Martin Häusling | |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
| Assumed office 14 July 2009 | |
| Constituency | Germany |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1961-03-26)26 March 1961 (age 64) |
| Party |  German:Alliance 90/The Greens  EU:The Greens–European Free Alliance |
| Website | www |
Martin Häusling (born 26 March 1961) is a German politician and member of theEuropean Parliament fromGermany. He is a member of theAlliance 90/The Greens, part of theEuropean Green Party.[1]
Häusling was born inBad Wildungen.[2] Before entering politics, Häusling managed his family's 75 hectareorganic farm nearKassel.[3]
Häusling entered local politics in 1981. He waselected to theLandtag of Hesse in 2003, but he failed to retain his seat at thefollowing election in 2008.
Although he successfully stood at the subsequentearly election in 2009, Häusling resigned his seat shortly afterwards when he was elected to theEuropean Parliament.[4] He has since been serving on theCommittee on Agriculture and Rural Development, where he is his parliamentary group'srapporteur onorganic production and labelling oforganic products.[5] He also served on theCommittee on Budgetary Control between 2009 and 2014.
In addition to his committee assignments, Häusling has been a member of the Parliament's delegation to theEuro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly. He is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development,[6] the European Parliament Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals[7] and the MEP Heart Group, a group of parliamentarians who have an interest in promoting measures that will help reduce the burden ofcardiovascular diseases (CVD).[8]
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and theFree Democratic Party (FDP) following the2021 federal elections, Häusling was part of his party's delegation in the working group on agriculture and nutrition, co-chaired byTill Backhaus,Renate Künast andCarina Konrad.[9]
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