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Skopje – Austrian MEP Thomas Waitz has been appointed as the new rapporteur of the European Parliament for North Macedonia.
Waitz comes from the Greens group in the EP and is a member of the Austrian Green Party – The Greens – The Green Alternative (DG).
In February 2017, Waitz was nominated as a member of the European Green Party Board and was elected to this position in March at the Global Greens and European Greens Congress in Liverpool. In this position, he is responsible, among other things, for cooperation with Green parties in Czechia, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, and Albania and supports the development of green parties in North Macedonia, Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia. In June 2022, he was re-elected to the 35th European Green Party Council as its co-chair along with French Senator Mélanie Vogel from French Europe Ecology – The Greens.
On his social network profile X, among other things, it is written that he advocates for EU enlargement, focusing on the Western Balkans. (October 22)
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