Katharina von Schnurbein

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Katharina von Schnurbein (* 1973 in Schlossau (Regen) ) is a political scientist and Slavist . She has been the European Commission's Anti-Semitism Officer since December 2015 . From 2010 to 2014 she was an advisor to EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso for the dialogue with religions and world views and coordinator of the European Commission on combating anti-Semitism . She belongs to the noble family von Schnurbein . Von Schnurbein is married and has four children. She is fluent in German, English, French, Czech and Dutch.

Life

After studying political science and Slavic Studies in Prague, Bonn and Oxford, she obtained a Master of Slavonic Studies from the University of Oxford in 1997, and a Master of European Studies from the Center for European Integration Research (ZEI) at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in 1999 . She wrote her master's thesis on the subject of the political discourse on EU accession in the Czech Republic. From 1999 to 2001 she worked as an employee of the chairman of the EU committee in the Bundestag . This was followed by a study visit at the Institute for International Relations in Prague. From 2002 to 2004 she was press spokeswoman for the EU delegation in Prague. After the EU enlargement of the Czech Republic on May 1, 2004, she became the spokeswoman for the Czech EU Commissioner Vladimír Špidla responsible for employment, social affairs and equal opportunities in Brussels. She spent the 2017/18 academic year as an EU Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence to research effective measures to combat anti-Semitism across Europe.

European Commission Coordinator to Combat Anti-Semitism

When she was appointed, von Schnurbein was commissioned to work closely with Jewish communities and organizations across Europe and to submit their anti-Semitism challenges directly to the first Vice-President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans , and the Commissioner for Justice and Consumer Protection, Věra Jourová, with policy proposals, Making policy proposals and implementing them.

A few days after her appointment as coordinator, von Schnurbein spoke at a symposium about the threat to Jewish life in Europe. She called for all forms of anti-Semitism to be taken equally seriously: racist prejudice, anti-Semitic conspiracy myths, Israel-related anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism as well as denial or trivialization of the Holocaust . The definition of anti-Semitism adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) in May 2016 names all of these forms.

Von Schnurbein pointed out that "although the denial or trivialization of the Holocaust is prohibited in the EU, so far only 13 member states out of 28 have correctly implemented the directive". In May 2016, the EU Commission adopted a code of conduct with the major social media platforms to delete illegal content online within 24 hours.

On June 1, 2017, the European Parliament passed a resolution against anti-Semitism by a three-quarters majority. On December 6, 2018, the EU member states unanimously adopted a declaration by the Council on combating anti-Semitism and developing a common security concept for better protection of Jewish communities and institutions in Europe.

In mid-June 2019, an anti-Semitism working group of the European Commission met for the first time, which is supposed to support the EU member states in developing national strategies against anti-Semitism that can be implemented locally by the end of 2020. The working group includes one representative from the Jewish community and two from the government from each country. The first meeting dealt with the issue of security, which is of central importance to both the Jewish representatives and the member states. The second meeting in December 2019 was on education.

Von der Leyen Commission

In the new EU Commission , which was elected by the European Parliament at the end of November 2019, Katharina von Schnurbein is directly based at Ursula von der Leyen's deputy Margaritis Schinas (Greece). In addition to being responsible for migration, integration and security, Schinas was also given responsibility for education, youth and sport. Schnurbein is supported by a newly deployed team, which is exclusively concerned with the topic of "combating anti-Semitism".

Opinions

  • Katharina von Schnurbein, on the other hand, refuses to allow certain parties to point only to Muslims when it comes to anti-Semitism: “Any form of anti-Semitism is unacceptable. It is always easy to point from one side to the other. "She rejects the assumption that the danger of Muslim anti-Semitism is much greater than right-wing or left-wing anti-Semitism:" General resentment against all members of a religious community who are involved with a heinous, but a tiny minority of militant fanatics and terrorists as a whole do not explain the problem. Rather, they enlarge it because they aim to urge the majority of Muslims - who energetically distance themselves from Islamists and jihadists - into solidarity with the fanatics. Then the denunciation would have achieved its goal. "
  • “The threshold for anti-Semitic and other expressions of hatred has become much lower. In the network, where you are more anonymous, these rock up even further. The floodgates are open. ”In May 2016, the EU Commission agreed on a code of conduct with leading IT companies such as Twitter , YouTube , Facebook and Microsoft in which they undertake to investigate hate messages reported to them within 24 hours and, if necessary, from Take network. There has already been considerable progress in implementation, said von Schnurbein.
  • During the conference “An End to Antisemitism!” In Vienna, Katharina von Schnurbein appealed to the EU states to provide financial aid to protect Jewish institutions. It shouldn't be that secular as well as religious Jews have to hide in Europe. “Europe without Jews is no longer Europe.” Anti-Semitism is an indicator that a society is developing for the worse. “It starts with the Jews and it doesn't end with them.” The commissioner called on all EU states to collect anti-Semitic crimes separately. According to the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights , this is not yet the case in eleven EU countries. But the more detailed the data collection on anti-Semitic incidents, the more targeted the prosecution can be.

Awards

literature

  • For more mobility on the European job market. in: Dabrowski / Wolf / Abmeier, Making EU Enlargement fair, Paderborn 2010.
  • European Labor Market and Social Policy, in: European policies for citizens, 2009 CEPS.
  • EU enlargement - EU accession. The will of the people? The interest of the people? in: Journal of European Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 2002.
  • Entering the Czech EU: Political Process Against Public Opinion, ZEI Discussion Paper C105, Bonn 2002.

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katharina von Schnurbein , European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI). Retrieved June 23, 2019.
  2. ↑ Your heart beats for Europe , Passauer Neue Presse, Der Bayernwald-Bote, September 3, 2012. Accessed June 23, 2019.
  3. ^ Katharina von Schnurbein, The Czech EU Accession: Political Process Against Public Opinion? , Center for European Integration Research, 2002. Accessed June 23, 2019.
  4. ↑ Anonymous: Commission appoints coordinators on antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred. December 6, 2016, accessed December 12, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Working Definition of Antisemitism. Retrieved December 12, 2019 .
  6. ↑ When the canary stops singing, Europe is in crisis , Auditor online, December 14, 2015. Accessed June 23, 2019.
  7. ^ The EU Code of conduct on countering illegal hate speech online. Retrieved December 12, 2019 .
  8. ↑ European Parliament: Combating Anti-Semitism .
  9. ↑ Declaration of the Council on Anti-Semitism. Retrieved December 11, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Right at the top of the agenda . Jüdische Allgemeine, June 20, 2019. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
  11. ↑ Problem recognized? , Jüdische Allgemeine, December 5, 2019. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
  12. ↑ Muslim anti-Semitism? EU Katharina von Schnurbein: "It's always easy to point from one side to the other" , Turkish cultural community in Austria via OTS , February 20, 2018. Accessed June 23, 2019.
  13. ↑ Anita Haviv-Horiner, Nothing new in Europe? - Israeli Views on Anti-Semitism Today , Federal Agency for Civic Education , in: HaGalil , May 22, 2019. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
  14. ↑ EU anti-Semitism commissioner calls for a sense of responsibility - "Europe without Jews is no longer Europe" , Domradio, February 17, 2018. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
  15. ↑ B'nai B'rith Awards 2018 Human Rights Prize To European Commission's Coordinator On Combating Anti-Semitism , April 27, 2018. Accessed June 23, 2019.
  16. ↑ bepa curriculum vitae, Katharina von Schnurbein , European Commission, Bureau of European Policy Advisers. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Schnurbein, Katharina von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist, coordinator of the European Commission to combat anti-Semitism
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Schlossau (rain)