Udo Bullmann | |
---|---|
![]() Bullmann in 2014 | |
Leader of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats | |
In office 20 March 2018 –1 July 2019 | |
Preceded by | Maria João Rodrigues (acting) |
Succeeded by | Iratxe García |
Acting 31 January 2018 –7 March 2018 | |
Preceded by | Gianni Pittella |
Succeeded by | Maria João Rodrigues (acting) |
Member of the European Parliament for Germany | |
Assumed office 1 July 1999 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Giessen,West Germany (now Germany) | 8 June 1956
Political party | Social Democratic Party |
Education | University of Giessen |
Website | Official website |
Udo Bullmann (born 8 June 1956) is a German politician who has been serving as a member of the European Parliament since 1999. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD),part of the Party of European Socialists. He has been re-elected to serve as a member until 2029.
Udo Bullmann is married and has 3 children.
Bullmann studied political science,sociology,public law,as well as economics. In 1982 he received a M.A. in political science and 1988 the doctorate in social science. From 1989 to 1996 he was a research assistant at the University of Giessen. He held a scholarship of the German Research Council from 1994 to 1997,and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Government at Strathclyde University in Glasgow,Scotland,from 1994 to 1998. The year before being elected to the European Parliament in 1999,he was a university lecturer and Jean Monnet Professor for Studies in European integration at the University of Giessen.
Since his entry into the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1975,Bullmann was mostly engaged with the Young Socialists branch until 1991. He was the chair of the Hesse regional association of the Young Socialists.
In 1999 Bullmann was elected to the European Parliament. From 2003 to 2012,he served as deputy chair of the SPD group in the European Parliament,before taking on the role as its chair from 2012 to 2017.
Bullmann's political work in that position focused on economics and employment,the Lisbon Strategy,the European financial service sector,as well as development politics and regional policy. From 1999 to 2018,he was a member of the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Between 1999 and 2014,he was also a member of Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the EU and African,Caribbean and Pacific states and an alternate member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. In addition to his committee assignments,Bullmann serves as member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Trade Unions [1] and the European Parliament Intergroup on Western Sahara. [2]
In early 2014,the SPD chose Bullmann to be the party list’s number 3 for the 2014 European elections,following Martin Schulz and Birgit Sippel. [3] He also led the German delegation within the S&D Group until 2018.
In March 2018,the S&D Group chose Bullmann as their new leader;he received 86 votes,while his competitor Kathleen Van Brempt got 61 votes. [4] [5] Following the poor performance of his own party in the 2019 elections,Bullmann decided not to run again for the leadership;instead,the position went to Iratxe García. [6] Bullmann subsequently became a member and S&D coordinator of the Committee on Development. In 2020,he also joined the Committee on International Trade. He is also a member in the Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America and the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly. [7] In February 2023,Bullmann was elected chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights following the resignation of the subcommittee's previous chair Maria Arena in January 2023. [8]
In the European Parliament elections 2024 Bullmann was re-elected to the Parliament. He was listed on number 8 of his party's national voting list. [9]
In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the SPD following the 2013 German elections,Bullmann was part of the SPD delegation in the working group on banking regulation and the Eurozone,led by Herbert Reul and Martin Schulz. He also participated in similar negotiations following the 2017 elections. [10]
In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the SPD,the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 federal elections,Bullmann led his party's delegation in the working group on European affairs;his co-chairs from the other parties are Franziska Brantner and Nicola Beer. [11]
Joseph Leinen is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 until 2019. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party,part of the Party of European Socialists.
Peter Liese is a German physician and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 1994. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union,part of the European People's Party.
Iratxe García Pérez is a Spanish politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). She has served as Member of the European Parliament since 2004,and has served as the Leader of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats parliamentary group since 2019.
Constanze Angela Krehl is a German politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994 to 2022. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party,part of the Party of European Socialists.
Kathleen Van Brempt,is a Belgian social-democratic politician and member of Vooruit. She currently serves as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) as part of the Party of European Socialists and is leader of the local branch of her party in Antwerp.
David James McAllister is a German politician who has been a member of the European Parliament since 2014. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union,part of the European People's Party. He is the current vice president of the European People's Party and he is also vice chairman of the International Democrat Union. He was appointed Chair of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee in February 2017.
Élisabeth Morin-Chartier is a French politician of the Agir party who served as Member of the European Parliament for the West France constituency from 2009 European election until 2014. Before joining Agir in 2018,she was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement and the Republicans (LR).
Ismail Ertug is a German politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany from 2009 to 2023. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany,part of the Party of European Socialists.
Bernd Lange is a German politician who has been serving as a member of the European Parliament from Germany. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party,part of the Party of European Socialists.
Petra Kammerevert is a German politician who has been serving as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2009. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany,part of the Party of European Socialists.
Knut Fleckenstein is a German politician and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany,part of the Party of European Socialists.
Jens Geier is a German politician who has been serving as a member of the European Parliament since 2009. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany,part of the Party of European Socialists.
Martin Häusling is a German politician and member of the European Parliament from Germany. He is a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens,part of the European Green Party.
Theresa Reintke is a German politician who has been serving as a member of the European Parliament from Germany since 2014. She is co-president of the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament. She is a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens,part of The Greens–European Free Alliance. From 2011 to 2013 she was the spokesperson of the Federation of Young European Greens.
Kati Piri is a Hungarian-born Dutch politician serving as a member of the House of Representatives since 2021. A member of the Labour Party (PvdA),she previously was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) within the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats from 2014 until 2021.
Tiemo Wölken is a German lawyer and politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 14 November 2016. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party,part of the Party of European Socialists.
Éric Andrieu is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2012 until 2023.
Daniel Freund is a German politician who has been serving as a member of the European Parliament since July 2019. He is a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens at the national level and sits with the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance in the European Parliament.
Moritz Körner is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. He is member of the board of the Free Democratic Party in Germany.
Gabriele Bischoff is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who is serving as a Member of the European Parliament.