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BELGIAN
PERM REP
ESTONIAN
PERM REP
TO EU
ESTONIAN
PERM REP
TO NATO
Jean De Ruyt
Permanent
Representative
Nationality: BL
Working languages:
FR, EN, NL, IT, ES
Start: 29/08/2007
Raul Mälk
Permanent Representative
Nationality: EE
Working languages:
ET, EN, RU, FI, FR
Start: 17/08/ 2007
Jüri Luik
Permanent Representative
Nationality: EE
Working languages:
ET, EN, RU, FI
Start date:15/08/2007
De Ruyt becomes Permanent Representative of
Belgium to the EU
Jean De Ruyt has been appointed Permanent Representative of Belgium to the Europe-
an Union as of 29 August 2007. Prior to his position as Ambassador to the EU, Mr De
Ruyt served as Press Attaché and Secretary for the Belgian Embassy in Kinshasa and
Algeria respectively. Mr De Ruyt has also held positions as Permanent Representative
of Belgium to Warsaw, NATO, and the United Nations. He has taught Public Law at
Leuven University and has published extensively on various European issues.
Raul Mälk new Estonian Permanent Representative to the EU
Ambassador Raul Mälk joined the Estonian Foreign Service in 1992. Since then he
has served in various senior positions in the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
led a number of Estonian delegations in international negotiation processes. He has
served as Estonia‘s Ambassador to the United Kingdom, to the Republic of Ireland and
to Portugal. In 1998-99 he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Most recently he held
the position of the Director General of the Policy Planning Department at the Estonian
Foreign Ministry.
Luik appointed Estonia‘s Ambassador to NATO
Ambassador Jüri Luik has been in the Estonian diplomatic service since 1990. He led
the negotiations with Russia over the withdrawal of Russian troops and, ten years later,
the accession negotiations to NATO. In 1993 and again from 1999 to 2002 he served
as Minister of Defence, and in 1994 as Minister of Foreign Affairs, a position he kept
until the following year. He has previously also served as Estonia‘s Ambassador to the
Benelux countries and NATO as well as Estonia‘s Ambassador to the United States,
Canada and Mexico.

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BELGIAN
PERM REP
EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT
EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT
AECM
TEVA EUROPE
Didier Seeuws
Deputy Permanent
Representative
Nationality: BL
Working languages:
NL, FR, EN
Start: 01/08/2007
Pierre Pribetich
MEP
Nationality: FR
Working languages:
FR, EN
Start: 04/09/2007
Ewa Tomaszewska
MEP
Nationality: PL
Working languages:
PL, EN
Start date: 30/8/2007
José Fernando
Figueiredo
President
Nationality: PT
Working languages:
PT, EN, FR, ES
Start: 01/07/2007
Marcel Daniëls
Vice-President
Nationality: BL
Working languages:
NL, EN, DE, FR, RU, ES
Start date: 01/08/2007
Seeuws becomes Deputy Permanent Representative of
Belgium to the EU
Didier Seeuws has been appointed Deputy Permanent Representative of Belgium to the
European Union as of 1 August 2007. Mr Seeuws is a career diplomat who, prior to his new
position as Ambassador, served as an Advisor to the Permanent Representation of Belgium
in charge of relations with the European Parliament, and Attaché to the Belgian Embassy
in Washington D.C. conducting work on economic and investment-related issues, and a
spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs in Belgium.
Pierre Pribetich joins the European Parliament
Mr Pierre Pribetich, was appointed member of the European Parliament, joining the
Socialist Group. He was previously Deputy mayor of Dijon, Vice-Chairman of Di-
jon Urban Area Community Council, and Chairman of SEMAAD (Mixed Investment
Company for Town Planning in the Dijon Urban Area). He was also a Member of the
Socialist Party‘s National Council from 2005 to 2007 and the Socialist Party‘s national
delegate for Housing, during the same period. In addition, from 1994 to 2007, Mr
Pribetich was a lecturer at the University of Bourgogne..
Tomaszewska appointed to European Parliament
Mrs Tomaszewska entered the European Parliament on 30 August 2007, and is a
member of the Union for Europe of the Nations Group. A member of Solidarity from
1980, she later became a member of the Council in the department of Social Policy
under the government of Lech Wałesa. From 1998-2002 she was the Chairman of the
Advisory Committee for the Supervisory Board on Pension Funds, and since 2002 she
has been a member of the Insurance Council, and a member of the Advisory Council
on the use of Public Funds for the Disabled (until 2004). She is the vice-Chairman of
the society of UNFE Market Capital and member of the Board for the Polish Union of
Catholic Women.
Figueiredo elected President of AECM
José Fernando Figueiredo has been elected President of the European Mutual Guarantee
Association (AECM) at the end of June 2007. Previous to this appointment, Mr Figueiredo
served as the Executive President of Norgarante-MGS and Lisgarante-MGS, and as CEO of
SPGM, the ‘holding’ of the Portuguese Mutual Guarantee Scheme for SME. He was also a
member of the Strategic Committee of Change Partners and of the Independent Agrocapital
SCR. Mr Figueiredo’s background also includes membership of the Executive Network of
REGAR, the Latin-American Credit Guarantees.
