Spanish King Juan Carlos (R) and Queen Sofia (L) pose before an official dinner with Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus and his wife (out of camera range) at the Royal Palace in Madrid, 06 June, 2005.
(Top row, L-R): Paraguay President Nicanor Duarte, Polish Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern (bottom row) Bolivian President Evo Morales, Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus, Chile's President Michele Bachelet and German Chancellor Angela Merkel pose during the family picture of a EU-Latin America summit 12 May 2006, in Vienna. European Union and Latin American heads of state and government met in Vienna Friday, in a summit already marked by the Bolivian leader's calls to stand up to big business.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose country currently holds the EU presidency is applauded by the European Union leaders including (L-R) Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus, Poland's President Lech Kaczynski, French President Jacques Chirac, Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus, Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos, Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov and Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates, after signing the 'Berlin Declaration', 25 March 2007 at the German Historical Museum in Berlin, during the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome which laid the foundation for the EU. The 27 European Union leaders endorsed the declaration aimed at helping the EU past the impasse over its constitution, as the bloc marks the 50th anniversary of its founding treaty in Berlin.
Back row from L, Croation Prime minister Ivo Sanader, Turkish Prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Bulgarian Prime minister Sergei Stanishev, Estonian Prime minister Andrus Ansip, Maltese Prime minister Lawrence Gonzi, Slovakian Prime minister Mikulas Dzurinda, Dutch Prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende , Luxembourg Prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker, Latvian Prime minister Algiardis Kalvitis and Italian Prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. Centre row from L, Portugese Prime minister Jose Socrates, Slovenian Prime minister Janez Jansa, Czech Prime minister Jiri Paroubek, Swedish Prime minister Goran Persson, Spanish Prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Belgium's Prime minister Guy Verhofstadt, Hungarian Prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, Polish Prime minister Marek Belka, Danish Prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Irish Prime minister Bertie Ahern and Greek Prime minister Kostas Karamanlis. First row from L, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel, President of the European Parliament Josep Borrell, Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus, French President Jacques Chirac, British Prime minister Tony Blair, President of Cyprus Tassos Papadopoulos, Romanian President Traian Basescu, EU commissioner Jose Manuel Barroso, Prime minister of Finland Matti Vanhanen and EU High Representative of the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana poses for a group photograph, 27 October 2005 during a EU informal heads of state and government Summit at London's Hampton Court.
Family Picture of the Prague NATO Summit and the Invited Countries 21 November 2002 in Prague Congress Center. (1st Row from Left): Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov, Estonian Prime minister Siim Kallas, Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Czech President Vaclav Havel, NATO General Secretary George Robertson, Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus, Romanian President Ion Iliescu, Slovakian President Rudolf Schuster, Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Drnovsek, (2nd row from L): Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, US President George W Bush, Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, French President Jacques Chirac, Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Spanish Prime minister Jose Maria Aznar, Portugese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, (3rd row from L): Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Greek Prime Minister Costa Simitis, Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Medgyessy, Iceland's Prime Minister David Oddsson, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Luxemboug Prime Minister Jean Claude Juncker, Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and Norway Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik.
The heads of state of the 27 European Union nations pose for a family photo around German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C), whose country currently holds the EU presidency, 25 March in front of Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate, at the end of weekend celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome which laid the foundation for the EU. Front row (L to R) European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Romania's President Traian Basescu, Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus, Poland's President Lech Kaczynski, French President Jacques Chirac, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus, Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos, Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov, the President of the European Parliament Hans-Gert Poettering, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana. Middle row (LtoR): Ireland's Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi , Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, Slovenian Prime minister Janez Jansa, Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Top row (LtoR) Latvian Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis, Luxembourg's Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico, Malta's Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi, Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair, Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip, Austrian chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer, Finland's Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen.
