Mr. Christian Schmidt analyzes the key points to understanding the geopolitical challenges between Mercosur and the European Union

Christian Smith

• High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1 August 2021
• Former Federal Minister
• Member of the German Bundestag 1990–2021
• Member of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and rapporteur for the Western Balkan States
• Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture from February 17, 2014 to March 14, 2018
• Parliamentary State Secretary of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2013–2014
• Parliamentary State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Defense, 2005–2013
• Spokesperson for the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group on Defence, 2002–2005
• Chairman of the Parliamentary Working Group on Foreign Policy, Defence and European Affairs of the CSU Parliamentary Group, 1991–2002
• Representative of the CSU Parliamentary Group in Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Western Balkans advisory circle, 1992–1998
• Vice President of the CSU, 2011–2017
• President of the German Atlantic Association since 2006
• Vice President of the Hanns Seidel Foundation since 2018
• Lawyer by profession; University of Erlangen and University of Lausanne
• Born in 1957 in Obernzenn (Franconia); married, father of two children

• Federico Pinedo (G20)
• Damian Eduardo Arabia (Honorable Chamber of Deputies of the Nation)
• Marisa Bircher (Specialist in Foreign Trade and International Negotiations)

• Florence Donovan.