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Rasmus Andresen | |
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Member of the European Parliament for Germany | |
Assumed office 2 July 2019 | |
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Born | Essen, West Germany | 20 February 1986
Political party | ![]() Alliance 90/The Greens ![]() European Green Party |
Alma mater | Roskilde University |
Rasmus Andresen (born 20 February 1986) is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. [1]
Andresen mainly grew up in Flensburg and belongs to the Danish minority of Southern Schleswig. [2] He graduated from Duborg-Skolen in Flensburg and later with a bachelor's degree from Roskilde University in Denmark.
From 2005 to 2019, Andresen served as a member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein, representing Flensburg. At the time of his first election, he was the parliament's youngest member at 23. From 2017 until 2019, he served as vice-president of the Landtag. [3]
Andresen has been a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 European elections. He has since been serving on the Committee on Budgets. He is also his parliamentary group's coordinator on the committee. [4]
In addition to his committee assignments, Andresen is part of the Parliament's delegation for relations with Canada. [5] He is also a member of the European Internet Forum, [6] the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Corruption, [7] the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity, [8] the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights, [9] the European Parliament Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas [10] and the European Parliament Intergroup on Traditional Minorities, National Communities and Languages. [11]
Since 2021, Andresen has been leading the German delegation within the Greens–European Free Alliance group, succeeding Sven Giegold. [12]
In May 2021, Andresen joined a group of 39 mostly Green Party lawmakers from the European Parliament who in a letter urged the leaders of Germany, France and Italy not to support Arctic LNG 2, a $21 billion Russian Arctic liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, due to climate change concerns. [14]
On March 16, 2021, Andresen took on a godparenthood for Igor Bancer, a singer and political prisoner from Belarus. [15]
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