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Agnieszka Brugger | |
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.jpg) Brugger in 2023 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 2009 | |
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| Born | Agnieszka Malczak (1985-02-08)February 8, 1985 (age 40) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Political party | Alliance '90/The Greens |
Agnieszka Brugger (néeMalczak, born 8 February 1985) is a German politician (Alliance 90/The Greens) who has been serving as a member of the GermanBundestag since 2009. Since 2018 she serves as Vice-Chair of Alliance ‘90/The Greens in the Bundestag.
Born inLegnica,Poland, Brugger moved to West Germany with her parents in 1989. She grew up inDortmund, where she graduated from the Mallinckrodt-Gymnasium, a private highschool operated by theRoman Catholic Archdiocese of Paderborn. She studiedpolitical science at theUniversity of Tübingen, so far without graduation, as she interrupted her academic studies for her political career.[2]
From 2005 until 2007, Brugger was a member of theGeneral Students' Committee (AStA) of theUniversity of Tübingen. She later led theGreen Youth inBaden-Württemberg between 2007 and 2009.
Brugger has been a member of the German Bundestag since the2009 election. From 2013 until 2017 she served as her parliamentary group's spokeswoman on the Defense Committee and the Subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.
In her capacity as member of the Defense Committee, Brugger has traveled extensively to visitBundeswehr troops on their missions abroad, including theUnited Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (2015) and theOperation Counter Daesh at theIncirlik Air Base (2016).[3]
In the – unsuccessful – negotiations to form acoalition government with the Christian Democrats – both theChristian Democratic Union (CDU) and theChristian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) – and theFree Democratic Party (FDP) following the2017 national elections, Brugger was part of the 14-member delegation of theGreen Party. In early 2018, she became part of herparliamentary group’s leadership around co-chairsKatrin Göring-Eckardt andAnton Hofreiter. In this capacity, she oversees the group's initiatives on foreign affairs, defense and development policy.
In 2018 she was elected Vice-Chair of Alliance ‘90/The Greens in Bundestag, responsible for coordination of the caucus on the issues of Foreign Affairs, Defense, Human Rights, Development and European Affairs. She has been reelected to this position in 2021 and 2025.[4]
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) and theFree Democratic Party (FDP) following the2021 federal elections, Brugger was part of her party's delegation in the working group on foreign policy, defence, development cooperation and human rights, co-chaired byHeiko Maas,Omid Nouripour andAlexander Graf Lambsdorff.[5]
In 2023, Brugger was one of the initiators – alongsideMichelle Müntefering andMarie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann – of a cross-party group promoting afeminist foreign policy.[6]
After the russian invasion into Ukraine, Brugger was a strong advocate for solidarity with Ukraine, including the shipments of weapons to Ukraine and strong sanctions against Russia.[10]
Brugger has in the past voted in favor of German participation inUnited Nations peacekeeping missions as well as in United Nations-mandated European Union peacekeeping and military missions on the African continent, such as inMali – bothEUTM Mali (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017) andMINUSMA (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018) –, theCentral African Republic (2014) andLiberia (2015).
OnLibya,Sudan,South Sudan andSomalia, Brugger has a mixed voting record. She opposes German participation inEU Navfor Med. She abstained from the votes on the missions forDarfur/Sudan (2017) andSouth Sudan (2017) after previously voting in favor of both missions (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015). Since 2009, she has regularly abstained from votes on extending the mandate for the mission ofOperation Atalanta. She also abstained (2015) or voted against German participation in theEUTM Somalia (2016 and 2017).
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