Jacqueline Cremers Secretary General, European Green Party

Motivation letter SG EGP

Hello, nice to meet you!

My name is Jacqueline Cremers, age 48. I want to build a stronger EGP organisation as well as further develop common European Green politics. I bring 10 years of experience in European politics by leading the bureau of the Dutch green delegation in the EP. That is why I want to be your next Secretary General. In this letter you will find my motivation.

 

Greens should become the third political force in Europe

More then ever we desperately need Green politics. Environmental, economic and social challenges need urgent action. Greens should use their power and influence to provide answers and alternative policies. To have more influence we have to work together and grow!

 

The biggest challenge for our common green future is to become the third political force at European level. We’ll need an EGP organisation that is ready and able to support this growth. We must use our successes to strengthen Green politics and politicians all over Europe, inside as well as outside the Union, at all political levels, local, regional as well as national!

 

Make EGP ready for the future

The EGP is first and foremost an organisation by and for the member parties. I want to strengthen the EGP by further professionalising the organisation and define the work that needs to be done through an action plan for the coming three years. Because we have limited resources we have to choose our priorities carefully and make sure plans are executed in time.

 

I want to build an EGP that is ready for the future. Strengthen its role as intermediary between the parties and unite the member parties in order to maximise our potential. We can use the wealth of knowledge and information that our member parties have available in a much better way, by bringing good national initiatives to the attention of other parties.

 

The EGP should become more attractive as well as efficient. It should be modern in its ways of communication, using new media and social networking. Professionalise means, besides the right people in the right places with enough means to carry out their work, the necessity to organise the work the best way we can.

 

It is by working together as a Committee that we can be effective in our drive for more efficiency and divide the workload that comes with an EGP that grows. The EGP Committee is our executive body. Our spokespersons are our political representatives. All Committee members should carry a specific responsibility and choose a priority of targeted action.

 

I do believe in common campaigning! Not ‘one size for all’, but build upon the modular approach, whereby national parties can easily integrate the campaign tools offered by the EGP in their own communication strategies.

 

I value the role of our individual members. They have a warm heart for the European Green movement. The EGP organisation can benefit from their energy, ideas and commitment. However our main structure is a party organisation.

 

Commitment for political representation in South and Eastern Europe

I deeply regret that we were not able to gain seats in Southern and Eastern Europe at the European elections. It must not happen again. Together we can change this. I will ask for your commitment and support to work together to establish Green representatives at all political levels as soon as possible and as many as possible.

 

I am well aware that we cannot achieve this overnight, nor everywhere at once! I will prepare, coordinate and execute an action plan for change. We must analyse where our electoral chances in the forthcoming national and local elections lie and the EGP organisation should coordinate support there where electoral gains are likely.

 

Work together

Of course the EGP organisation cannot do all this by itself. We have to enlarge our resources and work together with our green partners. Besides the member parties I want to work in close cooperation with the Green group in the EP, the European Green Foundation, the young and the (only a little bit) older Greens. We can make things better when we work together. And we should clearly define and respect each others competences.

 

A Green political force is not enough. We should work and build strong alliances with civil organisations. We should further propagate a European political debate where and when we can. We should try to reach out and bind to us those people that act in it. As Dany has done in France. Chapeau!

 

Make Europe a better place to live in

I have explained what my main goals are as regards the European Green Party organisation. And I will dedicate myself to accomplish these concrete goals. However for me the biggest challenge ahead lies in how we can make Europe a better place for people to live. We need to develop and define further what our common green values are and propose green alternative policies to the problems we face.

 

Why choose me?

With my ability to organise and make people work together I get things done. That, more than anything else, makes me the people manager that I am. Letting other people do what they do best makes me a very happy person. To be able to bring people together, to let them work together and make progress in their projects is a powerful gift. My passion is European politics. To be your Secretary General would mean I can do the thing I am most good at in the environment I like the best. I call that a win win situation for all of us.

 

Proud to be a European Green

I am proud to be a European Green and hope to work for you for at least the coming three years as your Secretary General. Please contact me when you want to know more about me, my motivation and my passion for green politics. I am looking forward to meet you in Malmö!

 

Jacqueline Cremers

 

+32.485.487.609

jcremers@groenlinks.nl

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