Group photograph of the 20 Members of the European Commission chaired by Romano Prodi, taken during the first official meeting of the Commission held on 18 September 1999 in Brussels. Seated, from left to right: Neil Kinnock, Romano Prodi and Loyola de Palacio del Valle-Lersundi. Standing, from left to right: Günter Verheugen, Chris Patten, Frits Bolkestein, Pedro Solbes Mira, Michel Barnier, Anna Diamantopoulou, Viviane Reding, Michaele Schreyer, António Vitorino, Erkki Liikanen, Margot Wallström, Mario Monti, Pascal Lamy, Franz Fischler, David Byrne, Philippe Busquin and Poul Nielson.