Who runs this blog?
My name is Michael Scharfschwerdt. I am 35 and work as a Political Coordinator for Europagruppe GRÜNE, the delegation of the German Greens in the European Parliament. Originally I come from the federal state Saarland and moved to Berlin in 2000. Since the beginning of 2007 I mainly work in Brussels and Strasbourg. Of course I am Green minded, but in this blog I only publish my own standpoints and not the official positions of the German Greens.
My personal background
After working for a big PR-network in Berlin I was the office manager of the Secretary general of the German Greens for one and a half year. After that in my new function as the director of communication in the headquarter of the German Green party I was responsible for all campaigns of the German Greens, the party website, the corporate design and the party´s member magazine.
Apart from that I also work as a trainer for the academy Greencampus. My main fields of activity are Political communication, campaigning and PR. Since 2005 I arranged several seminars in Germany, but also in other countries like Croatia, Estonia, Serbia, Malta and Israel.