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Пьотеринг" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering" title="Hans-Gert Pöttering – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Hans-Gert Pöttering" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering" title="Hans-Gert Pöttering – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Hans-Gert Pöttering" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering" title="Hans-Gert Pöttering – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Hans-Gert Pöttering" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering" title="Hans-Gert Pöttering – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Hans-Gert Pöttering" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering" title="Hans-Gert Pöttering – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Hans-Gert Pöttering" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering" title="Hans-Gert Pöttering – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Hans-Gert Pöttering" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering" title="Hans-Gert Pöttering – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Hans-Gert Pöttering" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering" title="Hans-Gert Pöttering – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Hans-Gert Pöttering" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%AA-%D9%BE%D8%AA%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF" title="هانس گرت-پترینگ – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="هانس گرت-پترینگ" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering" title="Hans-Gert Pöttering – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Hans-Gert Pöttering" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%95%9C%EC%8A%A4%EA%B2%8C%EB%A5%B4%ED%8A%B8_%ED%91%80%ED%85%8C%EB%A7%81" title="한스게르트 푀테링 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="한스게르트 푀테링" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering" title="Hans-Gert Pöttering – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Hans-Gert Pöttering" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering" title="Hans-Gert Pöttering – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Hans-Gert Pöttering" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%B0%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%A1-%E1%83%92%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A2_%E1%83%9E%E1%83%94%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%92%E1%83%98" title="ჰანს-გერტ პეტერინგი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ჰანს-გერტ პეტერინგი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering" title="Hans-Gert Pöttering – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Hans-Gert Pöttering" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC" title="هانس جيرت پوتيرينج – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="هانس جيرت پوتيرينج" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering" title="Hans-Gert Pöttering – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Hans-Gert Pöttering" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%EF%BC%9D%E3%82%B2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9A%E3%83%86%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0" title="ハンス＝ゲルト・ペテリング – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ハンス＝ゲルト・ペテリング" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering" title="Hans-Gert Pöttering – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Hans-Gert Pöttering" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering" title="Hans-Gert Pöttering – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Hans-Gert Pöttering" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering" title="Hans-Gert Pöttering – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Hans-Gert Pöttering" 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For the software developer, see <a href="/wiki/Lennart_Poettering" title="Lennart Poettering">Lennart Poettering</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Hans-Gert Pöttering</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:P%C3%B6ttering,_Hans-Gert-9757.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/P%C3%B6ttering%2C_Hans-Gert-9757.jpg/220px-P%C3%B6ttering%2C_Hans-Gert-9757.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="331" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/P%C3%B6ttering%2C_Hans-Gert-9757.jpg/330px-P%C3%B6ttering%2C_Hans-Gert-9757.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/P%C3%B6ttering%2C_Hans-Gert-9757.jpg/440px-P%C3%B6ttering%2C_Hans-Gert-9757.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1745" data-file-height="2624" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Pöttering in 2014</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/President_of_the_European_Parliament" title="President of the European Parliament">President of the European Parliament</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />16 January 2007 – 14 July 2009</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_European_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Vice President of the European Parliament">Vice President</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rodi_Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou" title="Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou">Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Josep_Borrell" title="Josep Borrell">Josep Borrell</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jerzy_Buzek" title="Jerzy Buzek">Jerzy Buzek</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Leader of the <a href="/wiki/European_People%27s_Party_(European_Parliament_group)" class="mw-redirect" title="European People's Party (European Parliament group)">European People's Party-European Democrats</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />20 July 1999 – 16 January 2007</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Wilfried_Martens" title="Wilfried Martens">Wilfried Martens</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Daul" title="Joseph Daul">Joseph Daul</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_European_Parliament" title="Member of the European Parliament">Member of the European Parliament</a><br />for <a href="/wiki/Germany_(European_Parliament_constituency)" title="Germany (European Parliament constituency)">Germany</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />17 July 1979 – 30 June 2014</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Chair of the <a href="/wiki/Konrad_Adenauer_Foundation" title="Konrad Adenauer Foundation">Konrad Adenauer Foundation</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1 January 2010 – 1 December 2018</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bernhard_Vogel_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bernhard Vogel (politician)">Bernhard Vogel</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Norbert_Lammert" title="Norbert Lammert">Norbert Lammert</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1945-09-15</span>) </span>15 September 1945<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 79)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Bersenbr%C3%BCck" title="Bersenbrück">Bersenbrück</a>, Germany</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian Democratic Union (Germany)">Christian Democratic Union</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">Johannes<br />Benedict</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Residence(s)</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Bad_Iburg" title="Bad Iburg">Bad Iburg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Allied-occupied_Germany" title="Allied-occupied Germany">Germany</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Bonn" title="University of Bonn">University of Bonn</a><br /><a href="/wiki/University_of_Geneva" title="University of Geneva">University of Geneva</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Graduate_Institute_of_International_Studies" class="mw-redirect" title="Graduate Institute of International Studies">Graduate Institute of International Studies</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Profession</th><td class="infobox-data">Lawyer</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kas.de/wf/en/71.7632/">Official website</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Hans-Gert Pöttering</b> (born 15 September 1945) is a German lawyer, historian and conservative politician (<a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian Democratic Union (Germany)">CDU</a>, <a href="/wiki/European_People%27s_Party" title="European People's Party">European People's Party</a>), who served as <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_European_Parliament" title="President of the European Parliament">President of the European Parliament</a> from January 2007 to July 2009 and as Chairman of the CDU-affiliated <a href="/wiki/Konrad_Adenauer_Foundation" title="Konrad Adenauer Foundation">Konrad Adenauer Foundation</a> from 2010 to 2017. </p><p>He served as a <a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_European_Parliament" title="Member of the European Parliament">Member of the European Parliament</a> continuously since the first elections in 1979 until 2014 and was Chairman of the <a href="/wiki/European_People%27s_Party_(European_Parliament_group)" class="mw-redirect" title="European People's Party (European Parliament group)">European People's Party-European Democrats</a> 1999–2007. When he stepped down in 2014 he was the European Parliament's longest-serving member. As president of the European Parliament he proposed the creation of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_European_History" title="House of European History">House of European History</a> museum in Brussels.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Pöttering never got to know his father who was <a href="/wiki/Killed_in_action" title="Killed in action">killed in action</a> during the last days of the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>. After <a href="/wiki/Abitur" title="Abitur">Abitur</a> and military service, he studied law, political science and history at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Bonn" title="University of Bonn">University of Bonn</a>, the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Geneva" title="University of Geneva">University of Geneva</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Graduate_Institute_of_International_Studies" class="mw-redirect" title="Graduate Institute of International Studies">Graduate Institute of International Studies</a> in Geneva and at <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> in New York. He took his first state exam in jurisprudence in 1973, earned a PhD in political science and history in 1974 with a dissertation on West German defense policy in the 1950s and 1960s and took his second state exam in jurisprudence in 1976, fully qualifying as an attorney.