Eva Maria Bulling-Schröter (born 22 February 1956) is a German

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and member of German

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party. Bulling-Schröter was born in

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. After attending Gymnasium from 1966 to 1974, she did a training as a

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from 1979 to 1981. She had been a Member of the DKP since 1974 before she joined the PDS in 1990 which merged into

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in 2007. Since 2000, she is a spokesperson of her party in

. Bulling-Schröter was a member of the Bundestag from 1994 to 2002 and again from 2005 to 2017. "The only true worker in the Bundestag", she continued working after she was a member.

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