Lena Schilling Explained

Lena Schilling
Honorific-Suffix:MEP
Office:Member of the European Parliament
Term Start:16 July 2024
Constituency1:Austria
Birth Date:8 January 2001
Birth Place:Vienna, Austria
Party: Austria
The Greens – The Green Alternative

European Green Party

Lena Schilling (born 8 January 2001 in Vienna) is an Austrian climate activist.[1] [2] She was the Austrian Green Party's top candidate for the 2024 European Parliament elections.[3]

Life

Schilling studies political science at the University of Vienna. She was a climate activist in the Fridays for Future movement.  In 2019, she appeared at the Austrian Association of Municipalities conference, alongside the Federal President, the Federal Chancellor and the President of the National Council.[4] She founded the youth council,[5]  which protested, occupying the Vienna Lobautunnel construction site.[6] [7]  She is the spokesperson for the “Austrian Supply Chain Act Initiative” with Veronika Bohrn Mena and Daniela Brodesser. At the beginning of 2021, she was described on FM4 as “perhaps the most politically active young woman in the country.”  At the end of 2021, she took part in a panel discussion in the “Im Zentrum” series.[8]

On 22 January 2024, she was selected by Werner Kogler, and on 24 February confirmed by the Green Federal Party Congress as the top candidate of the Austrian Greens for the 2024 European Parliament elections.[9] [10] [11]

In May 2024 Schilling dropped to the second last place in Austria´s APA-OGM politician confidence index,[12] after it became public that she had talked to associates about leaving the Greens and switch to the Left party after the upcoming 2024 European Parliament elections. Schilling denied the allegations.[13] [14]

As of May 2024, Schilling states her official occupations as author and dancing instructor.[15]

Controversy

Since a report by the newspaper Der Standard, Lena Schilling has been under criticism regarding integrity.[16]

On 7 May 2024, Der Standard published several allegations against Schilling following extensive research.[17] [18] The investigation uncovered that Schilling falsely claimed that the partner of her former friend was to blame for a miscarriage due to domestic violence. A court injunction was signed by Lena Schilling. In another case, Schilling allegedly accused a TV journalist of sexual harassment; this was refuted by internal investigations. Schilling is also said to have invented her own love affair with a television journalist. When this was refuted, she accused the journalist of having relationships with other Green Party members.

Works

References

  1. Web site: Bischofberger . Conny . 2022-02-06 . Rettet man so das Weltklima, Frau Schilling? . 2024-04-12 . Kronen Zeitung . de.
  2. Web site: Amalthea - Radikale Wende . 2024-05-31 . de-DE.
  3. Web site: red . ORF at . 2024-01-22 . EU-Wahl: Lena Schilling wird grüne Spitzenkandidatin . 2024-04-12 . news.ORF.at . de.
  4. Web site: Gemeinden sind die Konstante in der Republik . 2024-04-12 . KOMMUNAL.AT . de.
  5. Web site: 2021-03-09 . Women in Protest: Wer ist Lena Schilling? . 2024-04-12 . fm4.ORF.at . de.
  6. Web site: Jugendrat droht: Wird Lobau-Tunnel gebaut, machen wir zweites Hainburg! . 2024-04-12 . OTS.at . de.
  7. Web site: josef.gebhard . 2021-06-05 . Warum eine 20-jährige Studentin die Lobau besetzen will . 2024-04-12 . kurier.at . de.
  8. Web site: "IM ZENTRUM": Wie teuer muss Klimaschutz sein? Was die Energiewende uns alle kosten wird . 2024-04-12 . OTS.at . de.
  9. Web site: Hofer . 24 02 2024 um 17:50 von Elisabeth . 2024-02-24 . Die Grünen gehen mit Schilling in die EU-Wahl – und mit Sartre . 2024-04-12 . Die Presse . de.
  10. Web site: Grüne wählen Schilling mit 96,6 Prozent zur EU-Spitzenkandidatin . 2024-04-12 . DER STANDARD . de-AT.
  11. Web site: Bunke . Christian . 2024-01-22 . Lena Schilling: "Politik ist kein Spiel" . 2024-04-12 . news.at . de.
  12. Web site: Lena Schilling stürzt im Vertrauensindex ab . 2024-05-22 . meinbezirk.at . de.
  13. Web site: Grünen-Kandidatin Schilling überlegte, nach der EU-Wahl zu Linksfraktion zu wechseln . 2024-05-22 . derstandard.at . de.
  14. Web site: Austria’s Greens in shambles as EU election nears . 2024-06-06 . politico.eu . en.
  15. Official candidate list of the 2024 EU election in Austria: https://www.bmi.gv.at/412/Europawahlen/Europawahl_2024/files/Verlautbarung_der_Bundeswahlbehoerde_EU_Wahl_2024.pdf
  16. Web site: Katharina Mittelstaedt, Fabian Schmid . Worum es bei den Vorwürfen rund um Lena Schilling geht [What the accusations against Lena Schilling are all about] ]. derstandard.at . STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft . 21 May 2024 . Vienna . German . 9 May 2024.
  17. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000219202/lena-schillings-eu-kandidatur-geraet-in-turbulenzen
  18. https://orf.at/stories/3358372/
  19. Web site: red . 2024-03-30 . "Radikale Wende": Schul-Auftritt von Grüner regt auf . 2024-04-12 . Heute.at . de.
  20. Web site: Radikale Wende - Weil wir eine Welt zu gewinnen haben - Übersicht - Salon International . 2024-04-12 . W24 . de.
  21. Web site: WHL/HAR . 2022-10-21 . "Radikale Wende": Buch von Klimaaktivistin Lena Schilling . 2024-04-12 . Tiroler Tageszeitung Online . de.
  22. Web site: krone.at . 2024-03-30 . Debatte um Lesung von Lena Schilling in Gymnasium . 2024-04-12 . Kronen Zeitung . de.
  23. Web site: Junge Klima-Aktivistin stellt ihr Buch vor . 2024-04-12 . Tips Online . de.

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