Stefan Eck

Stefan Eck is a German politician, who, since 2014, has been a Member of the European Parliament, representing Germany. He was elected representing Human Environment Animal Protection, but left the party in December 2014. He sits as an Independent in the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group.[1] Since January 2020 he enterd the Ecological Democratic Party.[2]

Stefan Bernhard Eck
Member of the European Parliament
Assumed office
1 July 2014
ConstituencyGermany
Personal details
Born8 January 1956 (1956-01-08) (age 65)
Hamburg, West Germany
NationalityGerman
Political partyEcological Democratic Party
Other political
affiliations
Human Environment Animal Protection (-2014)
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionBusinessman, advertising agent, artist, politician
CommitteesEuropean Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality
AwardsEU4Animals Award

Work at the European Parliament

In the European Parliament, he is vice president of the Intergroup on Animal Welfare and Conservation[3] and a full member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He is also a substitute member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and Delegations for relations with the People's Republic of China, the countries of South Asia, the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian States and for relations with the Korean Peninsula.[4] He is also a founding member of the Interparliamentary Interest Group "MEPs for Wildlife".

His main activities include animal and human rights as well as environmental protection.

References

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