Events

50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome

Berlin, 24th March 2007


front row, l-r: Lorenzo Cesa, Senator, Italian Government, Ivo Sanader, Prime Minister of Croatia, Sali Berisha, Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania, Janez Janša, Prime Minister of Slovenia, Kostas Karamanlis, Prime Minister of Greece, Traian Basescu, President of Romania, Franco Frattini, Vice-President of the European Commission, Wilfried Martens, EPP President, Angela Merkel, Federal Chancellor of Germany and President-in-Office of the European Council, Hans-Gert Poettering MEP (EPP-ED, Germany), President of the European Parliament, Joseph Daul MEP (France), Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, Jan-Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Edmund Stoiber, Chairman of the CSU and Minister-President of Bavaria (Germany), Lawrence Gonzi, Prime Minister of Malta, Béla Markó, Chairman of the UDMR (Romania), Clemente Mastella, Leader of the UDEUR (Italy), Cyril Svoboda, Chairman of the Legislative Council of the Czech Government, and René van der Linden, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

middle row, l-r: Othmar Karas MEP (Austria), Vito Bonsignore MEP (Italy), Struan Stevenson MEP (United Kingdom), Marianne Thyssen MEP (Belgium), all Vice-Chairpersons of the EPP-ED Group, Andrius Kubilius, Chairman of the Tėvynės Sąjunga (Homeland Union) and former Prime Minister of Lithuania, Antonio Tajani MEP (Italy), Head of the Italian Delegation (Forza Italia) of the EPP-ED Group, Silvio Berlusconi, former Prime Minister of Italy, Antonio López-Istúriz White MEP (EPP-ED, Spain), Secretary-General of the EPP, Mariano Rajoy Brey, Chairman of the Partido Popular (Spain), Yves Leterme, Minister-President of Flanders (Belgium), Donald Tusk, Chairman of Platforma Obywatelska (Civic Platform), (Poland), Luís Marques Mendes, Chairman of the PSD Party (Portugal), Mikuláš Dzurinda, former Prime Minister of Slovakia, Peter Hintze (CDU, Germany), Vice-Chairman of the EPP, Ingo Friedrich MEP, Quaestor of the European Parliament and EPP Treasurer, Viktor Orbán, Chairman of Fidesz and former Prime Minister of Hungary, Mário David, Vice-President of the EPP and Chairman of International Relations, PSD Party (Portugal), Jyrki Katainen, Chairman of Kokoomus (Finland) and Vice-President of the EPP, Enda Kenny, Chairman of the Fine Gael Party (Ireland) and Vice-President of the EPP, and Jacek Saryusz-Wolski MEP (EPP-ED, Poland), Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament

back row, l-r: Elmar Pichler Rolle, Chairman SVP (Italy), Jean-Marian Marinescu (Romania), Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group, Janez Podobnik, Chairman of the Slovenian People's Party, Şaban Dişli, Vice-Chairman, AKP Party (Turkey), Nicos Anastasiades, Chairman of the Democratic Rally (Cyprus), Andrej Bajuk, Chairman of Nova Slovenija (Slovenia), Ibolya Dávid, Chairwoman of the Hungarian Democratic Forum, Isidoro Gottardo, President of the EPP Group in the Committee of the Regions, Pier Ferdinando Casini, President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the Christian Democratic International, Pavol Hrušovský, Chairman of the KDH Party (Slovakia), Erna Solberg, Chairwoman of the Høyre Conservative Party (Norway), Ivan Kostov, Chairman of the Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria, Alojz Peterle MEP (EPP-ED, Slovenia), Vice-Chairman of the EPP, Marian Petre Miluţ, Chairman of the PNŢ-CD (Romania), Pierre Lequiller Member of the French National Assembly, Elmar Brok MEP (EPP-ED, Germany) and Jacques Barrot, Vice-President of the European Commission