Catherine Bearder MEP

Catherine is well-known all over the South East  of England as a passionate campaigner and hard-working activist. After a career in the voluntary sector, raising three sons and campaigning throughout the  region on social justice and rural issues, she has the perfect experience to make Europe greener, more liberal and more democratic .

A former Lib Dem councillor, twice European candidate and twice parliamentary candidate, she has campaigned on social justice and rural issues, with a particular interest in tackling homelessness, social exclusion and environmental protection.
She was vice-president of the Green Liberal Democrats; she is the Vice-Chair of the Lib Dem European Group and is a member of the ELDR council delegation.

Catherine looks forward to championing the issues of energy and the environment in the European Parliament.

Catherine sits on the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and is a substitute Member of the Committee on International Trade.
 

Filip Kaczmarek MEP

Filip Kaczmarek was born in Poznań, graduated from the History Department at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and in 2005 earned a PhD in Political Sciences at Adam Mickiewicz University.

From 1998 to 2002 Filip Kaczmarek was the Councillor and Deputy Leader of Poznań City Council. In 2003 he created the European Funds Bureau in Poznań City Council becoming its first director. Since 2010 he has been the head of Civic Platform in Poznań.

For several years Filip Kaczmarek has been concerned with European matters. When he was a member of the Sejm in 1992 he postulated that Poland should apply for complete membership in the European Communities. In 1996 Filip Kaczmarek was a co-initiator of International Youth Centre in Mikuszewo. Until 2007 he was the Chairman of the Independent Initiatives Association. The Association organized among other things the European Youth Meeting (Poznań 2003). In 1996 he received a scholarship from The German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Filip is a Member of the International Development Committee in the European Parliament, and sits on the Delegation for relations with the Pan African Parliament and the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

Norbert Neuser MEP

Norbert Neuser studied in Koblenz at the University of Koblenz-Landau to  teach  primary and secondary  mathematics , sports and politics. Since 1986, he held the position of headmaster, most recently  at the Fritz-Strassmann-school Boppard. Since 2009 when Neuser was elected to the European Parliament, he gave up his job as a teacher and Director of the Boppard school.

Norbert has been involved in  international development work for decades starting with his involvement with Social Democratic Party of Germany (SDP) from 1972 and the Young Socialists,1982-4. Norbert Neuser has extensive international connections, which have mostly resulted from relief projects, including to South Africa and in Eastern European countries.

Between 1982 and 1986 he was co-organizer of youth meetings and meetings with Hungary, the Soviet Union and East Germany before the turn of 1989. Since 2006 he has been the chairman of the One World Forum, which advises the SPD on issues of globalization, peace and development policy.

Norbert is a Member of the International Development Committee and sits on the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. He is also a Substitute on the Committee for Foreign Affairs and the Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament.