Party: | Germany Alliance 90/The Greens European Green Party |
Constituency Mp: | Germany |
Term Start: | 2 July 2019 |
Term End: | 2024 |
Parliament: | European |
Birth Date: | 14 April 1992 |
Birth Place: | Marl, Germany |
Nationality: | German |
Alma Mater: | University of Rostock |
Niklas Nienaß (born 14 April 1992) is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024.[1]
In parliament, Nienaß served on the Committee on Regional Development and the Committee on Culture and Education.[2] From 2021, he was part of the parliament's delegation to the Conference on the Future of Europe.[3]
In addition to his committee assignments, Nienaß was part of the parliament's delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan, EU-Uzbekistan and EU-Tajikistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and for relations with Turkmenistan and Mongolia.[4] He was also a member of the Spinelli Group,[5] the European Parliament Intergroup on Children’s Rights,[6] the European Parliament Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development,[7] the European Parliament Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas[8] and the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights.[9]
In May 2021, Nienaß 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.[10]