Michel Reimon

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Michel Reimon (born July 11, 1971 in Eisenstadt ) is an Austrian author , former journalist , communications consultant and politician . He was the top candidate of the Burgenland Greens in the state elections in Burgenland in 2010 and a member of the European Parliament from the beginning of July 2014 to 2019 . He has been a member of the National Council since October 2019 .

education

Reimon completed elementary and secondary school in Siegendorf before he attended HTBLuVA Vienna 5 Spengergasse and graduated in 1991 . In 2001 he started studying computer science at the branch of the University of Derby in Vienna, which he completed in 2004. Three years later he started studying organizational development and consulting at the University of Augsburg . He completed part of his studies in the USA, where he studied at Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University . He graduated in 2009 with the title Master of Business Administration .

Life

After graduating, Reimon worked as a freelance communications consultant and journalist. In 2002 he was also the press spokesman for the STOPP GATS initiative , which campaigns against the free trade agreement of the WTO and thus against progressive liberalization . In 2002 he published his first book, Days of Action . Together with Christian Felber , he published the black book on privatization in 2003 . In 2004 he joined the Greens and became press spokesman for the Burgenland regional association.

Since 2006 he has also been teaching at the University of Vienna in the field of political communication, which expanded in 2008 to include internal organizational communication. His book The Seven Deadly Sins of the EU was also published this year . This was followed by the founding of the Democratic Salon in 2008. The Democratic Salon is a registered non-profit association which has set itself the goal of initiating a referendum for more direct democracy . The main concern of the association is a constitutional amendment that provides for a mandatory referendum for all National Council resolutions against which a referendum with at least 100,000 signatories has been tabled.

On January 30, 2010, at the 34th state assembly of the Greens Burgenland, he was elected the top candidate of the Greens for the 2010 state elections with 60 of 61 votes cast. In the elections on May 30, 2010, the Greens lost 1.1 percent of their votes and lost one seat. Michel Reimon is now the only Green MP to join the Burgenland state parliament.

On February 1, 2012 Reimon published his novel #Incommunicado on his blog as a DRM- free, creative commons licensed e-book for free. In 2016, Fabian Neidhardt published an unabridged audio book, also licensed under Creative Commons, with the help of a crowdfunding campaign.

In the European elections in Austria in 2014 , Michel Reimon ran for the Austrian Greens at number 2 and won a mandate. In the European Parliament he was a member of the group The Greens / European Free Alliance .

For personal reasons, Reimon decided not to run again in the European elections in Austria 2019 and thus resigned from the European Parliament on July 1, 2019. In the National Council election in Austria 2019 , Reimon ran for fourth place on the federal list of the Greens. On October 23, 2019, he was sworn in as a member of the National Council.

Travel to Northern Iraq as an EU parliamentarian

Shortly after moving into the European Parliament, Reimon gained notoriety beyond Austria's borders, when he visited northern Iraq in the summer of 2014 and documented the suffering of the Yazidis : Reimon accompanied an aid flight to the Yazidis, thousands of whom were on Mount Sinjar by the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS) were surrounded. His related videos and blog posts were picked up by numerous media.

TV statement on the refugee crisis

Reimon caused a sensation in the ORF broadcast Im Zentrum on September 6, 2015, in which he massively criticized the Hungarian government - in the presence of Gergely Pröhle, the State Secretary of the Hungarian government -: "They oppose any common European solution". In Hungary there is a recognition rate of only 9% compared to around 40% in Germany and Austria. He described an incident in which refugees were said to have been lured into a train with the promise of continuing their journey west, but were stopped after thirty kilometers and forced off the train for a propaganda campaign, surrounded by police officers at the train station, filmed and abused in this way have been. He also criticized the European Union for pursuing a “brutal defense policy” - be it through the barbed wire on Hungary's southern border or through warships in the Mediterranean. The reason could only be: racism or that “we don't want to spend the money”, a fraction of the cost of the bank bailouts.

Web links

Commons : Michel Reimon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reimon confirmed as green top candidate. In: ORF . January 30, 2010, accessed May 3, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Negative records for ÖVP and Greens. In: oesterreich.orf.at. May 30, 2010, accessed November 27, 2018 .
  3. ^ Announcement of the novel #Incommunicado
  4. ↑ Download the audio book from #Incommunicado
  5. ↑ Reimon no longer competes in EU elections. In: burgenland.orf.at. October 30, 2018, accessed January 20, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Greens: Kogler at the top, Reimon fourth. In: burgenland.orf.at. July 6, 2019, accessed January 20, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Michel Reimon: Airlift to the Yezidis, Sinjar, Iraq. .
  8. ↑ Michel Reimon: It is never enough
  9. ^ Spiegel: EU politician films a dramatic relief flight for Yazidis
  10. ↑ Time: Under the Spell of the Divine Warriors
  11. ↑ ORF : In the center ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tvthek.orf.at archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , September 6, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Reimon, Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author, journalist and politician (Greens), member of the state parliament, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenstadt