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MEP ret. Dr. Hannes Swoboda
Vienna

Member of the board: Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue (Vienna),
A Soul for Europe (Berlin)

Vice-President of Institute for International Peace (Vienna)

Senior Fellow of Mercator Foundation (Sabanci University Istanbul)

Member of the European Council for Foreign Affairs

 

10.11.1946 Born in Bad Deutsch Altenburg

 

EDUCATION

1964-1972 University of Vienna

Doctor of Laws (LLD)

MA in Economics

 

VIENNESE POLITICS

1972-1986 Vienna Chamber of Labour

1972 Department of Economic Affairs (responsible for finance and environmental policy)

1976-1986 Director of the newly founded Department for municipal, economic, health and housing policy

1983-1994 Local government

1983-1988 Member of the Vienna Assembly and Municipal Council

1986-1988 Socialist Group coordinator in the Vienna Assembly and Municipal Council

1988-1994 Municipal councillor responsible for:

1988 urban development, urban planning and staff

1991 urban development, urban planning and transport

1994 urban development, urban planning and external relation of the City of Vienna

 

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

1996-June 2014 Member of the European Parliament

Member of different comities including Foreign Affairs Comity

S&D Group Functions:

2012-June 2014 resident of S&D Group

1996-2012 Vice-President of S&D Group

 

AUSTRIAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY SPÖ

since 1971 Austrian Social Democratic Party Member

1978-1983 District councilor

1988-2011 Chairman of the Meidling district

1986-1988 Socialist Group coordinator in the Vienna Assembly and Municipal Council

since 1989 Member of the Vienna SPÖ Executive Board

1995-2010 Responsible for education programs of the SPÖ

since 1997 Member of the SPÖ Federal Executive Board

 

PUBLICATIONS

Fischmann, Lothar, Hannes Swoboda and Arnold Klotz, comp. and ed. Wien erfahren. Vienna: Springer Verlag, 1996.

Flasikova-Benova, Monika, Hannes Swoboda and Jan Marinus Wiersma, comp. and ed. Roma: A European Minority

The Challenge of Diversity. Brussels: S&D Group, 2011.

Häupl, Michael and Hannes Swoboda comp. and ed. Bleibt Wien Wien? Vienna: Falter Verlag, 1995.

Klima, Viktor, Susan Ness, Hannes Swoboda and Franz Vranitzky. The Hidden Agenda of the Information Society:

Global Trends and Local Choices. Vienna: Studien Verlag, 1997.

Swoboda, Hannes. OUR D’EUROPE Ein europäisches Tagesbuch. Vienna: Own publication, published quarterly.

Swoboda, Hannes and Jan Marinus Wiersma, comp. and ed. Politics of the Past: The Use and Abuse of History. Brussels: SPE-Group, 2009.

Swoboda, Hannes and Jan Marinus Wiersma, comp. and ed. Peace and Disarmament: A World without Nuclear Weapons? Brussels: SPE-Group, 2009.

Swoboda, Hannes and Jan Marinus Wiersma, comp. and ed. Democracy, Populism and Minority Rights. Brussels:SPE-Group, 2008.

Swoboda, Hannes and Christophe Solioz, comp. and ed. Conflict and Renewal: Europe Transformed. Essays in

Honour of Wolfgang Petritsch. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2007.

Swoboda, Hannes. Der Schlossplatz in Berlin. Bilanz einer Debatte. Berlin: B & S Siebenhaar, 2002.

Swoboda, Hannes. Tour d’Europe. Etappen auf dem Weg zu einem neuen Europa. Klagenfurt/Celovec:Wieser-Verlag, 2002.

Swoboda, Hannes. Europatagebuch 1999/2000: An den Grenzen Europas. Vienna: Zukunftswerkstätte und Kulturwerkstätte, 2000.

Swoboda, Hannes. Mein Europa. Auf der Suche nach Sicherheit und Freiheit. Vienna: ECHO-Verlag, 1999.

Angerer, Bernhard, Manfred Buchinger, Ulli Knes and Hannes Swoboda. Buchinger Kocht Europa. Vienna:Echomedia, 1998.

Swoboda, Hannes, comp. and ed. WIEN. IDENTITÄT UND STADTGESTALT. Vienna: Böhlau, 1990.

HANNES SWOBODA ONLINE

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