Tarja Cronberg

Minister of Labour, 19 April 2007 to present

Party Leader, Doctor of Science (Technology), Doctor of Science (Economics and Business Administration)

Green League

Date and place of birth: 29 June 1943, Helsinki

Place of residence: Polvijärvi

Green League, Chair of the party’s Board of Directors 2005 to present

Member of Parliament 2003-2007

Finnish Delegation to the Nordic Council, Member 2003-2007

Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region, Finnish Delegation, Member 2003-2005

Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI), Director 2001-2003

Regional Council of North Karelia, Executive Director 1995-2001

Technical University of Denmark, Associate Professor 1989-1995

Copenhagen School of Economics and Business Administration, Senior Researcher 1983-1989

Danish Building Research Institute, Research Director 1977-1984

Perstop AB, Sweden, Product Development Manager, 1968-1972

Committee preparing the Creative Economy section for the Government's Creativity Strategy, Member 2005 to present

Eastern Finland Regional Forum, Chair 2004 to present

Finnish Library Association, Chair 2004-2007

Regional Committee for Large Carnivores in North Karelia, Specialist Member 2003 to present

Finnish Institute of Political Affairs, Senior Fellow 2003 to present

Euregio Karelia, Senior Specialist 2001 to present

Norden Association, North Karelia Branch, Chair 2005-2006

COST A24, The Emerge of New Threats, Chair of Research Team 2004-2005

Evaluation Committee for Research in Foreign and Security Policy, Member 2001-2002

Northern Dimension National Working Group, Member 1999-2003

Association of European Border Regions, Board Member 1998-2001

ISTAG, Information Society Technologies Advisory Group (EU), Member 1998-2001

Information Society Technologies Advisory Board, Member 1998-2001

National Committee for the Centre of Expertise Programme (Ministry of the Interior), Member 1997-2001

COST, Social Shaping of Technology (EU), Chair 1992-1995

Danish Social Science Research Council's Committee, Member 1989-1994

Danish Folketinget Teknologinaevn, Member 1986-1991

Nordic Council of Ministers, Study on the New Everyday Life, Coordinator 1980-1986

Deirdre de Burca ( Senator ) Green Party

Senator Déirdre de Búrca is originally from Loughlinstown, County Dublin. She attended Cabinteely Community School en then progressed to Carysfort Teacher Training College, Blackrock where she trained as a Primary School Teacher. She taught for three years and then returned to college to study psychology at UCD. She then worked with Rehab for over ten years as a psychologist and was a Rehabilitation Psychologist in Rehab’s vocational training centres for people with disabilities. Déirdre established the Camus community-based rehabilitation programme for young people who have experienced their first serious mental health difficulties. She also helped to set up Minds Matter, one of Ireland’s first patient-led groups which set out to lobby for reforms in the mental health services.

She is a member of a wide range of interest groups including An Taisce, the Wicklow Planning Alliance, the Foundation for Sustainable Economics (Feasta), Sustainable Communities Ireland and the Peace & Neutrality Alliance.

Déirdre was first elected to Wicklow County Council in 1999. She was re-elected with a greatly increased mandate in the Local Elections of 2004, and was also one of the three Green Party Councillors to be elected onto Bray Town Council for the first time. Déirdre built a reputation for being a hard worker who is committed to public service over the 8-year period she spent as a local councillor. She was particularly interested in planning and waste management issues and worked closely with communities around County Wicklow to try to ensure that Local Development Plans for their areas met the real needs of these communities.

Déirdre achieved prominence during the drafting of the 2006-2011 Wicklow County Development Plan because she publicly challenged a number of late-night controversial zonings that were adopted by her fellow councillors. These re-zonings were the subject of much negative attention from the national media at the time. The majority of these re-zonings were subsequently withdrawn or significantly modified by the council.

Déirdre also legally challenged a decision of Wicklow County Council in February 2001. Following the total privatisation of the County’s waste collection services by Wicklow County Council in the face of massive public opposition. Déirdre received leave from the High Court to judicially review this decision. She was not successful in being granted the reliefs she sought. However, she did not have costs awarded against her as the judge in question ruled that her case had raised a number of important legal points.