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Member_of_the_European_Parliament,_1979–2014"><span id="Member_of_the_European_Parliament.2C_1979.E2.80.932014"></span>Member of the European Parliament, 1979–2014</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Member of the European Parliament, 1979–2014"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Pöttering was a member of the <a href="/wiki/European_Parliament" title="European Parliament">European Parliament</a> from 1979 until 2014, by the end of this period he was the only member of the European Parliament to have served continuously since the first elections. </p><p>From 1984 to 1994, Pöttering was chairman of the <a href="/wiki/European_Parliament_Subcommittee_on_Security_and_Defence" title="European Parliament Subcommittee on Security and Defence">Subcommittee on Security and Defence</a>. From 1994 to 1996, he chaired the working group on the Intergovernmental Conference of the <a href="/wiki/European_People%27s_Party" title="European People's Party">European People's Party</a> (EPP) and <a href="/wiki/EPP-ED" class="mw-redirect" title="EPP-ED">EPP-ED</a> Group, the results of which became the official EPP position for the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Amsterdam" title="Treaty of Amsterdam">Treaty of Amsterdam</a>. </p><p>In 1994, Pöttering became Vice-President of the EPP, and from 1999 to 2007, he was the Chairman of the <a href="/wiki/EPP-ED" class="mw-redirect" title="EPP-ED">EPP-ED</a> Group in the European Parliament. He was the top candidate of the <a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian Democratic Union (Germany)">CDU</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2004_European_Parliament_election" title="2004 European Parliament election">2004 and the 2009 European elections</a>. </p><p>Together with <a href="/w/index.php?title=Volker_Hassemer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Volker Hassemer (page does not exist)">Volker Hassemer</a> he is a member of the advisory board of the pro-European initiative "<a href="/w/index.php?title=A_soul_for_Europe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A soul for Europe (page does not exist)">A Soul for Europe</a>". He was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Reconciliation_of_European_Histories_Group" title="Reconciliation of European Histories Group">Reconciliation of European Histories Group</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-REH_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-REH-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="President_of_the_European_Parliament,_2007–2009"><span id="President_of_the_European_Parliament.2C_2007.E2.80.932009"></span>President of the European Parliament, 2007–2009</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: President of the European Parliament, 2007–2009"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flickr_-_europeanpeoplesparty_-_EPP_Congress_Warsaw_(266).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Flickr_-_europeanpeoplesparty_-_EPP_Congress_Warsaw_%28266%29.jpg/220px-Flickr_-_europeanpeoplesparty_-_EPP_Congress_Warsaw_%28266%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Flickr_-_europeanpeoplesparty_-_EPP_Congress_Warsaw_%28266%29.jpg/330px-Flickr_-_europeanpeoplesparty_-_EPP_Congress_Warsaw_%28266%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Flickr_-_europeanpeoplesparty_-_EPP_Congress_Warsaw_%28266%29.jpg/440px-Flickr_-_europeanpeoplesparty_-_EPP_Congress_Warsaw_%28266%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3216" data-file-height="2136" /></a><figcaption>Pöttering with President of the European Commission <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Barroso" title="José Manuel Barroso">José Manuel Barroso</a> at the <a href="/wiki/European_People%27s_Party" title="European People's Party">EPP</a> Congress in Warsaw, 29 April 2009</figcaption></figure> <p>As part of a deal with the socialist group, it was agreed that he would succeed <a href="/wiki/Josep_Borrell_Fontelles" class="mw-redirect" title="Josep Borrell Fontelles">Josep Borrell Fontelles</a> as President of the European Parliament in the second part of the 2004–2009 term, which he did on 16 January 2007. He was elected with 450 of 689 valid votes, and defeated Italian Green <a href="/wiki/Monica_Frassoni" title="Monica Frassoni">Monica Frassoni</a>, Danish Eurosceptic <a href="/wiki/Jens-Peter_Bonde" title="Jens-Peter Bonde">Jens-Peter Bonde</a> and French Communist <a href="/wiki/Francis_Wurtz" title="Francis Wurtz">Francis Wurtz</a>. </p><p>As President of the European Parliament he initiated the <a href="/wiki/House_of_European_History" title="House of European History">House of European History</a> project. He made reference to the House in his inaugural speech in 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For many years he is serving as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_European_History" title="House of European History">House of European History</a> in <a href="/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels">Brussels</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_career">Later career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Later career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 4 December 2009 Pöttering was elected Chairman of the <a href="/wiki/Konrad_Adenauer_Foundation" title="Konrad Adenauer Foundation">Konrad Adenauer Foundation</a> from 1 January 2010; he was succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Norbert_Lammert" title="Norbert Lammert">Norbert Lammert</a> in 2018. </p><p>When the EPP membership of Hungarian party <a href="/wiki/Fidesz" title="Fidesz">Fidesz</a> was suspended in 2019, EPP president <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Daul" title="Joseph Daul">Joseph Daul</a> appointed Pöttering – alongside <a href="/wiki/Herman_van_Rompuy" class="mw-redirect" title="Herman van Rompuy">Herman van Rompuy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Sch%C3%BCssel" title="Wolfgang Schüssel">Wolfgang Schüssel</a> – to a group of high-level experts who were mandated to monitor Fidesz's compliance with EPP values.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_positions">Political positions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Political positions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Pöttering is known as an enthusiastic <a href="/wiki/Federal_Europe" title="Federal Europe">European Federalist</a> and an ally of <a href="/wiki/Angela_Merkel" title="Angela Merkel">Angela Merkel</a>. He has stated that his priority will be to rejuvenate the <a href="/wiki/European_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="European Constitution">European Constitution</a>. </p><p>In February 2020, Pöttering joined around fifty former European prime ministers and foreign ministers in signing an open letter published by British newspaper <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> to condemn <a href="/wiki/U.S._President" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. President">U.S. President</a> <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Trump_peace_plan" title="Trump peace plan">Middle East peace plan</a>, saying it would create an <a href="/wiki/Apartheid" title="Apartheid">apartheid</a>-like situation in occupied Palestinian territory.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Recognition">Recognition</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Recognition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="National_honours">National honours</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: National honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>: Great Cross with Star and Sash of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Merit_of_the_Federal_Republic_of_Germany" title="Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany">Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany</a> (2010)<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foreign_honours">Foreign honours</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Foreign honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/45px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a>: Grand Golden <a href="/wiki/Decoration_of_Honour_for_Services_to_the_Republic_of_Austria" title="Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria">Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria</a> (2002)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_Vatican_City_%282001%E2%80%932023%29.svg/15px-Flag_of_Vatican_City_%282001%E2%80%932023%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_Vatican_City_%282001%E2%80%932023%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Vatican_City_%282001%E2%80%932023%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_Vatican_City_%282001%E2%80%932023%29.svg/30px-Flag_of_Vatican_City_%282001%E2%80%932023%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Holy_See" title="Holy See">Holy See</a>: Grand Cross of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_St._Gregory_the_Great" title="Order of St. Gregory the Great">Papal Order of St Gregory the Great</a> (2007)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Croatia" title="Croatia">Croatia</a>: Great Cross of Merit of the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Order_of_Queen_Jelena" title="Grand Order of Queen Jelena">Grand Order of Queen Jelena</a> with Star and Shoulder Ribbon (2007)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a>: 1st Class of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Merit_of_the_Italian_Republic" title="Order of Merit of the Italian Republic">Order of Merit of the Italian Republic</a> (2008)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/35px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/45px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>: 2nd Class of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Prince_Yaroslav_the_Wise" title="Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise">Order of Prince Jaroslaw the Wise</a> (2008)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Latvia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Latvia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Latvia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Latvia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Latvia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Latvia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Latvia" title="Latvia">Latvia</a>: