Eva Lichtenberger
Eva Lichtenberger (actually Evelin Lichtenberger ;) ( born July 1, 1954 in Zams ) is an Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament. Lichtenberger became known as the national politician of the Green Party in Tyrol.
Training
After leaving school at a high school in Innsbruck Eva Lichtenberger 1972-1974 studied at the Pedagogical Academy in Innsbruck and worked for several years as a primary and lower secondary school teacher in Tirol. In 1975, she began part-time with the study of psychology and art history, from 1979 studied Lichtenberger also political science at the University of Innsbruck. She graduated in 1987 with a doctorate ( Dr. phil. ) From.
Political career
From the mid- 1980s, Eva Lichtenberger began to get involved in the green movement. In addition to the commitment to women's chair she was spokesperson for the Citizens' Initiative " Haller air " and made there first political experiences, also Lichtenberger was an advisory member of the environment committee of the City Hall. From 1988 she was project manager of cross -border environmental initiative Green Alternative ARGE ALP, aimed at the protection of the Alpine region to the destination.
1989 Eva Lichtenberger was the top candidate of the Green Party in the Tyrolean Landtag elections and moved as Group Chairman in the state legislature. This managed the Greens in Tirol first time the collection in the state legislature, with over 8% of the votes. The position of chairwoman had Lichtenberger held until 1994 and was known for its oppositional stance on transit issues. In the 1994 elections, the Greens were able to greatly increase their voting rights in Tyrol and got a seat in the state government. Eva Lichtenberger was the first Green in Austria State Minister for Environmental Protection. In 1999, Lichtenberger of Tyrol in the National Council. There she was from 1999 to 2004 Member of the Transport Committee, the Committee on National Defense and the Joint Committee (responsible for European Affairs ) and spokesperson for the Greens on Transport and Tourism. From 2002 to 2004 she took over as deputy member of the Austrian National Council on the European Convention, in part, who had been entrusted with the drafting of the EU Constitutional Treaty, the forerunner of the Treaty of Lisbon. From 2003 to 2005 she took part in the Austria Convention, was in the debate about a fundamental administrative and constitutional reform.
2004 Eva Lichtenberger was elected to the European Parliament. In the European Parliament Eva Lichtenberger is a member of the Committee in which she treats a wide variety of mobility issues, traffic of goods, air traffic, the issue of postal liberalization, to river traffic, noise regulations and various other important traffic- or infrastructure issues on Transport and Tourism (TRAN ). Her focus is in the area of environmental and coastal protection, and social compatibility.
As a substitute member of the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI ), it deals with different topics. While lying their focus on privacy or copyright issues, but the topics of the JURI are very diverse. It is about inheritance and divorce law, the application of EU law, the regulation of the financial market, corporate and business law. When inheritance and divorce her focus was on the protection of women's rights and same-sex partnerships.
Both in JURI and in TRAN she is the spokesperson of the Greens / EFA group for the 2009-2014 legislative term.
Furthermore, it is a full member of the Delegation for relations with the People 's Republic of China in which they discussed environmental and economic policy as well as human and women's rights issues. In her role as Vice -President of the Tibet Intergroup ( a cross-party working group ) it deals with the issue of Tibet. In its role as representative of the Delegation for relations with the U.S., which it has held since 2009, it is primarily concerned with the issues of climate protection, internet freedom and privacy. Furthermore, it is in this delegation in the working groups on data protection and transport issues. The controversial SWIFT Agreement, the PNR agreement were the main topics on the part of data protection. In the area of climate change, it is primarily a matter to lead the dialogue on a new global climate agreement with the United States. The dominant climate policy issue is the opposition of the United States against the extension of emissions trading to air traffic.
In its first term (2004-2009) she was rapporteur on the Green Paper on European transport networks of the EU Commission and alternate member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee EU-Mexico and the Euro- Latin American Parliamentary Assembly and sat there actively for women's and human rights. In the highly controversial patenting of software Lichtenberger played a major role in the resistance against the very far-reaching proposal. The rejection of this policy was a great success before all for open source and many small and medium-sized enterprises which otherwise legal attacks by large companies would have been exposed. A key concern to animal welfare. In the course of their work in the Transport Committee it has been massively for a shortening of the animal transport times and transport conditions. It supports campaigns ( 8 hours, ban on battery cages for laying hens ) and petitions, taking part in various conferences and actions, so as to set an example for the welfare of animals and to generate public interest / awareness.
The end of 2006 Eva Lichtenberger was elected as vice -chairman by an overwhelming majority in the board of the Greens / EFA, in which she worked until 2011. Since 2008 she is a member of the Advisory Board of Europarl, the Internet TV channel of the European Parliament. This service provides live broadcasts of parliamentary and committee meetings, news and discussion programs and instructional videos with subtitles in all 22 official EU languages.
In the European elections in Austria 2009, she again reached a mandate.
Awards
- 2002: Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria