Kati Piri | |
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Member of the House of Representatives | |
Assumed office 31 March 2021 | |
Member of the European Parliament | |
In office 1 July 2014 –31 March 2021 | |
Constituency | Netherlands |
Personal details | |
Born | Celldömölk,Hungary | 8 April 1979
Political party | Dutch: Labour Party EU: Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats |
Alma mater | University of Groningen |
Website | www |
Kati Piri (born 8 April 1979) is a Hungarian-born Dutch politician serving as a member of the House of Representatives since 2021. A member of the Labour Party (PvdA),she previously was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) within the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats from 2014 until 2021. [1]
Piri was born in on 8 April 1979 in Celldömölk,Hungary. She went to the Christelijk Gymnasium (Christian Gymnasium,Dutch type grammar school with classical languages) in Utrecht between 1991 and 1997. Piri studied the first years of pedagogy at the University of Groningen between 1998 and 2000 and then switched to international relations,graduating in 2007. [2] During her studies,she briefly interned with Frans Timmermans’parliamentary office in the House of Representatives. [3]
Piri worked as a political advisor to the Dutch Labour Party (Partij van de Arbeid) delegation in the European Parliament between 2006 and 2008. In that latter year,she became political advisor for foreign policy to the European Parliament group the Labour Party is in,the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats. [2] She worked as an advisor to the delegation working on relations with Armenia,Azerbaijan and Georgia. In 2011 Piri worked some months at the Wiardi Beckman Stichting,a think tank linked to the Labour Party. Later that year she became programme manager for the Southern-Caucasus and Moldova at the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy. [2]
In 2014 Piri stood as a candidate for the European Parliament. She occupied the third place on the Labour Party list for the European Parliament elections of 2014,after Paul Tang and Agnes Jongerius. She cited upholding democratic standards and the respect for human rights as internal motivations to take up the candidacy. [4] She was elected to the European Parliament in May 2014. [2]
In the European Parliament,Piri was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. During her first term,she served as the Parliament's rapporteur on Turkey's EU membership. [5] In 2020,she also joined the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union. [6]
In addition to her committee assignments,Piri was a member of the delegation to the EU–North Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee. From 2014 until 2019,she was part of the delegation to the EU–Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly. [7] She is also part of the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights. [8]
Piri was a member of the Democracy Support and Election Coordination Group (DEG),which oversees the Parliament's election observation missions. [9] She was part of the parliament's mission to observe Ukraine's 2014 parliamentary elections,led by Andrej Plenković. [10] Following the 2019 elections,Piri was elected vice-chair of the S&D Group,under the leadership of chairwoman Iratxe García. [11]
Since the 2021 elections,Piri has been a member House of Representatives. In parliament,she serves on the Committee on Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation,the Committee on Foreign Affairs,the Committee on Defense,the Committee on European Affairs,and the Committee on Justice and Security. [12]
In July 2016,after the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt and subsequent purges,Piri called for firm language by the EU towards Turkey. [15] In August 2016 Piri stated that Europe demonstrated a lack of support after the 2016 coup d'état attempt. [16] In November 2016,Turkish authorities refused to have a meeting with Piri in her capacity as Turkey rapporteur of the European Parliament. [17]
In November 2019 she criticised the veto by the European Council on starting the accession procedures of Albania and North Macedonia to the EU. She stated that the countries already made significant reforms and it also drove them towards cooperation with China,Turkey and Russia. [18]
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