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Niklas Nienaß

Niklas Nienaß
Niklas Nienaß during an interview on the Interreg Youtube channel
Member of the European Parliament
for Germany
In office
2 July 2019 – 2024
Personal details
Born (1992-04-14) April 14, 1992 (age 32)
Marl, Germany
Political party German
Alliance 90/The Greens
 EU
European Green Party
Alma materUniversity of Rostock

Niklas Nienaß (born 14 April 1992) is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024.[1]

Political career

In parliament, Nienaß served on the Committee on Regional Development and the Committee on Culture and Education.[2] From 2021, he was part of the parliament's delegation to the Conference on the Future of Europe.[3]

In addition to his committee assignments, Nienaß was part of the parliament's delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan, EU-Uzbekistan and EU-Tajikistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and for relations with Turkmenistan and Mongolia.[4] He was also a member of the Spinelli Group,[5] the European Parliament Intergroup on Children’s Rights,[6] the European Parliament Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development,[7] the European Parliament Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas[8] and the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights.[9]

Political positions

In May 2021, Nienaß 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.[10]

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