Kerstin Westphal

Kerstin Westphal (* 11. September 1962 in Hamburg ) is a German politician of the SPD and from 2009 to 2019 Member of the European Parliament .

Life

After finishing school, Westphal began training as an educator. From 1991 to 2005 she worked as an educator in Eisingen near Würzburg . From 2005 to 2009 she worked as an educator at Haus Marienthal in Schweinfurt .

Westphal is married and has two children.

Political party

Westphal has been a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany since 1980. From 1996 to 2008 she was a councilor for the SPD in Schweinfurt and from 2007 to 2015 a member of the board of the Bavarian SPD. Since 2009 she has been a member of the parliamentary group of the Progressive Alliance of Social Democrats in the European Parliament in the European Parliament. Westphal has been a member of the Presidium of the SPD Bavaria since 2011.

EU parliamentarian

Westphal was a member of the Committee for Regional Development and the Delegation for relations with Switzerland and Norway, as well as the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee. As a deputy she was in the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection . As part of her committee work, she advocated an unbureaucratic EU funding policy and the greatest possible protection for consumers. As an EU parliamentarian, she has a. a. wrote the following committee reports: "Building blocks for a cohesion policy after 2020", "The urban dimension of EU policy areas", "Demographic change and its consequences for cohesion policy". In 2019 she was not re-elected.

Web links

Commons : Kerstin Westphal - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website of Kerstin Westphal
Entry on Kerstin Westphal in the Members' database of the European Parliament

Individual evidence

↑ Alphabetical list of all elected - The Federal Returning Officer. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
↑ Home | Kerstin WESTPHAL | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .
↑ REPORT on building blocks for EU cohesion policy in the period after 2020. Accessed on April 29, 2019 .
↑ REPORT on the urban dimension of EU policies. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .
↑ Kerstin Westphal: Report on demographic change and its consequences for the future cohesion policy of the EU. October 14, 2011, accessed April 29, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Westphal, Kerstin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH	September 11, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg

[1] Alphabetical list of all elected - The Federal Returning Officer. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .

[2] Home | Kerstin WESTPHAL | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .

[3] REPORT on building blocks for EU cohesion policy in the period after 2020. Accessed on April 29, 2019 .

[4] REPORT on the urban dimension of EU policies. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .

[5] Kerstin Westphal: Report on demographic change and its consequences for the future cohesion policy of the EU. October 14, 2011, accessed April 29, 2019 .