Arraiolos group

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BulgariaBulgaria Bulgaria  - Rumen Radew
GermanyGermany Germany  - Frank-Walter Steinmeier
EstoniaEstonia Estonia  - Kersti Kaljulaid
FinlandFinland Finland  - Sauli Niinistö
GreeceGreece Greece  - Prokopis Pavlopoulos
ItalyItaly Italy  - Sergio Mattarella
CroatiaCroatia Croatia  - Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
LatviaLatvia Latvia  - Raimonds Vējonis
MaltaMalta Malta  - Marie Louise Coleiro Preca
AustriaAustria Austria  - Alexander Van der Bellen
PolandPoland Poland  - Andrzej Duda
PortugalPortugal Portugal  - Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia  - Borut Pahor
HungaryHungary Hungary  - János Áder

The Arraiolos Group is an informal association of currently nine non- executive heads of state within the European Union that has existed since 2003 . As a rule, the state presidents in parliamentary systems of government are non-executive ; they usually only perform representative functions. The group was founded in 2003 on the initiative of Jorge Sampaio and holds a meeting once a year. It was named after the Portuguese city of Arraiolos , where the first meeting took place. The heads of state of Bulgaria , Germany , Finland , Italy , Latvia , Malta , Austria , Poland , Portugal , Slovenia and Hungary (except for Italy and Austria all since 2003) are currently members of the group.

To meet

No. year city country Attendees
1. 2003 Arraiolos PortugalPortugal Portugal Johannes Rau , Tarja Halonen , Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga , Aleksander Kwaśniewski , Jorge Sampaio , Janez Drnovšek , Ferenc Mádl
2. 2005 Helsinki FinlandFinland Finland Horst Köhler , Tarja Halonen, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi , Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Heinz Fischer , Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Jorge Sampaio, Janez Drnovšek, Ferenc Mádl
3. 2006 Dresden GermanyGermany Germany Horst Köhler, Tarja Halonen, Giorgio Napolitano , Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Heinz Fischer, Lech Kaczyński , Aníbal Cavaco Silva , Janez Drnovšek, László Sólyom
4th 2007 Riga LatviaLatvia Latvia Horst Köhler, Tarja Halonen, Giorgio Napolitano, Valdis Zatlers , Heinz Fischer, Lech Kaczyński, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Janez Drnovšek, László Sólyom
5. 2008 Graz AustriaAustria Austria Horst Köhler, Tarja Halonen, Giorgio Napolitano, Valdis Zatlers, Heinz Fischer, Lech Kaczyński, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Danilo Türk , László Sólyom
6th 2009 Naples ItalyItaly Italy Horst Köhler, Tarja Halonen, Giorgio Napolitano, Valdis Zatlers, Heinz Fischer, Lech Kaczyński, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Danilo Türk, László Sólyom
7th 2011 Budapest HungaryHungary Hungary Christian Wulff , Tarja Halonen, Giorgio Napolitano, Valdis Zatlers, Heinz Fischer, Bronisław Komorowski , Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Danilo Türk, Pál Schmitt
8th. 2012 Helsinki FinlandFinland Finland Christian Wulff, Tarja Halonen, Giorgio Napolitano, Andris Bērziņš , Heinz Fischer, Bronisław Komorowski, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Danilo Türk, Pál Schmitt
9. 2013 Krakow PolandPoland Poland Joachim Gauck , Rosen Plewneliew, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Sauli Niinistö, Andris Bērziņš, Bronisław Komorowski , Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Borut Pahor
10. 2014 Braga PortugalPortugal Portugal Joachim Gauck, Sauli Niinistö , Giorgio Napolitano, Andris Bērziņš, Heinz Fischer, Bronisław Komorowski, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Borut Pahor , János Áder , Rossen Plewneliew
11. 2015 Erfurt and Eisenach , Wartburg GermanyGermany Germany Joachim Gauck, Sauli Niinistö, Sergio Mattarella , Raimonds Vējonis , Heinz Fischer, Andrzej Duda , Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Borut Pahor, János Áder, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Rossen Plewneliew
12. 2016 Sofia and Plovdiv BulgariaBulgaria Bulgaria Rossen Plewneliew, Joachim Gauck, Sauli Niinistö, Sergio Mattarella, Raimonds Vējonis, Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, Andrzej Duda, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Borut Pahor, János Áder, Toomas Hendrik Ilves
13. 2017 Valletta MaltaMalta Malta Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca (Malta), Alexander van der Bellen (Austria), Rumen Radew (Bulgaria), Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (Croatia), Kersti Kaljulaid (Estonia), Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Germany), Prokopis Pavlopoulos (Greece) , János Áder (Hungary), Sergio Matterella (Italy), Raimonds Vējonis (Latvia), Andrzej Duda (Poland), Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (Portugal), Borut Pahor (Slovenia)
14th 2018 Riga LatviaLatvia Latvia Rumen Radew, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Kersti Kaljulaid, Sauli Niinistö, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Sergio Mattarella, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, Raimonds Vējonis, Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, Alexander Van der Bellen, Andrzej Duda, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Borut Pahor
15th 2019 Athens GreeceGreece Greece Rumen Radew (Bulgaria), Kersti Kaljulaid (Estonia), Prokopis Pavlopoulos (Greece), Michael D. Higgins (Ireland), Sergio Mattarella (Italy), Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (Croatia), Egils Levits (Latvia), George Vella (Malta ), Andrzej Duda (Poland), Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (Portugal), Borut Pahor (Slovenia), János Áder (Hungary), Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Germany)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ word garlands: Presidents' meeting in Helsinki , the press , February 10, 2010. Retrieved on February 17 2012th
  2. ↑ Deutschlandfunk.de , Informations am Morgen , September 21, 2015, Henry Bernhard : Presidents meet at the Wartburg (February 16, 2016)
  3. ↑ www.bundespraesident.de: The Federal President / Calendar / "Arraiolos-Meeting" on Malta. Retrieved November 26, 2017 .
  4. ↑ www.bundespraesident.de: The Federal President / Travel and Dates / Arraiolos meeting in Greece. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .