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Michael Tscherny PartnerEmail: michaeltscherny@gpluseurope.com Michael has over 20 years of experience in European affairs - as a journalist, an EU official, Spokesman at the Council of Ministers and Spokesman for European Competition Commissioner Mario Monti. Michael’s core expertise is in competition policy and the internal market. At GPlus he advises clients in the food industry, engineering, aviation and the services sector. With his in-depth knowledge of the EU’s decision-making process, including the workings of the inner machinery of the EU institutions, Michael provides strategic advice and direction to companies and industry associations, helping them to resolve complex cases in Brussels. Michael's three-year stint from 1999 to 2002 as EU Competition Spokesman - one of the highest profile jobs in Brussels - spanned a period when mergers, cartels and other anti-trust cases, as well as the control of state subsidies, made headline news on a daily basis. Before joining Monti’s inner team, Michael was Spokesman at the EU Council of Ministers. Over a period of five years, his responsibilities included the internal market and industrial policy, social affairs and the environment. Previously, Michael worked in the Commission's policy units dealing with consumer protection and enterprise policy. Like his fellow Partners at GPlus, Michael began his Brussels career as a journalist when in 1983 he joined the respected daily news sheet “Agence Europe”. There he covered, among other issues, agricultural policy and the accession negotiations with Spain and Portugal. He also worked for the German service of Reuters. Michael has a degree from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Strasbourg and a diploma from the College of Europe in Bruges. With colleague Tim Price, he has taught a seminar on interest representation in the EU at the College of Europe campus in Natolin (Poland). A German national, he is fluent in English and French, but also has a basic knowledge of Dutch and Italian and can understand Spanish and Portuguese. |