13 Facts About Rebecca Harms

Rebecca Harms was born on 7 December 1956 and is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament from 2004 until 2019.

Rebecca Harms finished school with the Abitur in 1975 and began her career with an apprenticeship in plant nursery and landscape gardening.

Rebecca Harms returned to her home in 1988 to work as a production manager at the Wendland Film Co-operative, producing, among other films, documentaries about the Gorleben protest movement.

From 1994 to 2004, Rebecca Harms was a member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony.

Rebecca Harms has since been a member of the Parteirat, the federal leadership body of Germany's Green Party.

Rebecca Harms is member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee, as well as the delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.

In July 2018, Rebecca Harms announced that she would not stand in the 2019 European elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.

Rebecca Harms has been an outspoken critic of EU funding for the experimental International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor fusion project, money that, in her view, would be better spent on research into renewable energy.

Rebecca Harms was a member of the parliament's monitoring mission during the Ukrainian parliamentary elections in 2014, led by Andrej Plenkovic.

On 25 September 2014 Rebecca Harms, who had arrived in Moscow to witness the court trial against Nadiya Savchenko, was denied entrance to the Russian Federation and was announced as persona non grata.

Rebecca Harms was informed that her entrance to Russia could be qualified as a crime.

In 2015, news media reported that Rebecca Harms was indeed included in a Russian blacklist of prominent people from the European Union who are not allowed to enter the country.

When Finland announced plans in 2014 to build a nuclear reactor in cooperation with Russian firm Rosatom and on the condition that Finland maintains an energy partnership with Russia over the subsequent years, Rebecca Harms described the decision as "wrong".