so you were 21 years three months and
three days old when the European
election results came in
what does it like to be the youngest mep
elected into the European Parliament it
feels really strange like in some ways I
just still see myself as just a normal
person and but I know that I've also
achieved something that no one else have
done before so it's it's like my I just
have to tune in my new identity as an
MEP
and also I feel a lot of like a big
responsibility so that all the young
people who voted for me because they're
tired of not being listened to in the
climate crisis that they will see that
their voices were actually meant for
something why did you decide to run in
first place well I think I decided to
run because I was also tired that my
generations weren't being listening to
and also I was told that also as a young
female most often tastes like that I
were also running against two other
males in my youth party at the beginning
but I was told that if you don't do it
you can't expect other young female
politicians to do it
so also to do like to make the way for
people coming out for like future
generations was important for me also
should Parliament do something to help
young people get elected quicker
for example introduce a youth quota
maybe I don't think that we should do
and in legislations that makes it easier
for young people to be elected like
voters but I think it's important that
we in each political group in the
European Parliament talks about how is
our group like I said balance both with
gender and with age also and background
and then we also take the discussions in
the national parties I think that's the
best solution is there anything that
surprised you during your first days in
the Brussels bubble yeah it surprised me
that I remember I thought that it would
be super fancy and everyone sitting
really concentrated and I remember to
thank you from from my party who's a
German MEP she was at one point walking
around
without her shoes because and was just
being really chill and I was doing her
nails and so it was quite interesting to
see how this big important Parliament is
also just a parliament with normal
people you are part of the Danish Greens
over the next five years what are your
priorities
well my priorities is that we can
receive changes in the greenways so that
when we have the new budget for the next
seven years that we can just tune a
little bit on the green investments and
in the research because if we do just
small things in the budget it has
enormous effects and also with the
common agricultural policies that we
will not just support big productions
but also will support plant-based
agriculture and more environmentally
friendly agriculture if we meet back
here in five years what would you like
to have achieved by the end of your
first term well I would like to have
achieved a green green changes on the
budget and the common agricultural
policies I would also like to have
contributed to young people's
understanding of what the European Union
is and what we are doing and also that
we as young people in Europe have the
same interests in many ways like with
the climate change and economic issues
in many countries so that we are not as
national as we might think
the you institutions currently struggle
to elect their leadership what do you
think about the whole negotiations and
the fact that the Greens
are slightly underrepresented mmm well I
think the negotiations and who should be
the present of the Commissioner and have
all these fancy jobs are actually quite
annoying because for me it takes focus
away from the politics and put it around
the people and the specific person's
instead of so I'm not sure of what
Timmerman Aviva wants to do with the
climate I just know that they want to be
commissioners president so I think that
and I think feel it's it's quite a big
shame that after we had a big election
where a lot of people actually voted and
the voter turnout was higher in most
countries then instead of focusing on
what changes do we want with
and which name should be in the top