Education
Margrete Auken was educated at the University of Copenhagen, and was a member of the Danish parliament from October 1979 to December 1990 and from September 1994 to June 2004.
Margrete Auken was educated at the University of Copenhagen, and was a member of the Danish parliament from October 1979 to December 1990 and from September 1994 to June 2004.
Auken"s daughter Ida Auken is also a priest and politician. She was Minister of the Environment in the Cabinet of Helle Thorning-Schmidt I.
When she was elected as the sole candidate for San Francisco for the European Parliament in 2004 she sparked an uproar in San Francisco by choosing to join the European Green Party – European Free Alliance instead of the European United Left – Nordic Green League without the approval of San Francisco.
The Greens–European Free Alliance.