Moritz Körner

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Moritz Körner MEP
Moritz Körner (2019)
Member of the European Parliament for Germany
Personal details
Born	(1990-08-03) August 3, 1990 (age 31) Wiesbaden, Germany
Nationality	German
Political party	German: Free Democratic Party  EU: Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
Alma mater	Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf University of Duisburg-Essen

Moritz Körner is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.^[1] Furthermore he is member of the board of the Free Democratic Party in Germany.

Political career[]

Career in state politics[]

Körner joined the FDP in 2008. Since 2014, he has been a member of the party's leadership in North Rhine-Westphalia, under the leadership of successive chairmen Christian Lindner (2014-2017) and (since 2017). 

From 2017 to 2019, Körner served as a member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia, representing Mettmann. At the time of his election, he was the parliament's youngest member.

Member of the European Parliament, 2019–present[]

Körner has been a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 European elections. He has since been serving on the Committee on Budgets and the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. In this capacity, he served as the Parliament’s rapporteur on a 2020 scheme that linked member states’ access to the Budget of the European Union to respecting the rule of law.^[2] On the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, he also follows digital surveillance issues.^[3]

In addition to his committee assignments, Körner is part of the Parliament's delegation for relations with China.^[4] He is also a member of the Spinelli Group;^[5] the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights;^[6] the European Parliament Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals;^[7] the European Parliament Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas;^[8] and of the URBAN Intergroup.^[9]

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the FPD following the 2021 federal elections, Körner was part of his party's delegation in the working group on financial regulation and the national budget, co-chaired by Doris Ahnen, Lisa Paus and Christian Dürr.^[10]

Other activities[]

• Institute for European Politics (IEP), Member of the Board of Trustees^[11]

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