Early beginnings In 1997, Schulze joined the CDU and the
Junge Union (youth of CDU). He was a member of the
city council of
Heteborn and in the
county council of Quedlinburg. Since 2006, Schulze has been a board member of the CDU Sachsen-Anhalt and the
chairman of the Junge Union of Saxony-Anhalt. In 2011, he became chairman of the
working committee for
European affairs of the CDU Sachsen-Anhalt.
Member of the European Parliament, 2014–2021 In May 2014, Schulze was elected to the
European Parliament. There, he served as vice-chair of the
Committee on Transport and Tourism from 2019. He was previously a member of the
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (2017-2019) and of the
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. In addition to his committee assignments, Schulze was part of the parliament's delegations for relations with the
Mashreq Countries, the
Parliamentary Assembly - Union for the Mediterranean and with the countries of
Southeast Asia and the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (since 2021). He also served as a member of the
European Parliament Intergroup on
Artificial Intelligence and Digital. and the European Parliament Intergroup on Biodiversity, Countryside, Hunting and Recreational Fisheries.
Career in state politics Since 2021, Schulze has been serving as chairman of the CDU Saxony-Anhalt. As one of the state's representatives at the
Bundesrat since 2021, Schulze served on the Committee on Agriculture and Consumer Protection and the Committee on Economic Affairs. He was a member of the 'German-Russian Friendship Group' set up by the Bundesrat and the
Russian Federation Council (dissolved 8 April 2022, six weeks after Russia had begun its illegal
war of aggression against Ukraine). On 13 February 2022, Schulze was a delegate to the
Federal Convention for the purpose of
electing the President of Germany. ==Political positions==