Tobias Pflüger

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Tobias Pflüger, MEP

Tobias Pflüger (born 01 February 1965, Stuttgart) is an MEP for Germany from the political party The Left.

Affiliations

• Vice-Chairman, Delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen
• Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs
• Member, Subcommittee on Security and Defence
• Member, Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
• Substitute, Committee on Development
• Substitute, Delegation for relations with Iran

Record and Controversies

Declaration of Financial Interests

• Nothing to declare.

Record of Parliamentary Votes

Election Campaign 2009

Tobias Pflüger has pledged to all four issues presented by the Election Campaign:

• to provide leadership in lobbying transparency and ethics,
• to provide leadership in reforming financial architecture,
• to promote a full-scale rethink of the EU trade policy,
• to promote corporate accountability.

Personal Information

Curriculum Vitae

• School-leaving certificate, Otto Hahn grammar school, Nagold, 1985.
• Studied politics and empirical cultural affairs at Tübingen.
• Activist in the peace and anti-nuclear movement since the 1980s.
• Personal assistant for two Green Members in the Baden-Württemberg Regional Assembly on anti-nuclear affairs, energy and peace policy from 1989 to 1993.
• In 1996 founded and set up Information Agency on Militarisation (IMI) e.V., IMI Executive member and spokesman at home and abroad.
• Editor of the online magazine IMI-List (approx. 1 000 subscribers).
• Scholarship from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, January-December 2002.
• Active member, attac research committee since late 2002.
• Participated and lectured at European Social Forums in Florence (2002), Paris (2003), London (2004) and the World Social Forum in Mumbai (2004).
• Active member, DFG-VK (German peace association - united opponents of war, http://www.dfg-vk.de).
• Member, BUND (Association for Nature and Environmental Protection).
• Member of VCD (Germany transport club).
• Member, VVN-BdA (Association of Victims of the Nazi regime - Anti-fascist Federation).
• Member, ver.di trade union (Subject area 8 in Baden-Württemberg).
• Member, dai (German-American Institute, Tübingen).
• Executive member, Information Agency on Militarisation e.V.
• Member, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
• Member, Rosa Luxemburg Forum, Baden-Württemberg.
• Spokesman for the Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Rheinland-Pfalz and Saarland PDS regional associations.
• GUE/NGL Group coordinator on Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE).
• Member, European Parliament Peace Initiatives Intergroup.

Contact

Address:

Parlement européen

Bât. Altiero Spinelli

06F266

60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60

B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel

Phone:

+32 (0)2 28 45555

Fax

+32 (0)2 28 49555

Email:

tobias.pflueger@europarl.europa.eu

Website:

http://www.tobias-pflueger.de

Resources

• Election Campaign, Tobias Pflüger, accessed 30 May 2009.
• European Parliament, Erklärung der finanziellen Interessen der Mitglieder: Tobias Pflüger, 20 February 2009, accessed 23 March 2009.
• European Parliament, MEP Directory: Tobias Pflüger, accessed 23 March 2009.