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euro|topics has a Europe-wide correspondent network at its disposal. The correspondents read the most important newspapers from Estonia to Portugal daily, and select articles for the press review. This is where you can find the list of correspondent's names, sorted according to countries. You would like to make contact with one of the correspondents? Please contact: eurotopics@bpb.de

Sebastian Becker is euro|topics correspondent in Poland. He lives in Warsaw and writes for the Financial Times Deutschland, VDI-Nachrichten and Polish media such as the private TV station Superstacja.

Annette Birschel is euro|topics correspondent in the Netherlands and the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. She has lived and worked in Amsterdam for 12 years as an independent (radio) journalist for various German media. She has lived in Germany, France, the USA and Switzerland (Geneva).

Peter Bognar is euro|topics correspondent in Hungary. He studied Political Sciences, philosophy and Finno-Ugrian studies in Vienna und Budapest. He is the Hungarian correspondent of the Austrian daily newspaper "Die Presse" and editor of the Hungarian weekly, "Budapester Zeitung". He also works as a translator.

Auksė Bruverienė is euro|topics correspondent in Lithuania. After studying violin and philology she was involved in numerous cultural and educational projects across Europe. Currently a freelance German-Lithuanian interpreter and translator based in Vilnius, Auksė compiled a Lithuanian press review for the German embassy there from 2007 to 2009. She speaks Lithuanian, German, English and Russian.

Nicholas Bukovec is euro|topics correspondent for the UK and Ireland. He studied political science, history and economics in Vienna, Dublin and Limerick. From 1999 to 2011 he worked as a political and international editor for the daily Kurier in Vienna. Since 2011 he has worked in Dublin as a freelance journalist and for an online marketing platform.

Eva Clausen is euro|topics correspondent in Italy. After doing her A-levels, she travelled to Italy and has been living in Rome since 1980. She studied English literature and language and art history in Rome. Since then, she has been employed in these fields: a literary agency, film, theatre and publishers. Since 1995, she has mainly been active as a journalist, among other things for RAI in Italy, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Handelsblatt, Der Standard, Die Zeit – focussing on art and culture, society and travel.

Tom Gebhardt is euro|topics correspondent in Spain. After studying Journalism in Germany and postgraduate studies in politics and philosophy in Bolivia, he then worked in the Goethe Institute, La Paz and then as editor for German-speaking newspapers in Spain for several years. He speaks Spanish, English and Catalan.

Gordan Godec is euro|topics correspondent in Croatia. He studied economics, ethnology and Spanish. He has worked as a freelance journalist and producer for a variety of radio broadcasters, and written and produced numerous TV reportages and documentaries from within and outside Germany for the German public broadcasters ARD and WDR. For the last 13 years he has lived in his native country Croatia, where he works as a stringer for ARD.

Ekrem Eddy Güzeldere is euro|topics correspondent in Turkey. He has lived in Istanbul since 2005. After studying political science in Berlin and doing postgraduate work in Bath, Paris and Madrid, he arrived in Turkey via Brussels and Rome. He works as political analyst for the European Stability Initiative (ESI) and as a freelance journalist for German-, English- and Italian-language media.

Maris Hellrand is euro|topics correspondent in Estonia. While studying political studies and communication in Munich, she worked for Radio Free Europe. Later she worked as a freelance journalist in Korea, England and Singapore. For Tallinn - European Capital of Culture 2011 she was responsible for all international media. Today she also works as a media advisor for festivals and conferences.

Nina Henkelmann is euro|topics correspondent for France and the Francophone communities of Luxembourg, Belgium and Switzerland. She studied Romance languages and literature, cultural studies and communication in Germany and France, and works in media and publicity, language teaching and translation in Germany, France and Italy.

Simon Kamm is euro|topics correspondent in Portugal. He works for the Portuguese news agency LUSA and studied media and communication science as well as journalism in Switzerland and in Portugal.

Claudia Knauer is euro|topics correspondent in Denmark, where she lives with her family. After studying political science, philosophy and public law in Kiel and the United States Claudia worked as a journalist for many years, primarily covering stories dealing with university education and medicine. For the last several years she has been deputy editor of the German-language newspaper Der Nordschleswiger.

