Stefan Eck is a German politician, who, since 2014, represented Germany in the European Parliament until 2019. He was elected representing

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, but left the party in December 2014. He sat as an Independent in the

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group. Since January 2020 he has been a member of the

Ecological Democratic Party The Ecological Democratic Party (german: Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei, ÖDP) is a conservative and ecologist minor party in Germany. The ÖDP was founded in 1982. The strongest level of voting support for the ÖDP is in Bavaria, where in ...

Work at the European Parliament

In the European Parliament, he was vice president of the Intergroup on Animal Welfare and Conservation and a full member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He was also a substitute member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and Delegations for relations with the People's Republic of China, the countries of South Asia, the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian States and for relations with the Korean Peninsula. He is also a founding member of the Interparliamentary Interest Group "MEPs for Wildlife". His main activities include animal and human rights as well as environmental protection.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Eck, Stefan 1956 births Living people MEPs for Germany 2014–2019 Ecological Democratic Party politicians Human Environment Animal Protection MEPs Politicians from Hamburg