Jamila Anna Schäfer (born 30 April 1993) is a German politician of

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who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since the

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, representing the Munich South district. From 2018 to 2022 she served as one of her party's deputy chairs, under the leadership of Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck

Early life

Born to a physiotherapist and a

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, Schäfer grew up in Munich’s Großhadern district. In 2012 she started a law degree at

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, which she did not complete. Since 2013 she is studying sociology with a minor in

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and

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which she had not completed as of February 2022

Political career

From 2015 to 2017, Schäfer served as chair of the '' Green Youth'', the Green Party’s

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. From 2018 to 2022, Schäfer was part of the Green Party’s national leadership around co-chairs Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck, where she coordinated the party’s activities on European and international affairs. Schäfer was elected Member of the Bundestag for Munich South in the

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. In the negotiations to form a so-called

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of the

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(SPD), the Green Party and the

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(FDP) following the elections, Schäfer was part of her party's delegation in the working group on European affairs, co-chaired by

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and

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. In parliament, Schäfer has been serving on the Budget Committee (since 2021), the Committee on Foreign Affairs (since 2021) and the Subcommittee on the United Nations (since 2022). On the Budget Committee, she is her parliamentary group’s rapporteur on the

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of the Federal Foreign Office. She is also a member of the so-called ''Confidential Committee'' (''Vertrauensgremium'') of the Budget Committee, which provides budgetary supervision for Germany's three intelligence services, BND,

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and MAD.

Other activities

* Heinrich Böll Foundation, Member of the General Assembly

Political positions

Within the Green Party, Schäfer is considered to be part of its

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. She is a vegetarian.

Controversy

In early 2022, Schäfer became one of the six subjects of an embezzlement investigation launched by the Berlin public prosecutor’s office into the entire leadership board of the Green Party over the payment of so-called ‘corona bonuses,’ which had been paid in 2020 to all employees of the party’s federal office and at the same time to its board.

Personal life

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References

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