Grand Cross of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Three_Stars" title="Order of the Three Stars">Order of the Three Stars</a> (2009)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/23px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/35px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/45px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portugal</a>: Grand Cross of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Merit_(Portugal)" title="Order of Merit (Portugal)">Order of Merit (Portugal)</a> (2009)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/35px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/45px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>: Commander of the <a href="/wiki/Legion_of_Honour" title="Legion of Honour">Legion of Honour</a> (2011)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/45px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>: Grand Cross of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Civil_Merit" title="Order of Civil Merit">Order of Civil Merit of the Kingdom of Spain</a> (2011)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a>: Knight Commander's Cross of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Merit_of_the_Republic_of_Poland" title="Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland">Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland</a> (2013)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Lithuania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Lithuania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Lithuania.svg/46px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Lithuania" title="Lithuania">Lithuania</a>: Commander of the <a href="/wiki/Order_for_Merits_to_Lithuania" title="Order for Merits to Lithuania">Order for Merits to Lithuania</a> (2013)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_Hungary.svg/23px-Flag_of_Hungary.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_Hungary.svg/35px-Flag_of_Hungary.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_Hungary.svg/46px-Flag_of_Hungary.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungary</a>: Grand Cross of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Merit_of_the_Republic_of_Hungary" class="mw-redirect" title="Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary">Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic</a> (2013)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Flag_of_Estonia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Estonia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Flag_of_Estonia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Estonia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Flag_of_Estonia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Estonia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="990" data-file-height="630" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Estonia" title="Estonia">Estonia</a>: 1st Class of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Cross_of_Terra_Mariana" title="Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana">Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana</a> (2013)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a>: Grand Cross of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Star_of_Romania" title="Order of the Star of Romania">Order of the Star of Romania</a> (2014)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Tunisia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Tunisia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Tunisia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Tunisia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Tunisia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Tunisia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Tunisia" title="Tunisia">Tunisia</a>: Grand Officer of the <a href="/wiki/National_Order_of_Merit_(Tunisia)" title="National Order of Merit (Tunisia)">National Order of Merit</a> of the Republic of Tunisia (2016)<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Awards">Awards</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Schuman_Medal,_EPP_Group" title="Robert Schuman Medal, EPP Group">Robert Schuman Medal</a> of <a href="/wiki/European_People%27s_Party_group" class="mw-redirect" title="European People's Party group">EPP-ED</a> (1995)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/23px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/35px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/46px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="307" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Luxembourg" title="Luxembourg">Luxembourg</a>: Mérite Européen Medal in Gold, Fondation du Mérite européen (2002)</li> <li>European Honorary Senator, the 'MEP of the Year 2004' by newspaper ‘<a href="/wiki/Politico_Europe" title="Politico Europe">European Voice</a>’ (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Hallstein_Prize" title="Walter Hallstein Prize">Walter Hallstein Prize</a> (2007)</li> <li>European Excellence Award of the <a href="/wiki/Community_of_Madrid" title="Community of Madrid">Autonomous Community of Madrid</a> ('Premio a la Excelencia Europea', 2008)</li> <li>Ben Gurion Medal of <a href="/wiki/Ben-Gurion_University_of_the_Negev" title="Ben-Gurion University of the Negev">Ben Gurion University</a> (2010)</li> <li>Polish-German Prize (2011)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Honorary_degrees">Honorary degrees</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Honorary degrees"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Doctor Honoris Causa of <a href="/wiki/Babe%C8%99-Bolyai_University" title="Babeș-Bolyai University">Babeş Bolyai University</a> in Cluj-Napoca, Romania</li> <li>Doctor Honoris Causa of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Opole" title="University of Opole">University of Opole</a>, Poland</li> <li>Doctor Honoris Causa of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Warmia_and_Mazury_in_Olsztyn" title="University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn">University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn</a>, Poland</li> <li>Doctor Honoris Causa of the <a href="/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes_European_University" title="Miguel de Cervantes European University">Miguel de Cervantes European University</a>, Santiago de Chile</li> <li>Doctor Honoris Causa of <a href="/wiki/Bah%C3%A7e%C5%9Fehir_University" title="Bahçeşehir University">Bahçeşehir University</a> in Istanbul, Turkey</li> <li>Doctor Honoris Causa of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Wroc%C5%82aw" title="University of Wrocław">University of Wrocław</a>, Poland</li> <li>Doctor Honoris Causa of <a href="/wiki/Ateneo_de_Manila_University" title="Ateneo de Manila University">Ateneo de Manila University</a>, Philippines</li> <li>Honorary Professor at the <a href="/wiki/Pontifical_Catholic_University_of_Argentina" title="Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina">Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina</a></li> <li>Doctor Honoris Causa of the <a href="/wiki/Korea_University" title="Korea University">University of Korea</a>, Seoul</li> <li>Doctor Honoris Causa of the <a href="/wiki/European_Humanities_University" title="European Humanities University">European Humanities University</a>, Vilnius</li> <li>Honorary citizen of <a href="/wiki/Bersenbr%C3%BCck" title="Bersenbrück">Bersenbrueck</a> (Germany) and <a href="/wiki/Opole" title="Opole">Opole</a> (Poland)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_activities">Other activities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Other activities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Friends of Europe, Member of the Board of Trustees<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Reimagine Europa, Member of the Advisory Board<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilfried_Martens_Centre_for_European_Studies" title="Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies">Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies</a>, Member of the Executive Board<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Pöttering lives in <a href="/wiki/Bad_Iburg" title="Bad Iburg">Bad Iburg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>. He is Roman Catholic, divorced and has two sons.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Adenauers Sicherheitspolitik 1955–1963. Ein Beitrag zum deutsch-amerikanischen Verhältnis</i>, Droste Verlag 1975, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-7700-0412-4" title="Special:BookSources/3-7700-0412-4">3-7700-0412-4</a></li> <li><i>Europas Vereinigte Staaten</i>, Editio Interfrom 2000, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-7201-5237-5" title="Special:BookSources/3-7201-5237-5">3-7201-5237-5</a>, with Ludger Kühnhardt</li> <li><i>Weltpartner Europäische Union</i>, Edition Interfrom 2001, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-7201-5252-9" title="Special:BookSources/3-7201-5252-9">3-7201-5252-9</a>, with Ludger Kühnhardt</li> <li><i>Kontinent Europa. Kern, Übergänge, Grenzen</i>, Edition Interfrom 2002, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-7201-5276-6" title="Special:BookSources/3-7201-5276-6">3-7201-5276-6</a>, zusammen mit Ludger Kühnhardt</li> <li><i>Von der Vision zur Wirklichkeit. Auf dem Weg zur Einigung Europas</i>, Bouvier 2004, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-416-03053-2" title="Special:BookSources/3-416-03053-2">3-416-03053-2</a></li> <li><i>United for the Better: My European Way</i>, John Harper Publishing 2016, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-09-934549-67" title="Special:BookSources/978-09-934549-67">978-09-934549-67</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-REH-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-REH_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://eureconciliation.wordpress.com/about/">"About Us – Reconciliation of European Histories Group"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Reconciliation_of_European_Histories_Group" title="Reconciliation of European Histories Group">Reconciliation of European Histories Group</a>. 