Jo Leinen
Jo ( Joseph) Linen ( born April 6, 1948 in Bisten ) is a German politician. Since 1999 he has been an MEP for the SPD in the Socialist Group in the European Parliament (EP). Since November 2011, Jo Leinen is President of the European Movement International ( EMI).
Life and education
After graduating from high school and the study of law in Saarbrücken and Bonn put Jo Leinen 1972, the first legal state exam. After living 1973/1974 at the College of Europe in Bruges and at the Institute for World Affairs in Connecticut in 1976 was the second state examination. After that he worked as a lawyer in Freiburg from 1977 to 1984.
Policy
Extra-parliamentary work
Linen was known in 1980 as the spokesman of the anti-nuclear and peace movement, also active at the Federation Citizens ' Initiatives for Environmental Protection ( BBU) and a member of Friends of Nature in Germany.
Because of his participation in the demonstration against the nuclear power plant Brokdorf (1981 ) - when it came to violent clashes - he was accused of being a " leader and guide ", but ultimately acquitted because the Federal Constitutional Court made it clear that it in such collective action is not directing " leaders and leaders " are. One of his defenders was Gerhard Schröder.
In 1982, Egon Franke, head of the canal workers fraction of the SPD in the Bundestag made , strong for the exclusion of the party left Jo Leinen. As a speaker at the Bonn peace demonstration on 10 June 1982, he was no longer viable. The party rights could not prevail - Linen remained and moderated a year later the peace demonstration in Bonner Hofgarten in 1983 even with Eva Quistorp.
Party
Jo Leinen is a member of the SPD and have been active there in various capacities. He was:
Country's politics
Between 1985 and 1999 lines was a member of the Landtag of Saarland in the 9th - 11th Election period. 1994-1999 was there Linen Chairman of the EU Committee.
In 1985, Environment Minister in the cabinet of then Prime Minister Oskar Lafontaine Jo Leinen in the Saarland. He held until 1994 this office. 1999 linen also a member of the City Council of Nailsworth / Saar.
European Parliament
Since the 1999 European elections linen is a member of the European Parliament.
In Parliament, he was Deputy Chairman 2002-2004 and 2004-2009 Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs. From 2004 he was also a substitute member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. In the European elections in 2009, he again won a mandate and was from July 2009 to January 2012 Chairman of the EP Environment Committee.
He was from 1995 to 1999 Member of the Committee of the Regions and the Congress of the regions and local authorities of Europe. He is currently a member of various cultural, social and sports organizations, Vice President of EURO SOLAR eV and a member of the Parliamentary Working Group "A Soul for Europe " initiative.
He is also a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and deputy member of the Delegation for India.
More offices
Jo Leinen was 1977-1979 Chairman of the Young European Federalists ( JEF ) and 1979-1984 Vice- President of the European Environmental Bureau ( EEB ), Brussels. He was 1997-2005 President of the Union of European Federalists, from 2003 to 2011 Vice - President of the International European Movement and its president since 2011. He is also a member of the Presidium of the European Union, Germany. Since October 2009 he has been Co- Chairman of the Parliamentary Advisory Council of the International Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly.
Memberships
Linen is a member of the bipartisan European Union Germany. In the European Parliament he is a member of the European Union Parliamentarians European Parliament.
Awards
Criticism
In the criticism came linen when he attacked the judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court, after no longer the transfer of powers from national governments to the EU by " dynamic competence clauses " in the " Lisbon Treaty " without the express consent of the Bundestag possible. He called it a " brake integration " and should have clarified the fact that the pace of the integration process it is more important than the judgments of the Constitutional Court or the self-determination of the Member States.
Writings
- Public in Europe: European public as a new drive for European policy. In: Claudio Franzius, Ulrich K. Preuss (eds. ): European public. Baden -Baden 2004, pp. 31-37.
- Together with Justus Schönau: On the road to European democracy. Political parties at European level: recent developments. In: integration. 3/2003, pp. 218-227.
- Together with Jan Phillips: Europe's future. Nomos, Baden -Baden 2011.