Daniel Caspary

Daniel Caspary, 2019

Daniel Caspary (born April 4, 1976 in Karlsruhe ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and has been a member of the European Parliament since 2004 and chairman of the German CDU / CSU group in the EU Parliament since July 2017. As a result, Caspary is a member of the presidium of the CDU in Germany. He was elected via the state list of the CDU Baden-Württemberg (list place 2). Caspary has been Deputy State Chairman of the CDU Baden-Württemberg since September 2017. and since October 2019 chairman of the delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). He lives in Weingarten in the Karlsruhe district. Daniel Caspary is married and has five children.

education and profession

Daniel Caspary passed his Abitur in 1995 at the Thomas-Mann-Gymnasium Stutensee , after which he served in the Bundeswehr (first lieutenant in the reserve ). He finished his studies at the University of Karlsruhe as a technical graduate economist.

During his studies he worked as a personal advisor to the Minister of Agriculture of Baden-Württemberg and member of the state parliament, Peter Hauk . Further stations in Caspary's professional career were internships at JP Morgan in Frankfurt am Main and London , working for Gerhard Seiler at the University of Karlsruhe and at MVV Energie AG in Mannheim .

Political activities

Daniel Caspary was active in the Junge Union (JU) as a teenager . His political interest was aroused when he campaigned for a night bus from Karlsruhe to his home town of Stutensee as a student . From 1999 to 2002 he was deputy state chairman of the JU Baden-Württemberg, from 2001 to 2008 district chairman of the Junge Union Nordbaden. Caspary has been the district chairman of the CDU Karlsruhe-Land since 2010. Since July 2011 he has been a member of the Presidium of the CDU Baden-Württemberg.

From 1999 to 2009 Caspary was a member of the city ​​council of Stutensee , initially for the Junge Liste Stutensee (JLS) and after September 2004 for the CDU.

Caspary has been a member of the European Parliament since July 2004 , where he belongs to the Group of the European People's Party (EPP). He is a member of the Committee on International Trade (INTA) and was the coordinator (spokesman) of his group from 2009 to 2017. Together with the Vice President of the European Commission , Jyrki Katainen , Caspary chaired the meetings of the European EPP trade ministers until 2017. From 2014 to 2017 Caspary was Parliamentary Director of the CDU / CSU group. As Herbert Reul's successor , Caspary was elected chairman of the CDU / CSU group in the European Parliament in July 2017. This also made him an advisory member of the CDU federal executive committee. As chairman of the CDU / CDU group, he is also a member of the EPP parliamentary group executive committee. He is also a member of the European Union Affairs Committee in the German Bundestag .

In May 2018, Caspary was re-elected by the CDU Baden-Württemberg for the 2019 European elections and elected via the state list. Caspary is u. a. Member of the European Parliament for the fourth electoral term via the Baden-Württemberg state list.

In the 7th electoral term of the European Parliament, as in the previous term, he was the European Parliament's rapporteur for the EU's foreign trade strategy.

Caspary is also rapporteur on the legislative process on public procurement and the access of goods and services from third countries to the EU internal market for public procurement.

In November 2008, Caspary was among the MEPs who witnessed the attacks on the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai , India .

In May 2016, the political magazine Politico listed Caspary in a ranking of the forty most influential MEPs among all elected representatives in 16th place. In an updated ranking in March 2017, Caspary was ranked 25th. In November 2016, the non-governmental organization VoteWatch ranked Caspary as the second most influential trade politician in the European Parliament.

At the 71st state party conference in September 2017, the delegates elected Caspary as one of three deputy state chairmen of the CDU Baden-Württemberg. In January 2020, Caspary was again named by Politico as one of the twenty most influential members of parliament.

Political positions and criticism

Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement

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As part of his work on the Committee on International Trade, Caspary is committed to the conclusion of the transatlantic trade and investment agreement between the EU and the USA. In March 2013, for example, he launched the “Friends of TTIP” event as an open discussion platform in the European Parliament, within which the transatlantic trade and investment agreement is controversially discussed with representatives from politics, business and civil society.

Demonstration against EU copyright reform

A few days before the vote in the EU Parliament on the controversial EU copyright reform , Daniel Caspary claimed in the BILD newspaper: “Now an attempt is obviously being made to prevent the adoption of copyright law with purchased demonstrators. Up to 450 euros are offered by a so-called NGO for the demo participation. ”Even members of the CDU described these statements as“ insane ”and“ catastrophic ”. They are disrespectful and would demean the protest by more than 100,000. Both BILD - and its publishing house Axel Springer SE - and Daniel Caspary himself are among the proponents of the EU copyright reform. Daniel Caspary later corrected his claim on Twitter and in an interview with Deutschlandfunk by stating that he only referred to a small proportion of "purchased demonstrators". However, he never meant all the demonstrators.

Other offices

Daniel Caspary is a member of the European Union , which advocates the European idea, and of the European Union parliamentary group European Parliament .

