Martin Schulz

Martin Schulz is President of the European Parliament and has been elected by the Party of European Socialists as candidate to the next EC Presidency. He is a German politician and a member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Since 2004 he is the leader of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament and since 2009 he is the SPD’s European coordinator, responsible for improving cooperation within the party between the EU and the national levels. He is also a member of the cross-party organisation Europa-Union Deutschland.