Niklas Nienaß, born in 1992 in Marl/Germany, was a Member of the European Parliament in the Greens/EFA Group from July 2019 to July 2024. He was the coordinator for the Greens/EFA Group in the Committee on Regional Development. As member of the EP's Committee on Culture and Education, he has also positioned himself as a proponent of the cultural and creative sector. Seating also at the EP Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, he championed initiatives on the EU's space policy. Furthermore, he was part of the „Spinelli Group“, a group of pro-European Members of the European Parliament from various political groups. Living in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania since 2013, Niklas Nienaß describes himself as child of the German reunification and as European.