Marcel Daniëls new Vice-President at Teva Europe
Marcel Daniëls has just joined Teva Europe as Vice-President Government Relations,
reporting to the organisation’s President and CEO, Gerard van Odijk. Mr Daniëls has
25 years of experience in senior corporate affairs and government relations positions
for major companies such as Raychem (now Tyco), Exxon Chemical International,
Alcan Aluminum and recently Merck Sharp & Dohme. Mr Daniëls will be setting up
Teva’s EU representation office in Brussels and will be coordinating Teva’s European
government relations activities.

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MICROSOFT
BLUEPRINT
ECOS
ATHENORA
CONSULTING
EUROPEAN
CENTRE OF
ENTERPRISES
Sebastian Gerlach
Legal and Corporate
Affairs Officer
Nationality: DE
Working languages:
EN, FR, DE
Start date: 01/07/2007
Carla Ciminera
Head of ICT Division
Nationality: IT
Working languages:
EN, FR, IT
Start: 01/10/07
Edouard Toulouse
Energy Efficiency
Officer
Nationality: FR
Working languages:
FR, EN
Andrée Jallon
Senior Advisor
Nationality: FR
Working languages:
FR; EN
Start: 19/092007
Simona Urbaityte
Policy Officer
Nationality: LT
Working languages:
LT, EN, FR, RU.
Start: 10/09/2007
Sebastian Gerlach joins Microsoft Brussels office
Sebastian Gerlach joined the Microsoft Brussels Legal and Corporate Affairs Office
on July 1st, 2007. Mr Gerlach will be running institutional relations in Brussels, with
a particular focus on managing the relationship with the European Parliament. He
previously worked with Kreab, a Brussels-based Public Affairs and Communications
Consultancy. Over the last few years he has advised various international companies
among other things on EU company law and corporate governance policy, financial
services, competition and environmental issues.
Ciminera joins Blueprint Partners
Blueprint Partners has expanded its senior team with the appointment of Carla Cimin-
era, who will head up the ICT Division from October 2007. She was previously Director
of the European Internet Foundation for six years where she coordinated and ran a
network of Members of the European Parliament and industry representatives. Her
experience also includes working at the EU Commission, Ambrosetti, the European
Savings Bank Group, Goldman Sachs, The Economist/European Voice, Singapore
Airlines, the Italian Foreign Affairs Minister, Valentino, and Armani.
Edouard Toulouse joins ECOS
Edouard Toulouse has joined ECOS, the European Environmental Citizens‘ Organisa-
tion for Standardisation. Mr Toulouse will facilitate the practical implementation of
EU energy efficiency policies via standardisation and coordination of initiatives sup-
ported by European green NGOs with the Directive on the eco-design of energy using
products. Prior to assuming this position at ECOS, Mr Toulouse worked in several
French associations as Energy and Climate Change Officer. He is a trained engineer
who graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris with a Masters degree in environmental
management from Ecole des Mines de Paris.
Andrée Jallon joins Athenora Consulting
The EU affairs consultancy firm Athenora Consulting has further expanded its advisory team
by recruiting Andrée Jallon as Senior Advisor. André Jallon worked as Renault‘s head of
office in Brussels, as a civil servant in the French Ministry, and as a national expert in DG
Competition. She will most notably advise Athenora‘s clients on competition cases.
Simona Urbaityte joins CEEP
The general secretariat of the European Centre of Enterprises with Public Participation
has appointed Simona Urbaityte as their new Policy Officer. Her activity fields will
mainly cover energy, the internal market and Services of General Interest. She gained a
Bachelors and Masters of law in Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania, specialising in
Law and Public Administration. Before joining CEEP she worked with the DG Presidency
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Events
17 SEP 2007
Conference:
„Dealing with Islamist movements:
an European approach “
The Transatlantic Institute organises a
lunch briefing with Dr Magnus Norell enti-
tled “Dealing with Islamist movements: a
European approach”. A short discussion with
the participants will follow.
Brussels, Belgium
18 SEP 2007
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Intelligent Car Annual Event
Commissioner Viviane Reding is delivering a
keynote speech on the achievements of the In-
telligent Car Initiative since its launch in Feb-
ruary 2006. At the opening of the exhibition,
Commissioner Reding will take a test drive of
the new car.
