Anthony Blair
(b. 1953).Prime minister. Educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh, and St John's College, Oxford, Tony Blair followed his elder brother William to Lincoln's Inn and qualified as a lawyer. He entered ...
Charles Haughey
(1925–2006)Irish politician, Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland (1979–81; 1982; 1987–92). He was President of Fianna Fáil from 1979 to 1992. He resigned as a result of a number of scandals.
Constitutional Convention, European
A forum convened in March 2002, with a brief to devise a draft constitutional makeup of the EU. This was to recognize the dramatic growth of the EU since the 1980s, as European integration both ...
Costas Simitis
(b. 23 June 1936).Prime Minister of Greece, 1996–2004 Born in Athens, he studied law at Marburg (Germany) and then at the London School of Economics. Back in Greece he joined the political resistance ...
French Community
A political union superseding the French Union, established by France in 1958 and comprising metropolitan France, its overseas departments and territories, and seven former French colonies in Africa, ...
Martinique
A Caribbean island under French sovereignty since 1635. In 1946, it became a French Overseas Department. In 1974 it was granted regional status, and in 1983 it received greater autonomy over its ...
Montenegro
A small republic in the Balkans, bordered by Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Albania.Physical.Montenegro has a short Adriatic coastline. It is largely mountainous, with extensive forests ...
Olive Tree
A fragmented coalition of centre‐left parties in Italy. Created in 1995, it became the major centre‐left coalition, known as the Union, and formed a government in 1996–2001, and from 2006. Led into ...
Romano Prodi
(b. 9 Aug. 1939).President of Italy, 1996–8, 2006– Born in Scandiano, he studied law and became a professor of economics at Bologna university, making his name as one of the founders of the Italian ...
San Marino
The world's second smallest republic emerged from the area under control of the San Marino monastery south of the Italian town of Rimini. Independent since 1263, it acquired its current borders in ...
