Stefan Eck Explained

Stefan Bernhard Eck
Office:Member of the European Parliament
Term Start:1 July 2014
Term End:2019
Constituency:Germany
Birth Place:Hamburg, West Germany
Party:Ecological Democratic Party
Otherparty:Human Environment Animal Protection Party (-2014)
Occupation:Politician
Profession:Businessman, advertising agent, artist, politician
Committees:European Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality
Awards:EU4Animals Award

Stefan Eck is a German politician, who, since 2014, represented Germany in the European Parliament until 2019. He was elected representing the Human Environment Animal Protection Party, but left the party in December 2014. He sat as an Independent in the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group.[1] Since January 2020 he has been a member of the Ecological Democratic Party.[2]

Work at the European Parliament

In the European Parliament, he was vice president of the Intergroup on Animal Welfare and Conservation[3] and a full member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He was also a substitute member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and Delegations for relations with the People's Republic of China, the countries of South Asia, the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian States and for relations with the Korean Peninsula.[4] He is also a founding member of the Interparliamentary Interest Group "MEPs for Wildlife".

His main activities include animal and human rights as well as environmental protection.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Spiegel.de. Buhlen um Europas Schmuddelkinder. 2015-04-08. de.
  2. Web site: Saarbruecker Zeitung, Ex-EU-Abgeordneter aus dem Saarland wechselt zur ÖDP. Saarbruecker Zeitung. 2020-03-06. de.
  3. Web site: Archived copy . 2018-04-23 . 2016-01-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160129104243/http://www.animalwelfareintergroup.eu/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/TAGESORDNUNG-304.pdf . dead .
  4. Web site: Home | Abgeordnete | Europäisches Parlament. Europarl.europa.eu. 1 November 2021.