Versailles, France
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Richard James Ashworth, MEP, 17.09.1947 Dr. Herbert Heitmann, President of EACD, 17.09.1962 Jose Mota, Policy Advisor – European
Commission, 17.09.1950 Janez Podobnik, Minister of the Environment and Spatial Planning - Slovenia, 17.09.1959 Eduard Snijders, Head of
Internal & External Communications – ING Group, 17.09.1962 Feleknas Uca, MEP, 17.09.1976 Andrée Vary, Senior Trade Commissioner -
Embassy of Canada, 17.09.1953 Barbara Weiler, MEP, 17.09.1946 Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos, MEP, 18.09.1952 Peter Stastny, MEP, 18.09.1956
María Elena Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, MEP, 18.09.1960 Umberto Bossi, MEP, 19.09.1941 Luc Frieden, Minister for Justice - Luxembourg,
19.09.1963 Gunnar Hökmark, MEP, 19.09.1952 Ian Hudghton, MEP, 19.09.1951 Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuzmiuk, MEP, 19.09.1956 Alain Lipietz,
MEP, 19.09.1947 Vladimír Manka, MEP, 19.09.1959 Bernard Poignant, MEP, 19.09.1945 Jacek Emil Saryusz-Wolski, MEP, 19.09.1948 Sarunas
Birutis, MEP, 20.09.1961 Michl Ebner, MEP, 20.09.1952 Carl Lang, MEP, 20.09.1957 Dr. Jürgen D. Wickert, Director – Friedrich-Naumann-
Foundation, 20.09.1944 Jan Olbrycht, MEP, 21.09.1952 Marc Verwilghen, Minister for Economy, 21.09.1952 Dr. Christoph Vondenhoff,
Director General - European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions, 22.09.1968
Helios Media
European Agenda
16-22 SEP 2007
European Week for Mobility
The European Confederation of Independent
Trade Unions is organising a conference on
the challenges of women and men balanc-
ing both work and family.
Portuguese Presidency
19-21 SEP 2007
Conference: Towards a Common
Frame Reference
A series of conferences on different aspects
of European contract law have been organ-
ised at ERA in order to involve legal practi-
tioners, stakeholders and legal researchers in
the drafting process within the Joint Network
on European Private Law.
Trier, Germany
20 SEP 2007
European eGovernment Awards
2007
The third European eGovernment Awards, or-
ganised by the European Commission, will se-
lect good practices on the use of Information
and Communication Technologies (ICT) in pub-
lic service.
Lisbon, Portugal
Rue de la Charité 13 –15
B-1210 Brussels Belgium
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20-21 SEP 2007
International Taxi Conference and
Festival
This seeks foster the exchange of experiences
and to bring out new ideas for sustainable
mobilities that are consistent with lifestyles
in the modern city, where the taxi has a key
role to play.
Lisbon, Portugal
21 SEP 2007
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Eurogas annual conference
Under the motto “The Year of Critical Choices
for Building a Competitive, Secure and
Sustainable Natural Gas Market”, this event
will gather high level speakers from all over
Europe and the world regions.
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ACI Europe
Join a small, dynamic and very international
team. As Communications Manager you will
be responsible for the development and over-
all management of our strategic communica-
tions program.
Application Deadline: 8 October 2007
Organisation: ACI
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Fleishman-Hillard’s hiring a
Account Executive in Public
Affairs
Fleishman-Hillard’s Brussels office is seeking
a professional to join its Financial Services
Practice in an entry-level position.
Application Deadlien: As soon as possible
Organisation: Fleishman-Hillard
Location: Brussels, Belgium
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IFOAM seeks Organic Guararntee
System Coordinator
Tasks include drafting policies, procedures,
proposals and analysis, administering public
consultations amongst others.
Application Deadline: 30 September 2007
Organisation: IFOAM
Location: Bonn, Germany
EIPA seeks Lecturer
The lecturer will contribute to the training in
the field of public financial management of
civil servants within the EU Member States
and applicant countries, and to the develop-
ment of applied research in this field.
Application Deadline: As soon as possible
Organisation: EIPA
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Leaseurope is recruiting a
Economist
The position entails collecting, analysing and
interpreting market data and information,
undertaking research and conducting surveys
on specific issues, undertaking research and
conducting surveys.
Application Deadline: 5 October 2007
Organisation: Leasureurope
Location: Brussels
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BOND looking for EU Policy
Officer
The EU Policy Officer will Lead BOND‘s lob-
bying and policy work on EU development
cooperation, develop policy papers and anal-
ysis, lobby EU decision-makers and work
with policy experts in the UK and Europe.
Application Deadline: 28 September 2007
Organisation:Bond
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Call for Translators
Generation Europe Foundation is an NGO that
produces information tools for young people in the
EU. Freelance translators from English into seven
European languages are needed.
Application Deadline: As soon as possible
Organisation:Generation Europe Foundation
Location: Anywhere in Europe
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MCI need a Senior Marketing
Communications Account
Manager
With a background in life sciences, you have
experience of people management and the
flexibility to manage multiple clients, and
can convey ideas and concepts with a global
reach to different audiences.
Application Deadline: As soon as possiblee
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AmCham hiring a Policy Director
We are currently recruiting a Policy Director
to manage the day-to-day functioning of the
Policy Department of the AmCham EU secre-
tariat and to develop general policy expertise
on the overall EU legislative programme.
Application Deadline: 28 September 2007
Location: London, UK
Organisation:AMCHAM EU
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