Patricia Lips | |
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 Patricia Lips in 2020 | |
| Member of theBundestag forOdenwald | |
| Assumed office 2002 | |
| Preceded by | Erika Ober |
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| Born | (1963-12-21)21 December 1963 (age 61) Milan, Italy |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | CDU |
Patricia Lips (born 21 December 1963) is a German politician of theChristian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of theBundestag forOdenwald in the state ofHesse since 2002.
Lips first became a member of the Bundestag in the2002 German federal election.[1] She served on the Finance Committee from 2004 until 2013 and later chaired the Committee for Education, Research and Technology Assessment from 2014 until 2017.
Following the2018 elections, Lips became a member of the Budget Committee[2] – where she was her parliamentary group'srapporteur on theannual budget of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media[3] – and of its so-called Confidential Committee (Vertrauensgremium), which provides budgetary supervision for Germany's three intelligence services,BND,BfV andMAD.
From March 2020 to January 2021, Lips managed the campaign ofFriedrich Merz in the2021 CDU leadership election.
Since 2021, Lips has been serving as one her parliamentary group's deputy chairs, under the leadership of successive chairsRalph Brinkhaus (2021–2022) andFriedrich Merz (2022–present). In this capacity, she oversees the group's legislative activities on European affairs and human rights.[4] In addition, she has been a member of the German delegation to theFranco-German Parliamentary Assembly since 2022.[5]
In the negotiations to form aGrand Coalition under the leadership of Merz's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the BavarianCSU) and theSocial Democrats (SPD) following the2025 German elections, Lips led the CDU delegation in the working group on European affairs; her counterparts from the other parties wereAlexander Radwan andKatarina Barley.[6]
In June 2017, Lips voted against Germany's introduction ofsame-sex marriage.[8]
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