Sven giegold biography examples
On 15 December 2021, I have been appointed State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economy and Climate Protection.
From 2009 to 2021, I was a member of the European Parliament for Bündnis90/Die Grünen NRW. Most recently, I was the spokesperson for the German Greens in the European Parliament, chairman of the Green Group in the Committee on Economic and Financial Policy and a substitute member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
In my youth I was politicized by environmental protection and later founded Attac in Germany with many others. To this day, I am committed to regulating the financial markets in the interest of the real economy and the citizens. In Parliament, I passionately fight against tax dumping and for the ecological transformation of the European economy.
I was born in 1969 on Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. After finishing school in Hanover, I studied economics, adult education and politics in Lüneburg, Bremen and Birmingham. Subsequently, I completed a Masters in Economic Policy and Economic Development at the University of Birmingham with distinction. Later I continued my studies at the University of Bremen and spent 2004/2005 as a guest at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Paris XIII.
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Sven Giegold, MEP from North-Rhine-Westphalia / Germany, is spokesperson for the German Greens in the European parliament and coordinator of the Greens / EFA group in the ECON (economy and monetary affairs) committee. As a studied political economist Sven has been active in the environmental movement and altermondialism for more than 20 years. He is a member of the executive committee of the German Evangelical Church Assembly.
Political curriculum vitae
December 2021: Appointment as State Secretary in the Federal Ministery of Economy and Climate Protection, resulting in end of mandate in the European Parliament
October 2021: Re-election as Member of the Pre Today, June 25, Malta was placed on the FATF’s list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring, better known as the ‘grey list’. It is the first time that an EU Member State has been placed on this list due to increased and persistent money laundering and terrorist financing risks. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog with more than 200 member countries and jurisdictions. The FATF has developed standards whose implementation in member countries is reviewed regularly. Malta was placed on the grey list today together with the Philippines, Haiti and South Sudan. This assessment was taken by the FATF June Plenary which was held this week. Next week the European Court of Auditors is expected to come out with a strong report on money laundering in the EU banking sector. MEP Sven Giegold, financial and economic policy spokesperson of the Greens/EFA group comments: “It is embarrassing that it needs a global watchdog to call out a European Member State for severe money laundering and terrorist financing risks. We have known about corruption and organised crime in Malta for years and yet the Commission has been reluctant to act. Not only has the Commission failed to fulfil its role as a guardian of the treaties, it also spoke out in defense of Malta at the FATF plenary. The Commission’s failure to act is irresponsible and must stop now. I call on the Commission to take the appropriate measures to shield the rest of Europe from the money laundering and terrorist financing risk posed by Malta immediately. European laws must be enforced as soon as breaches become known, not years after violations are out in the open. Creating new EU institutions must not be an excuse for a failure to act when existing EU law is not effectively implemented. The effective implementation of EU law must be the standard against which EU Member States are held. More EU countries have been blatantly ineffective in implementing E Action Plan for the Green Transition of the Chemical Industry – Transformation for People and Planet drafted by MEP Jutta Paulus and MEP Sven Giegold Chemicals are a necessary and important part of our lives and of a green transition. They allow us to surf the internet, cure diseases, produce renewable energy, store food, and much more. However, the exposure to chemicals during production, consumption, and disposal of chemicals and products containing toxic chemicals often has detrimental effects on human and animal health as well as adverse impacts on the climate and the environment. Europe needs an ambitious chemicals policy that combines the protection of human health and nature with economic and industrial policies that strengthen Europe’s sustainable industries. The EU must develop a holistic industrial policy framework that ensures that safe and sustainable chemicals “Made in Europe” contribute to all Europeans living well within our planetary boundaries, including meeting our Climate Action targets. It is of key importance that all services of the European Commission effectively implement the zero-pollution ambition for a toxic-free environment of the European Green Deal. Production, use, and disposal of chemicals must not harm human health or human rights nor ecosystems. Producers and downstream users must take responsibility for the entire value chain of their products. 1. Apply and enforce EU law rigorously. REACH, if properly applied, is our best tool to achieve the zero-pollution ambition for a toxic-free environment. We need to ensure its full application to protect human health, including that of workers, animal health and the environment. The principle of “no data, no market” must be refined towards a principle no proper data no market”. Not acting on incompliance means unfair treatment of companies that have fulfilled their duties. ECHA, the Commission and Member States must act against industry laggards and Member States Good news from the Ministry for the Environment: Studierendenwerk Trier is one of the three 2012 environmental prize winners in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.Environmental prize winner
In her speech, environment minister Ulrike Höfken praised the broad scope of the Trier application for the environmental prize:
"The environmental philosophy of Studiwerk involves numerous individual measures that primarily represent concrete environmentally-friendly acts (e.g. energy savings) and, in turn, are (almost) always accompanied by ambitious environmental communication or education.
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