Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl

Godelieve Quisthoudt -Rowohl ( born June 18, 1947 in Etterbeek Belgium ) is in the European People's Party since 1989 the CDU MEP for Lower Saxony. Her focus is on international trade, foreign affairs and research. It is committed to children's rights and democratization. It advocates the dismantling of EU rules a (deregulation ) and is committed to combating discriminatory provisions in non-European countries.

Life

Education and work

After graduating in chemistry, she did research in 1972 and 1973 as a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and was in physical chemistry Dr. rer. nat. doctorate. 1974-1979 she continued her research as a research assistant at the Hannover Medical School. From 1979 to 1989 she served as Academic Counselor at the University of Hildesheim. Since 2002, she taught free of charge at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University, from March 6, 2009, there was an honorary professor in the School of Education and Social Sciences.

Policy

Germany

Godelieve Quisthoudt -Rowohl is a member of the CDU and there active in a variety of offices within the group. Among other things, she is a member of the State Executive Committee of the CDU Lower Saxony and since 1994 a member of the national board of the CDU since 1990. From 1990 to 1996 she was a member of the national board of the Women's Union.

In these two positions, she decided with the fact that Merkel ascended to the current Chancellor and one of the most powerful politicians in Europe.

European Parliament

Since 1989 she is a member of the European Parliament. She was there from 1997 to 2007 member of the Presidium ( Quaestor ) and is a board member of the EPP Group.

Mrs Quisthoudt -Rowohl committed to the business sector. She was with the fact that the ceilings for the mobile phone abroad (roaming) within the EU have been capped. As part of your membership in the Committee on International Trade, they advocated to protect European carmakers against dumping of Chinese Alumniumfelgen. At their request, the Committee strongly criticized Turkey that Cyprus still could not perform any goods there, and called upon Turkey as soon as possible that Ankara Protocol to ratify. She wants Turkey to finally enforce the copyright and effectively putting an end to piracy. It is made in 2009 called for a strengthening of European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs ) through more participation in international trade and for an intensification of relations with the United States. She has been involved in mind that Russia ratified a new energy agreement with the EU. She holds the European ban on incandescent lamps for patronizing undemocratic because it was so decided at the Parlement and the public over.

Quisthoudt -Rowohl is deputy member of the Development Committee. In this capacity, she worked with the fact that the EU promotes student exchanges starting in 2010 and projects to promote democracy in China and India. and 1999 that the Commission acknowledges children's rights a higher priority. Woman Quisthout advocates that boys and young men are at a disadvantage no longer. In 2003, she suggested a review of the use of EU funds to the Palestinian Authority, to ensure that this would not be wasted through corruption, to support terrorist groups or the like.

1994-1999 was Quisthoudt -Rowohl deputy chairman of the Committee on Energy, Research and Technology. It initiated in 2005 the first talks between European marine research institutes and the European Parliament to discuss the rapidly advancing climate change, the global sea level rise, the sustainable use of marine resources, the increasing threats and damage caused by floods, earthquakes and extreme weather events and the progressive destruction of the marine environment to discuss and reach consensus on the priorities for future marine research.

Within the framework of the recast RoHS Directive woman Quisthoudt -Rowohl was praised by the PVC manufacturer Vinnolit that they had used against a limitation of this material.

Worldwide

At the invitation of the " German Conference at Harvard " (USA), she described the Germans. It advertised it, to endure the pluralism of modern societies and maintains the German identity only with Europe's identity for explainable.

Others

She is married, has four grown children and lives in Hildesheim. Mrs Quisthoudt -Rowohl is Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Episcopal Foundation " Together for Life " (Hildesheim ). She wears the Federal Cross of Merit.