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Sweden. They continue to use their own national currencies, although all but Denmark are obliged to join once they meet the euro convergence criteria. Bulgaria is targeting to join the eurozone on 1 January 2026. Bulgaria is expected to become the 21st eurozone member from January 1, 2026. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pervenche Berès
Pervenche Berès (born 10 March 1957 in Paris) is a French politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France until 2019. She is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. Political career On 28 July 2004, Berès was elected Chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. She was the rapporteur of the Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (CRIS). Ahead of the Socialist Party's 2008 convention in Reims, Berès publicly endorsed Martine Aubry as candidate to succeed François Hollande at the party's leadership. Personal life In 1995, Berès survived a near fatal traffic accident but lost half of her face, which was reconstructed by plastic surgery. Later career In 2022, Berès was appointed by the Governing Council of the European Central Bank as a member of both the organizations’s Ethics Committee and the Audit Committee for a three-year term. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Council
The European Council (informally EUCO) is a collegiate body (directorial system) and a symbolic collective head of state, that defines the overall political direction and general priorities of the European Union (EU). It is composed of the heads of state or Head of government, of government of the Member state of the European Union, EU member states, the president of the European Council, and the president of the European Commission. The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy also takes part in its meetings. Established as an informal summit in 1975, the European Council was formalised as an institution in 2009 upon the Coming into force, commencement of the Treaty of Lisbon. Its current president is António Costa, former Prime Minister of Portugal, prime minister of Portugal. Scope While the European Council has no legislative power, it is a strategic (and crisis-solving) body that provides the union with general political directions and pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Manuel Barroso
José Manuel Durão Barroso (; born 23 March 1956) is a Portuguese politician and law professor. He previously served from 2002 to 2004 as the List of Prime Ministers of Portugal, 114th prime minister of Portugal and from 2004–2014 as the 11th president of the European Commission. He has been one of the revolving door (politics), revolving door cases at the EU, which received the most media attention because only two months after the cooling off period, Barroso accepted a position as "senior adviser" and "non-executive chairman" of Goldman Sachs International and became subject of an ethics inquiry. Early life and education José Barroso was born in Lisbon to Luís António Saraiva Barroso and his wife Maria Elisabete de Freitas Durão. Durão Barroso (as he is known in Portugal) graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. He subsequently obtained a Diploma in European Studies from the European University Institute, and received a Master of Arts, master' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
