Tilly Metz

Tilly Metz (2017)

Tilly Metz (born on May 26, 1967 in Luxembourg ) is a Luxembourgish teacher and politician ( Déi Gréng ). Metz moved up to the European Parliament in June 2018 and was re-elected in the 2019 European elections. There she is a member of the Greens / EFA group .

Study and job

After graduating from the Lycée de garçons de Luxembourg , Metz began studying psychology , pedagogy and psychomotor skills at the Institut libre Marie Haps in Brussels, which she continued at the Catholic University of Leuven and successfully completed in 1994. She then taught at the Institut d'Etudes Educatives et Sociales (IEES), which became the Lycée Technique pour Professions Educatives et Sociales (LTPES) in 2005 . In September 2017 she became deputy headmaster there.

politics

Metz acted as party spokeswoman for the Luxembourg Greens between 2004 and 2009 . From 2005 to 2011 she was mayor of Weiler zum Turm , where she was succeeded by Cécile Hemmen . From December 2017 she was a member of the Luxembourg City Council.

In the 2014 European elections , in which her party Déi Gréng won a seat , she achieved the second highest number of votes on the electoral list after Claude Turmes . After the death of State Secretary Camille Gira in May 2018, Claude Turmes returned to national politics and took over his office in the state government the following month . For him, Metz moved up to the European Parliament on June 20, 2018. There she was a member of the group The Greens / EFA . For the group, she was a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and was a member of the delegations for relations with India and the countries of the Andean Community . She was also an alternate member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection . She subsequently gave up her city council mandate in favor of Christa Brömmel.

For the 2019 European elections , her party nominated her on March 16, 2018, together with the spokesman for the youth organization of the Greens, Meris Sehovic , as a double head for the election. Déi Gréng won 18.9 percent in the European elections in Luxembourg and thus one of the six Luxembourg mandates. Tilly Metz moved back directly to the European Parliament and, as before, joined the group The Greens / EFA. In the ninth legislative period (2019-2024) she is a member of the parliamentary group's committee on environmental issues, public health and food safety and the committee on transport and tourism . She is an alternate member of the Agriculture and Rural Development Committee .

Others

Metz lives in the city where she was born, is married and has a grown daughter. She is President of the Luxembourg Multiple Sclerosis Society and a member of the Board of Directors of a rehabilitation center in Luxembourg. Until the beginning of 2019 she was Vice President of the High Council of Disabled People (CSPH).

Web links

Personal website
Entry on Tilly Metz in the European Parliament 's database of MEPs

Tilly Metz ( Memento of June 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) on the Luxembourg City website (French)

Tilly Metz on the website of the Greens in Luxembourg City (French)

Individual evidence

↑ Election results of the 2014 European elections on the website of the Luxembourg government, accessed on February 1, 2019. (French)
↑ 8th legislative term | Tilly METZ | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 8, 2019 .
^ Claude Turmes: back to national politics. Lëtzebuerger Journal , May 29, 2018, accessed on February 8, 2019.
↑ Nico Wildschutz: EU election: Tilly Metz should head the green list together with Meris Sehovic. Tageblatt , January 23, 2019, accessed February 8, 2019.
↑ Home | Tilly METZ | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 7, 2019 .
↑ List of board members on the website of the MS Society, accessed on September 23, 2019. (French)
↑ Conseil d'administration on the website of the Rehabilitation Center, accessed on September 23, 2019. (French)
↑ Arrêté ministériel du 11 janvier 2019, concernant la nomination de nouveaux membres du CSPH. Publication of the new members of the CSPH on the Luxembourg government's law server, accessed on 23 September 2019 (French)

personal data
SURNAME	Metz, Tilly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Luxembourg politician (Déi Gréng) and teacher, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH	May 26, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH	Luxembourg City , Luxembourg

[1] Election results of the 2014 European elections on the website of the Luxembourg government, accessed on February 1, 2019. (French)

[2] 8th legislative term | Tilly METZ | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 8, 2019 .

[3] Claude Turmes: back to national politics. Lëtzebuerger Journal , May 29, 2018, accessed on February 8, 2019.

[4] Nico Wildschutz: EU election: Tilly Metz should head the green list together with Meris Sehovic. Tageblatt , January 23, 2019, accessed February 8, 2019.

[5] Home | Tilly METZ | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 7, 2019 .

[6] List of board members on the website of the MS Society, accessed on September 23, 2019. (French)

[7] Conseil d'administration on the website of the Rehabilitation Center, accessed on September 23, 2019. (French)

[8] Arrêté ministériel du 11 janvier 2019, concernant la nomination de nouveaux membres du CSPH. Publication of the new members of the CSPH on the Luxembourg government's law server, accessed on 23 September 2019 (French)