Thomas Schmid
Thomas Schmid (b. 1945) has been chief editor of the Welt Group since 2008 and its publisher since 2010. In the 60s/70s he was part of Frankfurt's student movement and along with Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Joschka Fischer one of the founders of the “Revolutionary Struggle” group of socialist students.
The Hungarian government and the Finnish electorate have demonstrated a desire to break with the European consensus. One of the reasons for this crisis could well be that member states are constantly told that there is absolutely no alternative to the European project.