Current posts
SCo-president, Greens-EFA group 1994-;
Member:
Budgets Committee 2009-
Political Career
MEP for:
Germany 1994-99, 2004-09,
France (Ile-de-France) 1999-2004, 2009-:
Co-president, Greens-EFA group 1994-
National political career
Spokesperson and leader 1968 Paris May student revolt, France
Committees, delegations and assemblies
Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
Member: 2002-04
Substitute 2004-09
Constitutional Affairs Committee
Substitute 2002-04
Member 2004-09
Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy Committee
Substitute 2002-04
Conference of Presidents
Member 2004-09
Euro-Mediterranean Joint Parliamentary Assembly Delegation
Member 2004-07
Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee
Member 2004-07
Security and Defence Sub-committee
Substitute 2004-09,
EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee Delegation
Substitute 2004-09
South Africa Delegation
Substitute 2004-09
Budgets Committee
Substitute 2007-09
Member 2009-
Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly
Substitute 2007-09
party posts
Member, German Green party 1984-;
Co-founder and member, European Green Party 2004-;
Founding member, Europe Ecologie/The Greens (France) 2008-
Councils and public bodies
Municipal councillor and deputy mayor of Frankfurt 1989-97
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Date of birth
4 April 1945
Further education
Sociology, Nanterre University, Paris
Marital details
Married
Children
1 son
Non-political career
Bookseller, Karl Marx bookshop, Frankfurt 1969-73;
Editor-in-chief Pflasterstrand magazine 1976;
Honorary head of department, office for multicultural affairs, Frankfurt 1989;
Presenter of Swiss television programme ‘Literatur-klub’ 1994-2003
Publications
Author: Wir haben sie so geliebt, die Revolution (1987);
Co-author:
1968: Die letzte Revolution, die noch nichts vom Ozonloch wusste (1988);
Einwanderbares Deutschland oder Vertreibung aus dem Wohlstandsparadies? (1991);
Heimat Babylon: das Wagnis der multikulturellen Demokratie (1992);
Petit Dictionaire de l’Euro (1998);
Euro für alle. Das Währungs-Wörterbuch (1998);
Une envie de politique (1998);
Xénophobies (1998);
Films:
C’est la vie (1991);
Juden in Frankfurt (1993)
Awards
Le Trombinoscope Political Discovery award for special contributions in the field of politics (1998)
Honorary academic degrees, etc.
Honorary doctorate, Tilburg University, The Netherlands (1997)
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Languages
English
French
GERMAN
Italian
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