Jo Leinen | |
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Member of the European Parliament | |
In office 1 July 1999 –2019 | |
Constituency | Germany |
President of the Union of European Federalists | |
In office 1 May 1997 –17 August 2005 | |
Preceded by | Francesco Rossollillo |
Succeeded by | Mercedes Bresso |
Personal details | |
Born | Joseph Leinen 6 April 1948 Bisten,Saarland,Germany |
Political party | German: Social Democratic Party of Germany EU: Party of European Socialists |
Spouse | Heike Gross |
Children | 1 |
Alma mater | Saarland University,University of Bonn |
Website | www |
Joseph Leinen (born 6 April 1948) is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 until 2019. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party,part of the Party of European Socialists.
He is well known for his environmental and foreign affairs activities,as well as for his support for a Federal Europe. He obtained a law degree in Germany in 1972 and a Certificate of Advanced European Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges,Belgium,in 1974. Since 1977 he has worked as a lawyer.
Leinen became publicly known as a spokesman of the anti-nuclear movement and the peace movement (1980),he was also active for the Bundesverband Bürgerinitiativen Umweltschutz (BBU). He received the nickname "container-Jo" during a demonstration,having climbed a container in order to coordinate protest actions by megaphone. [1] Because of his participation at a demonstration against the Brokdorf Nuclear Power Plant (1981),he was briefly charged with being "guide and ringleader" of a rioting 'mob',however the Federal Constitutional Court eventually dropped charges against him,ruling that there can not be a case of "guide and ringleader" during collective actions. (One of his defenders at the time was Gerhard Schröder,former Chancellor of the BRD.) [2]
Jo Leinen is a member of the SPD and had different functions:
From 1985 until 1999,Leinen was a Member of the Landtag of Saarland. He served as State Minister of the Environment in the government of Minister-President Oskar Lafontaine between 1985 and 1994.
From 1995,Leinen was also a substitute member of the Committee of the Regions (CoR),invariably standing in for Lafontaine. [3] In 1999,he was also member of the municipal council of Püttlingen/Saar.
Leinen was elected Member of the European Parliament without interruption from 1999 until 2019. [4] In parliament,he focused on environment,the development of the unification of the European Union and on foreign affairs. From 2004 he was the President of some key Committees and Delegations in the EP.
In 2015,Leinen was one of the Parliament's two rapporteurs (alongside Danuta Hübner) on a set of proposed changes to EU electoral law that sought to regularize a variety of different electoral systems across the EU. [5]
In addition to his committee assignments,Leinen served on the European Parliament Intergroup on a European Constitution from 1999 until 2009.
In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections,he was part of the working group on European policy,led by Peter Altmaier,Alexander Dobrindt and Achim Post. [6]
Speeches in Plenary | Reports - as rapporteur | Opinions - as rapporteur | Motions for resolutions | Written declarations | Parliamentary questions | |
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5th Legislature 1999-2004 | 48 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 11 |
6th Legislature 2004-2009 | 83 | 11 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 21 |
7th Legislature 2009-2014 | 80 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 3 | 52 |
8th Legislature 2014-2019 | 53 | 1 | 4 | 22 | 4 | 18 |
President | Vice-President | Full member | Substitute Member | |
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5th Legislature (1st half) 1999-2002 | Committee on Constitutional Affairs | Committee on Budgets | ||
5th Legislature (2nd half) 2002-2004 | Committee on Constitutional Affairs | Committee on Foreign Affairs,Human Rights,Common Security and Defense Policy | ||
6th Legislature 2004-2009 | Committee on Constitutional Affairs | Committee on Foreign Affairs | ||
7th Legislature (1st half) 2009-2012 | Committee on the Environment,Public Health and Food Safety | Committee on Foreign Affairs | ||
7th Legislature (2nd half) 2012-2014 | Committee on the Environment,Public Health and Food Safety | Committee on Foreign Affairs | ||
8th Legislature 2014-2019 | Committee on Constitutional Affairs | Committee on Foreign Affairs Committee on the Environment,Public Health and Food Safety |
President | Full member | Substitute Member | |
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5th Legislature 1999-2004 | Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee | ||
6th Legislature (1st half) 2004-2007 | Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) | Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly | |
6th Legislature (2nd half) 2007-2009 | Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia | Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly Delegation for relations with India | |
7th Legislature 2009-2014 | Delegation for relations with India | Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly | |
8th Legislature 2014-2019 | Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China | Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly |
Leinen was Chairman of the German section of the Young European Federalists (JEF) from 1977 to 1979 and a member of its Federal Committee at European level,then chaired by Richard Corbett. He was European Secretary of the youth section of the SPD (Jusos) and Vice-President of the European Environment Bureau (EEB) in Brussels from 1979 to 1984.
He was member in the Committee of the Regions from 1995 to 1999 and in the Congress of the Regions and Communes of the Council of Europe. Currently,he is member of different organisations of culture,social and sport;and also vice-president of EUROSOLAR e.V (1988-2005).
He was President of the UEF (1997–2005). He served as vice-president of the European Movement International from 2005 to 2011 until in November 2011 he was elected president of the organisation.
Leinen has been President of the Union of European Federalists since 1997. In addition,he holds various other positions,including:
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