http://www.charles-de-gaulle.org/sommaire.php3?id_mot=4

French President, who forced the Luxembourg compromise. De Gaulle described the EU Commission as "bureaucrats without a fatherland". ..

http://ec.europa.eu/commission_barroso/kallas/index_en.htm

Estonian commissioner for Administrative Affairs, Audit and Anti-Fraud (Barroso Commission 2004-2009).Siim Kallas is an economist. He graduated at Tartu State University in 1972 and made a really diversified career which was connected mainly with financial affairs. He was chairman of Association of Estonian Trade Unions as well. ..

http://european-convention.eu.int/CVs/pdf/OSullivan.pdf

Director general in the Commission. Former Secretary General in the Commission, was replaced by Catherine Day who is also an Irish citizen. ..

http://www.margaretthatcher.com/

British Prime Minister from 1979 - 1990 who negotiated the British rebate at the Fontainebleau Summit in 1984. Reluctantly gave her consent for the UK to join the Exchange Rate Mechanism in October 1990. Thatcher had initially refused to join the ERM, against the advice of her chancellor, Nigel Lawson. When ERM membership was undertaken it was at an exchange rate against the Deutschmark which was to prove ruinously high. ..

http://www.jean-monnet.ch/

The "Father of the EU" and the first President of the High Authority, Jean Monnet, formed ACUSE to campaign for a federal Europe in 1955. The Committee played an important role in the conception, signature and ratification of the Treaties of Rome, as well as in the development of European integration...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president_obama/

Fourty-fourth and current president of the United States. He is the first African-American President of the country. ..

http://www.j.dk/

Leading Danish Euro-sceptic. She campaigned for the Danish “No” to the Treaty of Maastricht on 2 June 1992 and to the Euro on 28 September 2000. ..

http://www.ukip.org/content/nigel-farages-blog

British Member of the European Parliament since 1999. In July 2004 he was elected co-president of the Independence and Democracy Group (Ind/Dem) in the European Parliament, which is the successor of the EDD Group. He was a founder member of the UK Independence Party in September 1993 and is now the party leader. ..

http://www.frankfield.co.uk/

MP. Labour politician who is a strong critic of the euro and the Lisbon Treaty, and a figure-head within his party for those who advocate Britain holding a referendum prior to ratifying the Lisbon Treaty. ..

http://ec.europa.eu/archives/commission_1999_2004/kalniete/index_en.htm

Latvian commissioner between 1 May 2004 and 22 November 2004. Born in Siberia where her parents were deported after the Soviet occupation in 1941. Sandra Kalniete made her name fighting for her country's independence at the beginning of the 1990s. Originally she is an art historian, but graduated also from international affairs at University of Geneva. Her political career began in the Latvian Popular Front, where she was secretary general. Later she served her country as ambassador to United Nation and France. ..

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jk35.html

Thirty-fifth President of the United States. He created the "Grand Design" and dealt with the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was assassinated in 1963 and was the first Roman Catholic president the United States. Had family roots in Ireland...

http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1973/kissinger-bio.html

Fifty-sixth Secretary of the State of the United States. He insisted that the European Community consult the United States before they made any foreign policy declarations or took any foreign policy actions...

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German Chancellor from 1982 to 98. He led Germany during its reunification after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.Kohl promoted the Treaty of Maastricht, in close co-operation with the French President Mitterand, in 1991. ..

http://www.wto.org/english/theWTO_e/dg_e/pl_e.htm

Generalsecretary for the World Trade Organisation, WTO. Former french Commissioner of Trade, former cabinet chief of Jacques Delors, a strong Commission President. PES...

http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1953/marshall-bio.html

American diplomat who developed the European Recovery Program, also known as the Marshall Plan...

http://www.martinmep.com

British Labour politician and former vice President of the EU Parliament. Drafted the third proposal for an EU constitution in 1995 together with Bourlanges. Was a candidate for the post of the President of the European Parliament in 2002 when Pat Cox was elected. Represents Scotland. PES...

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/......ew.do?language=EN&id=28149

Danish Prime Minister from 1993 to 2001. President of the European Social Democratic parties grouped in the Party of European Socialists. Member of the European Parliament for the Danish Social Democrats since 2004. Will leave in 2009. ..

http://ec.europa.eu/commission_barroso/reding/index_en.htm

Luxembourg Commissioner for Information Society and Media since 2004. Before that she was Commissioner for Education and Culture 1999-2004. Former Christian Democrat MEP. EPP...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/297643.stm

As Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1984-1995), Jacques Santer led the negotiations on the Single European Act, which effectively set aside the 20-year old Luxembourg Compromise. ..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/2293519.stm

A Spanish accountant, employed in 2002 to head the Commission’s accounts department of 130 staff. She criticised the accounting system for being open to fraud. She also criticised the Commission because it does not have a single system, but uses Excel spreadsheets for producing figures – this allows figures to be altered without trace. ..