Michael Roth (politician)
Michael Roth (politician) (politician) | |
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Born | 24 August 1978 |
Alma mater | Goethe University Frankfurt |
Member of | American Council on Germany/Young Leaders/2004, Paley Media Council |
Michael Helmut Roth is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who has been a member of the German Bundestag since 27 September 1998.
From 2013 to 2021 Michael Roth was Minister of State for Europe at the German Federal Foreign Office in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. From January 2014 to 2021 he was the German government's Commissioner for Franco-German Cooperation.[1]
In March 2024, Roth announced that he would not stand in the 2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.
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Visiting Ukraine
Since 2021, Michael Roth has been chairing the Committee on Foreign Affairs, succeeding Norbert Röttgen. In this capacity, he visited Ukraine shortly after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine with Anton Hofreiter and Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, the chairs of parliament's European Affairs and Defence Committees respectively.[2]
Praising Georgia
In May 2024, on a visit to Georgia, Michael Roth said:
- "Tbilisi is the true capital of Europe, and we are all proud of you. Your fight is our fight. And you can expect more from us than just the lip services", Chairman of the German Bundestag’s Foreign Affairs Committee @MiRo_SPD said at the rally on Rustaveli avenue which he addressed together with his colleagues from Lithuania and the Czech Republic.[3]
Path of ruination
On 15 May 2024, Scott Ritter posted on X:
- Today Ukraine lies in ruins.
- Now he has turned his sights on Georgia.
- Thank God for Georgian Dream and the new transparency law.
Event Participated in
Event | Description |
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Bundestag/Members who proposed mandatory Covid jab | In 2022, these members of the Bundestag voted to make Covid jabs mandatory in Germany, to be enforced with punitive fines. The proposal failed. |
References
- ↑ "Progressive European ministers call for a Europe with strong social rights"
- ↑ "Strains in German coalition as junior partners turn on Scholz over Ukraine"
- ↑ "Tbilisi is the true capital of Europe, and we are all proud of you. Your fight is our fight."
- ↑ "Michael Roth helped spearhead Germany’s suicidal support for Ukraine"
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