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EUROPEAN COMMISSION PRESIDENT TO PAY OFFICIAL VISIT TO MALTA
04/03/2000
EUROPEAN COMMISSION PRESIDENT TO PAY OFFICIAL VISIT TO MALTA
The President of the Commission of the European Communities Professor Romano Prodi and Commissioner G'�nter Verheugen will be paying an official visit to Malta between 5th and 6thMarch, 2000. Professor Prodi will also be accompanied by Mrs Prodi.
During his visit the EU Commission President and Commissioner Verheugen will be having official talks with the Prime Minister at the Auberge de Castille.
The EU Commission President will call on The President of Malta. He will also be addressing the House of Representatives.
Professor Prodi and Commissioner Verheugen will also have meetings with the Leader of the Opposition and representatives of business organisations and trade unions. Professor Prodi will also be conferred with a Doctorate Honoris Causa by the University of Malta.
Commissioner G'�nter Verheugen will also have separate meetings with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and will address the National Student Travel Foundation's Mini-European Assembly.
HE Professor Romano Prodi
President of the Commission of the European Communities
Nationality: Italian
Personal Details
Born 9th August 1939, Scandiano, (Reggio Emilia) Italy
Married, two sons
Education
Degree in Law, Catholic University of Milan
Postgraduate studies at the London School of Economics
Academic career
1963 – 1971 Assistant in Political Economics at the University of Bologna
1971 – 1999 Professor of Industrial Organisation and Industrial Policy at the University of Bologna
1963 – 1964 Researcher at the Lombard Institute of Economic and Social Studies (ILSES)
1968 Researcher at Standford Research Institute
1973 – 1974 Professor of Economics and Industrial Politics at the Free University of Trento
1974 Visiting Professor at Harvard University
Political career
1978 – 1979 Minister for Industry
1982 – 1989 Chairman of the Institute for Industrial Reconstruction (IRI)
1993 – 1994 Re-appointed Chairman of the Institute for Industrial Reconstruction (IRI)
1995 Chairman of the Ulivo, the centre left coalition
1996 – 1999 Member of Parliament
1996 – 1998 President of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic
1999 President-designate of the European Commission
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HE G'�nter Verheugen
Member of the Commission of the European Communities
Nationality: German
Personal Details
Born 28 April 1944, Bad Kreuznach
Married
| Education1963 – 1965 | Trainee at the Neue Rhein-Neue Ruhr-Zeitung newspaper |
| 1965 – 1969 | Studied history, sociology and politics in Cologne and Bonn |
| Academic career1969 – 1974 | Head of the Public Relations Division at the Federal Ministry of the Interior |
| 1974 – 1976 | Head of the Analysis and Information task force at the Federal Foreign Office |
| 1977 – 1978 | Federal Party Manager of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) |
| 1978 – 1982 | General Secretary of the FDP |
| 1982 | Joined the Social Democratic party of Germany (SPD) |
| 1983 – 1999 | Member of the German Bundestag |
| 1983 – 1998 | Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, German Bundestag |
| 1986 – 1987 | Spokesman of the SPD National Executive |
| 1987 – 1989 | Editor-in-chief of "Vorw'�rts", the SPD newspaper |
| 1990 – 1999 | Chairman of the radio broadcasting council of Deutsche Welle |
| 1992 – | Chairman, European Union special committee, Bundestag |
| 1993 – 1995 | Federal Party Manager of the SPD |
| 1994 – 1997 | Deputy Chairman of the SPD parliamentary group for foreign, security and development policy |
Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee
1997 – Chairman of the Socialist International Peace, Security and Disarmament Council
Member of the SPD National Executive
1998 – 1999 Minister of State, Federal Foreign Office
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