For the last couple of months, I've been really busy helping organise the series of Green Primary debates that are taking place both online and in cities across Europe. We want to make sure that people have an opportunity the get to know the four Contenders very well, so they can make an informed decision when they choose who they want to be our two Leading Candidates in the 2014 European Elections.

Six candidates have presented themselves to become a Green Leading Candidate in the Green Primary, that we are organising as European Greens: five of them nominated by their Green party, one by the Federation of Young European Greens. It was the first of a series of deadlines that we face in the procedure. And as with every deadline it was exciting too see if last minute nominations would come in and if we would receive all of them in time.