1. Joseph Leinen was born on 6 April 1948 and is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament from 1999 until 2019.
17 Facts About Jo Leinen
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Jo Leinen is a member of the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
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Jo Leinen is well known for his environmental and foreign affairs activities, as well as for his support for a Federal Europe.
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Jo Leinen obtained a law degree in Germany in 1972 and a Certificate of Advanced European Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, in 1974.
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Jo Leinen became publicly known as a spokesman of the anti-nuclear movement and the peace movement, he was active for the Bundesverband Burgerinitiativen Umweltschutz.
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Jo Leinen received the nickname "container-Jo" during a demonstration, having climbed a container in order to coordinate protest actions by megaphone.
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Jo Leinen is a member of the SPD and had different functions:.
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From 1985 until 1999, Jo Leinen was a Member of the Landtag of Saarland.
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Jo Leinen served as State Minister of the Environment in the government of Minister-President Oskar Lafontaine between 1985 and 1994.
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From 1995, Jo Leinen was a substitute member of the Committee of the Regions, invariably standing in for Lafontaine.
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Jo Leinen was elected Member of the European Parliament without interruption from 1999 until 2019.
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In 2015, Jo Leinen was one of the Parliament's two rapporteurs on a set of proposed changes to EU electoral law that sought to regularize a variety of different electoral systems across the EU.
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Jo Leinen was Chairman of the German section of the Young European Federalists from 1977 to 1979 and a member of its Federal Committee at European level, then chaired by Richard Corbett.
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Jo Leinen was European Secretary of the youth section of the SPD and Vice-President of the European Environment Bureau in Brussels from 1979 to 1984.
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Jo Leinen was member in the Committee of the Regions from 1995 to 1999 and in the Congress of the Regions and Communes of the Council of Europe.
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Jo Leinen served as vice-president of the European Movement International from 2005 to 2011 until in November 2011 he was elected president of the organisation.
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Jo Leinen has been President of the Union of European Federalists since 1997.