Germany: New Minister of Food and Agriculture is Cem Özdemir

Upon taking office, the new Federal Minister Özdemir thanked his predecessor, Julia Klöckner, and her team for their work.

Özdemir is from Bad Urach in Baden-Württemberg. From 2008 to 2018, he was federal chairman of BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN (Greens). From 1994 to 2002 and again since 2013 he has been a member of the German Bundestag. Until 2021 he was chairman of the Bundestag Committee for Transport and Digital Infrastructure. From 2004 to 2009 he was a member of the European Parliament. In the 2021 federal elections, he was the first Green politician in the Stuttgart constituency to be directly elected.