Constanze Angela Krehl (born 14 October 1956) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
After Krehl received her diploma from German secondary school in 1975 in Leipzig, she studied at the Technische Universität Dresden (Technical University Dresden) and graduated in computer science in 1980.
Political career[]
1999-2005 Member of the SPD federal executive board
1999-2004 Regional Chair of the SPD Saxony
1996-1999 Regional Vice-Chair of the SPD Saxony
February 1991- June 1994 Observer of the European Parliament
October - December 1990 Member of the "Deutscher Bundestag" (German Parliament)
March - October 1990 Member of the "Volkskammer" (GDR People's Assembly)
Member of the European Parliament, 2004-present[]
Since 2004 Krehl has been a member of the Committee on Regional Development, furthermore she is member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America and the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly. Until 2004 she was a Member of the Committee on Budgets and is still a substitute member. Since 2016, she has been serving as the Parliament's own-initiative report on the EU's space strategy.[1]
In addition to her committee assignments, Krehl served as chairwoman of the Delegation for relations with Russia from 1994 until 1997 and as chairwoman of the Delegation to EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee from 1997 to 1999 and 1999–2002. She also serves as a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Western Sahara.[2]
In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of ChancellorAngela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, Krehl was part the working group on European policy, led by Peter Altmaier, Alexander Dobrindt and Achim Post.[3]
Speaker: , , until 26 January 1988; , , until 30 January 1989, , Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin, Antje Vollmer until 15 January 1990; , (until 21 June 1990), Marianne Birthler (from 4 October 1990), Antje Vollmer