December 20, 2021

Germany appoints new agriculture minister

Germany has appointed Cem Özdemir as the country's new Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture.

From 2008 to 2018, Özdemir 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, Özdemir was chairman of the Bundestag Committee for Transport and Digital Infrastructure.

From 2004 to 2009, he was a member of the European Parliament.

In Germany's federal elections this year, he was the first Green politician in the Stuttgart constituency to be directly elected.

- BMEL (Germany)