The oldest and youngest members of the European Parliament pledge to fight for environmental sustainability and minority rights, in an interview with Euronews.
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00:0053 years and 5 months separate Leo Luca Orlando and Lene Schilling, the oldest and youngest
00:07members of the European Parliament.
00:10Both are part of the Greens ALE group, where they arrive with very different political
00:15and personal trajectories.
00:17Orlando is 67 years old, he was the mayor of Palermo in southern Italy for 32 years
00:23and was already an MEP from 2004 to 2009.
00:27Schilling is a 23-year-old climate activist who first entered politics after the Fridays
00:32for future demonstrations in her country, Austria.
00:36I stand here not just for myself or for the Green Party, I stand here for a whole generation
00:45that demonstrated and striked on the streets years ago and still is ongoing doing that.
00:51I want to bring more Mediterranean to Europe, to bring in Europe our will for peace.
00:57Enough with this mad race for arms, to finally recognize the State of Palestine, to condemn
01:03the genocide of the Italian government and the damage of the Palestinian people, to send
01:08a message of environmental justice and social justice.
01:18I want to protect nature, I want to fight for climate justice and I want to fight for
01:22the young people that wear on the streets all around the world and the second thing
01:27I want to say is that now we have the rightest parliament ever and I'm also fighting the
01:35far-right.
01:36We need a strong commitment to force climate policies, to go on with these transformations
02:00in the industry, in the energy and also in the transportation and all of this is needed.
02:30Lena Schilling will be part of the Parliament's Environmental Commission, while Leo Luca Orlando
02:41will be part of Foreign Affairs.
02:44Both are ready to fight for environmental sustainability and minority rights.