Monica Frassoni

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Monica Frassoni (born September 10, 1963 in Veracruz , Mexico ) is an Italian politician . Together with Reinhard Bütikofer, she has chaired the European Green Party since 2009 and was a member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009 . From 2002 to 2009 she was chairman of the group The Greens / European Free Alliance in the European Parliament (Greens / EFA) together with Daniel Cohn-Bendit .

Life

Frassoni began her political engagement in 1983 in the federal-European non-governmental organization Movimento Federalista Europeo (international Union of European Federalists ) and in 1987 was elected Secretary General of the Youth Association of Young European Federalists . In 1989 she graduated from the University of Florence with a degree in political science and worked from 1990 to 1999 as an advisor to the Greens in the European Parliament in Brussels. In 1999 she became the first foreigner on a Belgian list, the list of the Walloon Greens ( Ecolo ), to join the European Parliament. During the legislative period from 1999 to 2004, Frassoni was a member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and an alternate member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, as well as a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of South America and Mercosur and the joint parliamentary committee with Cyprus .

Monica Frassoni at a parliamentary group meeting in 2004 (2nd from right)

In 2004 Frassoni entered the list of the Italian Greens and this time moved into the European Parliament for the Italian constituency North-West. As co-chair of the Greens / EFA group, she was also a member of the Conference of Presidents. She was also a member of the Legal Committee and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety . She was also an alternate member of the delegation with Mercosur and the delegation of the Euro- Latin American Parliamentary Assembly . She was also a deputy member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy . She was also an alternate member of the Delegation for relations with Iran and the Delegation of the Euro- Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly .

On January 15, 2007, Frassoni took office as President of Parliament, but failed with 145 votes against EPP politician Hans-Gert Pöttering . In the European elections in Italy in 2009 , the Italian Greens missed the re-entry into the European Parliament, so that Frassoni was also eliminated. Since 2009 she has been a female co-spokesperson for the European Green Party . In addition, she was long-time President of the European Center for Election Assistance .

In the Italian parliamentary elections in 2013 , Frassoni stood as a candidate for the Sinistra Ecologia Libertà for the Senate . She took first place on the list for the Lombardy region , but did not get a seat. The Italian Greens, however, were part of a coalition of Antonio Ingroia , which calls itself Rivoluzione Civile . The young Italian Greens had therefore asked to resign as co-chair of the European Green Party , which they refused.

Web links

Commons : Monica Frassoni  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://europeangreens.eu/menu/egp-people/egp-committee/
  2. ↑ European Union observes upcoming elections in Bolivia , press release on Commission Européenne from June 13, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Frassoni, Monica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician (Greens / EFA), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Veracruz , Mexico