Elsi Katainen

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Elsi Katainen (born December 17, 1966 in Haapajärvi ) is a Finnish teacher , farmer and politician ( Suomen Keskusta ). Katainen was a member of the Finnish Parliament from 2007 to 2018 , and has been a member of the European Parliament since 2018 as part of the ALDE and Renew Europe group .

Life

Youth and education

Elsi Katainen was born on December 17, 1966 in Haapajärvi in ​​the North Ostrobothnian region. She attended the agricultural school in Peltosalmi and later studied to be teaching at Jyväskylä University until 1997 and natural sciences until 2000 at Savonia University of Applied Sciences. She then worked as a farmer and vocational school teacher.

Finnish politics

Katainen has long been involved in the rural-liberal Finnish Center Party (Suomen Keskusta). From 2001 she was a member of the municipal council of Pielavesi, from 2004 the government landscape Savo . She was elected to the Finnish Parliament for the first time in the 2007 parliamentary elections and defended her mandate in the 2011 and 2015 elections .

Entry into the European Parliament

Katainen had already run for the Center Party in the 2014 European elections , but did not win a mandate. In 2018, her party colleague Hannu Takkula gave up his mandate as a member of the European Parliament to move to the European Court of Auditors . Katainen moved up for Takkula on March 1, 2018 and joined the liberal ALDE group just like him . For the remainder of the term, Katainen was a member of the Committee on International Trade , as well as an alternate member of the Committee on Regional Development and the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development .

In the 2019 European elections , Katainen ran again for the European Parliament and was able to defend her mandate. In the elections, her party lost a significant number of votes, but was able to win two of the 13 Finnish seats with 13.5 percent, one of them for Katainen. In the ninth electoral term she rejoined the liberal parliamentary group, which renamed itself " Renew Europe ". For the political group she is a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, of which she was elected Vice-Chair. She is also a member of the Committee on International Trade.

Private

Katainen has two children and, when she is not in Brussels, lives on her farm in the municipality of Pielavesi .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Elsi. In: elsikatainen.fi. Retrieved December 31, 2019 (Finnish).
  2. ^ A b Elsi Katainen. In: eduskunta.fi. Eduskunta Riksdagen, accessed December 31, 2019 (Finnish).
  3. ↑ Elsi Katainen nousee Euroopan parlamenttiin, Eero Reijonen eduskuntaan. In: Verkkouutiset.fi. November 16, 2017, accessed December 31, 2019 (Finnish).
  4. ↑ 8th legislative term | Elsi KATAINEN | MPs | European Parliament. Accessed December 31, 2019 .
  5. ↑ 9th legislative term | Elsi KATAINEN | MPs | European Parliament. Accessed December 31, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Katainen, Elsi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish farmer, teacher and politician, member of the Reichstag, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH 17th December 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Haapajärvi