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Commissioner of the Year
- Joaquín Almunia, economic and monetary affairs - for defending the euro against attacks by populist politicians
- Stavros Dimas, environment - for standing firm on cutting carbon dioxide emissions from cars and for forcing member states to green their national allocation plans for greenhouse gas emissions
- Neelie Kroes, competition - for boldly tackling cartels and pushing for liberalisation of energy markets
- Meglena Kuneva, consumer protection - for giving a higher profile to consumers’ interests
- Andris Piebalgs, energy - for seeking a comprehensive approach to the EU’s energy challenges
- Viviane Reding, information society and media - for convincing EU legislators to curb roaming tariffs, making citizens’ holidays cheaper
MEP of the Year
- Claudio Fava, Italian centre-right - for garnering cross-party support for a balanced report on alleged illegal CIA activities in Europe
- Ruth Hieronymi, German centre-right - for skilfully guiding the directive on television broadcasting activities through Parliament
- Alain Lamassoure, French centre-right, and Adrian Severin, Romanian centre-left - for seeking a fairer distribution of seats of MEPs among the member states, based on objective criteria
- Sarah Ludford, UK Liberal Democrat - for persistently standing up for the defence of citizens’ civil liberties
- Paul Rübig, Austrian centre-right - for successfully reconciling divergent positions on the roaming directive to achieve a record agreement at first reading
- Claude Turmes, Luxembourgois Green - for bringing authoritative views to Parliament’s debates on energy
Statesman of the Year
- Valdas Adamkus, Lithuanian president - for helping to broker a deal on the new EU treaty so as not to isolate Poland
- Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Estonian president - for taking a firm, measured attitude towards Russia
- Angela Merkel, German chancellor - for steering the member states towards a deal on a new treaty
- Nicolas Sarkozy, French president - for setting France on a path to reform
Business Leader of the Year
- Richard Branson, Virgin - for taking the lead on reducing airline emissions, announcing plans for annual carbon cuts on Virgin flights and setting up Virgin Fuels for developing renewable energy sources
- Clara Furse, chief executive, London Stock Exchange - for steering Europe’s biggest stock exchange through turbulent waters
- Sergio Marchionne, CEO of Fiat - for salvaging a company that was heading for the scrapheap, gaining market share with smaller and more fuel-efficient models
- Per Olofsson, president and CEO of ClimateWell - for pioneering solar cooling technology, which could help to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the heating and cooling of buildings
- Rafael Osuna González-Aguilar, director of Solúcar - for showing that innovation can make solar energy a success story
- Wanda Rapaczynski, president of management board of Agora, the biggest media conglomerate in Central Europe - for bringing Agora back to profit after a troublesome year
- Richard Yemm, managing director of Ocean Power Delivery - for developing the world’s first commercial wave-energy farm
Diplomat of the Year
- Uwe Corsepius, Angela Merkel’s sherpa on the renegotiation of the constitution - for preparing the ground for a deal on the new treaty
- Benita Ferrero-Waldner, external relations commissioner, and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German foreign minister - for their contributions to the release of six medical workers from Libya’s jails
- Bernard Kouchner, French foreign minister - for arguing the case for sending an EU mission to Chad to protect those displaced by the conflict in Darfur
- David Miliband, UK foreign minister - for taking a firm line on Russia, challenging it to bring the Litvinenko case to justice
Campaigner of the Year
- Nadia Haiama-Neurohr, Greenpeace - for managing an ingenious campaign to substitute dangerous chemicals with safer alternatives, by bringing to the catwalks clothes made without harmful chemicals
- Peter Hustinx, the European data protection supervisor - for a steady defence of civil liberties
- Robert Ménard, general secretary of Reporters without Borders - for unwavering work to shed light on violations of press freedom across the world and campaigns against repressive regimes and predators
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor of California - for taking action against climate change with the California Global Warming Solutions Act and plans to introduce an emissions trading scheme with other US states and possibly with the EU
- Mirella Visser, president of the European Professional Women’s Network - for promoting the professional progress of women and gender diversity programmes to help women and corporations succeed together
- Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, German development minister - for her intervention on whether Paul Wolfowitz should continue at the World Bank
Journalist of the Year
- Sangita Myska, TV journalist BBC, UK - for undercover reporting to expose a network of trade in children in Bulgaria
- Renata Nikolova, TV journalist, Bulgaria, and chair of the board of the association Journalists Against Corruption - for her determined fight to bring fraud and corruption to the attention of politicians
- Jean Quatremer, Libèration, France - for establishing an EU-blog which has broken down the barriers between what is talked about in the corridors of Brussels and the wider public
- Adam Wajrak, Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland - for encouraging public debate on environmental issues and shedding light on the disputed plan to build a motorway through the nature reserve in Rosputa Valley
Achiever of the Year
- David Gow, of medical technology firm Touch Bionics - for creating the world’s first bionic hand
- Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley - for putting aside their political differences and agreeing to share power in Northern Ireland
- Nicholas Stern, UK economist - for changing the public mood on climate change, with a report warning the world that it cannot afford to wait
- Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank - for defending the independence of the bank against the attempted interference of politicians
- Bo Vesterdorf, former president of the European Court of First Instance - for establishing the authority of the court, most recently in the Microsoft case
Non-EU Citizen of the Year
- Garry Kasparov, leader of the United Civil Front opposition movement - for his fight for political freedoms in Russia
- Salih Mahmoud Osman, human rights lawyer with the Sudan Organisation Against Torture - for defending the many victims of Sudan’s civil war and human rights abuses
- John Prendergast, senior adviser to the International Crisis Group, and Don Cheadle, actor - for challenging the world to take action to end the humanitarian disaster in Darfur with their book ‘Not on our Watch: the mission to end genocide in Darfur and beyond’
- Sirin Tekeli, Turkish writer and activist - for her enduring fight to improve the political representation of women in Turkey
European Voice is proud to announce the nominations for EV50, the Europeans of the Year 2007 awards.
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