Hannes Swoboda is an Austrian Member of the European Parliament. He has been a Member of the European Parliament since 1996. In the 2009-2014 institutional term, he was a Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, a substitute Member in the Committee on Energy, Research and Industrial Policies and a Member of the Delegation for the Relations to the United States of America. In 2012 Mr Swoboda was elected President of the group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.