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{{Short description|German politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Michaele Schreyer
| image = Flickr - boellstiftung - Michaele Schreyer.jpg
| office = [[European Commissioner for Budget and Administration|European Commissioner for Budget]]
| president = [[Romano Prodi]]
| term_start = 1999
| term_end = 2004
| predecessor = [[Erkki Liikanen]]
| successor = [[Marcos Kyprianou]]
| office5 = State Minister for Urban Development of Berlin
| chancellor5 =
| term_start5 = 2000
| term_end5 = 2004
| predecessor5 =
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|08|09|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Cologne]], [[West Germany]]
| death_date =
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| alma_mater = [[University of Cologne]]
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| caption = Schreyer in 2010
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'''Michaele Schreyer''' (born 9 August 1951) is a German politician of [[Alliance 90/The Greens]] who served as a [[European Commissioner]] from September 1999 to November 2004, holding the [[European Commissioner for Financial Programming and the Budget|budget portfolio]].
==Education==
Schreyer wrote her doctoral thesis on tax federalism at the [[University of Cologne]].<ref>[http://www.politico.eu/article/the-make-up-of-prodis-team/ The make-up of Prodi’s team] ''[[European Voice]]'', 14 July 1999.</ref>
==Political career==
Schreyer is co-author (with [[Lutz Mez]]) of the publication "ERENE - European Community for Renewable Energy".▼
From 1983 until 1987, Schreyer worked as an advisor on financial policy to the Green Party's parliamentary group in the [[Bundestag]].<ref name="auto">[http://www.politico.eu/article/mistress-of-her-brief/ Mistress of her brief] ''[[European Voice]]'', 26 April 2000.</ref>
In 1989, Schreyer was appointed State Minister for Urban Development in the government of [[Governing Mayor of Berlin|Governing Mayor]] [[Walter Momper]] of [[Berlin]].<ref name="auto"/> In the 1990 state elections, she was elected to the [[Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin]]. Between 1995 and 1997, she served as chairwoman of the Sub-Committee on Public Housing.<ref name="auto"/> In 1998, she assumed the leadership of the Green Party's parliamentary group, alongside [[Renate Künast]].<ref>[http://www.politico.eu/article/germanys-urban-cowgirl/ Germany’s urban cowgirl] ''[[European Voice]]'', 31 January 2001.</ref>
===European Commissioner, 2000–2004===
In 2000, Germany's [[Chancellor of Germany|Chancellor]] [[Gerhard Schröder]] nominated Schreyer, alongside [[Günter Verheugen]], as one of two German members of the [[European Commission]] under President [[Romano Prodi]]. In the [[Prodi Commission]], Schreyer took on an enlarged portfolio for control of the 80 billion euro ($83.73 billion) [[budget of the European Union]].<ref>Geoff Winestock (1 September 1999), [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB936134956861359332 European Union Budget Nominee Vows to Fight Fraud, Recover Funds] ''[[Wall Street Journal]]''.</ref>
During Schreyer's time in office, the European Commission filed a high-profile civil lawsuit in the United States against [[Philip Morris International]] and [[R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company]] seeking damages for what it called their involvement with organized crime in smuggling cigarettes into Europe.<ref>Suzanne Daley (7 November 2000), [https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/07/us/europeans-suing-big-tobacco-in-us.html European Commission Sues Big Tobacco In US] ''[[New York Times]]''.</ref> By 2004, Schreyer and Philip Morris had negotiated a [[Settlement (litigation)|settlement]] under which the company agreed to pay about $1 billion over 12 years.{{citation needed|date=October 2019}}
==Other activities==
* [[European Youth Parliament|European Youth Parliament – Germany]], Member of the Board of Trustees<ref>[https://eyp.de/en/board-of-trustees Board of Trustees] [[European Youth Parliament|European Youth Parliament – Germany]].</ref>
* [[European Movement Germany]], Vice President
* [[Schwarzkopf Foundation]], Member of the Board<ref>[http://schwarzkopf-stiftung.de/about/vorstand/ Members of the Board] Schwarzkopf Foundation.</ref>
* [[Heinrich Böll Foundation]], Member of the Supervisory Board (2007–2014)
▲Schreyer is co-author (with [[Lutz Mez]]) of the publication "ERENE
==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://ec.europa.eu
* [http://www.boell.de/ecology/climate/climate-energy-5543.html ERENE
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