Terry Reintke | |
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 Reintke in 2024 | |
| Leader of theGreens–European Free Alliance in theEuropean Parliament | |
| Assumed office 12 October 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Ska Keller |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| Assumed office 1 July 2014 | |
| Constituency | Germany |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Theresa Reintke (1987-05-09)9 May 1987 (age 38) |
| Party | German: Alliance 90/The Greens EU: The Greens–European Free Alliance |
| Alma mater | Free University of Berlin |
| Website | www |
Theresa Reintke (born 9 May 1987) is a German politician who has been serving as a member of theEuropean Parliament fromGermany since 2014. She is co-president of theGreens/EFA Group in the European Parliament. She is a member of theAlliance 90/The Greens, part of The Greens–European Free Alliance. From 2011 to 2013 she was the spokesperson of theFederation of Young European Greens.
Reintke was born and raised inGelsenkirchen.[1][2] She studied political science at theOtto-Suhr-Institut of theFree University of Berlin, where her thesis was on "LocalNGOs and sexualised violence in the Balkan conflicts".[3] She also worked as a legislative advisor at theBundestag for representativeUlrich Schneider [de].[1][4]
Reintke was a member of the executive board ofGerman Green Youth from 2008 to 2009,[1] and from 2011 to 2013 was the spokesperson of the Federation of Young European Greens.[1][5]
Elected to the European Parliament in the2014 European election, Reintke served as member of theCommittee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, theCommittee on Employment and Social Affairs and theCommittee on Regional Development during her first term. In 2019, she moved to theCommittee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. In this capacity, she is her parliamentary group’sshadow rapporteur on Poland.[6]
In addition to her committee assignments, Reintke co-chair of theEuropean Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights.[7] She is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Corruption[8] and the European Parliament Intergroup on Trade Unions.[9]
Following the2019 elections, Reintke was part of a cross-party working group in charge of drafting the European Parliament's work program on rule of law, borders and migration.[10] Also from 2019 served as deputy chairwoman of theGreens–European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) group, under the leadership of co-chairsSka Keller andPhilippe Lamberts.[11]
Since 2021, Reintke has been part of the Parliament's delegation to the EU-UK Parliamentary Assembly, which provides parliamentary oversight over the implementation of theEU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement.[12]
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and theFree Democratic Party (FDP) following the2021 German elections, Reintke was part of her party's delegation in the working group on European affairs, co-chaired byUdo Bullmann,Franziska Brantner andNicola Beer.[13]
In the negotiations to form acoalition government under the leadership ofMinister-President of North Rhine-WestphaliaHendrik Wüst following the2022 state elections, Reintke was part of her party’s delegation.[14][15]
In early 2024, theEuropean Green Party chose Reintke andBas Eickhout to steer its campaign for the2024 European Parliament election.[16]
In 2021, Reintke joined forces withDavid McAllister andRadosław Sikorski in initiating a letter of 145 member of the European Parliament toCommission PresidentUrsula von der Leyen andEducation CommissionerMariya Gabriel in which they called for allowing Scotland and Wales to rejoin the European Union’sErasmus+ mobility scheme.[18]
Following theprotests in Germany against the AfD party in January 2024, Reintke toldEU Scream that she wants theEuropean Parliament to launch an inquiry into theIdentity and Democracy party, which regroups far-right extremists at the EU level, includingMarine Le Pen'sRassemblement National party. The inquiry could lead to excluding the ID party from receiving EU funds or even to banning the ID party, if it can be proven that the far-right party does not respect the democratic values of theEU enunciated in Article 2 of theTreaty on European Union.[19]
In 2014, Reintke reported on her first week as a Member of the European Parliament in a widely discussedYouTube video with fellow Green representativesJan Philipp Albrecht andSka Keller,[20] which led to criticism of her ability to work with opponents.[21]
Along withVolker Beck,Felix Banaszak andMax Lucks, Reintke was temporarily detained when Beck wanted to speak publicly atIstanbul Pride in June 2016.[22][23]
In December 2017, Reintke was featured inTIME magazine's coverage of theirPerson of the Year issue, as part of the "Silence Breakers" honoured for speaking out against sexual abuse and harassment.[24]
Reintke is in a relationship withMélanie Vogel. They live in Brussels.[25]
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