Tilly Metz
Tilly Metz (born 26 May 1967 in the Luxembourg City) is a Luxembourgish teacher and politician of the Greens who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since June 2018. Political career. Career in local politics. Metz served as chairman of the Luxembourg Greens between 2004 and 2009. From 2005 to 2011 she was Mayor of Weiler-la-Tour, succeeding Cécile Hemmen in office. From December 2017, she was a member of the City Council of Luxembourg. At the 2014 European Parliament election, when her party won a seat, Claude Turmes achieved the second highest  number of votes on the Green list. Member of the European Parliament, 2018–present. After the death of Secretary of State Camille Gira in May 2018, Turmes returned to national politics and took over his post in the Bettel-Schneider government the following month. For him, Metz moved to the European Parliament on 20 June 2018. For the remainder of her term, she served as a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and was a member of the delegations for relations with India and the countries of the Andean Community. Following the 2019 elections, Metz was part  of a cross-party working group in charge of drafting the European Parliament's four-year work program on digitization. Also since 2019, Metz has been serving on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety as well as on the Committee on Transport and Tourism. Since 2020, she has also been chairing the Committee of Inquiry on the Protection of Animals during Transport. In 2022, she joined the Special Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to her committee assignments, Metz has been part of the Parliament's delegations for relations with the countries of Central America  and to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat). She is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights, the European Parliament Intergroup on Disability, the European Parliament Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals, and the MEPs Against Cancer group. Other activities. Metz served as president of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Luxembourg, vice-president of the High Disability Council (CSPH) and member of the Board of Directors of a rehabilitation center in Luxembourg. Controversy. In February 2019, Metz was one of four Green MEPs (the others being Molly Scott Cato, Michèle Rivasi, and Thomas  Waitz) who were temporarily arrested after breaking into the Kleine Brogel Air Base to protest the presence of U.S. B61 nuclear bombs on European soil; the protest followed the U.S. withdrawal from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty earlier that month. Personal life. Metz lives in her hometown, is married and has an adult daughter.