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Rasmus Andresen MEP
Member of the European Parliament for Germany
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 July 2019
Personal details
Born	(1986-02-20) 20 February 1986 (age 40) Essen, West Germany
Party	German Alliance 90/The Greens EU European Green Party
Alma mater	Roskilde University

Rasmus Andresen (born 20 February 1986) is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.^[1]

Biography

Andresen was born in Essen.^[2] He mainly grew up in Flensburg and belongs to the Danish minority of Southern Schleswig.^[3] He graduated from Duborg-Skolen in Flensburg and later with a bachelor's degree from Roskilde University in Denmark.

Political career

From 2009 to 2019, Andresen served as a member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein, representing Flensburg. At the time of his first election, he was the parliament's youngest member at 23. From 2017 until 2019, he served as vice-president of the Landtag.^[4]

Andresen has been a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 European elections. He has since been serving on the Committee on Budgets. He is also his parliamentary group's coordinator on the committee.^[5]

In addition to his committee assignments, Andresen is part of the Parliament's delegation for relations with Canada.^[6] He is also a member of the European Internet Forum,^[7] the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Corruption,^[8] the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity,^[9] the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights,^[10] the European Parliament Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas^[11] and the European Parliament Intergroup on Traditional Minorities, National Communities and Languages.^[12]

Since 2021, Andresen has been leading the German delegation within the Greens–European Free Alliance group, succeeding Sven Giegold.^[13]

Other activities

• Institut Solidarische Moderne (ISM), Member (since 2010)^[14]

Political positions

In May 2021, Andresen joined a group of 39 mostly Green Party lawmakers from the European Parliament who in a letter urged the leaders of Germany, France and Italy not to support Arctic LNG 2, a $21 billion Russian Arctic liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, due to climate change concerns.^[15]

On March 16, 2021, Andresen took on a godparenthood for Igor Bancer, a singer and political prisoner from Belarus.^[16]

References

External links

• MEP Profile
• Rasmus-Andresen.eu: Neuer grüner Delegationssprecher aus Queer-Community