MEPs Orlando and Schilling: Half a century apart in age, united in their ideas

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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.

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