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Dr. Katarina Barley has been the Vice President of the European Parliament since 2019 and is a member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, as well as a substitute member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs. She also serves as the European Affairs Commissioner for the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany). She was the lead candidate for the SPD in the European elections in 2019 and 2024. Prior to her role in the European Parliament, she was a member of the German Bundestag from 2013 to 2019. During this time, she served as SPD Secretary General, Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women, and Youth, Acting Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs, as well as Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection.

Before her political career, Dr. Barley, a trained lawyer, worked as an attorney, a research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, and as a judge at the Trier Regional Court and Wittlich Local Court. Social justice, democracy, the rule of law, and a social Europe are core themes of Katarina Barley's political work. Since 2022, she has been the President of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Deutschland (Workers' Samaritan Federation of Germany).

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Macht, Politik und Journalismus - Einblicke aus Brüssel mit Katarina Barley, Vizepräsidentin des Europäischen Parlaments

Mit Katarina Barley and Dr. Roman Rusch

Viele Entscheidungen über politische Rahmenbedingungen werden in Brüssel und Straßburg getroffen. Trotzdem gibt es relativ wenig Berichterstattung aus und über Brüssel im Vergleich zur nationalen Politik. Wie funktioniert die Berichterstattung über die Europäische Union und wo sind blinde Flecken? Warum tun sich viele Medien so schwer, mehr darüber zu berichten und wozu ist das Publikum bereit? Zusammen mit der Vizepräsidentin des Europäischen Parlaments, Katarina Barley, wollen wir diese Fragen diskutieren und damit etwas mehr Licht auf europäische Politik werfen.