As a student, she got her first taste of what cultural exchange means. Today, Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen heads the EU's Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Culture and Sport.
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Get to know the "Top of the Table": the 100 key players in the German-speaking European scene. Selected by the Europe.Table editorial team in ten categories, from politics and administration to consulting, think tanks, foundations and NGOs. Today: the most important personalities from associations. Click here for an overview.
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Andrea Wechsler is running for the European Parliament on a privileged place on the CDU list in the southwest. Gentle pressure from the Women's Union also helped her to achieve this. The 46-year-old is a university teacher and is involved in the CDU's SME and Economic Union.
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Media, culture and education are the topics of MEP Sabine Verheyen. She has just successfully negotiated the Media Freedom Act. The CDU politician will run again in the 2024 European elections.
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At the age of 23, Lena Schilling is entering the EU election campaign as the top candidate for the Austrian Green Party. She is the face of the fight against the climate crisis. In parliament, she wants to promote the mobility transition and, if necessary, ban private jets. Can she also score points on other issues?
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After many years in the Commission, Johannes Laitenberger is now a judge at the European Court of First Instance (CFI). The EU veteran wants to improve the processes between the CFI and the ECJ, and also reduce the burden on the ECJ.
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Barbara Gessler has headed the European Commission Representation in Berlin since March 18. Over the past eleven years, she has been responsible for Creative Europe in various functions. Now she wants to communicate Brussels' policies in Germany – and vice versa.
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Melanie Kühnemann-Grunow is deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives, where she is responsible for European affairs. Europe is often neglected, she says. That is why she is working on a Berlin European strategy.
By Clara Baldus
From pizza delivery boy to key figure in Sánchez's government: Félix Bolaños García is shaping Spain's political landscape with strategic skill and discreet operations.
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Roderick Kefferpütz developed the desire to work in international politics while crossing the Atlantic on a Canadian sailing ship. Since May 2023, he has headed the Heinrich Böll Foundation's office at the European Union in Brussels.
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