Katrin Langensiepen Explained

Party: Germany
Alliance 90/The Greens

European Green Party
Constituency Mp:Germany
Term Start:2 July 2019
Parliament:European
Birth Date:1979 10, df=yes
Birth Place:Langenhagen, West Germany
Nationality:German

Katrin Langensiepen (born 10 October 1979) is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 elections. Langensiepen is the first woman Member of the European Parliament with a visible disability.

Political career

Before her election to the European Parliament, Langensiepen had been serving as a member of the City Council of Hannover.[1] Langensiepen has called for reforms to the system of sheltered workshops in Europe, which offer vocational training to people with disabilities. According to Langensiepen "in Germany, we are talking about 300,000 people working in the sheltered workshops for one euro average per hour".[2]

In parliament, Langensiepen has since been serving on the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.[3] In 2022, she also joined the Special Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic.[4] [5]

In addition to her committee assignments, Langensiepen is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Children's Rights,[6] the European Parliament Intergroup on Disability[7] and the European Parliament Intergroup on Cancer.[8] She is one of the few visibly disabled members of the European Parliament.[9]

Other activities

Notes and References

  1. Früher Rat heute EU-Parlament – wie geht es Ihnen, Frau Langensiepen?. Doeleke . Karl . . June 6, 2020 . December 29, 2020.
  2. Apostles of Intersectionality Challenge Europe – Transcript. EU Scream . October 23, 2020 . December 29, 2020.
  3. Web site: Alle Gewählte in alphabetischer Reihenfolge. Der Bundeswahlleiter. de. 2 December 2019.
  4. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/sedcms/documents/PRIORITY_INFO/558/Composition%20nominative%20des%20commissions%20PEGA%20COVI%20ING2_24.03.2022_EN.pdf Members of the Special Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic
  5. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20220321IPR25923/parliament-names-meps-to-sit-on-three-new-committees Parliament names MEPs to sit on three new committees
  6. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/files/organisation-and-rules/organisation/intergroups/list-of-members-childrens-rights.pdf Intergroup on Children’s Rights
  7. http://www.edf-feph.org/newsroom/news/bureau-disability-intergroup-european-parliament-established Bureau of the Disability Intergroup of the European Parliament is established
  8. https://ecpc.org/intergroup/ Intergroup
  9. News: Hurtes . Sarah . 2023-11-25 . Despite Bans, Disabled Women Are Still Being Sterilized in Europe . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-11-26 . 0362-4331.
  10. https://www.boell.de/de/mitgliederversammlung General Assembly