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Hannes Swoboda is a former Member of the European Parliament..
Hannes Swoboda
Austrian politician
Hannes Swoboda (born 10 November 1946) is an Austrian social democratic politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1996 until 2014.
Within the Parliament, he represents the Social Democratic Party of Austria and from January 2012 to June 2014, he was also the president of the group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.[1]
Career
Career in local politics
After studying law and economics at the University of Vienna, Swoboda worked in the Vienna Chamber of Labour (1971–86) and was director of the department for urban policies and housing policy.
While the restaurant-loving Swoboda is no class warrior, he has bedrock left-wing convictions, old-fashioned rhetoric and a deep concern for social justice.
Swoboda also held a number of different functions within the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ). From 1983, he was a member of the municipal council and member of the city council of Vienna. In 1988 he became municipal councillor, regional minister, responsible for urban development, planning, transport and external relations.
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