Déirdre ran as a Green Party General Election candidate in Wicklow for the second time in June 2007. She achieved 7% of the vote, but failed to secure one of the five Dáil seats in the County. In August 2007 Déirdre was nominated to Seanad Éireann by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern following the Green Party’s entry into Government with Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats.

Déirdre is currently a member of the Green Party’s Parliamentary Party and is also a very active member of Seanad Éireann. She is her party’s spokesperson on European Affairs, Health & Children, and Defence. She has played a prominent role in explaining the shift in her party’s thinking in relation to Europe which was reflected in the vote by 63% of the Green Party membership in January 2007 to support the Lisbon Treaty. She has also been one of the Green Party’s main delegates on the National Forum on Europe since 2002.

Herta Müller

1953 in Nitzkydorf (Rumänien) als Angehörige der deutschsprachigen Minderheit im Banat.
1972-1976 Studium der Germanistik und Rumänistik in Temeswar.
1977-1980 Übersetzerin in einer Maschinenbaufabrik. Entlassung wegen der Weigerung, mit dem Geheimdienst „Securitate“ zu kooperieren. Danach nur noch zeitweilig als Lehrerin beschäftigt. Das Erscheinen des ersten Buches „Niederungen“ wurde jahrelang verhindert. 1982 erschien es nach starken Eingriffen der Zensur und 1984 in der Originalfassung in Deutschland. Ab 1985 Publikationsverbot in Rumänien. Doch ihrer ungeschminkte Darstellung und Kritik der Realität der Diktatur Ceausescus in westlichen Medien führte zu immer stärkerer Repressionen. 1987 konnte sie nach Deutschland ausreisen. Sie lebt seither in Berlin
Zuletzt erschien der Essayband „Der König verneigt sich und tötet“ und Textcollagen mit dem Titel „Die blassen Herren mit den Mokkatassen“.

Sylvie GOULARD

43 ans, mariée, trois enfants

Décembre 2006 : élection à la Présidence du Mouvement européen France
Enseignante au Collège d’Europe à Bruges ; chercheur associé au Centre d’études et de recherches internationales (CERI – Sciences Po).
Depuis 2004 : en disponibilité du ministère des affaires étrangères (conseiller des affaires étrangères)

Carrière
2001- 2004 Membre du Groupe des conseillers politiques du Président de la Commission européenne Romano Prodi (notamment suivi de la Convention européenne)
1999-2001 Détachée à temps plein au CERI
1996-1999 Chargée de mission au Centre d’analyse et de prévision (CAP) du Ministère des affaires étrangères (questions européennes ; responsable de la coopération avec le CAP allemand)
1993-1996 Détachée au Conseil d’Etat (section du contentieux, section sociale)
1989-1993 Direction des affaires juridiques du ministère des affaires étrangères (droit communautaire ; droit international public ; participation aux négociations d’unification de l’Allemagne 2 + 4)

Publications
Il faut cultiver notre jardin européen, Seuil, 2008.
Le Coq et la perle, Seuil, 2007.
L'Europe pour les nuls, First, 2007.
Le grand Turc et la République de Venise, Fayard, 2004. Prix du livre pour l’Europe 2005.

Etudes
Ecole nationale d'administration (ENA – promotion 1989), Paris
Institut d’études politiques (Paris) – 1986
Licence en droit Université d’Aix-en-Provence

Autres activités
Membre du conseil d’administration d’Europartenaires
Membre du conseil scientifique de l’Institut für Europäische Politik, Berlin ;
Membre du conseil d’administration de la Fondation BBI (Berlin Brandenburgisches Institut für die deutsch-französische Zusammenarbeit in Europa, Genshagen) ;
Membre du Advisory board, The European Policy Center - EPC (Bruxelles)

Décoration Croix du mérite de la République fédérale allemande