For her children, Europe is „simply there“, says Katja Adler. „But a peaceful, borderless Europe cannot be taken for granted“. The FDP politician knows this from her own experience: born in 1974, she grew up in Frankfurt an der Oder, in GDR times. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, her horizons expanded, not only to West Germany, but to the whole of Europe. After graduating with a degree in administration, she worked first at the State Office for Food, and later at the Ministry of Education in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.