21 April 2010<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/30px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Christen-Democratisch_en_Vlaams" class="mw-redirect" title="Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams">CD&V</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria"><img alt="Bulgaria" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/15px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="9" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/30px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/GERB" title="GERB">GERB/ГЕРБ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democrats_for_a_Strong_Bulgaria" title="Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria">DSB/ДСБ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgaria_for_Citizens_Movement" title="Bulgaria for Citizens Movement">BCM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_of_Democratic_Forces_(Bulgaria)" title="Union of Democratic Forces (Bulgaria)">SDS/СДС</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Croatia" title="Croatia"><img alt="Croatia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/15px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Croatia.svg/30px-Flag_of_Croatia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Croatian_Democratic_Union" title="Croatian Democratic Union">HDZ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Croatian_Demochristian_Party" title="Croatian Demochristian Party">HDS</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Cyprus" title="Cyprus"><img alt="Cyprus" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_Cyprus.svg/15px-Flag_of_Cyprus.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_Cyprus.svg/23px-Flag_of_Cyprus.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_Cyprus.svg/30px-Flag_of_Cyprus.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Rally" title="Democratic Rally">DISY/ΔΗ.ΣΥ.</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Czech_Republic" title="Czech Republic"><img alt="Czech Republic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic.svg/15px-Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic.svg/30px-Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/KDU-%C4%8CSL" title="KDU-ČSL">KDU-ČSL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TOP_09" title="TOP 09">TOP 09</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark"><img alt="Denmark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/15px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/23px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/30px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="387" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Christian_Democrats_(Denmark)" title="Christian Democrats (Denmark)">KD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conservative_People%27s_Party_(Denmark)" title="Conservative People's Party (Denmark)">C</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Estonia" title="Estonia"><img alt="Estonia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Flag_of_Estonia.svg/15px-Flag_of_Estonia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Flag_of_Estonia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Estonia.svg.png 1.5x, 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Party">Kok./Saml.</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/France" title="France"><img alt="France" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/15px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/30px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/The_Republicans_(France)" title="The Republicans (France)">LR</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany"><img alt="Germany" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/15px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="9" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/30px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_of_Germany" title="Christian Democratic Union of Germany">CDU</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Social_Union_in_Bavaria" title="Christian Social Union in Bavaria">CSU</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece"><img alt="Greece" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Greece.svg/15px-Flag_of_Greece.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Greece.svg/23px-Flag_of_Greece.svg.png 1.5x, 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title="Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party">PATT</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Latvia" title="Latvia"><img alt="Latvia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Latvia.svg/15px-Flag_of_Latvia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Latvia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Latvia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Latvia.svg/30px-Flag_of_Latvia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Unity_(Latvia)" title="Unity (Latvia)">V</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Lithuania" title="Lithuania"><img alt="Lithuania" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Lithuania.svg/15px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="9" 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/15px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/30px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Appeal" title="Christian Democratic Appeal">CDA</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland"><img alt="Poland" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/15px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="9" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/30px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Civic_Platform" title="Civic Platform">PO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish_People%27s_Party" title="Polish People's Party">PSL</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal"><img alt="Portugal" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/15px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/23px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/30px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/CDS_%E2%80%93_People%27s_Party" title="CDS – People's Party">CDS-PP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(Portugal)" title="Social Democratic Party (Portugal)">PPD-PSD</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania"><img alt="Romania" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/15px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/30px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/National_Liberal_Party_(Romania)" title="National Liberal Party (Romania)">PNL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Movement_Party" title="People's Movement Party">PMP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Alliance_of_Hungarians_in_Romania" title="Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania">UDMR/RMDSz</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Slovakia" title="Slovakia"><img alt="Slovakia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_Slovakia.svg/15px-Flag_of_Slovakia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_Slovakia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Slovakia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_Slovakia.svg/30px-Flag_of_Slovakia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Movement" title="Christian Democratic Movement">KDH</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democrats_(Slovakia)" title="Democrats (Slovakia)">D</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Alliance_(Slovak_political_party)" title="Hungarian Alliance (Slovak political party)">MA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovakia_(political_party)" title="Slovakia (political party)">Slovensko</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Slovenia" title="Slovenia"><img alt="Slovenia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Flag_of_Slovenia.svg/15px-Flag_of_Slovenia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Flag_of_Slovenia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Slovenia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Flag_of_Slovenia.svg/30px-Flag_of_Slovenia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/New_Slovenia" title="New Slovenia">NSi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovenian_Democratic_Party" title="Slovenian Democratic Party">SDS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovenian_People%27s_Party" title="Slovenian People's Party">SLS</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain"><img alt="Spain" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/15px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/30px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Party_(Spain)" title="People's Party (Spain)">PP</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden"><img alt="Sweden" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/15px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="9" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/23px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/30px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Christian_Democrats_(Sweden)" title="Christian Democrats (Sweden)">KD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moderate_Party" title="Moderate Party">M</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#3399FF;color:white;width:1%">Associated parties (non-EU)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Albania" title="Albania"><img alt="Albania" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Flag_of_Albania.svg/15px-Flag_of_Albania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Flag_of_Albania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Albania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Flag_of_Albania.svg/30px-Flag_of_Albania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_Albania" title="Democratic Party of Albania">PD</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Iceland" title="Iceland"><img alt="Iceland" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Iceland.svg/15px-Flag_of_Iceland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Iceland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iceland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Iceland.svg/30px-Flag_of_Iceland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1250" data-file-height="900" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Independence_Party_(Iceland)" title="Independence Party (Iceland)">XD</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/North_Macedonia" title="North Macedonia"><img alt="North Macedonia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_North_Macedonia.svg/15px-Flag_of_North_Macedonia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_North_Macedonia.svg/23px-Flag_of_North_Macedonia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_North_Macedonia.svg/30px-Flag_of_North_Macedonia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/VMRO-DPMNE" title="VMRO-DPMNE">VMRO - DPMNE/ВМРО - ДПМНЕ</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway"><img alt="Norway" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/15px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/23px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/30px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="372" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(Norway)" title="Conservative