Tobias Pflüger

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Tobias Pflüger (born on 1 February 1965 in Stuttgart) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Party of Democratic Socialism, part of the European Left and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.

He is a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, substitute for the Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee.

[edit] Education

1985: School-leaving certificate, Otto Hahn grammar school, Nagold
Studied politics and empirical cultural affairs at Tübingen
Activist in the peace and anti-nuclear movement since the 1980s
from 1989 to 1993: Personal assistant for two Green Members in the Baden-Württemberg Regional Assembly on anti-nuclear affairs, energy and peace policy
In 1996 founded and set up Information Agency on Militarisation (IMI) e.V., IMI Executive member and spokesman at home and abroad
Editor of the online magazine IMI-List (approx
1 000 subscribers)
2002: Scholarship from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, January-December
2002: Active Member of the attac research committee since late
2004: Participated and lectured at European Social Forums in Florence (2002), Paris (2003), London (2004) and the World Social Forum in Mumbai
Active Member of the DFG-VK (German peace association - united opponents of war, http://www.dfg-vk.de)
Member of the BUND (Association for Nature and Environmental Protection)
Member of VCD (Germany transport club)
Member of the VVN-BdA (Association of Victims of the Nazi regime - Anti-fascist Federation)
Member of the ver.di trade union (Subject area 8 in Baden-Württemberg)
Member of the dai (German-American Institute, Tübingen)
Executive member Information Agency on Militarisation e.V.
Member of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
Member of the Rosa Luxemburg Forum, Baden-Württemberg
Spokesman for the Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Rheinland-Pfalz and Saarland PDS regional associations
GUE/NGL Group coordinator on Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
Member of the European Parliament Peace Initiatives Intergroup