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An informational catalog, or several catalogs, about Eurozone crisis.

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). There are differences within the coalition over her eurozone policy[1]. That policy is very unpopular with the German public (according to Spiegel, 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).