Joachim Schuster

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Joachim Schuster (born October 28, 1962 in Rastatt ) is a German political scientist and social democratic politician ( SPD ). He has been a member of the European Parliament since 2014 . From 1999 to 2006 Schuster was a member of the Bremen Parliament and from 2006 to December 2012 Bremen State Councilor , initially for work, youth and social affairs, and most recently for science and health.

biography

education and profession

Schuster studied political science from 1984 to 1989 at the Philipps University of Marburg and received his doctorate in 1993 from the University of Bremen with an analysis of the prospects for the European Economic and Monetary Union. From 1991 to 1994 and from 1997 to 1999 he was a research fellow in two research projects on questions of European integration and the role of European trade unions. Between 1994 and 1999, Schuster also worked as a freelance political consultant and, from 1999 to 2006, was managing director of the Institute for Applied Social and Political Sciences .

Schuster is married and has two children.

politics

Schuster began his political career in the student council and the peace movement . In 1982 he joined the SPD. There he was initially involved in the Working Group of Young Socialists in the SPD , and later in various positions in the SPD.

He became a member of the Bremen Parliament in 1999 and remained so until 2006. He was initially the environmental policy spokesman, then the social policy spokesman for his group. From 2006 to 2012 Schuster held the office of the Bremen State Council, initially for work, youth and social affairs and later for the areas of health and science.

After the social senator Karin Röpke (SPD) and the state councilor for youth and social affairs Arnold Knigge (SPD) resigned as a result of the affair surrounding the death of three-year-old Kevin in November 2006 , Schuster became a state councilor as a representative of the new senator Ingelore Rosenkötter (SPD) ) appointed. From 2011 to December 2012 he was State Councilor for Science and Health as a representative of Senator Renate Jürgens-Pieper (SPD), who announced her resignation at the beginning of December 2012 because of what she believed to be a structural deficit in the education budget. After the new division of the Senate departments, he was followed by Peter Härtl as State Councilor for Health and Gerd-Rüdiger Kück as State Councilor for Science .

In April 2013, the state party conference of the SPD Bremen nominated Schuster as a candidate for the European Parliament elections on May 25, 2014, during which Schuster was elected member of parliament.

In May 2019, Schuster ran again for the European Parliament in 16th place on the SPD federal list. In the European elections on May 26, 2019 , Schuster won another seat.

Schuster can be classified as a party leftist based on his political stance.

Member of the European Parliament

In his first term in the EU Parliament, Schuster was a member of the Committee on International Trade (INTA) and a deputy member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL). In the EMPL committee, Schuster was particularly responsible for the digitization of the world of work. In addition, he was part of the delegation in the parliamentary assembly of the EU with the group of African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP) as well as with the Eastern European countries (EURO-NEST).

In his second legislature from 2019, Schuster changed some of his committees. In the INTA committee, he continues to work on the topics of Africa (especially the countries of southern Africa), Ukraine, Russia and the fundamental issues relating to the design of free trade agreements between the EU and third countries. Schuster is also a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and a deputy member of the Committee on Security and Defense (SEDE).

Schuster is on the board of the German SPD members in the European Parliament and responsible for the connection to the SPD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag in Berlin.

Functions and honorary positions

Schuster is a member of the IG Metall trade union and was appointed to the Supervisory Board of ArcelorMittal's Bremen steelworks in 2019 .

In addition, he is a member of the state board of the Europa-Union Bremen and a member of the scientific advisory board of the Center for Social Policy at the University of Bremen.

Publications

  • EG at a crossroads. Perspectives of the European Economic and Monetary Union. Lang, Frankfurt [a. a.] 1994, ISBN 3-631-46531-9 .
  • The Europe of the Regions. Backgrounds, contradictions and perspectives from a union perspective. ISA-Consult, Bochum 1994, ISBN 3-929266-28-8 .
  • with Angelina Sörgel (Ed.): City-state with a future? On the perspectives of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-264-0 .
  • with Klaus Peter Weiner (Ed.): Renegotiating Maastricht. Prospects for reform in the European Union. PapyRossa-Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-89438-104-3 .
  • European employment policy. Employment promotion and multilevel regulation. SPW-Verlag, Dortmund 1998, ISBN 3-922489-22-2 .
  • Wilhelm Eberwein and Jochen Tholen (ed.): Special Problems of Europeanisation of industrial relations from the British, French, Italian and German perspective. Documentation of the conference on February 13, 1998 in Brussels. Project "Development of Workers' Relations in Europe". University of Bremen, 1998, ISBN 3-88722-373-X .
  • The international arms industry. Perspectives for armaments production and conversion after 2000. Lit, Münster / Hamburg / London 2000, ISBN 3-8258-4722-5 .
  • with Wilhelm Eberwein and Jochen Tholen (ed.): The Europeanization of industrial relations. A conference of science transfer. Documentation of the conference on December 2nd, 1999 in Bremen. Project “Development of Industrial Relations in Europe”. University of Bremen, 2000, ISBN 3-88722-462-0 .
  • with Wilhelm Eberwein and Jochen Tholen: The Europeanization of industrial relations as a political-social process. On the connection between national and European level using the example of Germany, France, Great Britain and Italy. Hampp, Munich / Mering 2000, ISBN 3-87988-506-0 .
    • The Europeanization of Industrial Relations. National and European processes in Germany, UK, Italy and France. Ashgate, Aldershot 2002, ISBN 0-7546-1892-7 .
  • with Ulrike Hensel: More employment through sustainable mobility? Employment trends in the European transport industry. Literature study on behalf of Bernd Lange , MEP. spw-Verlag, Dortmund 2002, ISBN 3-922489-26-5 .
  • SPD Federal Party Congress: Social Democratic Competence in Economic Policy SPW 210, Dortmund 2015, ISSN  0170-4613
  • with Dominika Biegón: Rethinking structural reforms . The European Semester and the 2016 Annual Growth Survey Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95861-371-3 .
  • The EU has no future without a social dimension. European Parliament opinion. In: Europa Kommunal, 2/2017, Council of the Municipalities and Regions of Europe, Cologne 2017, ISSN  1866-1904
  • Investment protection á la CETA is not enough. Without investor obligations, a multilateral investment agreement would be harmful to international politics and society in 2017
  • with Dominika Biegón and Wolfgang Kowalsky: Brave new world of work? What an EU response to the platform economy could look like Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95816-961-6 .
  • For a paradigm shift in trade policy. In: Helmut Scholz: trading from the left. VSA Verlag, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-89965-747-0 .

See also

Web links

Commons : Joachim Schuster  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgens-Pieper's explanation . Wording resignation Renate Jürgens-Pieper. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
  2. ↑ For Bremen and Bremerhaven in Europe. ( Memento from July 5, 2014 in the archive.today web archive ). Website of the SPD state of Bremen. Retrieved July 4, 2014.
  3. ↑ Alphabetical directory of all elected nationwide - The Federal Returning Officer. Retrieved January 23, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Members | Home | ECON | Committees | European Parliament. Retrieved January 23, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Members | Home | SEDE | Committees | European Parliament. Retrieved January 23, 2020 .
  6. ↑ About us - SPD Europe. Retrieved January 23, 2020 .
  7. ↑ About me | Joachim Schuster. Retrieved January 23, 2020 (German).
  8. ^ ArcelorMittal Bremen - Supervisory Board. Retrieved January 23, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Board of Directors . Website of Europa-Union Bremen eV. Accessed July 7, 2014.
  10. ↑ Center for Social Policy (ZeS), University homepage , Scientific Advisory Board. ZeS website. Retrieved July 7, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Schuster, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdBB, MdEP
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Rastatt