Rebecca Harms

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Rebecca Harms (2014)

Rebecca Harms (born December 7, 1956 in Hambrock ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). She was a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 to 2019 , chaired the Greens / European Free Alliance (Greens / EFA) group and chaired the delegation in the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly until 2016 . In July 2018, Harms announced that he would not run again in the 2019 European elections due to differences in content with parts of the European Greens . She is a member of the Center for Liberal Modernism .

Life and work

Rebecca Harms grew up in a small village in Lower Saxony near Uelzen. She has two siblings. In 1975 she completed her school career with the Abitur in Uelzen. She successfully completed her training as a tree nursery and landscape gardener in 1979. It was politically influenced by the anti-nuclear movement and is a declared opponent of nuclear power . In 1977 she was a co-founder of the Lüchow-Dannenberg environmental protection initiative , which opposes the Gorleben repository project , and in 1982 she became chairwoman of the citizens' initiative. In 1980 she was the spokeswoman for the Free Republic of Wendland as a four-week long hut village in Wendland. In 1984 she went to Brussels to work for Undine von Blottnitz, a member of the European Parliament . In 1988 she returned to Lower Saxony and worked on film projects. She lives in a village in the Waddeweitz municipality in Wendland .

Political party

Rebecca Harms was 1998-2015 member of the party council of Alliance 90 / The Greens .

MPs

MdL in Lower Saxony (1994-2004)

From 1994 to 2004 she was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament and from 1998 to 2004 chairwoman of the Green parliamentary group. For she moved Filiz Polat by while Stefan Wenzel new party leader was.

MEP and two-time green top candidate (2004-2019)

6th European Parliament (2004-2009)

In the 2004 European elections , she entered the European Parliament as the top candidate for Alliance 90 / The Greens . There she was spokeswoman for the German group and vice-president of the Greens / EFA parliamentary group and was particularly active in matters of climate protection and energy policy.

7th European Parliament (2009-2014)

For the European elections in Germany in 2009 she was again nominated by Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen as a top candidate. In July 2010 she was unanimously elected chairman of the Greens / EFA group. Their co-group chairman was Daniel Cohn-Bendit , who was elected to parliament via the French list of Europe Écologie .

8th European Parliament (2014-2019)

On February 8, 2014, she was elected to number 1 on the European list and thus once again the top candidate for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen for the European elections in 2014. She was also confirmed as group leader and from 2015 to the end of 2016 she headed the group of Greens / EFA together with the Belgian MEP Philippe Lamberts .

Since February 2017, she has been Chair of the Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly and a member of the Conference of Delegation Chairs. She is a member of the Committee for Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), the Committee of Inquiry into Emission Measurements in the Automotive Industry (EMIS) and the delegation to the EU- Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee, as well as the delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. She is a deputy on the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI).

In July 2018, Harms announced that he would not run for the European Parliament again in the 2019 European elections due to differences in content with parts of the European Greens .

Memberships

Harms is a member of the Europa-Union parliamentary group European Parliament and founding member of the citizens' initiative for environmental protection in Lüchow-Dannenberg .

Political commitment

Rebecca Harms

Rebecca Harms protested in June 2013 together with the staff of the Greek state broadcaster ERT in Athens . The employees occupied the broadcaster, whose program was shut down by the police in early June. In connection with the protests against the station's closure, Harms condemned the EU's austerity policies .

In November 2012, Rebecca Harms visited the Amygdaleza refugee camp in Attica, Greece, where refugee minors are also detained. With a letter of protest she turned against the conditions in the camp.

In June 2012, together with MEP Werner Schulz , she demonstrated in the Kharkiv Metalist Stadium as part of the European Championship match between Germany and the Netherlands for the release of Yulia Tymoshenko and other political prisoners imprisoned in Ukraine.

Positions

Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement

With regard to the transatlantic free trade agreement with the USA , which is under discussion , Harms calls for the negotiations to be suspended. The EU's strict environmental and consumer protection standards should not be undermined, also in order to prevent genetically modified food.

