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'''Karoline Edtstadler''' (born 28 March 1981) is an Austrian lawyer and politician who has served as minister for the EU and the Constitution at the [[Chancellery (Austria)|Austrian Chancellery]] in the governments of [[Chancellor of Austria|Chancellors]] [[Sebastian Kurz]], [[Alexander Schallenberg]] and [[Karl Nehammer]] since 2020. A member of the [[Austrian People's Party]] (ÖVP), she previously served as a State Secretary at the [[Ministry of the Interior (Austria)|Ministry of the Interior]] from 2017 to 2019 and a [[Member of the European Parliament]] (MEP) from 2019 until 2020.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://salzburg.orf.at/news/stories/2884313/|title=Salzburgerin Edtstadler neue Staatssekretärin|date=2017-12-16|access-date=2018-06-12|language=de-DE}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Key dates ahead|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/elections-press-kit/0/key-dates-ahead |publisher=European Parliament |accessdate=28 May 2019 |language=en |date=20 May 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Key dates ahead|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48365702|publisher=BBC News |accessdate=28 May 2019 |language=en |date=22 May 2017}}</ref>

== Early life and career ==
Edtstadler is the daughter of former director of the Salzburg state [[Landtag|provincial parliament]] Karl W. Edtstadler, and was raised in [[Elixhausen]] in the [[Salzburg-Umgebung District|Salzburg-Umgebung]] district.<ref name=":0" /> She attended elementary school in Elixhausen and went on to the Salzburg Fine Arts Grammar School. Edtstadler studied law at the [[University of Salzburg]] and graduated in 2004 with a [[Magister degree|magistra]] degree. Court internships at the [[Mondsee (town)|Mondsee]] district court and at the Salzburg Regional Court followed. In 2006 she became a judge's candidate at the higher regional court of [[Linz]] and in 2008 she became a judge at the Salzburg regional court.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.kleinezeitung.at/politik/innenpolitik/5339536/Karoline-Edtstadler_Salzburger-Richterin-als-Staatssekretaerin-im|title=Karoline Edtstadler: Salzburger Richterin als Staatssekretärin im Innenministerium|work=www.kleinezeitung.at|access-date=2018-06-12|language=de}}</ref>

In 2010, Edtstadler passed relatively heavy sentences on two upstanding brothers, who had been charged with injuring a police officer at a demonstration against the asylum policy of minister of the interior [[Maria Fekter]]. The higher regional court of Linz reversed the judgements in significant points, as even the public prosecutor considered the sentences to be too heavy.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.sn.at/politik/innenpolitik/karoline-edtstadler-salzburgerin-ist-oevp-staatssekretaerin-im-innenministerium-21802297|title=Karoline Edtstadler - Salzburgerin ist ÖVP-Staatssekretärin im Innenministerium|last=Nachrichten|first=Salzburger|access-date=2018-06-12|language=de}}</ref> The president of the regional court Hans Rathgeb praised Edtstadler's work at the court: "She was a very goal-oriented and experienced judge".<ref name=":0" />

In October 2011, Edtstadler moved to Section IV (Criminal Law) in the [[Ministry of Justice (Austria)|Ministry of Justice]]. From 2014, she was a personal expert in the cabinet of Minister of Justice [[Wolfgang Brandstetter]], where she was involved in the reform of the criminal code and of criminal law relating to young offenders. In early 2015, she became Senior Prosecutor at the Vienna Corruption Prosecutor's Office, while she remained assigned to the Ministry of Justice. From May 2016 she was a legal employee at the [[European Court of Human Rights]] (ECHR) in [[Strasbourg]].<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" />

== Political career ==
===Career in national politics===
From 2004 to 2006, Edtstadler served as councilor in [[Henndorf am Wallersee]] for the [[Austrian People's Party|ÖVP]].

From 2017 until 2019, Edtstadler served as secretary of state in the Austrian [[Ministry of the Interior (Austria)|Ministry of the Interior]], in the government of [[Chancellor of Austria|Chancellor]] [[Sebastian Kurz]].<ref name=":2" /><ref>Joanna Plucinska and Laurens Cerulus (August 29, 2018), [https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-nears-boiling-point-on-technology-austria-digital-single-market/ Austrians race to wrap up digital single market] ''[[Politico Europe]]''.</ref>

===Member of the European Parliament, 2019–2020===
In the [[2019 European Parliament election]], Edtstadler was number two on her party's list, following [[Othmar Karas]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Weisskircher |first1=Manès |title=The European Parliament elections: Trouble in paradise for Austria’s right-wing government? |url=https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2019/02/25/the-european-parliament-elections-trouble-in-paradise-for-austrias-right-wing-government/ |website=European Politics and Policy |publisher=The London School of Economics and Political Science |accessdate=25 May 2019}}</ref> As [[Member of the European Parliament]], she served on the [[Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs]] and on the [[Subcommittee on Human Rights]]. Within the centre-right [[European People's Party Group]] (EPP), she led the ÖVP delegation.

===Return to national politics===
Since 2020, Edtstadler has been serving as minister for the EU and the Constitution at the Austrian [[Chancellery (Austria)|Chancellery]] in the government of [[Chancellor of Austria|Chancellor]] [[Sebastian Kurz]]. In addition, she has been co-chairing of the [[European People's Party|EPP European Affairs Ministers Meeting]] (alongside [[Helen McEntee]]), which gathers the center-right EPP ministers ahead of meetings of the [[General Affairs Council]] (GAC).<ref>[https://www.epp.eu/structure/ministerial-meetings/ Council of the EU and Ministerial meetings] [[European People’s Party]] (EPP).</ref>

In 2022, [[United Nations Secretary-General]] [[António Guterres]] appointed Edtstadler to serve on his inaugural [[Internet Governance Forum]] (IGF) Leadership Panel.<ref>[https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/personnel-appointments/2022-08-16/internet-governance-forum-leadership-panel%C2%A0 Internet Governance Forum Leadership Panel] [[United Nations]], press release of 16 August 2022.</ref>

== Personal life ==
Edtstadler has a son and lives in Salzburg.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

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