Honorary Patrons and Committees


HONORARY PRESIDENT
Hans-Gert Pöttering, President of the European Parliament
HONORARY PATRONS

José Manuel Durão Barroso , President of the European Commission and Head of the Honorary Patrons
Michel Delebarre, President of the Committee of the Regions
and the Prime Ministers of the 27 Member states of the European Union:

Alfred Gusenbauer
Guy Verhofstadt
Sergi Stanishev
Tassos Papadopoulos
Mirek Topolánek
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Andrus Ansip
Matti Vanhanen
François Fillon

Angela Merkel
Kostas Karamanlis
Ferenc Gyurcsány
Bertie Ahern
Romano Prodi
Aigars Kalvitis
Gediminas Kirkilas
Jean-Claude Juncker
Lawrence Gonzi

Jan Peter Balkenende
Jaroslaw Kaczynski
Jose Socrates
Calin Popescu-Taiceanu
Robert Fico
Janez Jansa
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Fredrik Reinfeldt
Gordon Brown

HONORARY COMMITTEE
Ján Figel’, Commissioner for Culture and Education to the European Commission and Head of the Honorary Committee
and Ministers of the 27 Member States of the European Union

AUSTRIA
Ursula Plassnik
Claudia Schmied

BELGIUM
Karel De Gucht
Bert Anciaux
Isabelle Weykmans
Fadila Laanan

BULGARIA
Ivailo Kalfin
Stephan Danailov
Meglena Kuneva

CYPRUS
Yiorgos Lillikas

CZECH REPUBLIC
Karel Schwarzenberg
Dana Kuchtová
Václavu Jehlicki

DENMARK
Per Stig MØller
Brian Mikkelsen

ESTONIA
Urmas Paet
Laine Jänes
Tõnis Lukas

FINLAND
Ilkka Kanerva
Stefan Wallin

FRANCE
Bernard Kouchner
Christine Albanel
Jean-Pierre Jouyet

GERMANY
Frank Walter Steinmeier
Ursula von der Leyen

GREECE
Theodora Bakogiannis
Giorgos Voulgarakis
Marietta Koutsikou-Giannakou

HUNGARY
Kinga Göncz
István Hiller

IRELAND
Dermot Ahern
John O'Donoghue

ITALY
Massimo D’Alema
Francesco Rutelli
Gherardo La Francesca
Emma Bonino

LATVIA
Artis Pabriks
Helena Demakova

LITHUANIA
Petras Vaitiekunas
Jonas Jucas

LUXEMBOURG
Jean Asselborn
Francois Biltgen
Octavie Modert

MALTA
Michael Frendo
Francis Zammit-Dimech

NETHERLANDS
Maxime Verhagen
Ronald Plasterk

POLAND
Anna Fotyga
Kazimierz MIchal Ujazdowski

PORTUGAL
Luis Amado
Isabel Pires de Lima

ROMANIA
Adrian Cioroianu
Adrian Iorgulescu

SLOVAKIA
Jan Kubis
Marek Madaric

SLOVENIA
Vasko Simoniti
Dimitrij Rupel

SPAIN
Miguel Angel Moratinos
Carmen Calvo Poyato

SWEDEN

Carl Bildt
Lena Adelsohn-Liljeroth

UNITED KINGDOM
David Miliband
James Purnell
Baroness Elles
Baroness Rawlings of Burnham Westgate

ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Harald Hartung, Head of Unit for Culture and Communication

AUSTRIA
Claudia Rochel-Laurich
Renate Böck

BELGIUM
Hilde van Dyck
Jean-Paul Schyns
Marie-Hélène Cussac

BULGARIA
Atanas Atanassov
András Demeter
Petya Kissimova

CYPRUS
Stavros Kyriakides
Elena Theodoulou

CZECH REPUBLIC
Zdenka Kachlová
Jaromíra Mizerova
Lucie Siková

DENMARK
Bertel Krarup
Randi Charlotte Nielsen

ESTONIA
Svea Ideon-Marks
Marko Lõhmus

FINLAND
Riitta Kaivosoja
Anna Krohn

FRANCE
Pierre Barrois
Patricia Dao
Jean de Saint-Guilhem

GERMANY
Volker Mettig
Anne-Marie Schleich

GREECE
Andonis Andrikakis
Demitris Antonopoulos
Pavlos Dimitriadis
Byron Fidetzis
Irene Gavala
Eftathios Katsaros-Liossis
Giorgios Liontos
Panagiota Mamali
Myron Michaelidis
Alexandros Sandis
Alkistis Soulogianni

HUNGARY
Attila Zongor
Viktória Pálóczy-Horvath
Veronika Tóth
Nikoletta Tóth

IRELAND

Zoe Keers
Christine Sisk
Gillian Sheils
Daphne Whelan

ITALY
Gisella Belgeri
Jack Buckley
Clara Camestrelli
Michaela Carrara
Piero Farulli
Salvatore Mara
Giuliana De Maria
Antonella Pisanelli
Alfredo Quaranta
Michaela Schefer

LATVIA
Laima Bakiene
Jolanta Mikelsone
Maija Sípola

LITHUANIA
Laima Bakiene


LUXEMBOURG
Guy Dockendorf
Marco Battistella
Alain Wirth

MALTA
Philip Ciantar
Noel Sammut

NETHERLANDS
Arthur van Dijk
Wiebren Buma

POLAND
Katarzyna Klosinska

PORTUGAL

Simonetta Luz Alfonso
Jose Luis Maia
Orlando Farinha
Constanza Ronchetti

ROMANIA

SLOVAKIA
Olga Smetanova
Ivana Kobackova

SLOVENIA
Biserka Mocnik
Urska Potocnik
Boris Rener
Tina Rupnik

SPAIN
José Antonio Campos
Antonio Garde
Elena de Juan
Margarita Vivanco

SWEDEN
Johan Falk

UNITED KINGDOM
Cathy Graham
Anne Tillotson

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