Katrin Lechler is euro|topics correspondent in Germany. She studied cultural sciences and Polish philology in Frankfurt on the Oder and Warsaw. From 2001 to 2002 she worked as a cultural assistant for the Institute for International Relations in Poznań and Piła (Poland). Following a period of training at the "Märkische Oderzeitung" newspaper (Frankfurt on the Oder) she worked for the German-Polish magazine "Dialogue" and broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg (RBB).

Dimiter Muftieff is euro|topics correspondent in Bulgaria. A native of Sofia, he studied in Vienna and Hamburg before working as an editor for the Bulgarian national radio. Today he reports from Sofia as freelance print and radio journalist for a variety of German media and n-ost.

Annett Müller is euro|topics correspondent in Rumania. She works as an independent journalist in Bucharest and Leipzig for the ARD and n-ost. She studied journalism and psychology in Leipzig and Edinburgh.

Anne Rentzsch is euro|topics correspondent in Sweden. She has lived in Stockholm since 1994. She's an editor for Radio Sweden, the German Foreign Service for Swedish Radio. She's also working as a translator and as freelance journalist for several radio stations and newspapers in Germany and Austria.

Andrea Roedig is euro|topics correspondent in Austria. After obtaining her degree and PhD in Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin she became the managing director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation's "Green Academy"; from 2001 to 2006 she was the head of the cultural editorial team of the German weekly Freitag. She has lived in Vienna since 2007 and worked among other things for the Institute for Human Sciences there.

Iveta Rozalinska is euro|topics correspondent in Latvia. She studied German language and literature and works as a freelance journalist.

Ksenija Samardzija Matul is euro|topics correspondent in Slovenia. She was born and brought up in Stuttgart, Germany, the child of immigrant workers - a Slovenian mother and Croatian father. She took a degree in English and German studies in Slovenia. She works as a free-lance journalist and news editor in the German and English editorial department at Radio Slovenia International (part of Slovenia's public broadcasting service) in Maribor. She also works as a translator and narrator for short documentaries and presentation films.

Hans-Jörg Schmidt works as correspondent in Slovakia and the Czech Republic for euro|topics and several German-language newspapers, including Die Welt. After studying journalism he moved to Prague, where he has lived since 1990. His book "Tschechien - eine Nachbarschaftskunde für Deutsche" (The Czech RepublicGermany's neighbour to the east) was published in 2006 by Christoph-Links-Verlag.

Nina Schönmeier is euro|topics correspondent in France and the French-speaking parts of Luxembourg, Belgium and Switzerland. Since 2006, she has lived in Montpellier, in the South of France, working as an independent journalist and media analyst. Before this, she worked as a reporter for AP and the Spotlight publishers in Munich, as well as completing a training / studies in journalism at the Deutschen Journalistenschule (German School of Journalism) and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Anna Schwarz is euro|topics correspondent in France, covering Francophone media from France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Switzerland. Previously stationed in the US, Spain and the Netherlands, she has been a freelance journalist in Paris since 2007, for Arte among other media. After completing her masters in literature, Romance languages and the history of art, she studied journalism at the Sorbonne.

Claudius Technau is euro|topics correspondent in Finland. After studying journalism and political science he moved to Helsinki in 1995, where he works as a translator and freelance journalist for the Berliner Zeitung, Spiegel magazine, the German broadcaster NDR and APA news agency.

Dieter Weiand is euro|topics correspondent in Sweden. He has lived in front of the gates of Stockholm since 1994. Over the past years, he has been the Chief Editor for Radio Sweden, the German Foreign Service for Swedish Radio. He has done independent work since January of this year.

Chrissi Wilkens is euro|topics correspondent in Greece and Cyprus. She is half-Greek and studied sociology in Munich. Since 2003, she has been working as a journalist in Athens; among other things for the weekly newspaper "Investor's World", the magazine "Diplomatia" and other Greek media.

Sara Winter Sayilir is euro|topics correspondent for German-speaking Switzerland and Austria and lives in Basel. She trained as a journalist with the Zenith magazine, which focuses on the Arab region, while studying Turkology, Islamic studies and politics in Berlin and Baku/Azerbaijan. After two years in culture management the North German journalist now works for the WOZ weekly in Zurich and is also a member of the Hauptwerk journalist network and an editor for Zenith.