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{{Redirect|Pottering|the software developer|Lennart Poettering}}
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Together with [[Volker Hassemer]] he is a member of the advisory board of the pro-European initiative "[[A soul for Europe|A Soul for Europe]]". He was a member of the [[Reconciliation of European Histories Group]].<ref name="REH">{{cite web|title= About Us – Reconciliation of European Histories Group|date=21 April 2010|url=http://eureconciliation.wordpress.com/about/|publisher=[[Reconciliation of European Histories Group]]|access-date=1 August 2011}}</ref>
===President of the European Parliament, 2007–2009===
[[File:Flickr - europeanpeoplesparty - EPP Congress Warsaw (266).jpg|thumb|Pöttering with President of the European Commission [[José Manuel Barroso]] at the [[European People's Party|EPP]] Congress in Warsaw, 29 April 2009]]
As part of a deal with the socialist group, it was agreed that he would succeed [[Josep Borrell Fontelles]] as President of the European Parliament in the second part of the 2004–2009 term, which he did on 16 January 2007. He was elected with 450 of 689 valid votes, and defeated Italian Green [[Monica Frassoni]], Danish Eurosceptic [[Jens-Peter Bonde]] and French Communist [[Francis Wurtz]].
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* {{Flag|Ukraine}}: 2nd Class of the [[Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise|Order of Prince Jaroslaw the Wise]] (2008)
* {{Flag|Latvia}}: Grand Cross of the [[Order of the Three Stars]] (2009)
* {{Flag|Portugal}}: Grand Cross of the [[Order of Merit (Portugal)]] (2009)
* {{Flag|France}}: Commander of the [[Legion of Honour]] (2011)
* {{Flag|Spain}}: Grand Cross of the [[Order of Civil Merit|Order of Civil Merit of the Kingdom of Spain]] (2011)
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* {{Flag|Estonia}}: 1st Class of the [[Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana]] (2013)
* {{Flag|Romania}}: Grand Cross of the [[Order of the Star of Romania]] (2014)
* {{Flag|Tunisia}}: Grand Officer of the [[National Order of Merit (Tunisia)|National Order of Merit]] of the Republic of Tunisia (2016)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pomed.org/tunisia-weekly-update-essid-presents-ten-measures-to-fight-unemployment-belhaj-resigns-as-presidents-chief-of-staff/|title=Tunisia Weekly Update: Essid Presents Ten Measures to Fight Unemployment; Belhaj Resigns as President's Chief of Staff|website=POMED|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-04|archive-date=6 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706210123/https://pomed.org/tunisia-weekly-update-essid-presents-ten-measures-to-fight-unemployment-belhaj-resigns-as-presidents-chief-of-staff/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
===Awards===
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==Other activities==
* [[Friends of Europe]], Member of the Board of Trustees<ref>[https://friendsofeurope.org/network?page=0&tab=board_of_trustees&title= Board of Trustees]{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} [[Friends of Europe]].</ref>
* Reimagine Europa, Member of the Advisory Board<ref>[https://reimagine-europa.eu/who-we-are/advisory-board-2 Advisory Board] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023084717/https://reimagine-europa.eu/who-we-are/advisory-board-2 |date=23 October 2021 }} Reimagine Europa.</ref>
* [[Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies]], Member of the Executive Board<ref>[https://www.martenscentre.eu/wilfried-martens-centre-european-studies Executive Board] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303205112/https://www.martenscentre.eu/wilfried-martens-centre-european-studies |date=3 March 2020 }} [[Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies]].</ref>
==Personal life==
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*''Kontinent Europa. Kern, Übergänge, Grenzen'', Edition Interfrom 2002, {{ISBN|3-7201-5276-6}}, zusammen mit Ludger Kühnhardt
*''Von der Vision zur Wirklichkeit. Auf dem Weg zur Einigung Europas'', Bouvier 2004, {{ISBN|3-416-03053-2}}
*''United for the Better: My European Way'', John Harper Publishing 2016, {{ISBN|978-09-934549-67}}
==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.epp-ed.eu/Press/peve06/docs/061114cv2-hgp-en.pdf Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303194524/http://www.epp-ed.eu/Press/peve06/docs/061114cv2-hgp-en.pdf |date=3 March 2016 }} from the official [[Europarl|EU Parliament]] web site
*[http://www.poettering.eu Official website]
*[http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/public/story_page/008-42857-301-10-44-901-20081120STO42657-2008-27-10-2008/default_en.htm President Pöttering looks back at 30 years of European elections] Last retrieved 24-11-08
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