Daniel Cohn-Bendit

The outstanding Green politician Daniel Cohn-Bendit talks about the political situation in Germany, the EU and the world. Where is democracy and the West heading? As a former MEP and one of the leading figures of the European Greens, Cohn-Bendit has many years of political experience at national and European level and puts the world situation into perspective for us. He understands the complexity of the EU institutions and the dynamics between the member states and also takes a look at various social debates, from environmental issues to social and political topics.

Daniel Cohn-Bendit, born in France in 1945, is a Green politician from the very beginning and a publicist. He was a bookseller, founder of a city magazine and head of multicultural affairs in Frankfurt am Main. From 1994 to 2014, he sat in the EU Parliament for the German and French Greens. He has written several books on left-wing politics and Europe.