Sabine Wils

Sabine Wils, MEP

Sabine Wils (born 31 May 1959, Aachen) is an MEP for Germany from Die Linke.

Affiliations

• Member, ENVI Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
• Member, DEEA Delegation for relations with Switzerland and Norway and to the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee
• Substitute, TRAN Committee on Transport and Tourism

Record and Controversies

Declaration of Financial Interests

• Nothing to declare.

Record of Parliamentary Votes

Election Campaign 2009

Sabine Wils Has pledged to all four issues presented by the Election Campaign:

• to provide leadership in lobbying transparency and ethics,
• to provide leadership in reforming financial architecture,
• to promote a full-scale rethink of the EU trade policy,
• to promote corporate accountability.

Personal Information

Curriculum Vitae

• Trained as a midwife in Hamburg (1978-1980); studied at Hamburg University, graduating in chemistry (1980-1988).
• Worked as a midwife for Hamburg Regional Hospitals (1980-1985); employed by FHH Environmental Authority in the field of technical environmental protection (1989-1997); released from normal duties to chair the Staff Committee, latterly in the Urban Development and Environment Authority (1997-June 2009).
• Member, German Socialist Workers' Youth and Spartakus Marxist Students' Association; member, German Communist Party (1980-1989); member, PDS Party and subsequently of DIE LINKE Party (since 1999).
• Member, spokespersons' committee of the Business and Trade Unions Platform of DIE LINKE; co-founder and member, European Network of Trade Unionists in, and in association with, the European Left; member, ver.di trade union, specialising in 'the Federation, regions and municipalities'.

Contact

Address:

Parlement européen

Bât. Altiero Spinelli

06F247

60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60

B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel

Phone:

+32(0)2 28 45644

Fax

+32(0)2 28 49644

Email:

sabine.wils AT europarl.europa.eu

Website:

http://www.sabine-wils.eu/

This article is part of the MEPedia project of Spinwatch.

Resources

• European Parliament, MEP Directory: Sabine Wils, accessed 03 April 2011.