Astrid Lulling

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Astrid Lulling (born 11 June 1929 in Schifflange) is a Luxembourgish politician with a long career in national and European politics.

European Parliament
- Served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1965 to 1974 and again from 1989 to 2014.
- Represented the Christian Social People's Party (CSV), which is part of the European People’s Party (EPP).
- Held roles such as Member of the Parliament’s Bureau and Quaestors, and served on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality.
- Took part in the Delegation for relations with Central America and the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly.
- Was a substitute on the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and on the Delegation for relations with Southeast Asia and ASEAN.

National and local career
- Studied political economy at the University of Saarbrücken (1953–1955).
- Secretary and editor of the Luxembourg Workers’ Union (1949–1963).
- Worked for the Miners and Metalworkers’ Contact Office with the ECSC in Luxembourg (1950–1958).
- Chairwoman of Socialist Women (Luxembourg Socialist Workers’ Party) (1963–1971).
- Member of the Social Democratic Party executive committee (1971–1982).
- Member and Vice-Chairwoman of the Luxembourg-Centre section of the PCS (1984–2004).
- Member of the National Christian Social Women’s Committee since 1984.
- Secretary-General of the Unions of Agricultural Workers and of Food Industry Workers, at the European Community Trade Union Secretariat in Brussels (1963–1971).
- Schifflange communal councillor (1970–2000) and Mayor of Schifflange (1970–1985).
- Chairwoman of the PSD parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies (1974–1979).
- Member of the Bureau of the Chamber of Deputies (1984–1988).
- Member of the Consumers’ Consultative Committee of the European Commission (1974–1982).
- MEP again from 1989 to 2014.

Decorations
- Commander of the Order of Merit of the Republic (Italy).
- Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
- Grand Officer of the Order of the Oak Crown (Luxembourg).

Other information
- Co-authored a Luxembourgish video course for foreigners learning Luxembourgish with her grand nephew Jerome.
- Christophe Hansen, one of her former assistants, became an MEP in 2018 and Luxembourg’s nominee for European Commissioner in the Second Von der Leyen Commission.