Hannah Neumann

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Hannah Neumann

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Member of the European Parliament
for Germany
Assumed office
2 July 2019
Personal details
Born (1984-04-03) 3 April 1984 (age 37)
Speyer, West Germany
NationalityGerman
Political party German
Alliance 90/The Greens
 EU
European Green Party
Alma materFree University of Berlin

Hannah Neumann (born 3 April 1984) is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.[1][2]

Early life and education[]

Neumann studied media studies at TU Ilmenau from 2002 until 2007 and political science at Free University of Berlin from 2008 until 2012. During her studies, she spent a year abroad at Ateneo de Manila University from 2004 until 2005.

Career[]

Hannah Neumann presenting herself in a video produced by Heinrich Böll Foundation/Green European Foundation.

Neumann worked as legislative assistant to Tom Koenigs (2013-2014) and as chief of staff to Omid Nouripour (2014-2016) in the German Bundestag.[3] From 2018 until 2019, she was an associate fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP).[citation needed]

Neumann has been a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 European elections. She has since been serving on the Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Subcommittee on Security and Defence. In addition to her committee assignments, she chairs the Parliament's delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula[4] and is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights.[5]

Other activities[]

Political positions[]

In May 2021, Neumann 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.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ "Alle Gewählte in alphabetischer Reihenfolge". Der Bundeswahlleiter (in German). Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Hannah Neumann | Heinrich Böll Stiftung | Brussels office - European Union". Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  3. ^ Europawahl: Das sind die spannendsten EU-Abgeordneten, die neu ins Parlament eingezogen sind Handelsblatt, 29 May 2019.
  4. ^ Hannah Neumann European Parliament.
  5. ^ Members European Parliament Intergroup on LGBTI Rights.
  6. ^ [1] German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), press release of 27 November 2019.
  7. ^ Kate Abnett and Simon Jessop (May 19, 2021), EU lawmakers urge France, Germany, Italy to ditch Arctic LNG 2 support Reuters.

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