Party (Norway)">H</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Serbia" title="Serbia"><img alt="Serbia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Flag_of_Serbia.svg/15px-Flag_of_Serbia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Flag_of_Serbia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Serbia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Flag_of_Serbia.svg/30px-Flag_of_Serbia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1350" data-file-height="900" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Serbian_Progressive_Party" title="Serbian Progressive Party">SNS/СНС</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alliance_of_Vojvodina_Hungarians" title="Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians">VMSZ/SVM</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland"><img alt="Switzerland" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/11px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/17px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/22px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/The_Centre_(political_party)" title="The Centre (political party)">DM-LC-AdC</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#3399FF;color:white;width:1%">Observer parties</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia"><img alt="Armenia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_Armenia.svg/15px-Flag_of_Armenia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_Armenia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Armenia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_Armenia.svg/30px-Flag_of_Armenia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_Armenia" title="Republican Party of Armenia">HHK/ՀՀԿ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heritage_(Armenia)" title="Heritage (Armenia)">Heritage/Ժառանգություն</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Belarus" title="Belarus"><img alt="Belarus" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Flag_of_Belarus.svg/15px-Flag_of_Belarus.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Flag_of_Belarus.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belarus.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Flag_of_Belarus.svg/30px-Flag_of_Belarus.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Belarusian_Christian_Democracy" title="Belarusian Christian Democracy">BCD/БХД</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Civic_Party_of_Belarus" class="mw-redirect" title="United Civic Party of Belarus">AHP/АГП</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Movement_for_Freedom&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Movement for Freedom (page does not exist)">За Свабоду</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Bosnia and Herzegovina"><img alt="Bosnia and Herzegovina" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Flag_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg/15px-Flag_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Flag_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Flag_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg/30px-Flag_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="400" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Croatian_Democratic_Union_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina">HDZ BiH</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Party_of_Democratic_Progress" title="Party of Democratic Progress">PDP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Party_of_Democratic_Action" title="Party of Democratic Action">SDA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Croatian_Democratic_Union_1990" title="Croatian Democratic Union 1990">HDZ 1990</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)"><img alt="Georgia (country)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Georgia.svg/15px-Flag_of_Georgia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Georgia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Georgia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Georgia.svg/30px-Flag_of_Georgia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/United_National_Movement" title="United National Movement">ENM/ენმ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Georgia" class="mw-redirect" title="European Georgia">EG/ევსა</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Kosovo" title="Kosovo"><img alt="Kosovo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Flag_of_Kosovo.svg/15px-Flag_of_Kosovo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Flag_of_Kosovo.svg/23px-Flag_of_Kosovo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Flag_of_Kosovo.svg/30px-Flag_of_Kosovo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="840" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Democratic_League_of_Kosovo" title="Democratic League of Kosovo">LDK</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Moldova" title="Moldova"><img alt="Moldova" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Moldova.svg/15px-Flag_of_Moldova.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Moldova.svg/23px-Flag_of_Moldova.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Moldova.svg/30px-Flag_of_Moldova.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="900" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_of_Moldova" title="Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova">PLDM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Party_of_Action_and_Solidarity" title="Party of Action and Solidarity">PAS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dignity_and_Truth_Platform_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Dignity and Truth Platform Party">PPDA</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Montenegro" title="Montenegro"><img alt="Montenegro" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Montenegro.svg/15px-Flag_of_Montenegro.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Montenegro.svg/23px-Flag_of_Montenegro.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Montenegro.svg/30px-Flag_of_Montenegro.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Bosniak_Party" title="Bosniak Party">BS</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway"><img alt="Norway" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/15px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/23px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/30px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="372" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Party_(Norway)" title="Christian Democratic Party (Norway)">KrF</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/San_Marino" title="San Marino"><img alt="San Marino" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Flag_of_San_Marino.svg/15px-Flag_of_San_Marino.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Flag_of_San_Marino.svg/23px-Flag_of_San_Marino.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Flag_of_San_Marino.svg/30px-Flag_of_San_Marino.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Sammarinese_Christian_Democratic_Party" title="Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party">PDCS</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine"><img alt="Ukraine" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/15px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/30px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Batkivshchyna" title="Batkivshchyna">Batkivshchyna/Батьківщина</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Solidarity" title="European Solidarity">YeS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Democratic_Alliance_for_Reform" title="Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform">UDAR/УДАР</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Self_Reliance_(political_party)" title="Self Reliance (political party)">Об'єднання «Самопоміч»/Ob'yednannya «Samopomich»</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#3399FF;color:white;width:1%">Presidents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Manfred_Weber" title="Manfred Weber">Manfred Weber</a> (President)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thanasis_Bakolas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thanasis Bakolas (page does not exist)">Thanasis Bakolas</a> (Secretary General)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mariya_Gabriel" title="Mariya Gabriel">Mariya Gabriel</a> (Vice-President)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olgierd_Geblewicz" title="Olgierd Geblewicz">Olgierd Geblewicz</a> (Vice-President)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Esteban_Gonz%C3%A1lez_Pons" title="Esteban González Pons">Esteban González Pons</a> (Vice-President)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johannes_Hahn" title="Johannes Hahn">Johannes Hahn</a> (Vice-President)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrzej_Halicki" title="Andrzej Halicki">Andrzej Halicki</a> (Vice-President)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Esther_de_Lange" title="Esther de Lange">Esther de Lange</a> (Vice-President)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_McAllister" title="David McAllister">David McAllister</a> (Vice-President)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siegfried_Mure%C8%99an" title="Siegfried Mureșan">Siegfried Mureșan</a> (Vice-President)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petteri_Orpo" title="Petteri Orpo">Petteri Orpo</a> (Vice-President)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dubravka_%C5%A0uica" title="Dubravka Šuica">Dubravka Šuica</a> (Vice-President)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_Tajani" title="Antonio Tajani">Antonio Tajani</a> (Vice-President)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paulo_Rangel" title="Paulo Rangel">Paulo Rangel</a> (Treasurer)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ursula_von_der_Leyen" title="Ursula von der Leyen">Ursula von der Leyen</a> (<i>ex officio</i> Vice-President)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#3399FF;color:white;width:1%">European Parliament<br />Group Presidents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Manfred_Weber" title="Manfred Weber">Manfred Weber</a> (Chair)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arnaud_Danjean" title="Arnaud Danjean">Arnaud Danjean</a> (Vice-Chair)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Esteban_Gonz%C3%A1lez_Pons" title="Esteban González Pons">Esteban González Pons</a> (Vice-Chair)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandra_Kalniete" title="Sandra Kalniete">Sandra