14 November 2025

The MMD Group is delighted to welcome Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Sebastian Everding (The Left, Germany) as a new member. MEP Everding serves as Vice-Chair of the Delegation to the EU-Albania Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee (D-AL). He is a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI) and of the Delegation for relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, including the EU-Bosnia and Herzegovina and EU-Kosovo Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committees (DSEE). He also serves as a substitute member of the Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI), the Committee on Public Health (SANT), and the Committee on Fisheries (PECH).

Before being elected, MEP Everding joined the Animal Protection Party in 2020, campaigning in local elections in Dortmund. Since 2022, he has served as one of two chairmen of the party’s branch in North Rhine-Westphalia.

In the European Parliament’s SANT Committee, MEP Everding has been appointed shadow rapporteur for the upcoming INI Report on the EU Cardiovascular Health Strategy, a key file linked to the European Commission’s forthcoming Cardiovascular Health Plan. Cardiovascular and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs), particularly diabetes and obesity, are closely interconnected, sharing common risk factors and pathophysiological mechanisms that drive disease prevalence and exacerbate severity. One in three of the 34 million people living with diabetes in the EU will develop cardiovascular disease in their lifetime, while conversely, one in three people with coronary artery disease live with type 2 diabetes or intermediate hyperglycaemia. In 2024, diabetes care alone cost the EU €120 billion, 75% of which was driven by complications that are often preventable with early and effective care. These figures highlight why diabetes must remain a key priority, particularly in the context of cardiovascular health and other NCDs.

We wish to thank MEP Everding for his continued support and look forward to working closely together to advance efforts on cardiovascular health and obesity, alongside broader initiatives to prevent and manage NCDs across the EU.