Editing Satu Hassi (section)

{{Short description|Finnish politician (born 1951)}}
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| name = Satu Hassi
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| image = Satu Hassi, Finland-MIP-Europaparlament-by-Leila-Paul-1.jpg
| office1              = [[Minister of Environment (Finland)|Minister of Environment]]
| term_start1          = 15 April 1999
| term_end1            = 31 May 2002
| primeminister1       = [[Paavo Lipponen]]
| predecessor1         = [[Pekka Haavisto]]
| successor1           = [[Jouni Backman]]
| office2              = Member of the [[European Parliament]] <br /> for [[Finland]]
| term_start2          = 20 July 2004
| term_end2            = 30 June 2014
| office3              = Member of the [[Finnish Parliament]]
| term_start3          = 22 April 2015
| term_end3            = 4 April 2023
| term_start4          = 22 March 1991
| term_end4            = 20 July 2004
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|6|3|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Helsinki]], [[Uusimaa]], [[Finland]]
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| nationality = Finnish
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| party = [[Green League]]
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| website = [http://www.satuhassi.net/ www.satuhassi.net]
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[[File:Hassi, Satu (en).webm|thumb|Video Introduction '''(English)''' / [[:File:Hassi, Satu (fi).webm|(Finnish)]]]]

'''Satu Maijastiina Hassi''' (born 3 June 1951) is a [[Finland|Finnish]] politician, and former [[Member of the European Parliament]] for the [[Green League]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/governments-and-ministers/ministers/-/min/satu-hassi|title=Minister Satu Hassi - Finnish Government}}</ref>  She served as the [[Minister of Environment (Finland)|Minister of Environment]] and Development Co-Operation in [[Paavo Lipponen]]'s second cabinet between 15 April 1999 and 31 May 2002. In accordance with her party's position on the issue, she quit the cabinet in protest of the government's [[Nuclear power in Finland|decision to build a fifth nuclear power plant]] in Finland.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aamulehti.fi/uutiset/art-2000008717934.html|title=Veikko Vallin jättää eduskunnan heti ensimmäisen kauden jälkeen: ”En jaksa enää istua uskotellen, että voisin vaikuttaa johonkin” – Selvitimme kaikki Pirkanmaan luopujat ja jatkajat|first=Anita|last=Simola|date=April 1, 2022|website=Aamulehti}}</ref> Hassi served as the leader of her party between 1999 and 2001. She was a member of the national parliament from 1991 to 2004; she left the parliament when she was elected to the [[European Parliament]] as the sole Finnish Green representative in the [[2004 European Parliament election in Finland|2004 election]].

In the European Parliament she was the coordinator of the [[Greens/EFA]] parliamentary group in the [[European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety|Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety]] and a vice member of the [[Committee on Industry, Research and Energy]]. She served in the European Parliament until 2014.<ref>[https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/kansanedustajat/Sivut/363.aspx   Eduskunta Riksdagen website, ''Members of Parliament'', retrieved October 22, 2024]</ref>

In April 2015, Hassi was re-elected to the Finnish Parliament and took on the role as chairperson of the Environment Committee.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Satu Hassi, Member of Parliament of Finland - Satu Hassi |url=https://www.satuhassi.fi/en/home/ |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=www.satuhassi.fi}}</ref> She remained in office following the election of 2019, but decided to retire at the end of the term in 2023, as the oldest woman in parliament at the time.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-03-31 |title=Tulevaisuus on jotain aivan toista kuin mistä vaaleissa puhutaan, sanoo politiikan toimittaja Unto Hämäläinen |url=https://yle.fi/a/74-20025352 |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=Yle Uutiset |language=fi}}</ref>

Hassi was previously a [[Taistoism|taistoist]], a pro-Soviet member of the [[Communist Party of Finland|Communist Party]] in the 1970s.