Eurozone crisis/Catalogs

From Citizendium
< Eurozone crisis
Revision as of 07:49, 10 November 2011 by imported>Nick Gardner
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This article is developed but not approved.
 Main Article
 Discussion
Related Articles  [?]
Bibliography  [?]
External Links  [?]
Citable Version  [?]
Catalogs [?]
Timelines [?]
Tutorials [?]
Addendum [?]
 
https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Eurozone_crisis/Catalogs&printable=yes
An informational catalog, or several catalogs, about Eurozone crisis.

The Principal Actors

Jose Manuel Barroso

President of the European Commission since 2004 website. Previously Prime Minister of Portugal and leader of its Social Democratic Party.

Silvio Berlusconi

Prime Minister of Italy since 2008 (having served two previous terms). Businessman and media proprietor. Founder of the conservative Forza Italia political party. The subject of alleged sex scandals. Has been accused of embezzlement, tax fraud and false accounting, and attempting to bribe a judge, but has never been convicted. Trust in his administration has fallen by about 30 percentage points since 2008. A range of polls in September 2011 indicated that some 80 per cent of Italians have "low" confidence in Mr Berlusconi's ability to govern. Opinion polls show that the ruling right-of-centre alliance is losing support to centre-left and centrist groupings, and also that confidence in political parties generally is declining[1]. Has offered to resign after parliament approves a budget law that includes reforms demanded by the EU [2]

Pedro Passos Coelho

Prime Minister of Portugal since June 2011. Economics graduate and former businessman. Leader of the 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 website. Previously leader of the Christian Socialist Party. Chairman of the Eurogroup of eurozone Finance Ministers. Proponent of eurobonds.

Angela Merkel

Chancellor of Germany since 2005 (website). 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 [3] to abandon it (a poll conducted in September 2011 by the Forsa Institute, 80% of Germans are against rescuing Greece). Her approval rating dropped to 36 per cent in August 2011, compared with 60 per cent 3 years previously[4].

Mario Monti

Distinguished Italian economist. Former Chancellor and Professor of Political Economy. at Bocconi University. European Commissioner for Competition from 1999 to 2004. Possible successor to Silvio Berlusconi as Prime Minister of Italy.

Lucas Papademos

Prime Minister of Greece from 10th November 2011. Distinguished Greek economist and former vice president of the European Central Bank.

George Papandreou

Former Prime Minister of Greece 2009-2011 (website). Leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (BBC profile). Resigned 07 November 2011.

Mariano Rajoy

Leader of the Spanish Partido Popular (PP) conservative party.

Horst Reichenbach

Leader of the European Comission's Greece task force since July 2011. Previously Vice President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development[5].

Olli Rehn

European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs since 2010. (website)

Nicholas Sarkozy

President of France since 2007 website. A lawyer by training. Previously president of the centre-right Union for a Popular Movement. His initially high approval rating fell to 30 percent in April 2011 and recovered slightly to reach 37 percent at the start of September[6]. Intends to stand for re-election in April 2012, but he is said to be France's most unpopular president[7]. His re-election prospects are said to have been set back by his party's loss of control of the Senate[8], but enhanced by the success of France's intervention in the Libyan civil war[9].

Wolfgang Schaeuble

German Finance Minister since 2009 website.

José Sócrates

Former Prime Minister of Portugal (2004-2011). Leader of the Socialist Party. Succeeded as Prime Minister by Pedro Passos Coelho in June 2011.

Giulio Tremonti

Italian Finance Minister since 2005. Professor of Law. Has a reputation for fiscal prudence. Weakened by rumoured connection with a graft scandal in 2011[2].

Jean-Claude Trichet

President of the European Central Bank since 2003 (term of office ends November 2011).

Evangelos Venizelos

Greek Finance Minister since June 2011. Socialist Party member. Constitutional lawyer. Rival to George Papandreou. (BBC profile)

Christian Wilhelm Walter Wulff

President of Germany since June 2010. Formerly Premier of Lower Saxony. Member of the Christian Democratic Union.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Prime Minister of Spain 2008 to 2011 website. Leader of the ruling Socialist Party. Has called a general election for 20th November 2011 and he does not intend to seek re-election.


References

  1. ↑ Italy politics: Under siege, Economist Intelligence Unit, September 29th 2011
  2. ↑ Europe debt crisis brings down Italy's Berlusconi, Reuters, 9 November 2011
  3. ↑ Merkel's Government Remains Divided on Euro Policy, Spiegel, 15 September 2011[1]
  4. ↑ Angela Merkel, Forbes, August 2011
  5. ↑ Anthony Williams: Horst Reichenbach named head of EU Comission task force, EBRD, 20 July 2011
  6. ↑ Sarkozy's approval rating hits 12-month high, Reuters, Sep 6, 2011
  7. ↑ Sauce Hollandaise, The Economist 22 October 2011
  8. ↑ Steven Erlanger French Left Takes Control of the Senate, New York Times, September 25, 2011
  9. ↑ After his Libyan adventure, The Economist, 10 October 2011
Retrieved from "https://citizendium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Eurozone_crisis/Catalogs&oldid=835116"