Johannes Voggenhuber is an Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n politician and former Member of the European Parliament

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 for the Austrian Green Party

Austrian Green Party

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, which is part of the European Greens. He is vice president of the parliament's Constitutional Affairs Commission.

From 1982 to 1987, he was member of the city council in Salzburg

Salzburg

-Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for...

. From 1988 to 1992, he was federal spokesman

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 for the Austrian Greens, and between 1990 and 1996, Member of the National Council of Austria

National Council of Austria

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 (Nationalrat). From 1995 to 2009 he was Member of the European Parliament

Member of the European Parliament

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.

He is married and has two children.

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