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Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann | |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
| In office 1 July 2004 – 2019 | |
| Constituency | Germany |
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| Born | Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann (1955-01-23)23 January 1955 (age 70) Berlin, Germany |
| Political party |  GermanSocial Democratic Party  EUParty of European Socialists |
| Alma mater | University of Berlin |
| Website | www |
Dr.Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann (born 23 January 1955) is a German politician who served as aMember of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 to 2009, and from 2014 to 2019. She is a member of theSocial Democratic Party, part of theParty of European Socialists.
Kaufmann is a qualified Japanologist. She was Deputy Chairman of the PDS 1993–2000 and sat in theVolkskammer of theGerman Democratic Republic beforereunification and theBundestag thereafter.
From 20 July 2004 to January 2007 Kaufmann served as one of the 14Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament.
On 14 May 2009 she left the Left Party after she failed to be reselected for the list of candidates for the European elections and joined theSocial Democrats.
Kaufmann is member of the executive board ofEuropa-Union Deutschland, the German section of theUnion of European Federalists.[1]
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