Heidi Hautala

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Heidi Hautala (2011)

Heidi Anneli Hautala (born November 14, 1955 in Oulu ) is a Finnish politician from the Green Federation .

From 1991 to 1995 and from 2003 to 2009 she was a member of the Finnish Parliament, from 2011 to 2013 Finnish Development Aid Minister. Hautala has been a member of the European Parliament since 2014 , to which she was a member from 1995 to 2003 and 2009 to 2011.

Life

Heidi Hautala was born in Oulu in 1955 as the daughter of Yrjö Sakari Hautala and his wife Vappu Margit Helena Grönqvist. In 1974 she founded the vegetarian restaurant Kasvis . She also worked as a freelance journalist and wrote columns in the magazines “Uuden Ajan Aura” (1976–1982) and “Suomi” (1982–1985). From 1980 to 1985 she worked as a teacher for vegetarian cooking. In 1988 she finished her horticultural studies at the University of Helsinki and received a master's degree in agriculture and forestry.

Hautala is not married. She has a grown son.

Political career

In 1985 Heidi Hautala was elected to the Helsinki City Council (until 1994). In 1987 she took over the chairmanship of her party, the Green Bund, for four years. From 1991 to 1995 she was a member of the Finnish Parliament . After Finland joined the EU in 1995, she moved to the European Parliament , where she was a member of The Greens / European Free Alliance . During this time she was among other things chairman of the Committee on Women's Rights and of the delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway. From July 1999 to January 2002 she was also the leader of her group. In 2003 she moved back to the Finnish parliament, where she became chairwoman of the legal committee. Satu Hassi took over her seat in the European Parliament .

In 2000 and 2006, Hautala ran for the Greens for the office of President of Finland , but lost both times to Tarja Halonen . In the 2000 election she was fifth with 3.3% of the vote, and fourth in the 2006 election with 3.5% of the vote.

After the Greens won a second seat in the European elections in Finland in 2009 , Hautala returned to the European Parliament as the second Green alongside Hassi. Here she was elected chairman of the subcommittee on human rights .

After the Finnish parliamentary elections in 2011 , Hautala was appointed Minister for Development Policy by her party. For this she had to resign her mandate in the European Parliament; Tarja Cronberg was the successor . The ministerial office laid down Hautala in October 2013 due to an involvement in an affair over the icebreaker Nordica . Hautala had campaigned for Greenpeace activists who had demonstrated against the planned offshore drilling with the ship off the north coast of Alaska. Her successor was Pekka Haavisto . Hautala has been a member of the European Parliament again since the European elections in Finland in 2014 . The European Parliament elected her in its constituent session as one of the 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament. Heidi Hautala is one of the 89 people from the European Union against whom Russia imposed an entry ban in May 2015 .

She was re-elected in the 2019 European elections, and her party won a total of two seats. As before, she remained a member of the Greens / EFA group . The European Parliament also re-elected her as one of the 14 Vice-Presidents of Parliament. She is also a member of the Bureau of the European Parliament, the Committee on International Trade and the Human Rights Subcommittee for her group . She is a deputy member of the Legal Committee .

Works

Web links

Commons : Heidi Hautala  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helsingin Sanomat : True Finns and Greens advance in European Parliament elections as big parties suffer
  2. ↑ Helsingin Sanomat , June 24, 2011: Greens name Niinistö and Hautala as new ministers .
  3. ↑ Reinhard Wolff: Too green for Finland's government klimaretter.info , October 13, 2013
  4. ↑ Andreas Borcholte: Entry bans: Russia accuses EU politicians of showing behavior. In: Spiegel Online. May 31, 2015, accessed June 1, 2015 .
  5. ^ RUS: Russian Visa Blocking List. (PDF 23 KB) In: yle.fi. May 26, 2015, accessed June 1, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Home | Heidi HAUTALA | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hautala, Heidi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hautala, Heidi Anneli (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish politician, member of the Reichstag, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Oulu