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Traian Băsescu is a Romanian politician, who served as the fourth President of Romania from 2004 to 2014

Nils Daniel Carl Bildt is a Swedish politician and diplomat who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994. He was the leader of the Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999

Mikuláš Dzurinda is a Slovak politician who was Prime Minister of Slovakia from 30 October 1998 to 4 July 2006. He is the founder and leader of the Slovak Democratic Coalition and then the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union

Mátyás Eörsi is a former MP, (born 24 November 1954) is a Hungarian politician who was the leader of the liberal Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (ALDE-PACE) Group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). He became a member of the PACE in 1994. On 6 March 2009 the Hungarian government nominated Eörsi to Secretary General of the Council of Europe.

Iulian Fota is former National Security Advisor to the President of Romania. He previously held the position of Parliamentary expert on defence and international relations issues at the PNŢCD Parliamentary Group in the Chamber of Deputies, Parliament of Romania. He has also served as the Assistant to the State Secretary for Defence Policy at the Ministry of Defence, Romania, and as the Head of the Defence Section of the Mission of Romania to NATO and WEU, at the NATO HQ in Brussels. Mr. Fota has been a Senior Adviser in the Department for European Integration and Defence Policy within the Ministry of Defence, Romania, until 2005, when he was appointed as Director of the National Defence College of Romania. The Educational background of Mr. Fota comprises a PhD in Political Sciences achieved at the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest, Romania, as well as the graduation of the NATO Defence College in Rome, Italy and of the National Defence College in Bucharest, Romania.

István Gyarmati is an Hungarian political scientist. He is a member of the council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves is an Estonian politician who served as the fourth President of Estonia from 2006 until 2016. Ilves worked as a diplomat and journalist, and he was the leader of the Social Democratic Party in the 1990s.

Rasa Juknevičienė is a Lithuanian politician. In 1990 she was among those who signed the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania. Rasa Juknevičienė served as Minister of Defense from 2008 to 2012.

Ambassador Ojars Kalnins was Ambassador to the U.S. and Mexico from January 1993 - December 1999. Prior to his positions at the Embassy of Latvia, he was public relations director of the American Latvian Association (ALA). Ojars Kalnins was raised and educated in the United States, and, once Latvia restored its independence, gave up his U.S. citizenship to become a diplomat. Following his posting as Ambassador, he moved to Latvia and worked as Director of the Latvian Institute www.li.lv from 2000-2010. He is now a Member of the 11th Saeima (Parliament), representing the party Vienotiba (Unity). He is also Chairman of the Saeima Foreign Affairs Committee.

Paweł Kowal is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for Poland Together. He is currently Chairman of the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee in the European Parliament.

Janusz Adam Onyszkiewicz is a Polish mathematician, alpinist, politician and was a vice-president of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee from January 2007 until mid-2009.

Rosen Asenov Plevneliev is a Bulgarian politician who has been President of Bulgaria since January 2012. He was the Minister of Regional Development and Public Works from July 2009 to September 2011 as part of the cabinet of Boyko Borisov.

Karel Schwarzenberg, 12th Prince Schwarzenberg and 7th Prince Schwarzenberg, Duke of Krumlov is a Czech politician, former leader of TOP 09 party and its candidate for President of the Czech Republic in the 2013 election

Radosław Tomasz "Radek" Sikorski is a Polish politician and journalist. He was Marshal of the Sejm from 2014 to 2015 and Minister of Foreign Affairs in Donald Tusk's cabinet between 2007 and 2014.

Petras Vaitiekūnas is a Lithuanian politician who was the Foreign Minister of Lithuania from 2006 to 2008.

Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga is a Latvian politician who served as the sixth President of Latvia and the first female President of Latvia. She was elected President of Latvia in 1999 and re-elected for the second term in 2003.

Alexandr "Saša" Vondra is a Czech politician, who stepped down from the political scene in 2012. He is a member of Civic Democratic Party.

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Source: Wikipedia mostly. Highlight name, right-click and choose Search Google.

8 posted on 01/12/2017 4:24:58 PM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: annalex

Well aren’t you nice. I was criticizing the source,not you.

Many here would have just told me to Google it myself.

Interesting group-—from countries that I have never visited (except Sweden) but several of my kids have been to Czech Republic,Hungary,Poland, and Bulgaria.

Thanks again for your thoughtfulness.


18 posted on 01/12/2017 4:44:51 PM PST by Mears
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