The 2021 Portuguese elections: a showdown between democracy and demagoguery
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- By Teresa Carvalho
Today, Friends of Europe marks its first Board of Trustees meeting since the COVID-19 crisis with an announcement of the appointment of 29 high-level new members to its Board of Trustees. On the agenda is the outlook of the European Project post-Covid, and the way in which Friends of Europe can best contribute. The outcomes and recommendations of the meeting will help finetune the organisation’s programme of work for the next few years
New Members of the Board of Trustees
Alberto Alemanno
Founder and Chairman of the Good Lobby, Jean Monnet Professor in EU Law at HEC Paris, Global Clinical Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and European Young Leader Alumnus
Baroness Valerie Amos
Master of University College Oxford and Trustee of Friends of Europe
Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou
Vice-Chair of the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade
Dacian Cioloș
Chair of the Renew Europe Group in the European Parliament, former prime minister of Romania and former European commissioner for agriculture
Miriam Dalli
Member of the European Parliament and former journalist
Petra De Sutter
Minister of Civil Service and Public Enterprises
Isabelle Durant
Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), former deputy prime minister of Belgium and Trustee of Friends of Europe
Mary Fitzgerald
Journalist and analyst specialising in the Euro-Mediterranean region with a particular focus on Libya, European Young Leader Alumna
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
Former president of Croatia
Connie Hedegaard
Co-Chair of the AEF Strategy Group on Energy and former EU Commissioner for Climate Action and Chair of KR Foundation
Anna König Jerlmyr
Mayor of Stockholm and former member of the Swedish Riksdag
Jean-Claude Juncker
Former president of the European Commission and former prime minister of Luxembourg
Kaja Kallas
Leader of the Estonian Reform Party, former member of the European Parliament and European Young Leader Alumna
Zanda Kalniņa-Lukaševica
Parliamentary State Secretary of the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and former Chairwoman of the European Affairs Committee of the Latvian Parliament and European Young Leader Alumna
Jesse Klaver
Member of the Dutch House of Representatives, Leader of the Dutch green party GroenLinks and European Young Leader Alumnus
John Latsis
Chairman of the Independent Social Research Foundation and Council Member of the Fondation Latsis
Magid Magid
Former member of the European Parliament, former lord mayor of Sheffield and European Young Leader Alumnus
Cecilia Malmström
Former Commissioner for Trade and Trustee of Friends of Europe
Eva Maydell (née Paunova)
President of the European Movement International, Member of the European Parliament and European Young Leader Alumna
David McAllister
Chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs and former prime minister of Lower Saxony
Mairead McGuinness
European Commissioner for Financial Services, Financial Markets and the Capital Markets Union
Roberta Metsola
Member of the European Parliament and European Young Leader Alumna
Carlos Moedas
Member of the Board of Trustees at the Gulbenkian Foundation, former EU Commissioner and former Portuguese Under Secretary of State
Federica Mogherini
Rector of the College of Europe and former High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security
Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones
Member of the UK’s House of Lords, former governor of the BBC, former chair of the British Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), former minister of state for security and counter-terrorism
Joachim Rogall
President and CEO of the Robert Bosch Stiftung and Adjunct Professor for Eastern European History at the University of Heidelberg
Christos Stylianides
Former European commissioner for humanitarian aid and crisis management
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Former prime minister of Denmark and former CEO of Save the Children International
Irene Tinagli
Chair of the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and European Young Leader Alumna
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