In her daily routine, Heike Raab engages in discussions with members of the cabinets of EU commissioners, serves as the representative of Rhineland-Palatinate in the Conference of European Affairs Ministers and exchanges ideas with mayors, district administrators and state politicians from across the EU in the European Committee of the Regions. All of this has become quite commonplace for Heike Raab. As the State Secretary of the southwestern state, she focuses on „grassroots European policy„, as she calls it.