Angelika Werthmann

Angelika Werthmann ( * 1963 in Schwarzach im Pongau) is an Austrian politician and since the European election 2009 Member of the European Parliament.

Education and work

Werthmann studied philology at the Paris University of Salzburg and leads in this subject the title of master. From 1989 she worked as a teacher in the school system, and later as a translator and interpreter in the fields of economics, medicine and tourism.

Policy

In the European elections in Austria in 2009, she ran third in the list, Dr. Martin and heard as the other members of this list any political group in the European Parliament. According to press reports Werthmann said to have been presented to a waiver of other members of the list Martin, after which they should abstain for the first half of the legislature on its mandate. Werthmann said to have refused to sign a waiver. In July 2010 she joined after conflicts with Hans Peter Martin, whom she accused of lack of transparency in matters of party finances, out of the Delegation of the list Dr. Martin.

In May 2012, Werthmann was accused by five former employees because of bullying in the workplace, against which it had a year earlier initiated in collaboration with Evelyn Regner ( SPÖ) and Ulrike Lunacek (Greens) a written statement.

On July 5, 2012 Werthmann joined the Liberal Group in the European Parliament. The Liberal Forum Austria was planning to compete in the 2014 European elections with Werthmann as a top candidate. On March 27, 2014 it was announced that Werthmann will run in the 2014 European election for the AAF.

Working in Parliament

In the European Parliament she is a member of the Petitions Committee and the Budget Committee and the Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia. In addition, she is a substitute member of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.

In the Budget Committee are Angelika Werth 's priorities among others in the fields of economy, investment in reducing unemployment, education and mobility, life - long learning, health, and on the European Globalisation Fund. In addition, it has become very successful proven as rapporteur for the following positions in the Budget Committee: " the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the program " Health for Growth, the third multi-annual program of EU action in the field of health, for the period 2014-2020 "," proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union "and" on the proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 2003/96/EC restructuring the Community framework for the taxation of energy products and electricity. " In the spring of 2013 Angelika Werthmann wrote the report " on the proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on mobilization of the European Globalisation Globalisation Adjustment in accordance with point 28 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial management (application EGF/2011/016 IT / Agile, Italy) ".

The Petitions Committee is Werthmann uses especially for the human rights situation of many petitioners and Petentinnen from Austria as well as from Europe. Her focus is on this Committee: Children and young people, visually impaired people, people who are affected by the " Ley de Costas ", as well as environmental problems. As head of the working group on "Spanish Coastal Law " Angelika Werthmann could explain with their colleagues from different Member States this topic in a delegation on site with representatives of the Spanish government, government agencies and NGOs and, above all, with the victims themselves in detail. The " working document on the deliberations of the Working Group on Spanish Property and the Coastal Law of 1988, including a mission to Spain from 21 - 22nd March 2013 " shows the developments on and around the petitions on the " Ley de Costas "on.

The Committee on Women and Gender Equality, the rights focus of the work Angelika Werth 's is especially on the equality of women and men in the workplace and equal pay for equal work. She is also author of the report " about women with disabilities ."

Initiated by Angelika Werthmann and four other MEPs written explanation of " epilepsy " reached 459 signatures of MEPs and was one of the most successful in the history of the written statements in the European Parliament.

Furthermore, Angelika Werthmann is a member of the Delegation for " relations with the countries of South Asia " as a full member.

In addition, it is since the fall of 2012 deputy member of the Delegation for relations with Switzerland and Norway and to the Joint Parliamentary Committee EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee European Economic Area. By the summer of 2012, she was a deputy member of the Delegation to the Parliamentary Committee for EU-Croatia.

Angelika Werthmann heard since the fall of 2009, the "high- level contact group for relations with the Turkish Cypriot community in the Northern Part of the Iceland ' ( CYTR ) " and is here especially for the work of the " Committee of Missing Persons" ( short " CMP" ) and the protection of various human rights such as freedom of religion in Cyprus one. Where possible occurs Werthmann active for a solution to the " Cyprus dispute " a.