Katrin Langensiepen

Last updated

Katrin Langensiepen
MEP
Katrin Langensiepen, Sozialpolitische Sprecherin der Fraktion Bundnis 90 Die Grunen im Rat der Landeshauptstadt Hannover.jpg
Member of the European Parliament
for Germany
Assumed office
2 July 2019
Personal details
Born (1979-10-10) 10 October 1979 (age 44)
Langenhagen, West Germany
Political partyFlag of Germany.svg  German
Alliance 90/The Greens
Flag of Europe.svg  EU
European Green Party

Katrin Langensiepen (born 10 October 1979) is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 elections. Langensiepen is the first woman Member of the European Parliament with a visible disability.

Contents

Political career

Before her election to the European Parliament, Langensiepen had been serving as a member of the City Council of Hannover. [1] Langensiepen has called for reforms to the system of sheltered workshops in Europe, which offer vocational training to people with disabilities. According to Langensiepen "in Germany, we are talking about 300,000 people working in the sheltered workshops for one euro average per hour". [2]

In parliament, Langensiepen has since been serving on the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. [3] In 2022, she also joined the Special Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic. [4] [5]

In addition to her committee assignments, Langensiepen is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Children's Rights, [6] the European Parliament Intergroup on Disability [7] and the European Parliament Intergroup on Cancer. [8] She is one of the few visibly disabled members of the European Parliament. [9]

Other activities

Katrin Langensiepen presenting herself in a video produced by Heinrich Böll Foundation/Green European Foundation.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kathleen Van Brempt</span> Belgian politician

Kathleen Van Brempt, is a Belgian social-democratic politician and member of Vooruit. She currently serves as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) as part of the Party of European Socialists and is leader of the local branch of her party in Antwerp.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marie Arena</span> Belgian politician (born 1966)

Marie Arena is a Belgian politician who has been serving as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2014. She is a member of the Socialist Party (PS), part of the Party of European Socialists (PES).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jan Philipp Albrecht</span> German politician (born 1982)

Jan Philipp Albrecht is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens, part of The Greens-European Free Alliance. From 2018 to 2022, he served as Minister for Energy, Agriculture, the Environment, Nature and Digitalization of Schleswig-Holstein. From 2009 until 2018, he was a Member of the European Parliament. He is specialized in the field of civil rights, data protection and democracy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Franziska Brantner</span> German politician of the Green Party (born 1979)

Franziska Katharina Brantner is a German politician of the Green Party who has been serving as a member of the German Parliament since 2013.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Terry Reintke</span> German politician (born 1987)

Theresa Reintke is a German politician who has been serving as a member of the European Parliament from Germany since 2014. She is co-president of the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament. She is a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens, part of The Greens–European Free Alliance. From 2011 to 2013 she was the spokesperson of the Federation of Young European Greens.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eider Gardiazabal</span> Spanish politician

Eider Gardiazabal Rubial is a Spanish politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since the 2009 elections.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Heléne Fritzon</span> Swedish politician (born 1960)

Marie Heléne Elisabeth Fritzon is a Swedish politician of the Social Democrats. She has been Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and Vice-Chair of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats since July 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michaela Šojdrová</span> Czech politician (born 1963)

Michaela Šojdrová is a Czech politician who has been serving as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since July 2014. She is a member of the Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party, part of the European People's Party.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cindy Franssen</span> Flemish politician

Cindy Franssen is a Belgian politician of the Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V) who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield</span> French politician from the ecologist party (born 1977)

Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield is a French politician from the ecologist party Europe Ecologie Les Verts, who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Radka Maxová</span> Czech politician (born 1968)

Radka Maxová is a Czech politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chrysoula Zacharopoulou</span> Greek-French gynaecologist and politician (born 1976)

Chrysoula Zacharopoulou is a Greek-French gynaecologist and politician who has been serving as Minister of State for Development, Francophonie and International Partnerships in the government of successive Prime Ministers Élisabeth Borne and Gabriel Attal since 20 May 2022. A member of La République En Marche! (LREM), she previously was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2019 to 2022.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Daniel Freund</span> German politician (born 1984)

Daniel Freund is a German politician who has been serving as a member of the European Parliament since July 2019. He is a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens at the national level and sits with the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance in the European Parliament.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hannah Neumann</span> German politician (born 1984)

Hannah Neumann is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anna Cavazzini</span> German politician (born 1982)

Anna Katrin Cavazzini is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sergey Lagodinsky</span> German lawyer and politician (born 1975)

Sergey Lagodinsky is a German lawyer and politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Loukas Fourlas</span> Cypriot politician

Loukas Fourlas is a Cypriot journalist and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament for the Democratic Rally since 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tomislav Sokol</span> Croatian politician (born 1982)

Tomislav Sokol is a Croatian politician currently serving as a Member of the European Parliament for the Croatian Democratic Union since 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stelios Kympouropoulos</span> Greek politician

Stelios Kympouropoulos is a Greek psychiatrist and politician of the New Democracy party who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 elections.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">José Manuel Fernandes</span> Portuguese politician

José Manuel Ferreira Fernandes is a Portuguese politician of the Social Democratic Party. He has been Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries in the government of Prime Minister Luís Montenegro since 2024.

References

  1. Doeleke, Karl (6 June 2020). "Früher Rat heute EU-Parlament – wie geht es Ihnen, Frau Langensiepen?". Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . Retrieved 29 December 2020.{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  2. "Apostles of Intersectionality Challenge Europe – Transcript". EU Scream. 23 October 2020. Retrieved 29 December 2020.{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  3. "Alle Gewählte in alphabetischer Reihenfolge". Der Bundeswahlleiter (in German). Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  4. Members of the Special Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic European Parliament.
  5. Parliament names MEPs to sit on three new committees European Parliament, press release of 24 March 2022.
  6. Intergroup on Children’s Rights European Parliament.
  7. Bureau of the Disability Intergroup of the European Parliament is established European Disability Forum, press release of 14 February 2020.
  8. Intergroup European Cancer Patient Coalition (ECPC).
  9. Hurtes, Sarah (25 November 2023). "Despite Bans, Disabled Women Are Still Being Sterilized in Europe". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  10. General Assembly Heinrich Böll Foundation.