Katrin Langensiepen

Katrin Langensiepen (born 10 October 1979) is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 elections.

Langensiepen is the first woman Member of the European Parliament with a visible disability.

Before her election to the European Parliament, Langensiepen had been serving as a member of the City Council of Hannover.

[1] Langensiepen has called for reforms to the system of sheltered workshops in Europe, which offer vocational training to people with disabilities.

According to Langensiepen "in Germany, we are talking about 300,000 people working in the sheltered workshops for one euro average per hour".

Katrin Langensiepen presenting herself in a video produced by Heinrich Böll Foundation / Green European Foundation .