Catarina Vieira

• GroenLinks
• European Green Party

Catarina Vieira MEP
Official portrait, 2024
Member of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 July 2024

Catarina Cordeiro Vieira (born 14 May 1996) ^[1] is a Portuguese-born Dutch politician of the progressive GroenLinks party.

She ran for the European Parliament in June 2024 as the tenth candidate on the shared GroenLinks–PvdA list. The party received a plurality in the Netherlands of eight seats, and Vieira was elected because of the nearly 32,000 preference votes cast for her. ^{[2] [3]} Her focus is on international trade and human rights. ^[4]

Personal life

Born in Azores islands, she lives in the Netherlands since 2017 and naturalised Dutch in 2025. ^[5] She graduated with a bachelor in international relations at the University of Lisbon, spending an exchange year at Charles University in the Czech Republic. ^[6]

European Parliament committees

• Committee on International Trade
• Delegation to the Africa–EU Parliamentary Assembly
• Subcommittee on Human Rights (substitute)
• Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (substitute)
  • EU–Central America Parliamentary Association Committee (substitute)
• Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (substitute)
• Delegation to the OACPS–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (substitute) ^[7]

Electoral history

Electoral history of Catarina Vieira

Year	Body	Party		Pos.	Votes	Result		Ref.
						Party seats	Individual
2024	European Parliament		GroenLinks–PvdA	10	31,929	8	Won [a]	[2]

Notes

1. Vieira received enough preference votes to be elected despite her party's result.

References

1. "Home | Catarina VIEIRA | MEPs | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
2. "Proces-verbaal centraal stembureau uitslag verkiezing Europees Parlement Model P22-1" [Central electoral council report of the results of the election of the European Parliament Model P22-1](PDF). Dutch Electoral Council (in Dutch). 19 June 2024. pp. 11–12, 35. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
3. "Uitslag Europese verkiezingen in Nederland gelijk aan prognose" [European election results in the Netherlands same as prognosis]. NOS (in Dutch). 19 June 2024. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
4. "Catarina Vieira". GroenLinks–PvdA (in Dutch). Retrieved 9 November 2024.
5. https://www.catarinavieira.eu/
6. https://shapingeurope.eu/in-conversation-with-mep-catarina-vieira-as-a-politician-i-have-to-find-my-way-between-my-values-and-the-realities-of-the-world/
7. "10th parliamentary term | Catarina VIEIRA". European Parliament . Retrieved 28 September 2024.