Further memberships:

• General German Automobile Club
• German Scout Society Sankt Georg
• German Youth Hostel Association eV
• German Red Cross
• Parents Association of the European School Karlsruhe
• European Energy Foundation (Director)
• European Internet Foundation
• European Logistics Forum
• Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (member of the Board of Trustees)
• Friends of the Friends and Alumni of the Baden-Württemberg Student Union
• Friends of the JU Baden-Württemberg
• Friends of the PH Karlsruhe eV
• Friends of Vietnam Group
• FSV Weingarten (family membership)
• FVgg Weingarten (family membership)
• Carnival club "Die Piraten" Stutensee
• Nuclear Society
• Lions Club Karlsruhe-Baden
• Pan-European Union
• Transatlantic Policy Network
• Safe Stutensee Association
• Weingartner Musiktage eV (patronage)

Fonts

• with Jan Wißwässer and Julia Wolffson: EU and Mercosur - goals, strategies and current challenges. In: Erich G. Fritz (Ed.): Brazil: On the way to becoming a global economic power? Athena Verlag, Oberhausen 2013, ISBN 978-3-89896-550-7 .
• with Jan Wißwässer: ACTA - the symbol. Copyright in European policy focus. In: The Political Opinion. 9/2012, 514, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, ISSN  0032-3446 , pp. 10-14
• with Martina Chudejova and Jan Wißwässer: The free trade agreement between the European Union and India. In: Erich G. Fritz (Ed.): Developing country, emerging country, global player: India's way into responsibility. Athena Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89896-401-2 .
• Daniel Casparyː Member of the European Parliament, Insights 2004–2019, by us for Germany and Europe, ISBN 978-3-00-059375-8

Web links

Commons : Daniel Caspary  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the MEP
• Entry on Daniel Caspary in the European Parliament 's database of MEPs
• Daniel Caspary on parliamentwatch.de
• Daniel Caspary in the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Board of Directors. In: CDU / CSU group in the European Parliament. Retrieved January 4, 2018 . 
2. ^ Daniel Caspary on the website of the European Parliament
3. ↑ CDU Baden-Württemberg: State Executive. Retrieved January 4, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Daniel Caspary | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved December 10, 2019 . 
5. ↑ About me - Daniel Caspary MEP. Retrieved June 8, 2017 . 
6. ^ BNN: Caspary family two careers and five children
7. ↑ From the school desk to the European Parliament, in: BNN No. 163, July 17, 2012.
8. ^ CDU district association Karlsruhe Land: CDU district association Karlsruhe Land. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 8, 2018 ; accessed on June 8, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ CDU Baden-Württemberg: State Executive. Retrieved June 8, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Daniel Caspary . ( eppgroup.eu [accessed June 8, 2017]). Daniel CASPARY ( Memento from January 5, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
11. ^ EPP - European People's Party: Ministerial Meetings. Retrieved June 8, 2017 (American English). 
12. ^ Board of Directors - CDU / CSU group in the EP. Retrieved January 4, 2018 (German). 
13. ↑ CDU Germany: Statutes brochure. Archived from the original on May 27, 2019 ; accessed on January 5, 2018 . 
14. ↑ Daniel Caspary . ( eppgroup.eu [accessed January 4, 2018]). Daniel CASPARY ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
15. ^ German Bundestag - VIII. Proposals and their treatment . In: German Bundestag . ( bundestag.de [accessed June 8, 2017]).
16. ^ Result of the European elections in Baden-Württemberg
17. ↑ CDU Baden-Württemberg: Rainer Wieland heads the state list for the 2014 European elections. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on June 8, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
18. ↑ REPORT on a new trade policy for Europe under the Europe 2020 strategy - A7-0255 / 2011. Retrieved June 8, 2017 . 
19. ↑ REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on access of goods and services from third countries to the EU internal market for public procurement and on the procedures to support negotiations on access of goods and services from the Union to the public procurement markets of third countries - A7-0454 / 2013. Retrieved June 8, 2017 . 
20. ↑ http://www.bild.de/news/vermischtes/news/ueber-die-situation-nach-den-terroranschlaegen-6648894.bild.html
21. ↑ The 40 MEPs who actually matter: the ranking . In: POLITICO . May 19, 2016 ( politico.eu [accessed June 8, 2017]).
22. ↑ 40 MEPs who matter in 2017: the ranking . In: POLITICO . March 9, 2017 ( politico.eu [accessed June 8, 2017]).
23. ↑ Who are the EU Parliamentarians that shape EU's trade policy? | VoteWatch. Retrieved June 8, 2017 (American English). 
24. ↑ CDU Baden-Württemberg: State Executive. Retrieved January 4, 2018 . 
25. ↑ 20 MEPs to watch in 2020.  
26. ↑ - "It makes sense if the western economies coordinate more closely" . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed June 8, 2017]).
27. ↑ TTIP topic page on personal homepage
28. ↑ Anne Merholz, Florian Kain: Because voting to upload filters in the Euro Parliament - German deputy got death threats. In: bild.de. March 23, 2019, accessed March 23, 2019 . 
29. ^ "Bought demonstrators": CDU MPs rage against CDU tweet. In: zdf.de. Retrieved July 14, 2020 . 
30. ↑ golem.de
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32. ↑ AZ. Retrieved June 8, 2017 . 
33. ↑ Declaration of financial interests. Retrieved June 8, 2017 .