Reinhard Bütikofer

Reinhard Bütikofer is the EGP Co-Chair, and MEP for the German Green party Bündnis90/Die Grünen. He also serves as 1st Vice-Chair of the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with China.

Reinhard Bütikofer is a Member of the European Parliament (Greens/EFA) and the Co-Chair of the European Green Party (EGP). He sits on the Committee of Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and is a substitute member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) as well as the Sub-Committees on Security and Defence (SEDE) and Human Rights (DROI).

He is a Member of the Board of Directors of the European Endowment for Democracy (EED) and delegated Chair of the AFET Working Group on External Financing Instruments (WG EFI). He is Vice-Chair of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with the People’s Republic of China and a Member of the Delegation to the United States.

Before getting elected to the European Parliament in 2009, Mr. Bütikofer was the co-chair of the German Green Party Bündnis90 / Die Grünen (from 2002 until 2008). He was the party’s Secretary General from 1998 until 2002. Prior to that he served as the Chair of the Greens in the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg. From 1988 until 1996 he served as a Member of the Baden-Württemberg State Parliament.

His engagement with the German Greens began when he was elected as a member of the city council in Heidelberg in 1984.

Besides his positions in the party and parliament Mr. Bütikofer is a member of the advisory board of the American Jewish Committee’s Ramer Center in Berlin, the Europe/Transatlantic advisory board of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, and the German-Chinese Dialogue Forum.

EGP Co-Chairperson

Contact

reinhard.buetikofer@europeangreens.eu

Assistant EGP office
Benedetta de Marte
benedetta.demarte@europeangreens.eu
phone: +32 (0) 2 626 03 32

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Websites
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Federation of Young European Greens

External Relations
Contact with other political families

Working Groups
Foreign and Security Policy
Trade

Member Parties - Countries

Die Grünen - Austria
Strana Zelenych - Czech Republic
Bündnis 90/Die Grünen - Germany
Lehet Más a Politika / LMP - Hungary
Déi gréng - Luxembourg
Zieloni - Poland
Slovakia
Grüne / Les Verts / I Verdi - Switzerland

Files:

CV Reinhard Bütikofer.pdf

Recent News

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A co-signed letter by European political parties addressed to Facebook on new advertising rules

Post date:

18 April 2019

Body:

Mr Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook
1 Hacker Way
18.04.2019
Menlo Park
CA 94025
United States of America

Dear Mr Zuckerberg,

Since 15 April 2019, Facebook has put in place new rules for political advertisement in all EU
Member States. Effectively, paid political content will only be allowed in the country where
the ad buyer is based in.

These rules create an unprecedented barrier for European political organisations and political
parties.

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Europe & Democracy

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Title:

Statement of the Green Party of Ukraine on the results of the first round of Presidential Elections in Ukraine

Post date:

18 April 2019

Body:

The 2019 Presidential elections were a test of maturity for Ukrainian civil society.

Outcome of the participation of a number of political parties in the first round of the elections clearly confirmed that the ideology of nationalism today cannot be the factor of unification of a political nation. The advocacy of national interests and the ideology of nationalism are not identical concepts, and torch marches in a modern globalized world do not pave the road to a better future.

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