Bas Eickhout

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Bas Eickhout (2014)

Bas Eickhout (born October 8, 1976 in Groesbeek ) is a Dutch politician of the GroenLinks party . Eickhout has been a member of the European Parliament since 2009 and was re-elected in the 2014 and 2019 elections. For the 2019 European elections, Eickhout ran together with Ska Keller as a co-top candidate for the European Greens . Eickhout is considered a climate protection expert

education

After completing school at Cobbenhagen College in Tilburg , Eickhout studied chemistry and environmental sciences at Radboud University in Nijmegen from 1994 to 2000 . After completing his studies, Eickhout got a job at the Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM), where he dealt professionally with climate change . In addition, Eickhout has been politically active in the GroenLinks party since the 1990s .

Political career

In 2009, his party GroenLinks nominated Eickhout as the top candidate for the 2009 European elections. The party won 8.9 percent and thus won 3 of the 25 Dutch seats, including Marije Cornelissen and Judith Sargentini in addition to Eickhout . The three joined the group The Greens / EFA .

Also in the 2014 European elections, Eickhout came back as first on the GroenLinks list. The party lost votes slightly and moved into the eighth European Parliament with only two members - Eickhout and, as before, Judith Sargentini. In the eighth legislature of Parliament (2014-2019) Eickhout was a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the Delegation for relations with the United States. He was a deputy in the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development .

For the 2019 European elections, Eickhout not only ran for first place on the list of GroenLinks, but also as the European top candidate for the European Greens. At the election party conference of the European Greens in Berlin in November 2018, the delegates voted next to the German Ska Keller Bas Eickhout as the top candidate with more than 62 percent. He prevailed against the Belgian Green Petra de Sutter . In the election itself, GroenLinks won significantly more votes and thus three of the 26 Dutch mandates. He rejoined the Greens / EFA parliamentary group, of which he was also elected treasurer. For the parliamentary group he is in the ninth legislature (2019–2024) a member of the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and a deputy member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs .

Web links

Video presentation (English) / (Dutch)
Commons : Bas Eickhout  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Unfried: Climate is made in Brussels. The climate protection expert and top candidate of the European Greens, Bas Eickhout, is a guest at the taz lab and reports on lobbying and the future of environmental policy. www.taz.de, March 23, 2019, accessed on March 23, 2019 .
  2. ^ Ulrich Schulte: The anti-lobbyist . In: The daily newspaper: taz . April 8, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 4–5 ( taz.de [accessed April 21, 2019]).
  3. ^ Bas Eickhout. Group of the Greens / European Free Alliance, Treasurer. www.europarl.europa.eu, accessed on March 23, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Europe's Greens choose Keller and Eickhout as their top duo . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed on November 24, 2018]).
  5. ↑ European Greens pick favorites for European Commission president . In: POLITICO . November 24, 2018 ( politico.eu [accessed November 24, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Home | Bas EICKHOUT | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Eickhout, Bas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch politician (GroenLinks), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Groesbeek