Presidents of Co-Operative Congress - Alfred Marshall, Pauline Green, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Alfred Marshall, Pauline Green, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, List of Presidents of Co-operative Congress, Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, Auberon Herbert, George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, Meg Munn, Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Sir Arthur Dyke Acland, 13th Baronet, Thorold Rogers, George Holyoake, Thomas Hughes, Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet, of Brayton, Donald Mackay, 11th Lord Reay, James Fraser, Anthony John Mundella, Albert Parker, 3rd Earl of Morley, Gareth Thomas, Alf Morris, Edward Vansittart Neale, Joseph Cowen, John Tomlinson Hibbert, William Edward Baxter, John Jacques, Baron Jacques, Edward Graham, Baron Graham of Edmonton, James Peddie, Baron Peddie, William Nassau Molesworth. Excerpt: Dame Pauline Green DBE (born 8 December 1948)) is a former Labour and Co-operative Member of the European Parliament and former Leader of the Parliamentary Group of the Party of European Socialists (PES). As leader of the PES, she had a central role in the controversy surrounding the failure to discharge the European Commission (EC)'s 1996 budget, bringing the first motion of censure against the Commission but voting against it. She then changed her position following corruption allegations raised by Commissioner Paul van Buitenen to call for Jacques Santer (then President of the European Commission) to react promptly or be sacked. Green lost the leadership of the PES in 1999, which was attributed in part to her handling of the incident. Following her re-election as an MEP in 1999, Green announced that she was retiring politics to take up a position as the first female Chief Executive of Co-operatives UK, a position that she held until 2009. Her work with the organisation included sitting on and responding to the recommendations of the Co-operative Commission, facilita...