1. Monika Hohlmeier is a German politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2009.
12 Facts About Monika Hohlmeier
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Monika Hohlmeier is a member of the Christian Social Union, part of the European People's Party.
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Between 1998 and 2005, Monika Hohlmeier served as Bavarian State Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs in the government of Minister-President Edmund Stoiber.
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Already in 2004, Monika Hohlmeier had resigned as head of the Munich branch of the Christian Social Union after she reportedly threatened critics within the party with unspecified revelations about their personal lives.
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Monika Hohlmeier was a CSU delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in May 2004.
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Monika Hohlmeier has been a Member of the European Parliament since the 2009 European elections.
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Monika Hohlmeier has since been serving on the Committee on Budgets and the parliament's delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China.
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Monika Hohlmeier has served as the parliament's rapporteur on the budget of the European Union in 2015 and in 2020.
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In previous terms, Monika Hohlmeier was a member of the Special Committee on Organized Crime, Corruption and Money Laundering and the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
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In early 2014, the CSU chose Monika Hohlmeier to be the party list's number 3 for the 2014 European elections, following Markus Ferber and Angelika Niebler.
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In Brussels, Monika Hohlmeier has been sharing an apartment with fellow parliamentarian Sabine Verheyen since 2009.
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Amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, Monika Hohlmeier contracted the virus and fell sick in October 2020, but later recovered.