STRASBOURG/BRUSSELS/BERLIN/DUSSELDORF/BOCHUM. Yesterday, Wednesday (17 July 2024), MEP Dennis Radtke from North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in Germany was confirmed as the EPP Group’s spokesperson for social policy in Strasbourg, where the European Parliament is being constituted this week.
“I am delighted to be able to continue to lead the EPP Group in the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) and to promote social policy issues,” said Dennis Radtke shortly after his election.
He also immediately formulated his clear ambition: “There is still much to be done on the road to a more social Europe and we, as the EPP Group, want to play a leading role in this.”
According to the CDU politician, many projects have already been implemented: a European minimum wage, stronger rights for platform workers, social and climate funds and a European care strategy. “The great trust placed in me by my colleagues in the EPP Group strongly motivates me to continue to work actively for a socially just Europe,” Radtke continued.
As the so-called coordinator of his political group, Dennis Radtke decides, for example, on the distribution of legislative and non-legislative reports and essentially directs the work of the EMPL Committee.
One of Radtke’s next major projects for the new 10th term of the European Parliament is to improve worker protection. “In its new mandate, the European Labour Authority (ELA) must have every opportunity to enforce worker protection in the European Union, including across borders,” says the CDU politician.
Dennis Radtke is 45 years old, married with two children. He comes from Wattenscheid (Bochum, Germany) and has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2017. Radtke is a member of the Committees on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) and Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI).
The German CDU politician is chairman of the European Christian Democratic Workers’ Union (ECWU), deputy federal chairman and chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia state of the Christian Democratic Workers’ Union (CDA), the trade union branch of the CDU. At the CDA national conference on 14 and 15 September 2024 in Weimar (Thuringia), Dennis Radtke will run for the federal chairmanship of CDA Germany in place of Minister Karl-Josef Laumann MdL.
Originally published in The European Times.
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