Martin Häusling

Martin Häusling
MEP
Member of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office
14 July 2009
ConstituencyGermany
Personal details
Born (1961-03-26) 26 March 1961 (age 63)
Bad Wildungen, Germany
Political party German:
Alliance 90/The Greens
 EU:
The Greens–European Free Alliance
Websitewww.martin-haeusling.eu

Martin Häusling (born 26 March 1961) is a German politician and member of the European Parliament from Germany. He is a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens, part of the European Green Party.[1]

Early life

Before entering politics, Häusling managed his family's 75 hectare organic farm near Kassel.[2]

Political career

Career in state politics

Häusling entered local politics in 1981. He was elected to the Landtag of Hesse in 2003, but he failed to retain his seat at the following election in 2008.

Member of the European Parliament, 2009–present

Although he successfully stood at the subsequent early election in 2009, Häusling resigned his seat shortly afterwards when he was elected to the European Parliament.[3] He has since been serving on the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, where he is his parliamentary group's rapporteur on organic production and labelling of organic products.[4] He also served on the Committee on Budgetary Control between 2009 and 2014.

In addition to his committee assignments, Häusling has been a member of the Parliament's delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly. He is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development,[5] the European Parliament Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals[6] and the MEP Heart Group, a group of parliamentarians who have an interest in promoting measures that will help reduce the burden of cardiovascular diseases (CVD).[7]

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 federal elections, Häusling was part of his party's delegation in the working group on agriculture and nutrition, co-chaired by Till Backhaus, Renate Künast and Carina Konrad.[8]

References

  1. ^ Profile European Parliament
  2. ^ "Martin Häusling: passionate green agricultural politician". organic-market.info. 17 August 2011. Archived from the original on 7 August 2013. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  3. ^ "Wechsel in der Grünen-Fraktion" (in German). Landtag of Hesse. Archived from the original on 13 September 2009. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  4. ^ Emmet Livingstone (June 6, 2017), The German Green who fights to keep pesticides in your organic food Politico Europe.
  5. ^ Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development European Parliament.
  6. ^ Members European Parliament Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals.
  7. ^ Supporters MEP Heart Group.
  8. ^ Britt-Marie Lakämper (October 21, 2021), SPD, Grüne, FDP: Diese Politiker verhandeln die Ampel-Koalition Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.


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