Elisabeth Schroedter

Elisabeth Schroedter ( born March 11, 1959 in Dresden ) is a German politician and since 1994 Member of the European Parliament for Alliance 90/The Greens.

Life

After attending the Polytechnic High School Elisabeth Schroedter completed training for medical- technical assistant, environmental consultant and educator.

Political career

Their political involvement began Elisabeth Schroedter young people in the GDR opposition movement. In 1989, she joined the civil rights movement in New Forum, which significantly helped to shape the turnaround time in the GDR.

In early 1990 she became a member of the Green Party in the GDR, which merged in December 1990 with the West German Greens. In addition, Elisabeth Schroedter was in 1991 Founder Association for green citizen moving local politics of Brandenburg, whose spokeswoman, she was for many years. She is a member of the Green League, a network of East German environmental initiatives since 1990. Because of their experience in the environmental field, she was appointed to the Environmental Advisory Board of the first Ministry of the Environment in the state of Brandenburg in 1992. From 1990 to 1993, she also was a member of the municipal council of Langerwisch.

Work in the European Parliament

With the first European election for the new Länder in eastern Germany in 1994 Elisabeth Schroedter pulled a for Alliance 90/The Greens in the European Parliament, to which it belongs since then. She is a member of the Group of the Greens / Efa.

From 1994 to 1996 she was President, 1999-2004 Vice -President of the Delegation for relations with Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus. She worked at this time on the Foreign Affairs Committee and redesigned the EU enlargement process. In this context, it was from 1999 to 2004 as deputy member of the Delegation to the Joint Parliamentary Committee EU-Poland actively and rapporteur for the accession process in Latvia.

Since 2004, she moved to EU integration issues. She has engaged more than before in the European regional policy and in the employment and social policy and was a member of the relevant committees. As a member of the Delegation to the EU- Republic of Moldova and a member of the Delegation for relations with Belarus remained the EU's neighborhood policy faithful.

Even after her re-election in 2009, it has remained their key activities in the European Parliament regional policy and employment and social policy faithful. She was elected Vice President of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and is there a champion of common minimum social standards in the EU. Focus their work they therefore sat where the EU sets basic rules for working conditions and social protection of workers / inside. She has worked with in the topics PWD and Working Time Directive. She is also rapporteur on Green Jobs and promoted in the context of exploiting the employment potential of a sustainable economy in the EU. At the same time it is committed to ensuring that these new employment opportunities are also good work and the dialogue between the social partners will be strengthened in the new sectors of ecological energy transition.

In the Committee on Regional Development, she works responsible for the Group of the Greens on the reform of the Funds for the period 2014-2020 and has been delegated to the working groups of the Parliament for it. You also want to bring in their preparatory work on the challenges of demographic change there. They dealt with the causes and policy mistakes that led to young people, especially young women, some regions left and leave disproportionately. This committee was also elected for gender issues to Supervisor.

Even in its current term of office, they will remain a member of the Delegation for relations with Belarus and deputy member of the Delegation to the EU- Republic of Moldova and is therefore in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Euro nest.

In the list of the party list in the Federal Delegates Conference of 8 Fabruar 2014 in Dresden, she was defeated in the nomination list to number 5 with 19.36 percent against Barbara Lochbihler. For a further list place she did not run and is thus eliminated from the European Parliament.

Personal

Elisabeth Schroedter is married and the mother of three sons.

Honors

2002 Elisabeth Schroedter was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for their commitment during the turn of 1989/90.

Publications

  • Electronic newsletter of the current deputies activity here
  • Europe socially, newsletter with reports and background information about the work in the employment and Social Committee, appears three times a year and is sent free of charge, here
  • Green Jobs. The opportunity for the European labor market, May 2011
  • Green Jobs, Opportunities for the European labor market, December 2010
  • Green New Deal concrete. Green Jobs. The opportunity for the European labor market, December 2010
  • Making the demographic change in Europe. Green strategies, January 2009
  • The General Equal Treatment Act (AGG ) in the Mirror of European anti-discrimination policy, September 2007
  • Local options for action against right-wing. First Edition May 2006 second edition, September 2008.
  • Demographic change has a female face: problems and solutions from a gender perspective, June 2007
  • Out of Zuhaus into real life - European Voluntary Service, an alternative to community service, October 2006?
  • At the new borders of Europe - Encounters on a journey through the Carpathian Mountains, May 2003
  • The Agenda helping hand - A guide for players of the local Agenda 21 and those who want to be there. September 2003 ( structural funding period 2000-2006).
  • Taking Europe the bridges high: European asylum and immigration policy in the debate, Documentation, May 2002
  • Thus, ' s go European funds support local projects ( description of success projects in the structure of funding 1994-1999), Potsdam / Brussels 1999
  • " European and International Law " in "City - Land - Green 'Handbook for Alternative Local Politics, ed Rita a Herrmann, Gerald Munier, association for the promotion of local politics work - alternative local policy in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Bielefeld 2008
  • " Workshops facilitate the integration " (social services in the tension between the internal market and social order) Workshop: Dialog: Joining Forces for Europe ", ( ed. ) Federal Working Group workshops for the disabled eV, Frankfurt a.Main, 2/2007
  • "Strong Democrats are the best means ," Municipal responsibilities towards the right, in the ACP Magazine 1/2006, Bielefeld 2006
  • "Equal opportunities in response " Gender aspects of demographic change " in" Europe - local " 5/2006, Hrg.RGRE, Cologne 2006
  • " Health Services in the European Union in the Context of Competition and interest ( Perspectives of the European health care market from the perspective of the Greens ) in " competition and solidarity in the European healthcare market, " ( Ed. ) Norbert Klusen / Andreas Meusch, Nomos Verlag, Baden -Baden 2006
  • "The European Parliament is to Berit ride perspective for Turkey " in " Political contributions" collected points of view and opinions on political events in 2003, ed Alexander Bilgeri, Klemens Joos, Münster 2004
  • "Gender Perspective in the enlargement process " in " Europe What brings women " Feminist Contributions to the opportunities and shortcomings of the European Union, Edited by: Ulrike Allroggen, Tanja Berger, Birgit heritage, Hamburg 2002
  • " Integration of gender mainstreaming into policies and actions of the EU in " gender mainstreaming ", ( Eds ) Alliance 90/The Greens in the parliament of North Rhine -Westphalia, documentation of an event, October 2000
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