Daniel Freund (born 14 October 1984 in Aachen) is a German politician who has been serving as a member of the European Parliament since July 2019.

Freund was born and raised in Germany and earned a graduate degree in political science, economics, and law from Leipzig University.

In these capacities, he has served as his parliamentary group's rapporteur on a 2020 plan that linked member states’ access to the budget of the European Union to respect of the rule of law.

The Christian Democrats decided to abstain shortly before the German federal election instead of rejecting the draft as they had previously done in the vote in the Constitutional Affairs Committee.

[17] Since 2023, Freund has been part of the Centre for European Policy Studies/Heinrich Böll Foundation High-Level Group on Bolstering EU Democracy, chaired by Kalypso Nicolaïdis.