Martin Kastler
Martin Kastler ( born June 18, 1974 in Nuremberg, Germany) is a German politician of the CSU and Member of the European Parliament.
- 2.1 telecommunications
- 2.2 Religion
- 2.3 Sunday work
- 2.4 Limitation of bonus payments from fund managers
Life
Education and work
After visiting the Martin- Behaim -Gymnasium in Nuremberg Kastler studied from 1994 to 2000 history and politics in Erlangen and Prague. Europe Political experience he gained from 1996 to 1997 as an employee in the Foreign Policy Department of the President of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel. This was followed by Kastler Spokesperson of the Marketing Association of the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region and editor at DATEV. Since 1996, Kastler is a journalist and active in journalism. From 2004 until his re-entry into the European Parliament in December 2008, he was Head of Unit for Development Policy Policy and EU project coordinator at the Hanns Seidel Foundation.
Party race
Martin Kastler is a member of the CSU since 1993. He belongs to the CSU district board Nuremberg / Fürth / Schwabach and Central Franconia and is the Deputy Chairman of CSU district in Schwabach.
Deputies activity
Martin Kastler moved first from 2003 to 2004 for the CSU in the European Parliament and followed here on Emilia Müller, who was appointed by the former Bavarian Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber in the state government. After the Bavarian state election in September 2008 Kastler moved for Alexander Radwan after. In the 2009 European elections, Martin Kastler was elected to the European Parliament as MP for the full term from 2009 to 2014. For the European elections on May 25, 2014 candidate Martin Kastler as the leading candidate for Central Franconia on the CSU list at No. 7
Martin Kastler is a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI ) and substitute member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs ( EMPL). He is also a member of the Delegation to the EU - Macedonia ( DANZ ) and deputy member of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of representatives of the African Union ( AU) and the EU. Kastler 's environmental and social policy spokesman for the CSU European group. In addition, he has held the office of Vice- President of the Intergroup group ( intergroup ) Bioethics and the EPP Working Group on Bioethics.
Others commitment
Martin Kastler 's national chairman, founded by Catholic home displaced Sudeten German -Czech Ackermann-Gemeinde and honorary member of the Board of the Central Committee of German Catholics ( ZdK ). He is also a regional board member of the Christian Social Workers ( CSA) and socio-political advisory council of the Association of Scientific Catholic student associations Unitas (UV ) ( UNITAS Franko Palatia, Erlangen-Nuremberg ), the Christian Democrats for Life ( CDL), a founding member of the Catholic Mission circle Schwabach St. Sebald - Theresa eV, the Gorres society and a member of the CISO Association of Catholics in business and management.
Other memberships include the Club of the alumni of the Hanns Seidel Foundation ( CDAs ) eV in Malta Ambulance Corps, in History and Folk Society Schwabach and environment eV Schwabach and environment in the Commercial Club in 1848.
Kastler is district chairman of the Pan-European Union Nuremberg and Schwabach and Board of Directors in German - Czech Future Fund in Prague.
On November 22, 2013 Kastler by the General Assembly of the Central Committee of German Catholics ( ZdK ) was elected European cooperation and intercultural questions to the speaker of the property area. He succeeds Hubert Tintelott.
Private
Martin Kastler is married, has three children and lives in Schwabach. Kastler has completed a church musician training D and C and plays the organ.
Political positions
Telecommunications
As one of 28 members of Parliament Kastler turned on 18 April 2012 ( against a majority of 580 votes in favor, 74 abstentions) against a resolution for a legal basis for the monitoring of Internet censorship by autocratic regimes and EU export regulations technologies that serve to Internet censorship, calls.
Religion
Kastlers has strong references on the subject of religion. He refers to " the support of the persecuted Christians worldwide," as one of the " key points " of his polti matic and voluntary work. Elsewhere, he stressed that the voluntary commitment for him in the Church " in addition to his deputies activity high on the agenda " stand.
In 2011, the European Commission circulated a Diary in which no evidence was inadvertently listed on holidays of the Christian religion. Requirements of other religions such as Islam, Judaism and Hinduism were even considered it. Kastler said in this connection: " The militant atheism in the apparatus of the EU Commission is intolerable - he needs a clear Christian response. This arbitrariness cries out to heaven, "He said the process was" a joke "and called for" immediate to draw the relevant officials accountable. I expect a personal apology from the President. " In consequence Kastler initiated together with the Catholic and Protestant deaneries Schwabach and Roth, a collection of about 3,000 signatures, which he handed over together with a priest to the responsible Commissioner.
Sunday work
Martin Kastler is the initiator of the First European Citizens' Initiative, whose goal is to protect Sunday as a day of rest in Europe. And he has on 10 February 2010 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, the online campaign portal "Sundays are mum and dad to us! " Presented.
Limiting the bonuses of fund managers
In July 2013 he was the only one deputy of the MEPs of the CDU and FDP in favor of limiting the bonus payments from fund managers.