Daniel Freund

During the party's federal congress in November 2018 in Leipzig, Freund was elected to the 20th position on the party's list for the European Parliament elections of 2019. His party, which is a member of the Greens / EFA Group, won 20.5% of the votes in the elections (21 of the 96 German mandates).

In July 2014, Freund moved to the Transparency International office in Brussels, where he was responsible for combating corruption among EU institutions until May 2019 as "Head of Advocacy for EU Integrity". As part of his work with Transparency International, Freund was responsible for EU Integrity Watch (www.integritywatch.eu), as well as the work on legislative transparency, conflicts of interest, lobbying, revolving doors and the legislative footprint. He is a regular speaker at international conferences and frequently appears in the media.

After working as an intern at both the Federal Foreign Office and the EU Delegation in Hong Kong, and as a consultant at Deloitte, Freund worked in the office of Member of the European Parliament Gerald Häfner in Brussels from 2013 to 2014.

In 2005, Freund joined the Alliance 90/The Greens political party. From 2013 to 2019, he became active in the party's working group on European Affairs as a co-opted member and later as one of the committee's vice co-spokespersons.

Daniel Freund (born 14 October 1984) is a German politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since July 2019. He is a member of Alliance 90/The Greens (German: Bündnis 90/Die Grünen or Grüne) at national level, and sits with the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance in the European Parliament.