Terry Reintke vor einem dunkeln Hintergrund.
Terry Reintke vor einem dunkeln Hintergrund.
Terry Reintke vor einem dunkeln Hintergrund.
about me

Vita

Terry Reintke: An experienced European politician with heart and mind

Terry is a child of the Ruhr region. She has seen what it does to a region when industry moves away, the queues in front of the job centres get longer, certainties in people’s lives are lost, and the life achievements of entire generations seem to be called into question.

In the Ruhr region, Terry has also learned that change can succeed if we show solidarity and stick together. So that everyone can live in dignity. So that our society holds together.

That is why she has become politically active: To set the course for a social solidarity green transformation in Europe and to develop new perspectives for its people and economy.

Terry was overwhelmingly elected Co-Chair of the Green Group in autumn 2022, which she had joined eight years earlier as the then youngest MEP at the age of 27. And she has set her sights high.

What Terry stands for: Shaping tomorrow’s Europe today

Green Transformation and Green Industrial Policy
In Brussels and Strasbourg, Terry is fighting for the Green transformation: the European economy is on its way to climate neutrality, and the EU is the framework in which the necessary course must be set to secure our prosperity. Not only in the fight against climate change, but also to fix past mistakes that have led us into fossil fuel dependencies.

The future of Europe’s competitiveness will be determined by how well Europe leads climate-neutral modernisation. This is how we can create the jobs of the future and initiate a global turnaround in the fight against climate change. It takes targeted support and regulation to make sure we are pioneers on the global market. Green steel and Green industry with green hydrogen are the job and prosperity engines of the future.

Social justice
Terry is committed to a Europe that fairly secures the transition to a carbon-neutral economy and gives people the prospect of good jobs and a future worth living. Europe is facing major upheavals as a result of the ecological modernisation of the economy – both for people, their work and their lives, and for companies, their production processes and suppliers. Upheavals and social change always place a heavy burden on the people who experience them.

This is what Terry stands for as an experienced European social politician and convinced trade unionist: A Europe that strengthens our welfare state and workers’ rights, that creates more social balance so that our societies do not drift further apart:

Freedom and democracy
In Ukraine at the Euromaidan, at demonstrations for media freedom in Hungary or at protests against the rollback of women’s rights in Poland – European flags are flying everywhere. These people place their hope in Europe; for them, the EU is a shield against corruption and authoritarian social restructuring, against the dismantling of fundamental democratic rights and the incitement of dissent.

Terry stands for an EU that protects freedom, guarantees minority rights, strengthens democratic institutions and acts against abuse of power.

…Terry in private

Terry loves her Westphalian-Bavarian extended family. She lives her lesbian relationship openly and wants to be an encouragement for many queer people in Europe and around the world to come out and take their place in society.

Since October 2022

Co-President of the Greens/EFA-Group in the European Parliament and Member of the Conference of Presidents

  • dep. Member of Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
  • dep. Member of Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
  • dep. Member of Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
  • dep. Member of the Delegation to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly (D-UK)
  • dep. Member of the Inquiry Committee on the Use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware (PEGA)

2019-2022

Vice-President of the Greens/EFA-Group in the European Parliament

  • Member of Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
  • Member of Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
  • Member of Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
  • Member of the Delegation to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly (D-UK)
  • Member of the Inquiry Committee on the Use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware (PEGA)
  • Member of EU-Montenegro Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee (D-ME)

2014-2019

  • Member of Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
  • Member of Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
  • Member of the Committee on Regional Development (REGI)
  • Member of EU-Montenegro Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee (D-ME)
  • Member of the Delegation for relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo

2017

elected as Co-President of the LGBTI Intergroup of the European Parliament

2011-2013

Parliamentay assistant to Ulrich Schneider, Member of the German Bundestag

2011-2013

Spokeswoman of the Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG)

2010-2011

Member of the Board of the Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG)

2008-2009

spokesperson on women’s rights and gender affairs in the Board of the German Federal Young Greens (Grüne Jugend)

2006-2011

Political science studies in Berlin and Edinburgh