Lena Düpont

Lena Düpont MEP
Member of the European Parliament for Germany
Personal details
Born	(1986-04-30) 30 April 1986 (age 35) Dortmund, West Germany
Nationality	German
Political party	German: Christian Democratic Union   EU: European People's Party
Alma mater	University of Erlangen–Nuremberg

Lena Düpont (born 30 April 1986) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. ^[1]

Education and early career

Düpont studied political science and journalism at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg. As a legislative advisor, she worked, among others, for Renate Sommer in Brussels and then for Ewa Klamt, Eckhard Pols and Ingrid Pahlmann in Berlin.^{[ citation needed ]}

Member of the European Parliament

Düpont has been a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 European elections. She has since been serving on the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. In this capacity, she has been the parliament's rapporteur on a 2020 law establishing a common border procedure for international protection. ^[2] In 2021, she also joined the parliament's working group on Frontex, led by Roberta Metsola. ^[3]

In addition to her committee assignments, Düpont is part of the Parliament's delegation to the EU-Montenegro Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee. ^[4]

Since 2021, Düpont has been serving as deputy chairwoman of the CDU in Lower Saxony, under the leadership of chairman Bernd Althusmann. ^[5]

References

1. "Alle Gewählte in alphabetischer Reihenfolge". Der Bundeswahlleiter (in German). Retrieved 2 December 2019.
2. Mia Bartoloni (4 December 2020), Movers and Shakers The Parliament Magazine .
3. Mia Bartoloni (26 February 2021), Movers and Shakers The Parliament Magazine .
4. Lena Düpont European Parliament.
5. Michael Ahlers (6 February 2021), CDU-Parteitag: Althusmann fordert bessere Corona-Strategie  Braunschweiger Zeitung .

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