EFTA02438030.pdf

"The ERC is set to start funding projects from across Europe in early '07 and recently hired Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker ... as its first general secretary."

"Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, former head of the well-regarded Deutsches Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)"

"It seems only right that a politician with the mind of a scientist brings Germany—and Europe—closer to that goal."

"Her father, Horst Kasner, decided that year to take his family to Soviet-held East Germany"

"Merkel joined the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), won her first parliamentary seat in 1990"

"In 1994 Kohl appointed her Minister of Environment and Reactor Safety, further raising her profile"

"new German-Russian forum that opened in October under the wings of Merkel and Putin"

"Berlin Academy of Sciences, where she earned her PhD in physical chemistry"