Daniel Cohn-Bendit
Function
Co-President
of the
Greens / EFA group
Co-President
of the
Bureau
Country
France
Party
Europe Ecologie - Les Verts
Committee
- Substitute Member of the Commitee Foreign Affairs
Assistants
Biography
- 1965 advanced school leaving certificate at the Odenwaldschule, then studies in sociology at the University of Nanterre (Paris)
- 1968 leader and spokesperson in the May riots in Paris, ban of residence in France (until 1978)
- Participation in the Sponti-mouvement in Frankfurt (practising a social revolution by squatting and agitation), publisher and editor of the magazine "Pflasterstrand" ("paving beach")
- Since 1984 member of the Green party
- 1989 honorary city councillor for the office for multi-cultural affairs in Frankfurt
- Since 1994 Member of the European Parliament (representing successively France and Germany)
- Member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and a member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, President of the delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-2002)
- Since 2002 Co-president of the Greens/Free European Alliance group
Recent activities
- EventMeeting today's challenges
- MediaFuture of Europe
- Press releaseElections in France and Greece
- Press releaseOffener Brief von Cohn-Bendit und Harms
- Press releaseEU staff regulation reforms
- NewsGreens/EFA Round-up
- EventCo-Presidents' session briefing
- DocumentNo arms for Assad! Cyprus and Germany - Ensure respect of EU arms embargo
- NewsGreens/EFA Round-up
- Press releaseEuro rescue fund
For more information:
Websites
Brussels
European Parliament
ASP 08G205
Rue Wiertz
B- 1047 Brussels
European Parliament
ASP 08G205
Rue Wiertz
B- 1047 Brussels
Tel.: +32-2-2845498
Fax: +32-2-2849498
Strasbourg
European Parliament
LOW T 06 002
Allée du Printemps- B.P. 1024/F
F-67070 Strasbourg Cedex
European Parliament
LOW T 06 002
Allée du Printemps- B.P. 1024/F
F-67070 Strasbourg Cedex
Tel.: +33-3-88175498
Fax: +33-3-88179498
