Christine Margarete Anderson | |
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 Anderson in 2020 | |
| Member of the European Parliament for Germany | |
| Assumed office 2 July 2019 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 July 1968 Eschwege, West Germany |
| Political party | Alternative for Germany (AfD) |
Christine Margarete Anderson (born 29 July 1968) is a German politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. [1] A member of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), Anderson is a former activist of the Pegida movement. [2]
Anderson was born in Eschwege, Hesse, West Germany. [3] She completed a commercial apprenticeship. She lived in the United States for six years, where she studied economics and worked for a US trading company. [4] Her brother, Ralph Moller, has claimed that Anderson did not complete her studies and that the reported trading company job was actually a sales associate job at an outerwear store. [5]
In 2013 Anderson became a member of Alternative for Germany (AfD). From 2016 to 2018, she was the party's group leader in the Limburg-Weilburg district assembly. She was elected to the European Parliament in the 2019 election. [6] Before the election, she stated her goal was to "lead Germany out of this EU nightmare". [2]
Anderson is a former activist of the anti-Islam, far-right [7] Pegida movement, [2] having participated in Pegida street protests promoting opposition to immigration, specifically Islamic migrants. [8] She has also appeared on Rebel News , where she stated her support for the Canada convoy protest having supported Canadian anti-mandate protesters since 2021. [8]
In the European Parliament, Anderson is a member of the Committee on Culture and Education, the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, and the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Age, and a deputy member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. [9]
Anderson was appointed to the Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic, and in a July 2022 session she entered into the record a complaint that there had been too much emphasis upon getting experimental gene therapy treatments into healthy people. [10]
In February 2023, Anderson was pictured alongside three Canadian MPs, Colin Carrie, Leslyn Lewis and Dean Allison, all of whom are members of the Conservative Party. The picture sparked a political controversy in Canada, with several groups, including the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, criticizing the meeting. [11] Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre denounced the meeting, stating: "Frankly, it would be better if Anderson never visited Canada in the first place. She and her racist, hateful views are not welcome here." [12]
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