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Franziska Maria " Ska" Keller (; born 22 November 1981) is a German politician and was member of the European Parliament for the Germany constituency from 2009 to 2024. She is a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens, part of the European Green Party.
From 2016 to 2022, Keller served as co-president of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament. She has been a member of the Committee on Fisheries (PECH) as well as the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI). She was the European Greens' frontrunner during the European elections 2014 together with José Bové and has been elected to lead them again for the European elections 2019, together with Dutchman Bas Eickhout. She served three terms as an MEP (2009–2024), first elected into the European Parliament at the age of 27 in 2009.
In her second term (2014–2019), Keller became co-president of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament in 2016. Additionally, Keller was a member of the Committee on International Trade from 2014 to 2017. She continued to serve as a member of the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee and joined the Parliament's delegation to the Cariforum.
From 2009 to 2011, Keller also served as member of the European Parliament's High-Level Contact Group for Relations with the Turkish Cypriot Community in the Northern Cyprus (CYTR). The no-contact group European Voice, 7 July 2010.
Keller has been a leading candidate of the European Green Party for the European elections in 2014 as well as in 2019. In January 2014, she won the Green Primary, a pan-European open primary. On 24 November 2018, Keller was elected leading candidate for the second time, together with Bas Eickhout.
In July 2019, Keller announced she would be a candidate for the presidency of the European Parliament. Sira Rego of the GUE/NGL, David Sassoli of the S&D and Jan Zahradil of the ECR also ran for the post, with Sassoli eventually winning with the support of 345 out of a total of 667 MEPs.
In September 2022, Keller announced her resignation as co-chair of her party's group and her decision not to run again in the 2024 elections. Rücktritt von Ska Keller: Europa-Grüne suchen neue Chefin Die Tageszeitung, 15 September 2021.
In September 2019, European Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen created the new position of "Vice President for Protecting our European Way of Life", who will be responsible for upholding the rule-of-law, internal security and migration. Keller said it was "scary to see a proposal for a portfolio on 'protecting the European way of life' which includes migration and border protection."
She abbreviated her first name from Franziska to Ska by omitting the first part ('Franzi-')."Ska Keller heißt eigentlich Franziska, nur mochte sie nicht Franzi genannt werden.": Jung, gebildet, ehrgeizig - Berufspolitiker, faz.net, 23 August 2009
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