Nuclear policy

In 2006 she commissioned two British scientists to study the health consequences of the Chernobyl disaster . The results of this study, which was called TORCH for short after the English title The Other Report on Chernobyl , differ from the statements in official reports from the IAEA .

On the occasion of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, Harms renewed her appeal for an international nuclear phase-out : Fukushima had shown that the safety of the reactors could not be guaranteed. In a guest contribution in the Tagesspiegel on the subject of public participation in the search for nuclear waste , Harms said that the repository forum convened by Federal Environment Minister Peter Altmaier was a "failure".

Regarding the search for a repository, she said several times: "The haste in the legislative process is actually incompatible with the patience that is required for serious participation procedures". “Trust is a prerequisite for the goal of solving the task of disposing of nuclear waste. Citizens have to regain confidence in politics, but politicians also have to grant citizens competence in the question of finding a repository ”. Rebecca Harms expects a decision to search for a repository to be based on the broad participation of experts and civil society.

EU climate policy

Following the publication of the latest world climate report by the IPCC , Harms was critical of the lack of willingness to act on the part of the EU member states and the EU Commission: "The gap between the findings of scientists and the willingness to act in European politics is growing ever larger". The climate targets for 2030 that are currently under discussion are nowhere near enough.

Austerity policy

During her visits to Greece, Harms criticized the European austerity policy: “We see that the austerity policy has come to an end. We need investments, we need to reduce the pressure to save, we need direct aid for the health sector, which is also being saved to death. What is happening here in Greece must be stopped. "

Relationship between the EU and Ukraine

Rebecca Harms warned in the context of the planned, initially failed, Association Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine against "postponing the project indefinitely". What is needed is “a European leadership that is coherent and consistent in defining interests vis-à-vis Russia, but also does not simply allow things to slide in Ukraine”. She also believes that it is important that the EU support Ukraine's political opposition and take seriously the desire of many Ukrainians for rapprochement with the EU.

In the winter of 2013/2014, Rebecca Harms traveled to Kiev several times to support the Euromaidan protest movement there , which advocates closer ties between Ukraine and the European Union. She is convinced that Ukraine needs a European perspective and believes that it is very important for the EU that conditions are democratic and stable in Ukraine. Harms therefore calls for a round table to be convened quickly, at which not only the government and the opposition should sit, but also representatives of civil society.

Crimean crisis 2014

In an interview on March 3, 2014 at Radio Bremen , Harms spoke out in favor of sanctions against the Russian leadership as part of the 2014 Crimean crisis. Russia wants to destabilize Ukraine and is preparing to invade Ukraine.

By means of a resolution introduced in the European Parliament, Harms and Daniel Cohn-Bendit wanted to prevent former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder from making public statements critical of the EU about the Crimean crisis in mid-March 2014 . Schröder should "not make any public statements on issues affecting Russia," as he is in a clear conflict of interest due to his relationship with Gazprom . The request was rejected.

On September 25, 2014 Harms was refused entry to Russia. She was told she was an undesirable person . Harms wanted to attend a court hearing against the Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko in Moscow . She is one of the 89 people from the European Union against whom Russia - as it became known at the end of May 2015 - has imposed an entry ban. Harms signed an open letter to the German Chancellor and the Federal Foreign Minister asking them to campaign for the release of the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov , who was imprisoned in Russia .

EU agricultural policy

Harms was critical of the EU agricultural reform: “If we are not careful, this reform will massively intensify structural change. The big ones will be the winners again. The direct payments were not severely capped. The original aim was to decouple and cap area-based payments. The compromises that have now been found continue the injustice of the funding. "

EU copyright reform

In the debate on EU copyright reform with controversial issues such as upload filters and ancillary copyright Harms positioned as a supporter of the design. In an edition of her newsletter she states that this would strengthen the creative industries and that internet giants would experience the necessary regulation. In addition, she argues that her position is linked to “ Putin's anti-Western propaganda ” . In the vote on September 12, 2018, 5 out of 11 German MPs from the Greens / EFA group voted against the copyright draft supported by Harms.

