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Biography
Norbert Lins (born 22 December 1977) is a German politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2014. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party. From 2004 to 2009, he worked as a parliamentary assistant to Andreas Schwab at the European Parliament in Brussels.
Political career
Lins has been a Member of the European Parliament since the 2014 European elections. He first served on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. Since 2017, he has been a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development; he became its chairman in 2019. He was also a member of the Special Committee on the Union’s authorisation procedure for pesticides.
In addition to his committee assignments, Lins is a member of the Parliament's delegation for relations with Switzerland and Norway and to the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee. He also supports the European Parliament Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals.
Political positions
Ahead of the Christian Democrats’ leadership election in 2018, Lins publicly endorsed Friedrich Merz to succeed Angela Merkel as the party’s chair.