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Hans-Peter Martin
Hans-Peter Martin (born 11 August 1957) is an Austrian author and journalist and former politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament between 1999 and 2014.
Born in Bregenz, Austria, Martin graduated from the University of Vienna in 1984. Already by then, he worked for the German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel. 1986, he became an editor, from 1989 he became the foreign correspondent of Der Spiegel, located in Rio de Janeiro. 1996, he become the foreign correspondent for Vienna and Prague. As a freelance writer, he has written and co-authored several popular books, among them the best-selling The Global Trap: Globalization and the Assault on Prosperity and Democracy (Die Globalisierungsfalle, 1996), Bitter Pills (Bittere Pillen) about the pros and cons of pharmaceuticals and The European Trap (Die Europafalle, only available in German but a partial translation is available on Martin's website), an inside analysis of European integration, faults of the European bureaucracy and lobbyism in the EU.
The publishing house Penguin Random House released a new book by Hans-Peter Martin carrying the title Game Over: Wellbeing for the few, Democracy for no one, Nationalism for all – and then? in September 2018."Game over" was shortlisted, together with nine other books, for the best German Economic Book of the year 2018.
Game Over has been subject to numerous reviews:
The German weekly Die Zeit called the book "Discussion inspiring" and wrote that "The book by Hans-Peter Martin is neither scaremongering nor defeatist. It convinces by chaining together a variety of societal phenomena which are rarely combined in popular discourse: the unbroken neoliberal agenda and capital accumulation leading to the breakdown of individual liberties, democracy, and – eventually – war. This is the challenging thesis of the book."
The German newsmagazine Der Spiegel wrote: "The bad news is that the author is likely to be correct in all of his analyses. The good news is that for each game that ends, a new one begins."
In the 1999 European Parliament elections Martin was elected as the independent frontrunner of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPOe). Martin left the European Parliamentary Group of Social Democrats in 2004.
Since then Martin was reelected through his independent candidate list, Hans-Peter Martin's List, in 2004 and 2009.
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Hans-Peter Martin
Hans-Peter Martin (born 11 August 1957) is an Austrian author and journalist and former politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament between 1999 and 2014.
Born in Bregenz, Austria, Martin graduated from the University of Vienna in 1984. Already by then, he worked for the German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel. 1986, he became an editor, from 1989 he became the foreign correspondent of Der Spiegel, located in Rio de Janeiro. 1996, he become the foreign correspondent for Vienna and Prague. As a freelance writer, he has written and co-authored several popular books, among them the best-selling The Global Trap: Globalization and the Assault on Prosperity and Democracy (Die Globalisierungsfalle, 1996), Bitter Pills (Bittere Pillen) about the pros and cons of pharmaceuticals and The European Trap (Die Europafalle, only available in German but a partial translation is available on Martin's website), an inside analysis of European integration, faults of the European bureaucracy and lobbyism in the EU.
The publishing house Penguin Random House released a new book by Hans-Peter Martin carrying the title Game Over: Wellbeing for the few, Democracy for no one, Nationalism for all – and then? in September 2018."Game over" was shortlisted, together with nine other books, for the best German Economic Book of the year 2018.
Game Over has been subject to numerous reviews:
The German weekly Die Zeit called the book "Discussion inspiring" and wrote that "The book by Hans-Peter Martin is neither scaremongering nor defeatist. It convinces by chaining together a variety of societal phenomena which are rarely combined in popular discourse: the unbroken neoliberal agenda and capital accumulation leading to the breakdown of individual liberties, democracy, and – eventually – war. This is the challenging thesis of the book."
The German newsmagazine Der Spiegel wrote: "The bad news is that the author is likely to be correct in all of his analyses. The good news is that for each game that ends, a new one begins."
In the 1999 European Parliament elections Martin was elected as the independent frontrunner of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPOe). Martin left the European Parliamentary Group of Social Democrats in 2004.
Since then Martin was reelected through his independent candidate list, Hans-Peter Martin's List, in 2004 and 2009.