Current European Commisioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, served under what political party from 2002-2014?
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European Commissioner for Competition The Commissioner for Competition is the member of the European Commission responsible for competition. The current commissioner is Margrethe Vestager (ALDE).
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Margrethe Vestager Margrethe Vestager (] ; born 13 April 1968) is a Danish politician, who is currently serving as the European Commissioner for Competition. She served as a Member of Parliament ("Folketing") from 20 November 2001 until 2 September 2014, representing the Danish Social Liberal Party ("Radikale Venstre" ). She was the political leader of her party from 2007 to 2014, and served as Minister of Economic Affairs and the Interior from 2011 to 2014. She has been described as "the rich world’s most powerful trustbuster".
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Monika Vana Momika Vana (born 14 September 1969) is an Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament from Austria. She is a member of The Greens-The Green Alternative, part of the European Green Party.
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Competition Authority (Ireland) The Competition Authority (TCA) was responsible for enforcing Irish and European competition law in the Republic of Ireland and promoting competition in the economy. In 2014 it was amalgamated with the National Consumer Agency to form the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission.
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Max Andersson (politician) Max Andersson (born 26 October 1973) is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Sweden. He is a member of the Green Party, part of the European Green Party.
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Federation of the Greens The Federation of the Greens (Italian: "Federazione dei Verdi" , or just "Verdi") is a green political party in Italy, which includes also a large eco-socialist faction. The party's leader/s is/are variably known as "president/s" or "spokesperson/s". Currently, Giobbe Covatta is the spokesperson. Additionally, Angelo Bonelli and Fiorella Zabatta serve as coordinators for "national politics", while Luana Zanella oversees "foreign policy".
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Terezija Stoisits Terezija Stoisits [ˈtɛrɛzija ˈstɔjʃitɕ ] (born November 14, 1958 in Stinatz/Stinjaki, Burgenland) is an Austrian politician of the Green Party. Since July 2007 she serves as an ombudswoman of the Republic of Austria. Before that she was the longest serving member of parliament of her party.
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Die PARTEI Die Partei für Arbeit, Rechtstaat, Tierschutz, Elitenförderung und basisdemokratische Initiative ("Party for Labour, Rule of Law, Animal Protection, Promotion of Elites and Grassroots Democratic Initiative"), using the recursive acronym Die PARTEI ("The PARTY"), is a German political party that was founded in 2004 by the editors of the German satirical magazine "Titanic". It is led by Martin Sonneborn. In the 2014 European Parliament election, the party won a seat, marking the first time that a satirical party has won a seat to the European Parliament.
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Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck Anne-Marie Cécile J. Neyts-Uyttebroeck (] ; born 17 June 1944) is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Flanders with the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats, member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.
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Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe The Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe, abbreviated to ADDE, is a European political party founded in 2014. It is composed of parties belonging to the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) group in the European Parliament (EP). The dominant national party in the ADDE is the UK Independence Party (UKIP), providing 21 of the party's 27 members of the European Parliament (MEPs) elected in 2014. A further three UKIP MEPs have chosen not to participate in the ADDE. In 2015 the ADDE was recognised by the European Parliament and its grant maximum from the EP was set at €1,241,725, with an additional €730,053 for its affiliated political foundation, the "Initiative for Direct Democracy".
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European Federalist Party The European Federalist Party is a pro-European, pan-European and federalist political party which advocates further integration of the European Union through the establishment of a democratic and federal Europe.
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The Republicans (Germany) The Republicans (German: "Die Republikaner" , REP) is a national conservative political party in Germany. The primary plank of the program is opposition to immigration. The party tends to attract protest voters who think that the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) are not sufficiently conservative. It was founded in 1983 by former CSU members Franz Handlos and Ekkehard Voigt, and Franz Schönhuber was the party's leader from 1985 to 1994. The party has since been led by Rolf Schlierer. The Republicans had seats in the European Parliament between 1989 and 1994, Abgeordnetenhaus of West Berlin in 1989-1990 and in the parliament of the German state of Baden-Württemberg between 1991 and 2001.
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Udo Voigt Udo Voigt (] ; born 14 April 1952) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany. He is a member of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD).
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Geert Bourgeois Geert Albert Bourgeois (] ; born 6 July 1951) is a Belgian lawyer and politician, who is a member of the separatist party New Flemish Alliance, N-VA). Since 2014, he has been the Minister-President of Flanders and Flemish Minister for Foreign Policy and architectural heritage.
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Standing Committee on Business and Industry The Standing Committee on Business and Industry (Norwegian: "Næringskomiteen" ) is a standing committee of the Parliament of Norway. It is responsible for policies relating to business, industry, trade, shipping, state ownership policy, competition and price policy, agriculture, food policy, fisheries, whaling and aquaculture. It corresponds to the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food and the Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs. The committee has 14 members and is chaired by Marit Arnstad of the Centre Party.
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Libertas Sweden Libertas Sweden (Swedish: "Libertas Sverige" ) is a political party in Sweden. It intended to contend the 2009 European Parliament elections under a common banner with Declan Ganley's Libertas.eu.
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Anne Van Lancker Anne Edward Marie Van Lancker (born 4 March 1954) is a Belgian politician and a former Member of the European Parliament (until 2009) for Belgium with the Socialistische Partij Anders (sp.a), part of the Socialist Group and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
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European Democrats The European Democrats was a loose association of conservative political parties in Europe. It was a political group in the European Parliament from 1979 until 1992, when it became a subgroup of the European People's Party–European Democrats (EPP-ED) group. The European Democrats continued to exist as a political group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) until 2014, when it became the European Conservatives Group.
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João Ferreira (politician) João Manuel Peixoto Ferreira (born November 20, 1978 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese biologist and communist politician, currently serving as Member of the European Parliament for the Portuguese Communist Party; part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left, where he is vice-chair, since 2009.
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Citizens' List The Citizens' List (Luxembourgish: "Biergerlëscht" , French: "Liste des citoyens" ) is a Luxembourgian political party. It was founded in the run-up to the 2009 Chamber of Deputies election and European election. It ran in two circonscriptions; in Sud, the list was to be headed by Aly Jaerling, then an independent member of the Chamber of Deputies, whilst, in Nord, it was led by Jean Ersfeld, formerly leader of the Free Party of Luxembourg.
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Günther Oettinger Günther Hermann Oettinger (born 15 October 1953) is a German politician and a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). As of 1 January 2017, Oettinger serves as the European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources in the college of the Juncker Commission. From 2014 to 2016 he was in charge of Digital Economy and Society. He previously served as Vice President of the Barroso II commission and is affiliated with the European People's Party (EPP). He served as Minister President of the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg between 2005 and 2010 and as chairman of the CDU Baden-Württemberg from 2005 until 2010.
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Federal Cartel Office The Federal Cartel Office (Germany) (German: "Bundeskartellamt" ) is Germany's national competition regulator. It was first established in 1958 and comes under the authority of the Federal Ministry of Economy and Technology. Its headquarters are in the former West German capital, Bonn and its President is Andreas Mundt, who has a staff of 300 people. Today it administers competition law in Germany.