Kalniete</a> (Vice-Chair)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrey_Kovatchev" title="Andrey Kovatchev">Andrey Kovatchev</a> (Vice-Chair)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Esther_de_Lange" title="Esther de Lange">Esther de Lange</a> (Vice-Chair)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vangelis_Meimarakis" title="Vangelis Meimarakis">Vangelis Meimarakis</a> (Vice-Chair)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siegfried_Mure%C8%99an" title="Siegfried Mureșan">Siegfried Mureșan</a> (Vice-Chair)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jan_Olbrycht" title="Jan Olbrycht">Jan Olbrycht</a> (Vice-Chair)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paulo_Rangel" title="Paulo Rangel">Paulo Rangel</a> (Vice-Chair)</li> <li>see <a href="/wiki/European_Parliament" title="European Parliament">European Parliament</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#3399FF;color:white;width:1%">European Commissioners (2024–2029)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ursula_von_der_Leyen" title="Ursula von der Leyen">Ursula von der Leyen</a> (President)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maria_Lu%C3%ADs_Albuquerque" title="Maria Luís Albuquerque">Maria Luís Albuquerque</a> (Financial Services and the Savings and Investments Union)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magnus_Brunner" title="Magnus Brunner">Magnus Brunner</a> (Internal Affairs and Migration)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valdis_Dombrovskis" title="Valdis Dombrovskis">Valdis Dombrovskis</a> (Economy and Productivity, Implementation and Simplification)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christophe_Hansen" title="Christophe Hansen">Christophe Hansen</a> (Agriculture and Food)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wopke_Hoekstra" title="Wopke Hoekstra">Wopke Hoekstra</a> (Net-Zero and Clean Growth)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrius_Kubilius" title="Andrius Kubilius">Andrius Kubilius</a> (Defence and Space)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessika_Roswall" title="Jessika Roswall">Jessika Roswall</a> (Environment, Water Resilience, and a Competitive Circular Economy)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piotr_Serafin" title="Piotr Serafin">Piotr Serafin</a> (Budget, Anti_Fraud and Public Administration)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dubravka_%C5%A0uica" title="Dubravka Šuica">Dubravka Šuica</a> (Mediterranean)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apostolos_Tzitzikostas" title="Apostolos Tzitzikostas">Apostolos Tzitzikostas</a> (Sustainable Transport and Tourism)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henna_Virkkunen" title="Henna Virkkunen">Henna Virkkunen</a> (Executive Vice-President for Digital and Frontier Technologies)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ekaterina_Zaharieva" title="Ekaterina Zaharieva">Ekaterina Zaharieva</a> (Startups, Research and Innovation</li> <li><b>see <a href="/wiki/Von_der_Leyen_Commission_II" title="Von der Leyen Commission II">von der Leyen Commission II</a></b></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#3399FF;color:white;width:1%">Heads of government<br />at the European Council</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Nehammer" title="Karl Nehammer">Karl Nehammer</a> (Austria)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrej_Plenkovi%C4%87" title="Andrej Plenković">Andrej Plenković</a> (Croatia)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petteri_Orpo" title="Petteri Orpo">Petteri Orpo</a> (Finland)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyriakos_Mitsotakis" title="Kyriakos Mitsotakis">Kyriakos Mitsotakis</a> (Greece)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Harris" title="Simon Harris">Simon Harris</a> (Ireland)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evika_Sili%C5%86a" title="Evika Siliņa">Evika Siliņa</a> (Latvia)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luc_Frieden" title="Luc Frieden">Luc Frieden</a> (Luxembourg)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Tusk" title="Donald Tusk">Donald Tusk</a> (Poland)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klaus_Iohannis" title="Klaus Iohannis">Klaus Iohannis</a> (Romania)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulf_Kristersson" title="Ulf Kristersson">Ulf Kristersson</a> (Sweden)</li> <li><b>see <a href="/wiki/European_Council" title="European Council">European Council</a></b></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background:#3399FF;color:white"><div><a href="/wiki/European_political_foundation" title="European political foundation"><span style="color:white">European political foundation</span></a>: <a href="/wiki/Wilfried_Martens_Centre_for_European_Studies" title="Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies"><span style="color:white"><i>Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies</i></span></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" 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style="width:1%;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany" title="Social Democratic Party of Germany">Social Democratic Party</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rudi_Arndt" title="Rudi Arndt">Rudi Arndt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willy_Brandt" title="Willy Brandt">Willy Brandt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Fellermaier" title="Ludwig Fellermaier">Ludwig Fellermaier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katharina_Focke" title="Katharina Focke">Katharina Focke</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bruno_Friedrich&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bruno Friedrich (page does not exist)">Bruno Friedrich</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Volkmar_Gabert&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Volkmar Gabert (page does not exist)">Volkmar Gabert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klaus_H%C3%A4nsch" title="Klaus Hänsch">Klaus Hänsch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Hauenschild" title="Karl Hauenschild">Karl Hauenschild</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luise_Herklotz" title="Luise Herklotz">Luise Herklotz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magdalene_Hoff" title="Magdalene Hoff">Magdalene Hoff</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jan_Klinkenborg&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jan Klinkenborg (page does not exist)">Jan Klinkenborg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heinz_K%C3%BChn" title="Heinz Kühn">Heinz Kühn</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erwin_Lange&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Erwin Lange (page does not exist)">Erwin Lange</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erdmann_Linde&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Erdmann Linde (page does not exist)">Erdmann Linde</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rolf_Linkohr&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rolf Linkohr (page does not exist)">Rolf Linkohr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eugen_Loderer" title="Eugen Loderer">Eugen Loderer</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heinke_Salisch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Heinke Salisch (page does not exist)">Heinke Salisch</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rudolf_Schieler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rudolf Schieler (page does not exist)">Rudolf Schieler</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dieter_Schinzel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dieter Schinzel (page does not exist)">Dieter Schinzel</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gerhard_Schmid&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gerhard Schmid (page does not exist)">Gerhard Schmid</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heinz_Schmitt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Heinz Schmitt (page does not exist)">Heinz Schmitt</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karl_Sch%C3%B6n&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Karl Schön (page does not exist)">Karl Schön</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Olaf_Schwencke&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Olaf Schwencke (page does not exist)">Olaf Schwencke</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Horst_Seefeld&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Horst Seefeld (page does not exist)">Horst Seefeld</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans-Joachim_Seeler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hans-Joachim Seeler (page does not exist)">Hans-Joachim Seeler</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lieselotte_Seibel-Emmerling&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lieselotte Seibel-Emmerling (page does not exist)">Lieselotte Seibel-Emmerling</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hellmut_Sieglerschmidt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hellmut Sieglerschmidt (page does not exist)">Hellmut Sieglerschmidt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heinz_Oskar_Vetter" title="Heinz Oskar Vetter">Heinz Oskar Vetter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_von_der_Vring" title="Thomas von der Vring">Thomas von der Vring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manfred_Wagner_(politician,_born_1934)" title="Manfred Wagner (politician, born 1934)">Manfred Wagner</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gerd_Walter&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gerd Walter (page does not exist)">Gerd Walter</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Beate_Weber&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Beate Weber (page does not exist)">Beate Weber</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Klaus_Wettig&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Klaus Wettig (page does not exist)">Klaus Wettig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heidemarie_Wieczorek-Zeul" title="Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul">Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_of_Germany" title="Christian Democratic Union of Germany">Christian Democratic Union</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jochen_van_Aerssen" title="Jochen van Aerssen">Jochen van Aerssen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siegbert_Alber" title="Siegbert Alber">Siegbert Alber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philipp_von_Bismarck" title="Philipp von Bismarck">Philipp