Alexander Alvaro

Alexander Nuno Pickart Alvaro (born May 26, 1975 in Bonn ) is a German politician ( FDP ) and was a member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2014 and Vice-President from 2011 to 2014 .

Life and work

Alexander Alvaro was born in 1975 in the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn and grew up in different places in Germany and Australia . He has German and Portuguese citizenship.

After graduating from Görres-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf in 1994 , he trained as a banker until 1997 . He then studied law at the University of Bremen , the University of Mannheim and the University of Düsseldorf , which he completed in 2004 with the first state examination in law. During his studies he worked at Deutsche Bank , as an employee at the chair of Jochen Taupitz at the University of Mannheim and in the offices of Christian Lindner, Member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, and Gisela Piltz , Member of the Bundestag .

After the end of his political career, Alvaro set up his own business as a strategic and content-related consultant for companies and organizations in EU matters, based in Brussels.

Political career

From 2000 to 2005, Alexander Alvaro was a member of the National Board of Young Liberals and, between 2002 and 2005, its deputy national chairman for the program area. His membership in the Young Liberals expired in 2010 due to age. In 2003 he was elected to the FDP federal executive committee.

In the 2004 European elections , Alvaro won a seat in the European Parliament. There he joined, like all FDP members, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), whose domestic policy spokesman he was until 2009. He was also a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and a deputy member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and the Committee on Petitions . He was also a member of the delegations for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council and for relations with India . Since the 2009 European elections , in which he was re-elected, he has been deputy chairman of the Committee on Budgets and a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties. On January 18, 2011, he was elected one of the 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament.

After Silvana Koch-Mehrin resigned as head of the FDP regional group in May 2010, Alvaro was elected as her successor in the FDP party presidium. In addition, an agreement was reached between Alvaro and Koch-Mehrin's successor as head of the delegation, Count Alexander Lambsdorff , according to which Lambsdorff passed this position on to Alvaro in 2011.

Alexander Alvaro was a member of the Europa-Union parliamentary group , on the Bureau of the European Parliament and delegate for relations with Iran . In March 2012 he signed the Spinelli Group's manifesto .

At the Düsseldorf FDP district party conference in October 2013, Alvaro announced that he would no longer run for the European Parliament for the 2014 election.

traffic accident

On the night of February 23, 2013, Alvaro hit a car that had already crashed on the A1 in his Audi A8 . The 21-year-old driver of the car died and his passengers (15 and 16 years old) were seriously injured. Alvaro was also seriously injured in the accident.

The European Parliament lifted Alvaro's immunity in June 2013 to allow an investigation into negligent homicide . In April 2014, Alvaro was indicted before the Cologne Regional Court.

The court checked whether the victim was dead before the impact with Alvaro's car. The investigation found that Alvaro had drugs in his blood at the time of the accident. These drugs are said to have been cocaine. The proceedings were discontinued on September 14, 2017 against conditions. Alvaro had to pay the survivors of the victim € 10,000 and the co-plaintiffs € 5,000.

Publications

• Position paper on the introduction of data retention , in: Recht der Datenverarbeitung 2/2005, pp. 47–50
• The situation of basic and human rights within the EU , with Steffen Zorn, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8300-3007-2

Web links

• Entry on Alexander Alvaro in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
• Alexander Alvaro on parliamentwatch.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Transparency Register. In: ec.europa.eu. Transparency Register , June 9, 2017, accessed on February 2, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Financial Times Deutschland , May 24, 2011: Lambsdorff follows Koch-Mehrin ( Memento of May 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
3. ↑ European Parliament: MEPs: Alexander Alvaro , accessed on 29 November 2012.
4. ↑ rp-online.de: MEP Alvaro does not run again. , October 13, 2013.
5. ↑ FDP politician Alvaro has an accident. n-tv, February 23, 2013, accessed on February 23, 2013 . 
6. ↑ EU politician Alvaro still in critical condition. (No longer available online.) Ruhrnachrichten, February 25, 2013, archived from the original on April 19, 2013 ; accessed on March 1, 2013 . 
7. ↑ rp-online.de: EU Parliament allows investigations , June 12, 2013
8. ↑ Vice-President of the European Parliament: FDP politician Alvaro accused of negligent homicide. In: Süddeutsche.de . April 3, 2014, accessed June 13, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Sabine Kricke: Leverkusen: Alvaro accident: was the victim dead before? In: RP Online . September 9, 2015, accessed June 13, 2016 . 
10. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: EU parliamentary vice: FDP politician Alvaro was apparently drugged in the accident - SPIEGEL ONLINE - politics. Retrieved June 18, 2017 . 
11. ↑ FOCUS Online: FDP politician Alvaro had cocaine in the blood in the accident . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on June 18, 2017]).
12. ↑ FDP politician Alvaro has to pay 15,000 euros. In: FAZ.net . September 14, 2017. Retrieved October 20, 2017 .