Ursula Stenzel is an Austrian politician

Politics of Austria

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 and was a Member of the European Parliament

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 until 2006. She is a member of the Austrian People's Party

Austrian People's Party

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, a member of the bureau of the European People's Party

European People's Party

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, and sits on the European Parliament

European Parliament

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's Committee on Foreign Affairs.

She is also chair of the delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula

Korea

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, a member of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, and a substitute for the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.

Stenzel has been Bezirksvorsteherin of Innere Stadt

Innere Stadt

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 since 2005.

Family

Stenzel was born in a Catholic family of Jewish descent. Her father was engineer of the North railway. Her mother was the daughter of a rabbi and chazzan in the Rotensterngasse, Leopoldstadt.

Career

• Studied journalism, political science and modern history
• Journalist and presenter at ORF
  ORF (broadcaster)
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   (1972-1999)
• Member of the European Parliament
• Delegation member, EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (1997-2002)
• Delegation Chair, EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-2004)
• Schuman Prize

Controversy

Stenzel has been criticised by local and national artists for her conservative positions and most notably for her outspoken support of a closing hour in Vienna's 1'st district ("Innere Stadt"). This culminated in a satirical video which covered the Duck Sauce

Duck sauce

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 hit

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 "Barbra Streisand"

Barbra Streisand (song)

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. This video beacame known as Ursula Stressned (Ursula don't stress) and gained wide popularity within days and became a youtube

YouTube

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 fad

FAD

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External links

• European Parliament archive
• Declaration of financial interests
  Declaration of financial interests
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   (in German; PDF
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