Karin Jöns
Karin Jöns (born 29 April 1953 in
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
.
She was a substitute for the
Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. She also was a member of the Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia
.
Education
- 1977: politicalscience and history
- 1980: Slavonicstudies
Career
- 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 in Bonn of the Senator for Federal Affairs of the Free Hanseatic 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 of North Rhine-Westphalia
- 1987-1994: organisation and management of Bremen's office in Brussels 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
External links
- Official website
- Personal profile of Karin Jöns in the European Parliament's database of members
- Declaration (PDF) of financial interests (in German)