Most recently in 2011, the Charlemagne Award was conferred on Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank.

The president visited several European air bases to thank the troops ( not shown ) for their support of NATO Operations Allied Force and Shining Hope, 1999.

The European Council was declared a separate institution from the Council, also chaired by a permanent president, and the different Council configurations were mentioned in the treaties for the first time.

He is also president of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism.

The president, aware that everything he did set a precedent, attended carefully to the pomp and ceremony of office, making sure that the titles and trappings were suitably republican and never emulated European royal courts.

By the time Monroe became president, several European powers, in particular Spain, were attempting to re-establish control over South America.

* 1940 – The President of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, is executed by the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco, making him the only European president to have been executed.

The Commission's first president was Walter Hallstein ( see Hallstein Commission ) who started consolidating European law and began to impact on national legislation.

Other members include Nokia chairman Jorma Ollila, former European Commissioner Mario Monti and former president of Poland Lech Wałęsa.

The president of the European Parliament, Nicole Fontaine, called him the " pole of liberty in Afghanistan ".

Since 1996, Wenders has been the president of the European Film Academy in Berlin.

* October 29 – Mario Scelba, Italian politician, former Prime Minister and president of the European Parliament ( b. 1901 )

These Michigan graduates include the discoverer of several new australopithecine species, the first paleoanthropologist to debunk the hominid status of Ramapithecus, the leaders in the study of late Pleistocene European evolution, three past or present chairs ( or heads ) of anthropology departments, and the past president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, and the editor of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

In international politics Kohl was committed to European integration, maintaining close relations with the French president Mitterrand.

For sixteen years, Brandt was the president of the Socialist International ( 1976 – 92 ), during which period the number of Socialist International's mainly European member parties grew until there were more than a hundred socialist, social democratic, and labour political parties around the world.

The university educated the first female student and the first Dutch national astronaut in the history of the country, the first president of the European Central Bank and a Nobel prize winner.

Carl Bildt also shown his commitment with the European Union project by joining the Young European Federalistsand later becoming vice president of the Swedish section.

The role of president is partly similar in some ways to that of a constitutional monarch found in other European states, with the important difference being that the president is elected, and selected based on his or her distinguished reputation.

In opposition to some members of the EANM and part of their views, Marine Le Pen as new president of the Front National joined the European Alliance for Freedom in October 2011.

The 2009 meeting participants in Greece included: Greek prime minister Kostas Karamanlis ; Finnish prime minister Matti Vanhanen ; Sweden foreign minister Carl Bildt ; United States Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg ; U. S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner ; World Bank president Robert Zoellick ; European Commission head José Manuel Barroso ; Queen Sofia of Spain ; and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

Owing to the success of his monetary policy, he became well known in other European countries, and this led to his appointment in 1998 as the first president of the new European Central Bank in Frankfurt, much to the chagrin of France, who wanted a French candidate.

Cárdenas became perhaps Mexico's most-popular 20th-century president and most renowned for expropriating the oil interests of the United States and European petroleum companies in the run-up to World War II.

The former president Lula and Brazilian Army soldier s, part of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

During this period he also directed the pro-Soviet propaganda film Mission to Moscow ( 1943 ), which was commissioned at the request of president Franklin D. Roosevelt in order to aid the wartime effort.

Merrill is a presidential appointee to the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a trustee of the Eugene O ' Neill Theater Foundation, and a vice president of the New York City Mission Society.

Taylor later served as president of the Eastern States Mission, based in New York City.

Covey served as the first president of the Irish Mission of the church starting in July 1962.

As mission president, he presided over the Canadian Mission of the LDS Church from 1959 to 1962, supervising church missionaries who were not much younger than he was.

Starting in 2009 he served as president of the Spain Barcelona Mission of the LDS Church.

While serving in the position, Packer was assigned to serve as president of the church's New England States Mission.

As a member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles, he was assigned to England as a missionary ( 1839 ), to England as president of the church's European Mission ( 1844 ), and finally to the eastern United States ( 1848 ).

He was released from his mission by Pratt, who by then was president of an expanding European Mission.

He was unable to find anyone in Italy to translate it so sent it to Orson Pratt, then the president of the British Mission, who eventually found someone in Paris to translate it.

The adjunct secretary, when one is appointed, is concurrently president of the Pontifical Mission Societies.

On June 16, 2009 he was appointed vice president of Astronaut Safety and Mission Assurance at SpaceX.

From 1923 until 1925, McKay served as president of the church's European Mission, headquartered in London.

" There he rose to prominence as the president of the Tennessee Conference of the Southern States Mission.

From 1922 to 1927, Roberts was appointed president of the Eastern States Mission, and there he created an innovative " mission school " to teach LDS missionaries the most effective ways to proselytize.

Alexander served from 1906-1907 as president of the Netherlands Mission of the LDS Church.

From 1986 to 1989, he served as president of the church's Haiti Port-au-Prince Mission.

For part of his five-year mission, Thomas was the president of the Japanese Mission.

Prior to his appointment as a general authority, Hales was president of the England London Mission in the late 1970s.

In 1974, Ballard was called to be the president of the Canada Toronto Mission of the church.

From 1990 to 1993 Whipple served as the president of the Poland Warsaw Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

In 1850, as mission president of the British Mission, Pratt told his missionaries " very soul in Britain should hear the gospel this year ".

In 1891 Teasdale was made the president of the church's Mexican Mission.

In 1916, Richards was made the president of the church's European Mission.