- Karin Jöns
Karin Jöns (born on
29 April 1953 inKiel ) is a Germanpolitician andMember of the European Parliament with theSocial Democratic Party of Germany , part of the Socialist Group and sits on theEuropean Parliament 'sCommittee on Employment and Social Affairs .She is a substitute for the
Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and theCommittee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety . She is also a member of the Delegation to theEU -Kazakhstan , EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations withTajikistan ,Turkmenistan andMongolia .Education
* 1977: Graduate in
political science and history
* 1980: Graduate in Slavonic studiesCareer
* 1976-1978: Freelance journalist
* 1978-1980: editor attached to the Central Executive Committee of the ÖTV (Public Service, Transport and Communications Workers' Union)
* 1981-1982:Press officer inBonn of the Senator for Federal Affairs of the city of Bremen
* 1983-1986: head of the Bonn office of the Federal Republic's representative for cultural affairs under the Treaty on Franco-German Cooperation
* 1986-1987: International and European affairs officer in the state chancellery ofNorth Rhine-Westphalia
* 1987-1994: organisation and management of the Land of Bremen'soffice inBrussels for liaison with the European Union
* since 1973: Member of the SPD
* since 1998: Member of Bremen SPD Land Executive Committee
* since 1994:Member of the European Parliament
* Member of the United Service Sector Union ver.di (formerly the ÖTV and IG Medien (media workers' union))
* Member of the Workers' Welfare Association (AWO)
* Member of Europa-Union Germany
* Member of Amnesty International and Refugio e.V
* Chairwoman of Nationales Forum Deutschland e.V
* since 2000: within Europa Donna, the European Breast Cancer Coalition"See also:"
European Parliament election, 2004 (Germany) External links
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