Yana Toom

Yana Toom
MEP
Member of the European Parliament
Assumed office
1 July 2014
Constituency Estonia
Personal details
Born 15 October 1966 (1966-10-15) (age 51)
Tallinn, Estonia
Political party  Estonian
Estonian Centre Party
 EU
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
Alma mater Helsinki University
Website www.yanatoom.ee

Yana Toom (born 15 October 1966) is an Estonian politician and Member of the European Parliament from Estonia. She is a member of the Estonian Centre Party, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.[1]

Political career

In the 2015 Estonian elections, Toom finished third with 11,573 votes; however, she eventually decided to keep her seat in the European Parliament.[2]

A member of the ALDE (Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe), Toom currently serves as her parliamentary group’s coordinator on the Committee on Culture and Education. She has also been a member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, the Committee on Petitions and the parliament's delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee since 2014. In addition to her committee assignments, she is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights.[3]

Controversy

In July 2016, Toom was part of a small delegation of MEPs, including Javier Couso Permuy and Tatjana Ždanoka, which traveled to Damascus to meet Bashar Al-Assad.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Yana TOOM". Europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
  2. ↑ Cynthia Kroet (March 2, 2015), Reform Party wins Estonian election European Voice.
  3. ↑ Members European Parliament Intergroup on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights.
  4. ↑ Maïa de La Baume (July 4, 2017), Push to crack down on rogue European Parliament missions Politico Europe.
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