Elisabeth Schroedter

Elisabeth Schroedter in Brussels (2008)

Elisabeth Schroedter (born March 11, 1959 in Dresden ) is a German politician and was a member of the European Parliament for Alliance 90 / The Greens from 1994 to 2014 .

Life

After attending the polytechnic high school , Elisabeth Schroedter completed training as a medical-technical assistant , environmental consultant and pedagogue.

Political career

Elisabeth Schroedter began her political engagement as a youth in the GDR opposition movement . In 1989 she joined the civil rights movement Neues Forum , which had a major impact on the transition period in the GDR .

In early 1990 she became a member of the Green Party in the GDR , which merged with the West German Greens in December 1990. In addition, Elisabeth Schroedter was the founder of the Association for Green Citizens Movement in Brandenburg Local Politics in 1991 , and was its spokesperson for many years. Since 1990 she has been a member of the Green League , a network of East German environmental initiatives. Due to her experience in environmental policy, she was appointed to the environmental advisory board of the first environmental ministry in the state of Brandenburg in 1992 . From 1990 to 1993 she was also a member of the local council of Langerwisch .

Work in the European Parliament

With the first European elections for the "New Länder" in 1994, Elisabeth Schroedter entered the European Parliament for Alliance 90 / The Greens. She is a member of the Greens / Efa group .

From 1994 to 1996 she was President and from 1999 to 2004 Vice-President of the Delegation for relations with Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus. At that time she was active in the Foreign Affairs Committee and helped shape the EU's enlargement process. In this context, she was a deputy member of the delegation in the EU-Poland joint parliamentary committee from 1999 to 2004 and was rapporteur for the accession process in Latvia.

From 2004 onwards she was more involved than before in European regional policy , as well as in employment and social policy and was a member of the relevant committees. As a member of the delegation in the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and a member of the delegation for relations with Belarus, she was also in the parliamentary assembly for EURO-NEST until the end of her term of office , thus continuing her work in the EU's neighborhood policy.

After moving back in 2009, she was elected Vice-President of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee, where she is an advocate of common minimum social standards in the EU. She therefore focuses her work where the EU lays down basic rules for working conditions and the social protection of workers. She works on the topics of the Posting of Workers Directive and the Working Time Directive . She also wrote an own-initiative report on green jobs and promoted the use of the employment potential of a sustainable economy in the EU. At the same time, she worked to ensure that these new employment opportunities are good work and that the dialogue between the social partners in the new sectors of the ecological energy transition is strengthened.

In the Committee on Regional Development, she was responsible for the Green Group on the structural fund reform for the period 2014–2020 and was delegated to the relevant parliamentary working groups.

In the list of the party at the Federal Delegates' Conference on February 8, 2014 in Dresden, it was defeated in the candidacy for 5th place with 19.36% against Barbara Lochbihler . She did not run for another place on the list and thus resigned from the European Parliament.

Personal

Elisabeth Schroedter is married and has three sons.

Honors

In 2002 Elisabeth Schroedter was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for her commitment during the fall of 1989/90.

Fonts

Independent publications

• If you stink ... A handout for citizens who are fed up with factory farming. April 2014 here .
• The European Youth Guarantee. As of June 2013 here .
• Electronic newsletters on parliamentary activities. here .
• Social Europe , newsletter with reports and background information on the work in the Employment and Social Committee, appears 3 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 in concrete terms. Green jobs. The opportunity for the European labor market. December 2010.
• Shaping the demographic change in Europe. Green strategies for action. January 2009.
• The General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) as reflected in European anti-discrimination policy. September 2007.
• Communal options for action against right-wing extremism. First edition May 2006, second edition September 2008.
• Demographic change has a feminine face. Problems and solutions from a gender perspective. June 2007.
• Out of home, into 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.
• Helped the agenda on the jumps. A guide for actors of the local Agenda 21 and those who want to become one. September 2003 (structural funding period 2000–2006).
• Is Europe pulling bridges? European asylum and immigration policy in the debate. Documentation, May 2002.
• That's how it works. European funds support local projects. (Description of successful projects in the structural funding period 1994–1999). Potsdam / Brussels 1999.

Publications in edited volumes etc. Ä.

• “Europe and International” in “City - Country - Green” Handbook for Alternative Local Policy, Ed. Rita a. Herrmann, Gerald Munier, Association for the Promotion of Local Political Work - Alternative Local Politics in collaboration with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Bielefeld 2008.
• “Workshops facilitate integration” (social services in the field of tension between the internal market and social mandate) in workshop: Dialogue: Bundling Forces for Europe , (Ed.) Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Werkstätten für Behinderten Menschen eV, Frankfurt am Main, 2/2007
• “Strong democrats are the best means”, municipal options for action against the right, in AKP-Magazin 1/2006, Bielefeld 2006.
• “Equal Opportunities as an Answer” Gender-specific aspects of demographic change in “Europa-Kommunal” 5/2006, publisher RGRE, Cologne 2006.
• "Health services in the European Union in the field of tension between competition and services of general interest (perspectives of the European health market from the perspective of the Greens)" in "Competition and solidarity in the European health market" , (Ed.) Norbert Klusen / Andreas Meusch, Nomosverlag, Baden-Baden 2006.
• “The European Parliament stands for Turkey's prospect of accession” in “Political Contributions”, collected positions and opinions on political events in 2003, published by Alexander Bilgeri, Klemens Joos, Münster 2004.
• “Gender perspective in the enlargement process” in “ What does Europe bring for women?” Feminist articles on opportunities and deficits in the European Union, Ed .: Ulrike Allroggen, Tanja Berger, Birgit Erbe, Hamburg 2002.
• “Integration of Gender Mainstreaming in the Political Concepts and Measures of the EU” in “Gender Mainstreaming” , (Ed.) Parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, documentation of an event, October 2000.

Web links

Commons : Elisabeth Schroedter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website by Elisabeth Schroedter
• Website of the German delegation of the Greens in the European Parliament (Europagruppe GRÜNE)
• Entry on Elisabeth Schroedter in the Members' database of the European Parliament