{"id":332592,"date":"2024-02-05T08:50:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T07:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/02\/05\/reintke-eickhout-verdi-elezioni-europee\/"},"modified":"2024-02-07T17:53:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T16:53:22","slug":"reintke-and-eickhout-european-greens-choose-spitzenkandidat-for-european-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/02\/05\/reintke-and-eickhout-european-greens-choose-spitzenkandidat-for-european-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Reintke and Eickhout, European Greens choose Spitzenkandidat for European elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels&#8211;Germany&#8217;s <strong>Terry Reintke<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Bas Eickhout of the Netherlands:<\/strong> delegates from all European Green parties during their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/europeangreens.eu\/news\/european-greens-field-terry-reintke-and-bas-eickhout-as-top-candidates-spitzenkan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congress in Lyon during the weekend<\/a> named the two MEPs\u00a0as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/thinktank\/en\/document\/EPRS_STU(2023)749776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>top candidate<\/em><\/a> for the upcoming European elections, on June 6-9 across the EU.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-o-mail-quote-node=\"1\" data-o-mail-quote=\"1\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TerryReintke?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TerryReintke<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BasEickhout?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BasEickhout<\/a> have just been elected as the Leading Candidates (Spitzenkandidaten) for our 2024 EU election campaign!<\/p>\n<p>They will be the faces of our Green campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\ufe0f In the EU elections this June, your voice and your vote count! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ChooseCourage?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ChooseCourage<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bhgQvSprbR\">pic.twitter.com\/bhgQvSprbR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 European Greens (@europeangreens) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/europeangreens\/status\/1753727227152199999?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reintke, 36, is already\u00a0co-president of the Greens\/EFA Group\u00a0in the European Parliament along with Philippe Lamberts. <strong>Eickhout<\/strong>, 47, is vice-chairman of the group and of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health, and Food Safety (ENVI) in the European Parliament, of which he has been a member since 2009. &#8220;The far right is gaining popularity by offering only polarization, exclusion, and false solutions,&#8221; the latter emphasized, assuring that as Spitzenkandidat of the Greens, &#8220;I will show that we are the antidote to the far right, and I will show how a green, social, and inclusive Europe is possible.&#8221; &#8220;I will fight for a diverse green and social Europe, a democratic Europe, where racism and hatred have no place, where we lay the foundation for a just transition to a climate-neutral industry for tomorrow,&#8221; Reintke also added.<\/p>\n<p>According to polls, the environmental group should gain fewer seats than it currently has in the current Chamber. The latest <a href=\"https:\/\/europeelects.eu\/2023\/12\/30\/december-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Europe Elect projection<\/a>\u00a0gives the group 49 seats, some 20 fewer than today (72). Now, the Greens have decided, after the European Socialist Party (ESP), which<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/01\/18\/no-run-for-socialist-spitzenkadidat-commissioner-schmit-the-only-candidate-for-european-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> indicated<\/a> as its candidate the current European Commissioner for Labor and Social Rights, <strong>Nicolas Schmit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The list of leading candidates for the upcoming ballot call is beginning to take shape, while the wait is growing for whose name the European People&#8217;s Party (EPP), expected to remain the most numerous group, will put forward. More importantly, there is growing anticipation as to whether the current President of the EU Commission, <strong>Ursula von der Leyen<\/strong>, will seek confirmation and become the leading candidate for the EPP. There&#8217;s little time left as internal &#8216;nominations&#8217; within the center-right group <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/2024\/01\/19\/von-der-leyen-mandato-elezioni\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will officially close on Feb. 21,<\/a> so von der Leyen should announce her intentions before then. The EPP will hold its Congress in Bucharest on March 6-7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two MEPs were nominated at the weekend by delegates from all Green parties in Europe at their congress in Lyon, France<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4544,"featured_media":332518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[25777,26748,26680],"class_list":["post-332592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-european-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english","tag-european24-en","tag-value-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4544"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332592"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333921,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332592\/revisions\/333921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}