The responsibilities of the new Austrian MEP Wolfram Pirchner (ÖVP) were officially announced on Wednesday during the plenary session of the European Parliament. He will become a full member of the Commission for Regional Development, an alternate member of the Committee on Culture and Education, the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and the Committee on Budgetary Control.
Pirchner succeeds Simone Schmiedtbauer, who moved to the Styrian state government.
“I am going to work on my new task as a Member of the European Parliament with great pleasure and motivation. Above all, I want to be a strong voice for the European regions, our seniors and for mental health,” Pirchner explains. “The European Union is an impressive union of 447 million people who have found a home in more than 200 regions. “Keeping the regions of Austria and Europe livable and loving and strengthening them for the future is therefore an extremely important task,” said the new ÖVP spokesperson in the regional committee.
At the last EU elections in 2019, Pirchner narrowly missed entry to the European Parliament. Schmiedtbauer’s move from Strasbourg and Brussels to Graz moved him up the list.
Years of work as an ORF presenter
Pirchner is known to the general public as a television presenter. He worked for ORF for many years, where he left in 2017. After standing as a candidate for the state elections in Lower Austria, he then stood as a candidate for the ÖVP in Brussels in 2019. His term now runs until the upcoming EU elections in June 2024.
Source: Krone
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