Eurozone crisis/Catalogs
The Principal Actors
Jose Manuel Barroso
President of the European Commission since 2004. Previously Prime Minister of Portugal and leader of its Social Democratic Party.
Mario Draghi
Governor of the Bank of Italy since 16 January 2006. President of the European Central Bank from November 2011.
Jean-Claude Juncker
President of Luxembourg since 1995. Previously leader of the Christian Socialist Party. Chairman of the 17-country "Eurogroup" of eurozone Finance Ministers.
Angela Merkel
Chancellor of Germany since 2005. Leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union and head of a coalition with the centre-right Free Democratic Party since re-elected in 2009 (the next elections are due in 2013). Under international pressure to rescue Greece and under domestic pressure[1] to abandon it (a poll conducted in September 2011 by the Forsa Institute, 80% of Germans are against rescuing Greece).
George Papandreou
Prime Minister of Greece since 2009. Leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement.
Olli Rehn
European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs since 2010.
Nicholas Sarkozy
President of France since 2007. Previously president of the conservative Union for a Popular Movement.
Jean-Claude Trichet
President of the European Central Bank since 2003 (term of office ends November 2011).
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Prime Minister of Spain since 2008 and has decided not to stand for re-election in 2012.
References
- ↑ [http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,786421,00.htm Merkel's Government Remains Divided on Euro Policy, Spiegel, 15 September 2011l