Martin Häusling

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Martin Häusling at the forum "Organic farming and renewable raw materials - conflicting goals of sustainable agriculture?" 2011

Martin Häusling (born March 26, 1961 in Bad Wildungen ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). He was elected to the Hessian state parliament in 2003 and 2009 and has been a member of the European Parliament since 2009 .

Life

Häusling is a trained agricultural technician. The family business, the Kellerwaldhof, has been managed according to Bioland guidelines since 1988, and has been producing its own cheese since 1999. He is married to the photographer Marianne Spenner-Häusling and has two children.

Political party

Häusling has been a party member since the founding of the Greens in Hesse in 1979 and took part in the party's founding event on December 15, 1979 on loan yesterday. Member of the Bad Zwesten municipal council since 1981.

Political positions

Martin Häusling criticizes the use of plant toxins and warns against the further intensification of agriculture to the detriment of the environment and nature. In his opinion, for example, excessive liquid manure spreading and additional mineral (artificial) fertilizers are responsible for excessive nitrate inputs in the groundwater. He considers the use of herbicides such as glyphosate and insecticides, for example neonicotinoids, to be one of the main causes of the loss of biodiversity . In numerous publications, Häusling warns that the current agricultural system runs the risk of overloading people and nature.

Häusling is currently calling on the European Commission to restructure the upcoming funding period for the Common Agricultural Policy (GAP). For the period 2021 to 2027, the direct payments, according to which farmers receive a certain amount per hectare of farmed area, are to be limited and payments by the EU are to be increasingly promoted for the ecological benefits of agricultural activities. The agricultural budget is currently the largest common expenditure item in the European Union at 58 billion euros annually. Around 80% is paid out in the so-called first pillar as a direct payment to agricultural companies.

Martin Häusling criticized new genetic engineering processes in a publication from 2019 and supports a labeling requirement for genetic engineering.

For the sake of transparency , Häusling publishes an up-to-date breakdown of how he uses the general cost allowance that he receives as a Member of Parliament on his website .

MP

Häusling has been a member of the European Parliament (EP) since 2009 . He is a member of the Greens / EFA group and is their agricultural policy spokesman. He is a member of the EU Committee on Agriculture (AGRI), Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development , where he is coordinator for the Greens / EFA group and a member of the EU Environment Committee (ENVI). He is also in the delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee and in the delegation to the Euro-Latin America Parliamentary Assembly.

From 2003 to 2008, Häusling was a member of the Hessian state parliament and political spokesman for agriculture, forestry, hunting, Europe and consumer protection. He was a member of the Environment, Rural and Consumer Protection Committee and the European Committee. After he was initially not elected to the state parliament in the state elections in 2008 at number 12 on the state list of the Greens, he moved back to the Hessian state parliament in the surprising 2009 . In the European elections in 2009, however, he was elected for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in the European Parliament (EP), whereupon he left the state parliament on July 14, 2009 and Daniel May was his successor.

Häusling was EP rapporteur on the reform of the EU organic regulation .

Memberships

Martin Häusling is a member of the organic farming association Bioland .

Movies

Web links

Commons : Martin Häusling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kellerwaldhof
  2. ↑ https://martin-haeusling.eu/presse-medien/publikationen.html
  3. ↑ https://martin-haeusling.eu/presse-medien/publikationen/2362-studie-designer Pflanzen-als-allheilmittel-sind-nicht-die- loesung.html
  4. ↑ Transparency report for the period July 2017 - June 2018 , accessed on November 15, 2018
  5. ^ Website of the European Parliament
  6. ↑ Jost Maurin: New edition of the EU organic regulation: 24,000 instead of 3,000 laying hens In: taz.de, November 18, 2014, accessed on November 15, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Häusling, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdL, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Wildungen