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EVawards previous winners
Europeans of the Year 2007, per category with reasons for nomination
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European of the Year |
Valdas Adamkus, president of Lithuania for adeptly helping to broker a deal on the new treaty which avoided isolating Poland | ||
| Commissioner of the Year | Viviane Reding, European commissioner for media and information society for convincing EU legislators to curb roaming tariffs, making citizens' holidays cheaper | ||
| MEP of the Year | Claudio Fava, Italian centre-left MEP for garnering cross-party support for a balanced report on alleged illegal CIA activities in Europe | ||
| Stateswoman of the Year | Angela Merkel, German chancellor for competently steering the member states towards a deal on a new treaty | ||
| Diplomat of the Year | Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European commissioner for external relations and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German foreign minister for their contribution to the release of six medical workers from Libya's jails | ||
| Campaigner of the Year | 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 | ||
| Business Leader of the Year | Richard Branson, chairman of Virgin Group 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 | ||
| Journalist of the Year | Reneta Nikolova, TV journalist, Bulgaria for her determined fight to bring fraud and corruption to the attention of politicians | ||
| Achiever of the Year | Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank for defending the independence of the ECB against attempts to give politicians powers over it | ||
| Non-EU citizen of the Year | Garry Kasparov, leader of the United Civil Front opposition movement for his fight for political freedoms in Russia | ||
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