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Sven Schulze (born 31 July 1979 in Quedlinburg, East Germany) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and a member of the European Parliament (European People’s Party).
Political career
In 1997, Schulze joined the CDU and the Junge Union (youth of CDU). He studied industrial engineering at Technical University Clausthal, and then worked as a sales manager in a medium-sized engineering company in Harz. He was a member of the city council of Heteborn and in the county council of Quedlinburg.
Since 2006, Schulze has been a board member of the CDU from Saxony-Anhalt and the chairman of the Junge Union of Saxony-Anhalt. In 2011, he became chairman of the working committee for European affairs of the CDU of Saxony-Anhalt.
In 2014, Schulze was elected to the European Parliament, where he is a member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, the Delegation for Relations with the Mashreq Countries, and the Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly - Union for the Mediterranean. In addition, he serves as a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Biodiversity, Countryside, Hunting and Recreational Fisheries.