He learned Brussels and European Politics from scratch: My Belgian colleague Louis Michel has been Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid from 2004 to 2009 before being elected Member of the European Parliament in 2009. Being a member of the Belgian liberal party “Mouvement Réformateur”, the University professor of Germanic languages also served as Minister read more
No bad compromises but tough and fair negotiations, this is the maxim on which my Romanian colleague Norica Nicolai acts in politics. The lawyer was senator between 2000 and 2008 in her home country and changed in 2009 as deputy to the European Parliament. Her party, the PNL (Partidul National Liberal – National Liberal Party), read more
My colleague Sophie in’t Veld is member of the Dutch D66, a social-liberal party in the ALDE-group. D66 refers to “Democraten ’66″, a movement of young progressive intellectuals that formed this party in 1966 in order to break off encrusted structures and to reform the Dutch political system. Sophie in’t Veld is a convinced and read more
