Eu parliament president martin schulz biography
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Biography
Martin Schulz was born on 20 December in Hehlrath, now Eschweiler, near the Dutch-Belgian border.
Eu parliament president martin schulz biography
After his training as a bookseller he founded his own bookshop and specialised in political literature. He joined the SPD at the age of 19 and was elected mayor of his hometown Würselen in He would be re-elected to this office three times.
In June , Schulz became a Member of the European Parliament.
He became President of the SPD Group, later also as Chairman of the Socialist Group and the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D Group). In , he was elected President of the European Parliament and the first and so far only President of Parliament to be re-elected, as he was in For his special achievements in strengthening Parliament, he was awarded the Charlemagne Prize for Democratic Legitimation in the EU in
After 23 years of work in the European Parliament, Schulz became the Federal Party Chairma