In 1998 Santer was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for research supporting the finding that human activity contributes to global warming.

Santer was the convening Lead Author of Chapter 8 of 1995 IPCC Working Group I Report ( AR2 WGI ), which addressed the global warming issue.

Kinnock was appointed one of Britain's two members of the European Commission, which he served first as Transport Commissioner under President Jacques Santer, in early 1995 ; marking the end of his 25 years in UK parliament.

The Council proposed Jacques Santer as Commission President but he was seen as a second choice candidate, undermining his position.

Santer became the ninth President of the European Commission in 1995 as a compromise choice between the United Kingdom and a Franco-German alliance, after the Franco-German nominee Jean-Luc Dehaene was vetoed by British prime minister John Major.

Santer selection was barely ratified by a European Parliament upset with the process for which Commission presidents are selected.

From 1999 until 2004, Santer was a member of the European Parliament.

On Monday 23 January 2012, Jacques Santer was appointed to head the board of the Special Purpose Investment Vehicle ( SPIV ), which is designed to boost the firepower of the European Financial Stability Facility, the eurozone rescue fund.

The Luxembourg PM Santer was appointed as a compromise candidate instead.

While a European Commissioner she was the main target in the fraud allegations that led to the resignation of the Santer Commission in 1999.

He was Luxembourg's Minister for Finances from 1989 to 2009, and became Prime Minister when Santer became President of the European Commission in 1995.

The Ministry of Finance post is traditionally seen as a rite of passage to the premiership of the country, and his eventual promotion to Prime Minister seemed at this time inevitable, with political commentators concluding that Santer was grooming Juncker as his heir.

With Jacques Santer ready to be nominated as the next President of the European Commission, it was only six months later, on 20 January 1995, that Grand Duke Jean approved the appointment of Juncker as Prime Minister, as part of a coalition with the Luxembourg Socialist Workers ' Party.

The first Commission President following the creation of the EU was Jacques Delors, who briefly continued his previous EEC tenure before handing over to Jacques Santer in 1994.

He was Deputy-Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development, first in Jacques Santer ’ s ( from 1984 to 1996 ), then in Jean-Claude Junckers ’ s cabinets ( from 1986 to 1999 ).

The Santer Commission was the European Commission in office between 23 January 1995 and 15 March 1999.

The administration was led by Jacques Santer ( former Prime Minister of Luxembourg ).

Jacques Santer, then-Prime Minister of Luxembourg, was seen as less federalist as his presidency had earlier proposed the pillar structure.

Santer himself admitted that he " was not the first choice-but to become Commission president was not my first choice either.

The Santer Commission oversaw the development of the Treaty of Nice before it was signed in 2000, negotiations with those countries to join in 2004 and the signing of the Amsterdam Treaty in 1997.

Ritt Bjerregaard was the European Commissioner for Environment, Nuclear Safety and Civil Protection in the Santer Commission from 1995 to 1999, representing Denmark.

Whilst the Parliament was considering rejecting the Community budget, President Jacques Santer argued that a " No " vote would be tantamount to a vote of no confidence.

In 2007, executive producer Diederick Santer used Patrick and Yolande to cover a storyline about racism, that according to the producer, was inspired by the 2007 Celebrity Big Brother race row, sparked by supposed racist bullying of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty by UK celebrity Jade Goody.

* Recent ( 2011 ) research by Santer on separating signal and noise in atmospheric temperature changes

Dr. Benjamin D. Santer ( born June 3, 1955 in Washington, DC, United States ) is a climate researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and former researcher at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit.

* National Energy Research Science Computer Center article on Santer ( starts page 38 )

* Benjamin D. Santer, a climate researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Dr. Santer received a B. SC.

Santer and 40 other scientists responded to the Wall Street Journal that all IPCC procedural rules were followed, and that IPCC procedures required changes to the draft in response to comments from governments, individual scientists, and non-governmental organizations.

*" Benjamin David Santer.

* The Many Travails of Ben Santer, Paul D. Thacker, Environmental Science & Technology

This coalition has held, although occasionally the group adopts a government-opposition dynamic with the other groups, notably during the budget crisis when it opposed the Socialists and brought about the resignation of the Santer Commission.

Benjamin D. Santer, a climate change researcher, wrote: The Global Climate Coalition-a less than disinterested party-has made serious allegations regarding the scientific integrity of the Lead Authors of Chapter 8, and of the IPCC process itself.

Early in 1994 Major vetoed the Belgian politician Jean-Luc Dehaene as President of the European Commission ( in succession to Jacques Delors ) for being excessively federalist, only to find that he had to accept a Luxembourg politician of similar views, Jacques Santer, instead.

In 1995 Luxembourg provided the President of the European Commission, former Prime Minister Jacques Santer who later had to resign over corruption accusations against other commission members.

Under Jacques Delors it became increasingly presidential in style and now is the dominant force in the Commission, although curbed by crises such as the resignation of the Santer Commission.

* March 15 – In Brussels, Belgium, the Santer Commission resigns over allegations of corruption.

Parliament narrowly approved Santer but his commission gained greater support, being approved by 416 votes to 103.

Santer had to use his new powers under Maastricht to flex greater control over his choice of Commissioners.

With Parliament ready to throw them out, the entire Santer Commission resigned.

Jacques Santer ( born 18 May 1937 in Wasserbillig ) is a Luxembourg politician.