Heidi Hautala

Heidi Anneli Hautala ( born November 14, 1955 in Oulu) is a Finnish politician of the Green League. From 1991 to 1995 and from 2003 to 2009 she was a member of the Finnish Parliament from 1995 to 2003 and from 2009 to 2011 Member of the European Parliament. Most recently, she held the position of Finnish development aid minister between 2011 and 2013.

Biography

Heidi Hautala was born in 1955 as a subsidiary of Yrjö Sakari Hautala and his wife Margit Vappu Grönqvist Helena Oulu. In 1974 she founded the vegetarian restaurant Kasvis. She also worked as a freelance journalist and had columns in the magazines " Uuden Ajan Aura " (1976-1982) and "Suomi " (1982-1985). From 1980 to 1985 she worked as a teacher for vegetarian cooking. In 1988 she finished her horticultural studies at the University of Helsinki and received the Master 's degree in agriculture and forestry.

1985 Heidi Hautala was elected to the Helsinki City Council (until 1994). In 1987 she took over for four years the chair of her party, the Green League. From 1991 to 1995 she was a member of the Finnish Parliament. After Finland joined the EU in 1995, she moved to the European Parliament, where she was a member of the Greens / European Free Alliance. During this time, she was, among other things Chair of the Committee on Women's Rights and the Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway. From July 1999 to January 2002 she was also chairman of their group. In 2003 she moved back to the Finnish Parliament, where she was chairman of the Legal Committee, among others. Your seat in the European Parliament took on Satu Hassi.

2000 and 2006 ran Hautala for the Green Party for the office of President of Finland, but was defeated both times knocked against Tarja Halonen. At the 2000 election, she was fifth and received 3.3 % of the vote in the 2006 election fourth with 3.5 % of votes.

After the Greens could win a 2009 second seat in the European elections in Finland, Hautala returned as a second green next to Hassi back in the European Parliament. Here she was elected Chairman of the Subcommittee on Human Rights.

According to the Finnish parliamentary election, 2011 Hautala was nominated by her party as Minister for Development Policy. For this they had to resign in the European Parliament; Nachrückerin was Tarja Cronberg. The minister put Hautala in October 2013 as a result of involvement in a scandal involving the icebreaker Nordica down. Hautala had campaigned for Greenpeace activists who had demonstrated against the planned with the ship offshore drilling off the north coast of Alaska. Her successor was Pekka Haavisto.

Hautala is not married. She has an adult son.

Works

• Minun Eurooppani. with Olli Rehn, Allan Rosas and Alexander Stubb, Tammi Kustannusosakeyhtiö, 2003, ISBN 9513123669
• Venäjä - teesit. Vakaus vai vapaus? Tammi Kustannusosakeyhtiö, May 2008, ISBN 978-951-31-4245-2.