Hi everyone !

**Tonight at 18:45**, I’m **interviewing Portuguese MEP Francisco Guerreiro**, from the **Greens/EFA group**, on my Twitch channel. I will be asking him about his EU political experience, his priorities, but also asking some of your questions and those of the audience.

Francisco Guerreiro has been a Portuguese MEP since 2019. He’s a member of the Committee on Budgets, the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, the Committee on Fisheries and he’s a substitute in the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.

Within these committees, **he specialises on animal welfare**, **plant-based alternatives to meat and fish** consumption, **protection of the oceans**, **biodiversity protection** and restoration, and **circular economy**.

The aim of these interviews is for people to discover their MEPs, learn about what they do, their expertise and interact with them. It is intended as pedagogic way to learn about your representatives in Brussels and EU politics, so we won’t go deep into policy debates and **we won’t cover national politics** (unless it is very relevant to the EU).

While most of my current community belongs to the EU bubble, I want to reach people who might be interested in the EU without being in Brussels, so they get a chance to exchange with people and experts from there and maybe learn some new things along the way. In this precise case, since the MEP is Portuguese I thought it would make sense to give Portuguese people the opportunity to pitch in 🙂

So feel free to **suggest down here questions you would like Francisco Guerreiro to answer** !

Priority will be given to questions related to the MEP’s field of competence (committees), EU news/the state of Europe and Euro-Portuguese politics. But feel free to ask other questions, if they are interesting/relevant I may pick them as well 🙂

In any case, join the discussion **tonight at 18:45** CET on [Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/mepassistant) !

You can also join my community on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/mepassistants) (@mepassistants) or [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/y5rPHF3Pgu).

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6 comments

  1. Think this is a really interesting way to make people connect more. As for me, I can say that whenever we get Portuguese politicians go to the Eu committees I lose track of what they’re doing, what sort of proposals they’re working on etc. We only hear about them back in Portugal if they screw up big time or there’s any sort of polemic about what they’re defending.

    In my circle of friends, most people are like this. Can’t say that the majority of the Portuguese will be like us but I do see a big chunk of people from my generation that can’t keep up with what they’re doing back in Brussels.

    Perhaps it also has to do with the insanity of Portuguese politics that leave us absolutely drained and without any will to interact with more political topics. I realize the importance of knowing what’s going on in Brussels and what these MEP’s are doing but I wouldn’t know where to start!

  3. You could ask when the EU is going to start following a scientific approach (not the nonsense organic push, worse for land use, food security, sustainability, biodiversity, animal welfare when promoting homeopathy… not the freaking out about “chemicals” more than proved to be safe, like glyphosate, while turning a blind eye to others proven to be harmful because they are needed for organic, like copper sulphate)

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