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They include Bob Geldof; the chancellor of Oxford University and BBC Trust chairman, Lord Patten; former Irish EU commissioner and attorney general David Byrne, and "potentially" the involvement of former UN secretary general Kofi Annan.

Grigoris Varfis

Finally, he was until 1989 EU Commissioner for relations with the EU Parliament for Regional Policies (1985) and for Consumer Protection (1986 to 1989) in the first Commission of Jacques Delors.

Propria Cures

Its editors have included a number of well-known Dutch writers, media figures and politicians, including the polemicist Menno ter Braak, poet and novelist J. Slauerhoff and former EU Commissioner Frits Bolkestein.


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Controversies surrounding the Eurozone crisis

In September 2011, EU commissioner Joaquín Almunia shared this view, saying that expelling weaker countries from the euro was not an option: "Those who think that this hypothesis is possible just do not understand our process of integration".

ESCP Europe

The school has many notable alumni in business and politics, such as Patrick Thomas (CEO Hermès), a former Prime Minister of France, Jean-Pierre Raffarin and the EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services Michel Barnier.

European Commissioner for Transport

Being head of the Forza Italia delegation in Europe, on 8 May 2008 he was appointed by the newly elected Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, as Italy's EU Commissioner.

Internet in Spain

In 2009 the EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media, Viviane Reding, warned Spain against cutting off the Internet access of content pirates without a judicial proceeding.

Jan Pieter Krahnen

In February 2012, EU Commissioner Michel Barnier invited Krahnen to join a high-level expert group to examine possible reforms to the structure of the EU banking sector.

Luca Zaia

Zaia’s tough negotiation with EU Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel, led to a five percent increase, meaning that since April 2009, Italian dairy farmers have had an additional 620,000 tons of milk production, allowing for increased revenues and lower overproduction fines.

Sweden and the euro

Olli Rehn, the EU commissioner for economic affairs has said that this is up to Swedish people to decide.

Visa requirements for Turkish citizens

As of September 29, 2011, EU Commissioner of Interior Affairs Cecilia Malmström, has indicated that visa requirement will eventually be discontinued.

WiMAX

EU commissioner Viviane Reding has suggested re-allocation of 500–800 MHz spectrum for wireless communication, including WiMAX.