NAME: Posselt, Bernd.

GERMANY

POLITICAL GROUP: Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats (EPP-ED).

PARTY: Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern eV.

CONSTITUENCY: Germany.

DATE OF LATEST ELECTION: 2009

Committees: Member of Committee on Foreign Affairs; Member of Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee; Substitute, Committee on International Trade; Substitute, Subcommittee on Human Rights; Substitute, Delegation for Relations with the Countries of south-east Europe.

Political Career: Vice-Chairman, the Intergroup on Minority Languages since 2004 and Chairman1996-1998; Member of the European Parliament since 1994; Vice-Chairman, EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee 2002-2004; Vice-Chairman, Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs 1999-2002; Member of the Temporary Committee on Human Genetics 2000-2001.

Profession: Editorial assistant 1974-1976; newspaper editor 1976-1978; freelance journalist, parliamentary assistant, press spokesman and Europe correspondent for dailies and weeklies 1978-1994.

Titles/honours/decorations: Order of Merit, Federal Republic of Germany 1999; Pleter Order of the Republic of Croatia 1999.

Political Affiliations: Member of the CSU Executive since 2000; Federal Chairman of the Sudetendeutschen Landsmannschaft since 2000; President of Paneuropa Union, Germany since 1998; Member of the Co-ordinating Council of the German-Czech Dialogue Forum since 1998; Regional Chairman, Union of Deportees, Bavaria since 1997; Member of the Munich CSU District Executive since 1993; Board Member, International Pan-European Union since 1976; Member of the Diocesan Council of the Archdiocese of Munich 1996-2005; Chairman, München-Moosach CSU and District Vice-Chairman 1993-1997, Founder (1975) and Federal Chairman (until 1990) of Paneuropa-Jugend Germany.

Born: 4 June 1956, Pforzheim.