Christine Anderson

Christine Margarete Anderson (born 29 July 1968) is a German politician who has served as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.[3] A member of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), Anderson has been described as an activist of the Pegida movement.[4]

Christine Margarete Anderson
MEP
Member of the European Parliament
for Germany
Assumed office
2 July 2019[1][2]
Personal details
Born (1968-07-29) 29 July 1968
Eschwege, West Germany
Political partyAlternative for Germany (AfD)

Background and education

Anderson was born in Eschwege, Hesse, West Germany.[5] She completed a commercial apprenticeship. She lived in the United States for six years, where she studied economics and worked for a US trading company.[6]

Political career

In 2013 Anderson became a member of Alternative for Germany (AfD). From 2016 to 2018, she was the party's group leader in the Limburg-Weilburg district assembly. She was elected to the European Parliament in the 2019 election.[7] Before the election, she stated her goal was to "lead Germany out of this EU nightmare".[4]

Der Spiegel has described Anderson as an activist of the Pegida movement.[4] She has participated in Pegida street protests promoting immigration reform and opposition to Islam.[8] She has also appeared on Rebel News, where she stated her support for the Canada convoy protest.[8]

In the European Parliament, Anderson is a member of the Committee on Culture and Education, the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, and the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Age, and a deputy member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.[9]

Most recently, Anderson was appointed to the Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic, and in a July 2022 session she entered into the record a complaint that there had been too much emphasis upon getting experimental gene therapy treatments into healthy people.[10]

Personal life

Anderson has three children and lives in Fulda.[11][12]

References
  1. "Key dates ahead". European Parliament. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  2. "Key dates ahead". BBC News. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  3. "All chosen in alphabetical order". Der Bundeswahlleiter (in German). Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  4. "AfD sets up a European-critical candidate team". Spiegel.de (in German). 18 November 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  5. "Christine Anderson: Identity and Democracy Group". europarl.europa.eu.
  6. "AfD Hessen: Direktkandidatin Christine Anderson". Archived from the original on 28 May 2019. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  7. "All chosen in alphabetical order - Der Bundeswahlleiter".
  8. "European Politicians Who Defended Ottawa Convoy Also Promote Anti-Vaccine and Anti-Immigrant Policies". Press Progress. 25 March 2020.
  9. Personal profile of Christine Anderson in the European Parliament's database of members
  10. "European Parliament Multimedia Centre". multimedia.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  11. "The political flight of the AfD-EU member Christine Anderson from Limburg to Fulda". Villmarer Nachrichten (in German). 31 July 2020. Archived from the original on 14 August 2020.
  12. "MEP Christine Anderson is a new member of the AfD district executive in Fulda". Osthessen Zeitung (in German). 25 October 2020. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
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