English subtitles for clip: File:Petra De Sutter - GEF - The EP Goes Green.webm

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I'm Petra De Sutter.

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I'm a Green politician and Member of the European Parliament.

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How would your best friend describe you?

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I'm a hard worker, dedicated, loyal and authentic.

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What made you join the Green Movement?

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I'm a scientist

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and I was getting in contact with patients with health problems

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that may have been, probably, the result of environmental issues

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and endocrine disrupting chemicals.

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I'm a fertility specialist and that made me angry.

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And that's why I wanted to look for answers

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and I came to the conclusion that regulations fails,

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although the science is there.

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That's why I became an ecologist.

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Why EU politics?

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I have always been working at the international level

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as a scientist.

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Also as a clinician I have a lot of foreign patients in my practice.

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And in politics, I think, all levels are important, but I am most attracted to

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the Europan level, becaue I think that's the really big problems

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should be adressed the highest level possible.

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What do you want to fight for in the European Parliament?

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I want to fight for justice in all areas,

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be it a more social Europe that gives equal chances to everyone.

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Human Rights, that are there for everyone,

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for minorities, for refugees, for LGBT people, for women.

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Gender Equality is very important for me.

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And, of course, everything that affects our environment.

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What was your biggest revelation 
during the last months of campaigning?

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I think the climate youth, the young people coming to the streets,

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that gave us the political energy to continue our fight in the campaign

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and our work in the parliaments.

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It was legimitated by people in the street,

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young people who's future it's all about.

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It's not about my future, my work will not affect my future so much,

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but it will affect the future of children and grand-children coming after us.

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So that was very important fact during the last months,

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during our campaign.

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Surprise question

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(laughs)

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Meryl Streep!

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Do I need to read the question?

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(laughs)

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If a movie was made about your life,

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which actor would play your role?

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Yeah, she's a character, actress, I just love her.

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She's really great in all the movies that she has ever made

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And for some reason, I have a "click" with her.

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So, she probably doesn't know that.

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Yeah, I would choose her.

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The European Parliament goes Green!

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This project is a cooperation of Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung and Green European Foundation.