Biography
Sieper was educated at the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium in Wiehl,North Rhine-Westphalia. Between school and university,he undertook voluntary military service in the German Federal Armed Forces. In 2020,he founded the Partei des Fortschritts (Party of Progress;PdF),a grassroots democratic party. He studied law at the University of Cologne,during which he undertook an Erasmus semester at Amsterdam University where he studied international and European law. He passed with honours the first law examination in September 2023. Since 2023,he has been a doctoral student in the Department of Public Law,International Law and European Law at the University of Cologne. [3]
In the June 2024 European Parliament election,he was elected as an Member of the European Parliament. [3] He was first on the list for his political party, Partei des Fortschritts (Party of Progress;PdF),which received 228,148 (0.6%) votes in that election,winning one seat. [4]
In September 2025,Sieper was criticized after inviting members of a militia linked to the Rapid Support Forces,a Sudanese paramilitary group that launched a rebellion against the Sudanese government in 2023 and under EU sanctions for carrying out crimes against humanity. [5]
On 9 September 2025,during the visit of the President of Moldova Maia Sandu to the European Parliament,in response to another MEP,Diana Șoșoacă,claiming Moldova is an "artificial state" and that Moldova should be part of Romania,Sieper said that "Moldova is not Romania. Moldova is Europe,just like Romania". [6] [7] [8]
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