von Bismarck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erik_Blumenfeld" title="Erik Blumenfeld">Erik Blumenfeld</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Isidor_Fr%C3%BCh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Isidor Früh (page does not exist)">Isidor Früh</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wilhelm_Hahn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wilhelm Hahn (page does not exist)">Wilhelm Hahn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kai-Uwe_von_Hassel" title="Kai-Uwe von Hassel">Kai-Uwe von Hassel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Helms" title="Wilhelm Helms">Wilhelm Helms</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karl-Heinz_Hoffmann_(politician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Karl-Heinz Hoffmann (politician) (page does not exist)">Karl-Heinz Hoffmann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans_Katzer" title="Hans Katzer">Hans Katzer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egon_Klepsch" title="Egon Klepsch">Egon Klepsch</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herbert_K%C3%B6hler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Herbert Köhler (page does not exist)">Herbert Köhler</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Horst_Langes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Horst Langes (page does not exist)">Horst Langes</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gerd_Lemmer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gerd Lemmer (page does not exist)">Gerd Lemmer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marlene_Lenz" title="Marlene Lenz">Marlene Lenz</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rudolf_Luster&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rudolf Luster (page does not exist)">Rudolf Luster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernst_Majonica" title="Ernst Majonica">Ernst Majonica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Malangr%C3%A9" title="Kurt Malangré">Kurt Malangré</a></li> <li><a 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class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Flag_of_Europe.svg/35px-Flag_of_Europe.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Flag_of_Europe.svg/45px-Flag_of_Europe.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="810" data-file-height="540" /></a></span></span><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany"><img alt="Germany" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> German members of the European Parliament (1989–1994)</span></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany" title="Social Democratic Party of Germany">Social Democratic Party</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Willi_G%C3%B6rlach&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Willi Görlach (page does not exist)">Willi Görlach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lissy_Gr%C3%B6ner" title="Lissy Gröner">Lissy Gröner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klaus_H%C3%A4nsch" title="Klaus Hänsch">Klaus Hänsch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magdalene_Hoff" title="Magdalene Hoff">Magdalene Hoff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karin_Junker" title="Karin Junker">Karin Junker</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heinz_Fritz_K%C3%B6hler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Heinz Fritz Köhler (page does not exist)">Heinz Fritz Köhler</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Annemarie_Kuhn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Annemarie Kuhn (page does not exist)">Annemarie Kuhn</a> (from 22 December 1990)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rolf_Linkohr&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rolf Linkohr (page does not exist)">Rolf Linkohr</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=G%C3%BCnter_L%C3%BCttge&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Günter Lüttge (page does not exist)">Günter Lüttge</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gepa_Maibaum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gepa Maibaum (page does not exist)">Gepa Maibaum</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karl-Heinrich_Mihr&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Karl-Heinrich Mihr (page does not exist)">Karl-Heinrich Mihr</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leyla_Onur&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Leyla Onur (page does not exist)">Leyla Onur</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helwin_Peter&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Helwin Peter (page does not exist)">Helwin Peter</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johannes_Wilhelm_Peters&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Johannes Wilhelm Peters (page does not exist)">Johannes Wilhelm Peters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willi_Piecyk" title="Willi Piecyk">Willi Piecyk</a> (from 11 May 1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christa_Randzio-Plath" title="Christa Randzio-Plath">Christa Randzio-Plath</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dieter_Rogalla&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dieter Rogalla (page does not exist)">Dieter Rogalla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dagmar_Roth-Behrendt" title="Dagmar Roth-Behrendt">Dagmar Roth-Behrendt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mechtild_Rothe" title="Mechtild Rothe">Mechtild Rothe</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Willi_Rothley&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Willi Rothley (page does not exist)">Willi Rothley</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jannis_Sakellariou&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jannis Sakellariou (page does not exist)">Jannis Sakellariou</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heinke_Salisch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Heinke Salisch (page does not exist)">Heinke Salisch</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Detlev_Samland&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Detlev Samland (page does not exist)">Detlev Samland</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dieter_Schinzel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dieter Schinzel (page does not exist)">Dieter Schinzel</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gerhard_Schmid&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gerhard Schmid (page does not exist)">Gerhard Schmid</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Barbara_Schmidbauer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Barbara Schmidbauer (page does not exist)">Barbara Schmidbauer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Simons" title="Barbara Simons">Barbara Simons</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=G%C3%BCnter_Topmann&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Günter Topmann (page does not exist)">Günter Topmann</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vittinghoff&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kurt Vittinghoff (page does not exist)">Kurt Vittinghoff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_von_der_Vring" title="Thomas von der Vring">Thomas von der Vring</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gerd_Walter&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gerd Walter (page does not exist)">Gerd Walter</a> (until 7 May 1992)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Beate_Weber-Schuerholz&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Beate Weber-Schuerholz (page does not exist)">Beate Weber-Schuerholz</a> (until 14 December 1990)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Klaus_Wettig&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Klaus Wettig (page does not exist)">Klaus Wettig</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_of_Germany" title="Christian Democratic Union of Germany">Christian Democratic Union</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Siegbert_Alber" title="Siegbert Alber">Siegbert Alber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reimer_B%C3%B6ge" title="Reimer Böge">Reimer Böge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ursula_Braun-Moser" title="Ursula Braun-Moser">Ursula Braun-Moser</a> (from 15 January 1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elmar_Brok" title="Elmar Brok">Elmar Brok</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl-Heinz_Florenz" title="Karl-Heinz Florenz">Karl-Heinz Florenz</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Honor_Funk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Honor Funk (page does not exist)">Honor Funk</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helga_Haller_von_Hallerstein&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Helga Haller von Hallerstein (page does not exist)">Helga Haller von Hallerstein</a> (from 27 December 1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karsten_Friedrich_Hoppenstedt" title="Karsten Friedrich Hoppenstedt">Karsten Friedrich Hoppenstedt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georg_Jarzembowski" title="Georg Jarzembowski">Georg Jarzembowski</a> (from 5 September 1991)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hedwig_Keppelhoff-Wiechert&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hedwig Keppelhoff-Wiechert (page does not exist)">Hedwig Keppelhoff-Wiechert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egon_Klepsch" title="Egon Klepsch">Egon Klepsch</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brigitte_Langenhagen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brigitte Langenhagen (page does not exist)">Brigitte Langenhagen</a> (from November 25 1990)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Horst_Langes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Horst Langes (page does not exist)">Horst Langes</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gerd_Ludwig_Lemmer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gerd Ludwig Lemmer (page does not exist)">Gerd Ludwig Lemmer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marlene_Lenz" title="Marlene Lenz">Marlene Lenz</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rudolf_Luster&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rudolf Luster (page does not exist)">Rudolf Luster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Malangr%C3%A9" title="Kurt Malangré">Kurt Malangré</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winfried_Menrad" title="Winfried Menrad">Winfried Menrad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Merz" title="Friedrich