The European Board
| Pietro De Matteis, PhD, President of the European Federalist Party | Georgios Kostakos, Vice-President of the European Federalist Party |
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A convinced European federalist, Pietro De Matteis holds a PhD in international studies form the University of Cambridge. After some experience at the European Central Bank and at the EU Institute for Security Studies, he currently works for the European Commission. An economist by training, he graduated from the University of Milan-Bicocca (summa cum laude) and obtained a Masters-level degree from the European College of Parma. Thanks to some scholarships he had the opportunity to research in the US (Columbia University) and in China (Renmin University).
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Pietro joined the federalist movements (e.g. JEF, GFE) after his Erasmus year at University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne in 2003. Following the rejection of the “European Constitution” in France and in the Netherlands he started to work for the creation of a truly pan-European and federalist political party, capable of giving Europeans a stronger and more direct voice in European politics. Since 2011 he serves as the Co-President of the European Federalist Party.
As Europe is diversity, he speaks Italian, English, French, Spanish and Chinese. Pietro was a candidate in the list: “Stand Up for the United States of Europe” for the European elections in Belgium.
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He served on the secretariat of the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability (GSP) as Senior Adviser and Acting Deputy Executive Secretary, and on many other positions at UN Headquarters in New York, UN field missions, the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) and the University of Athens. He is currently an independent consultant based in Brussels, Belgium. In his over twenty years of experience he has been dealing with issues of global governance and sustainability, climate change, UN reform and policy planning, UN system coordination, political affairs, conflict resolution, peacekeeping and peacebuilding. |
| Emmanuel Rodary, Secretary General, European Federalist Party | Mariarosaria Marziali, European Treasurer, European Federalist Party |
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He is a member of the French section of the party since the announcement of the union between the Federalist Party (Sep. 2011), whose activities he followed, and Europe United. So he participated in the founding convention of the European Federalist Party on November 6th, 2011. He was then a candidate for the party for the French general elections of 2012 to establish the name of the party in the political landscape. He has been Secretary General of the French section since December 2013. He held the participation of the party for the 2014 European elections in all French constituencies. We were the only party without financial resource who successfully proposed candidatures in all French constituencies (153 candidates). Professionally, he is a project leader in industry, having worked mostly outside his own country (especially Germany, Italy, Finland, Hungary, Romania, and some non-European countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, China). |
Mariarosaria has a degree in Public Communication and an extensive experience as accountant in large businesses. Europe is her daily life: she now works as the European Treasurer for European Federalist Party and she is also a European Project Manager for Local Authorities.Her dream is to make Europe a daily experience that enlightens the daily life of its citizens and supports them in building their own future.
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| Michel Caillouet, Public Relations Manager, European Federalist Party | Marco Marazzi, Manager for European Citizens Initiatives, European Federalist Party |
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| Michel has a long experience in European topics, working since 1975 as official of the European Commission in different positions: common agricultural policy, European cooperation and policy programmes with Central America, cooperation programme in the energy sector, political and economic cooperation dialogue with Latin America. Initiator or successful Al-Invest programme between small and medium size enterprises from Europe and Latin America (trade promotion and technology transfers). Follow-up of political agreements and trade relations activities.
Between 1996 and 2003, he has been Ambassador for the European Union in South east Asia ( Bangkok, accredited in 5 countries ), then in south Asia ( New Dehli, accredited in 5 countries ). During that period, intensive tasks of promoting European integration and image in various country of Asia, and coordination of the activities of Member states. He then has been representative of the Commission to the COPS ( Ambassadors meetings foreign policy and common security, and European security and defense policy, and Ambassador representative of the European Commission to the “Council of Europe” (Strasbourg). He retired from the European Commission in 2007, to create and manage a fair trade activity in Provence (Lourmarin and Aix en Provence). A committed federalist, he joined the French section or the European Federalist Party last February 2014 and stood as an MEP candidate in the last European elections. |
Marco, a convinced euro-federalist, is President for the EFP Italy. He is also a director of the think tank “Rifare l’Europa” and in this capacity contributes regularly to various Italian newspapers and magazines on themes related to European foreign and defense policy as well as commercial policy. In his professional life, Marco works as an international commercial/corporate lawyer focusing on bilateral investments between Asia and Europe, with special focus on the financial services, manufacturing and retail industries and has been ranked by Chambers Asia as one of the ‘leading lawyers’ in this field. Until March 2012 he was Vice-Chairman, Shanghai chapter of the EU-China Chamber of Commerce (EUCCC), a 1700 member-strong organization. He is also an “expert” of the EU-China Research and Advisory Network, and in this capacity has advised the EU Commission on its policy towards China. He is a former Board member of the International Crisis Group and an active member of the International Bar Association (IBA) and cooperates especially with the IBA Human Rights Institute. |
| John Retetagos, thematic board member, European Federalist Party |
Jean-Noel Rebora, auditor, European Federalist Party |
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| A dentist by profession, he received a diploma of dental medicine in 2001 from the University of Athens, and a Masters of Science in Periodontology in 2009 from the University of Witte-Herdecke in Germany).He speaks fluent German, English, Bulgarian and Greek.He was a member of the Greek Green Party during 2012-2013, and is currently a member of the Greek think thank Europe-Ecologie, which holds the principles of European federalism and the green economy.He is happy to take this position in the board because he feels European, he has lived and studied in various European states and he is a convinced federalist and true believer of the European dream which is a united Europe for the benefit of its citizens. | A relatively new member of the EFP, he is the head of a small company headquartered in France but working in Europe, Africa and Asia. His aim in joining the EFP is to move from the business field to the political one.He has a bachelor’s in German education from the University of Tübingen, an MBA from EM-Lyon and an M.S. in Sociology “Management and Safety”.He speaks fluent English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, is proficient in Japanese and is a beginner Russian speaker.
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