Tiemo Wölken

Member of the European Parliament (SPD-S&D), JURI Rapporteur on the Anti-SLAPPs Directive

Tiemo Wölken is a politician from northern Germany. He has been active in local politics since 2003 in his home region. He holds a LL.M. in International Law from the University of Hull, England. Since 2016, he has been a lawyer, in addition to being a Member of the European Parliament. MEP Wölken is the S&D Coordinator in the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and a Member in the Committee on Legal Affairs, where he was also the rapporteur on the initiative report on “strengthening democracy and media freedom and pluralism in the EU: the undue use of actions under civil and criminal law to silence journalists, NGOs and civil society.”

Twitter: @woelken