Merz">Friedrich Merz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Werner_M%C3%BCnch" title="Werner Münch">Werner Münch</a> (until November 19 1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doris_Pack" title="Doris Pack">Doris Pack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hartmut_Perschau" title="Hartmut Perschau">Hartmut Perschau</a> (until 10 July 1991)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Hans-Gert Pöttering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Godelieve_Quisthoudt-Rowohl" title="Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl">Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=G%C3%BCnter_Rinsche&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Günter Rinsche (page does not exist)">Günter Rinsche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernhard_S%C3%A4lzer" title="Bernhard Sälzer">Bernhard Sälzer</a> (until 18 December 1993)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diemut_Theato&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Diemut Theato (page does not exist)">Diemut Theato</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_von_Wogau" title="Karl von Wogau">Karl von Wogau</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Axel_Zarges&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Axel Zarges (page does not exist)">Axel Zarges</a> (until December 29 1989)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Alliance_90/The_Greens" title="Alliance 90/The Greens">Alliance 90/The Greens</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich-Wilhelm_Graefe_zu_Baringdorf" title="Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf">Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiltrud_Breyer" title="Hiltrud Breyer">Hiltrud Breyer</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birgit_Cramon_Daiber&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Birgit Cramon Daiber (page does not exist)">Birgit Cramon Daiber</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karl_Partsch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Karl Partsch (page does not exist)">Karl Partsch</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dorothee_Piermont&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dorothee Piermont (page does not exist)">Dorothee Piermont</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eva-Maria_Quistorp&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eva-Maria Quistorp (page does not exist)">Eva-Maria Quistorp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claudia_Roth" title="Claudia Roth">Claudia Roth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilfried_Telk%C3%A4mper" title="Wilfried Telkämper">Wilfried Telkämper</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Christian_Social_Union_in_Bavaria" title="Christian Social Union in Bavaria">Christian Social Union in Bavaria</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Reinhold_Bocklet" title="Reinhold Bocklet">Reinhold Bocklet</a> (until 24 June 1993)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=J%C3%BCrgen_Brand&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jürgen Brand (page does not exist)">Jürgen Brand</a> (from 16 November 1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ingo_Friedrich" title="Ingo Friedrich">Ingo Friedrich</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maren_G%C3%BCnther&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Maren Günther (page does not exist)">Maren Günther</a> (from 31 August 1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Otto_von_Habsburg" title="Otto von Habsburg">Otto von Habsburg</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=G%C3%BCnther_M%C3%BCller_(politician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Günther Müller (politician) (page does not exist)">Günther Müller</a> (from 4 December 1992 to 6 November 1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerd_M%C3%BCller" title="Gerd Müller">Gerd Müller</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fritz_Pirkl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fritz Pirkl (page does not exist)">Fritz Pirkl</a> (until 19 August 1993)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edgar_Schiedermeier&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edgar Schiedermeier (page does not exist)">Edgar Schiedermeier</a> (from 5 July 1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ursula_Schleicher" title="Ursula Schleicher">Ursula Schleicher</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Franz_Ludwig_Schenk_von_Stauffenberg&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Franz Ludwig Schenk von Stauffenberg (page does not exist)">Franz Ludwig Schenk von Stauffenberg</a> (until 30 November 1992)</li></ul> 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Görlach (page does not exist)">Willi Görlach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lissy_Gr%C3%B6ner" title="Lissy Gröner">Lissy Gröner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klaus_H%C3%A4nsch" title="Klaus Hänsch">Klaus Hänsch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jutta_Haug" title="Jutta Haug">Jutta Haug</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magdalene_Hoff" title="Magdalene Hoff">Magdalene Hoff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karin_J%C3%B6ns" title="Karin Jöns">Karin Jöns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karin_Junker" title="Karin Junker">Karin Junker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heinz_Kindermann" title="Heinz Kindermann">Heinz Kindermann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constanze_Krehl" title="Constanze Krehl">Constanze Krehl</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wilfried_Kuckelkorn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wilfried Kuckelkorn (page does not exist)">Wilfried Kuckelkorn</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Annemarie_Kuhn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Annemarie Kuhn (page does not exist)">Annemarie Kuhn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helmut_Kuhne" title="Helmut Kuhne">Helmut Kuhne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernd_Lange" title="Bernd Lange">Bernd Lange</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rolf_Linkohr&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rolf Linkohr (page does not exist)">Rolf Linkohr</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=G%C3%BCnter_L%C3%BCttge&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Günter Lüttge (page does not exist)">Günter Lüttge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erika_Mann" title="Erika Mann">Erika Mann</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helwin_Peter&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Helwin Peter (page does not exist)">Helwin Peter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willi_Piecyk" title="Willi Piecyk">Willi Piecyk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christa_Randzio-Plath" title="Christa Randzio-Plath">Christa Randzio-Plath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernhard_Rapkay" title="Bernhard Rapkay">Bernhard Rapkay</a></li> <li><a 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Haug</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garrelt_Duin" title="Garrelt Duin">Garrelt Duin</a> (from 2 October 2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evelyne_Gebhardt" title="Evelyne Gebhardt">Evelyne Gebhardt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norbert_Glante" title="Norbert Glante">Norbert Glante</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Willi_G%C3%B6rlach&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Willi Görlach (page does not exist)">Willi Görlach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lissy_Gr%C3%B6ner" title="Lissy Gröner">Lissy Gröner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klaus_H%C3%A4nsch" title="Klaus Hänsch">Klaus Hänsch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magdalene_Hoff" title="Magdalene Hoff">Magdalene Hoff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karin_J%C3%B6ns" title="Karin Jöns">Karin Jöns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karin_Junker" title="Karin Junker">Karin Junker</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Margot_Kessler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Margot Kessler (page does not exist)">Margot Kessler</a></li> <li><a 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Klaß">Christa Klaß</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dieter-Lebrecht_Koch" title="Dieter-Lebrecht Koch">Dieter-Lebrecht Koch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christoph_Werner_Konrad" title="Christoph Werner Konrad">Christoph Werner Konrad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Werner_Langen" title="Werner Langen">Werner Langen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armin_Laschet" title="Armin Laschet">Armin Laschet</a> (until 29 June 2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Joachim_Lauk" title="Kurt Joachim Lauk">Kurt Joachim Lauk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Lechner" title="Kurt Lechner">Kurt Lechner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klaus-Heiner_Lehne" title="Klaus-Heiner Lehne">Klaus-Heiner Lehne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Liese" title="Peter Liese">Peter Liese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Mann" title="Thomas Mann">Thomas Mann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans-Peter_Mayer" title="Hans-Peter Mayer">Hans-Peter Mayer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hartmut_Nassauer" title="Hartmut Nassauer">Hartmut Nassauer</a></li> 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title="Renate Sommer">Renate Sommer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Ulmer" title="Thomas Ulmer">Thomas Ulmer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reiner_Wieland" class="mw-redirect" title="Reiner Wieland">Reiner Wieland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_von_Wogau" title="Karl von Wogau">Karl von Wogau</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany" title="Social Democratic Party of Germany">Social Democratic Party</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Udo_Bullmann" title="Udo Bullmann">Udo Bullmann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garrelt_Duin" title="Garrelt Duin">Garrelt Duin</a> (until 17 October 2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garrelt_Duin" title="Garrelt Duin">Garrelt Duin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evelyne_Gebhardt" title="Evelyne Gebhardt">Evelyne Gebhardt</a></li> <li><a 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