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.
By Redaktion Table
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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Florian Bieberbach represents 1,500 European municipal utilities at the EU in Brussels. The Chairman of the Management Board of Münchner Stadtwerke does not want to arrange backroom deals but rather straighten out unworldly regulations
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Morten Petersen still has drumsticks scattered around the house. However, he decided to pursue a political career decades ago. As an EU parliamentarian, he has been helping to shape European climate and energy policy for ten years.
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These are not easy times for his industry: Pierre Gröning, chief lobbyist for the German chemical industry in Brussels, complains about high energy prices and worries about Europe's competitiveness. He has clear words on the Green Deal.
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Kerstin Maria Rippel has been Managing Director of the German Steel Federation for ten months. She wants to make the industrial sector more sustainable, in the midst of a crisis of all things.
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In a surprise move, Emmanuel Macron has appointed politician Jean-Marie Bockel as his personal Africa envoy. The French president apparently wants to send a strong signal in French-speaking Africa.
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SPD politician and European Parliament Vice-President Katarina Barley is her party's lead candidate for the 2024 European elections. In the election campaign, she wants to defend Europe against the right and show people what an AfD or Le Pen election victory would mean.
By Markus Grabitz