Fonts

Web links

Commons : Rebecca Harms  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: Rebecca Harms  - on the news

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c European Parliament - MEPs: Rebecca Harms , accessed on 28 February 2017.
  2. ↑ root: Members. Retrieved February 27, 2017 .
  3. ↑ 20 years 1989 - Europe on the move. Brief biographies of the speakers. Heinrich Böll Foundation , March 16, 2009, accessed on July 12, 2016 .
  4. ^ Rebecca Harms new BI chairwoman in: Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung of February 9, 1982
  5. ↑ Rebecca Harms withdraws from European politics NDR, April 23, 2019
  6. ↑ Ute Scheub: 40 years of taz: “A huge success for the resistance” . In: The daily newspaper: taz . September 27, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on September 28, 2018]).
  7. ↑ http://www.rebecca-harms.de/download/Portrait_RebeccaHarms.pdf
  8. ↑ http://www.gruene.de/über-uns/rebecca-harms-sven-giegold-sind-das-spitzenduo-der-europaliste.html
  9. ↑ Green MP Harms is not running again for EU Parliament , Spiegel Online, July 3, 2018
  10. ↑ a b c This is reminiscent of a coup - The protests over the closure of the Greek state broadcaster continue. The Green MEP sees the austerity policy at the end . In: taz , June 14, 2013. Retrieved November 7, 2013.
  11. ^ A b Amygdaleza - The five star Detention Center.Retrieved November 5, 2013.
  12. ↑ spiegel.de June 13, 2012: Green politicians show political posters at the EM game
  13. ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur : Greens warn of immeasurable dangers in free trade agreements - European politician Rebecca Harms criticizes American agro-industry , July 9, 2013, accessed on November 6, 2013.
  14. ↑ Dramatic fall in new nuclear power stations after Fukushima - The drop in construction work on new reactors may reflect waning interest in nuclear after the shutdown of the Japan reactor a year ago . In: The Guardian , March 8, 2012, accessed November 8, 2013.
  15. ↑ a b c Overburdened politicians - Repository Search Act . In: Der Tagesspiegel , May 31, 2013. Accessed April 30, 2015.
  16. ↑ The Persevering - Rebecca Harms has been fighting Gorleben in Wendland for almost 40 years. Now the Greens are taking on their party leadership . In: Friday , June 15, 2013. Retrieved on November 7, 2013.
  17. ↑ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urges people to act . In: Die Welt , March 31, 2012. Retrieved April 3, 2014.
  18. ↑ Summit host Lithuania: Ukraine on the wrong path . Interview about the EU summit in Vilnius, deutschlandfunkkultur.de, November 29, 2013.
  19. ↑ Deutsche Welle : Harms: “The Association Agreement is a projection screen for wishes” , December 15, 2013, accessed on February 17, 2014.
  20. ↑ "Putin goes all out" Interview with Radio Bremen on March 3, 2014, documented on rebecca-harms.de.
  21. ↑ Schröder should now shut up , Die Zeit from March 13, 2014
  22. ↑ Greens want to ban Schröder's mouth , Die Welt from March 13, 2014
  23. ↑ Russia denies entry to the Green Party , Die Zeit on September 25, 2014
  24. ↑ Andreas Borcholte: Entry bans: Russia accuses EU politicians of showing behavior . In: Spiegel Online . May 31, 2015.
  25. ^ Mathias Arnold Theodor Roth: Russian Visa Blocking List. (PDF; 23 kB) In: yle.fi. Yleisradio, May 27, 2015, accessed June 5, 2015 .
  26. ↑ Preventing Oleg Sentsov's Death! Heinrich Böll Foundation , May 29, 2018, accessed on February 18, 2019 .
  27. ↑ The winners are again the big ones - Greens parliamentary group leader Rebecca Harms: Reform of the EU agricultural policy continues the injustice of funding . In: Landeszeitung Lüneburg , October 25, 2013. Accessed November 7, 2013.
  28. ↑ Newsletter July 2018. Rebecca Harms, July 9, 2018, accessed on September 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Harms, Rebecca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (B90 / Greens), MdL, MEP and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 7th December 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Hambrock