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in 2003, Austrian Member of the European Parliament Daniela Raschhofer was conferred a Grand Decoration of Honour ?
in 2004, MEP Hans Kronberger unsuccessfully contested his fellow Freedom Party of Austria candidate's election to the European Parliament in the Constitutional Court of Austria ?
incoming Romanian Member of the European Parliament Norica Nicolai was the first woman to preside over a session of the Romanian Senate ?
in 2003, Member of the European Parliament Marialiese Flemming proposed more than 80 amendments to a European Commission human tissue safety standards proposal?
in 2001, Wolfgang Ilgenfritz , along with several other Members of the European Parliament , declared his personal financial interests online?
before becoming a Member of the European Parliament , Peter Sichrovsky edited a book featuring a collection of interviews with the children of Nazi families?
in 1955, former Belgian Member of the European Parliament Jean-Maurice Dehousse studied in Beverly Hills, California ?
Beata Brookes , Conservative MEP for North Wales for ten years, has been nicknamed "the Celtic Iron Lady"?
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Question 1 : ________ , former Prime Minister of France
Question 2 : The so-called "dual mandate"—in which an individual is a member
of both his or her national parliament and the ________ , was officially discouraged by a growing number of
political parties and Member States, and is prohibited as of 2009.
Question 3 : Members declare their financial interests, which are published
annually in a register and available on the ________ .
Question 5 : The oldest member is Giovanni Berlinguer , born in 1924;
the former communist was present at the signing of the ________ in 1957.
Question 6 : ________ ,
Champion Rally driver , elected to second term by a
French constituency, rather than his native Finland.
Question 7 : ________ , former Prime Minister and
President of Portugal
Question 8 : ________ , another
leading Northern Irish politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, similarly
having held a "triple mandate"
Question 9 : Lilli Gruber ,
high-profile television journalist who joined politics to oppose ________ 's high degree of media control
Question 10 : Robert
Kilroy-Silk , former chat show host maverick who was fired from
the ________ .