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Satu Hassi

Satu Hassi
Minister of Environment
In office
15 April 1999 – 31 May 2002
Prime MinisterPaavo Lipponen
Preceded byPekka Haavisto
Succeeded byJouni Backman
Member of the European Parliament
for Finland
In office
20 July 2004 – 30 June 2014
Member of the Finnish Parliament
In office
22 April 2015 – 4 April 2023
In office
22 March 1991 – 20 July 2004
Personal details
Born (1951-06-03) 3 June 1951 (age 73)
Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Political partyGreen League
Websitewww.satuhassi.net
Video Introduction (English) / (Finnish)

Satu Maijastiina Hassi (born 3 June 1951) is a Finnish politician, and former Member of the European Parliament for the Green League.[1] She served as the Minister of Environment and Development Co-Operation in Paavo Lipponen's second cabinet between 15 April 1999 and 31 May 2002. In accordance with her party's position on the issue, she quit the cabinet in protest of the government's decision to build a fifth nuclear power plant in Finland.[2] Hassi served as the leader of her party between 1999 and 2001. She was a member of the national parliament from 1991 to 2004; she left the parliament when she was elected to the European Parliament as the sole Finnish Green representative in the 2004 election.

In the European Parliament she was the coordinator of the Greens/EFA parliamentary group in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and a vice member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. She served in the European Parliament until 2014.[3]

In April 2015, Hassi was re-elected to the Finnish Parliament and took on the role as chairperson of the Environment Committee.[4] She remained in office following the election of 2019, but decided to retire at the end of the term in 2023, as the oldest woman in parliament at the time.[5]

Hassi was previously a taistoist, a pro-Soviet member of the Communist Party in the 1970s.

  1. ^ Finnish Government website, Satu Hassi
  2. ^ "Aamulehti website, 'Leaves Parliament immediately'".
  3. ^ Eduskunta Riksdagen website, Members of Parliament, retrieved October 22, 2024
  4. ^ "Satu Hassi, Member of Parliament of Finland - Satu Hassi". www.satuhassi.fi. Retrieved 2024-10-15.
  5. ^ "Tulevaisuus on jotain aivan toista kuin mistä vaaleissa puhutaan, sanoo politiikan toimittaja Unto Hämäläinen". Yle Uutiset (in Finnish). 2023-03-31. Retrieved 2024-10-15.

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