BIO

Terry Reintke is Co-President of the Greens/EFA Group, the fourth largest group in the European Parliament. For her, answers to the energy crisis and the ambitious implementation of the Green Deal are the big challenges of the coming years. The fight for social justice in the European Union is one of the priorities for the 35-year-old. Terry Reintke stands for a feminist foreign policy guided by values.

Her parliamentary work focuses on the preservation of the rule of law and the EU-wide protection of fundamental rights. As a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), she is committed to promoting democracy; resolute opposition to authoritarian tendencies is one of her core concerns. In the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, the politician, born in 1987, fights inter alia for safe access to abortion of unwanted pregnancies to be enshrined as a fundamental right in the EU Charter. In 2017, the US Time Magazine awarded her and other women behind the #MeToo movement who stand up against sexual harassment and abuse of power as Person of the Year.

Terry Reintke first entered the European Parliament for Alliance 90/The Greens in 2014, as the youngest woman at the time. She grew up in the Ruhr area and studied political science in Berlin and Edinburgh. At that time, she was already politically active as a member of the national board of the GREEN YOUTH and spokesperson for the Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG).