Ville Niinistö
Ville Matti Niinistö (born July 30, 1976 in Turku ) is a Finnish politician ( Green Bund ) and has been a member of the European Parliament since 2019 . From 2011 to 2017 he was party chairman, in the Katainen and Stubb cabinets Niinistö was environment minister from 2011 to 2014.
Life
Niinistö studied political science at the University of Turku and graduated with a master's degree. He then worked at the university as a doctoral student in political history, particularly Finnish foreign policy. He ended this activity in 2007 when he was elected to the Finnish Parliament for the first time for his hometown Turku .
On June 11, 2011, he took over the chairmanship of the Green Confederation from Anni Sinnemäki and on June 22, he became Environment Minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen . Even under Katainen's successor Alexander Stubb , he kept the department. He gave up the party chairmanship in 2017, traditionally after two full terms. He was succeeded by MP Touko Aalto . In 2018 he announced that he did not want to run for the Finnish parliament again.
In 2019 his party nominated him for the electoral list of the 2019 European elections . The Green Bund won significantly in the European elections (from 9.3 percent in the 2014 election to 16 percent) and thus three of the 14 mandates, including Niinistö. Since then he has been a member of the ninth European Parliament and joined the Greens / EFA group . For his group he is a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy . He is also an alternate member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety .
Private
Niinistö was married to Maria Wetterstrand , a former spokeswoman for the Swedish sister party Miljöpartiet de Gröna , until 2012 . The couple has two children, a son (* 2004) and a daughter (* 2007). His uncle is the Finnish President Sauli Niinistö .
fine
In 2013, Niinistö had to pay € 4,800 retrospective vehicle tax because he had used his wife's car, which was registered in Sweden, for trips in Finland. In return, Finnish Customs closed its investigations into tax evasion .
Web links
- Entry for Ville Niinistö in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
Individual evidence
- ↑ Touko Aalto vihreiden puheenjohtajaksi
- ↑ Ville Niinistö harkitsee asettumista ehdolle eurovaaleissa - ei pyri vihreiden puheenjohtajaksi. October 31, 2018, accessed July 5, 2019 (Finnish).
- ↑ Home | Ville NIINISTÖ | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Ville Niinistölle 4800 euron autovero - tulli lopetti veropetostutkinnan yle.fi, August 27, 2013, accessed on October 21, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Niinistö, Ville |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Niinistö, Ville Matti (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish politician (Green Bund), MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turku |