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In this Dutch name, the surname is Van Lanschot, not Lanschot.
Reinier van Lanschot

Reinier van Lanschot (born 7 September 1989) is a Dutch politician. In 2018, he co-founded Volt Netherlands with Laurens Dassen and has since served its chairman.[1] He was the party's top candidate for the European Parliament in the 2019 election. Van Lanschot was elected to the co-presidency of Volt Europa (together with Valerie Sternberg of Volt Germany) at the 2019 General Assembly in Sofia, 12–13 October 2019.[2]

Biography

Van Lanschot grew up in Haarlem and studied law first at the University of Utrecht (2008 to 2013) and later at the University of Amsterdam (2013 to 2014), where he obtained a Master's degree.[3] After graduating, he first started working for a start-up offering innovative legal services. He then worked for Ahold Delhaize as a manager, managed a supermarket in Lelystad and was responsible for the sale of breakfast products in the retail department of Albert Heijn.[4][5]

When he was preparing the foundation of Volt Nederland in February 2018, he quit his job to focus on party work.[6][7] Since then, he has been working for the national and European Volt association. Since 2018, van Lanschot has been a trained community organiser and a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School.[3]

Political work

Volt Nederland

Together with a few others, van Lanschot founded the party Volt Nederland, the Dutch section of Volt Europa, in Utrecht on 23 June 2018 and was elected as the party's first leader.[8][9] In doing so, rising nationalism, climate protection and a lack of humane migration policies motivated him to get involved politically.[10]

In the European Parliament elections on 23 May 2019, he was the top candidate and list leader of the Dutch chapter of Volt.[11][12] When he was elected list leader, he stepped down as Volt chair in order to balance leadership roles within the party.[13] However, he fell short of entering parliament with 1.9% of the electoral vote.[14] During the campaign, he criticised the lack of leaders in Brussels and a constant focus on national interests instead of common European ones.[13] For the Dutch parliamentary election 2021, Lanschot was elected as a Lijstduwer on position 28 of the list.[15]

Volt Europa

On 13 October 2019, he was elected co-president of the European federation with Valerie Sternberg-Irvani, which he has led since.[2] Together with Francesca Romana D'Antuono, he was re-elected at the general assembly of Volt Europa in Lisbon.[16]

In a guest article in October 2021, van Lanschot, together with Francesca Romana D'Antuono, advocated the establishment of a permanent EU armed corps that could be deployed quickly and autonomously in crises and criticised the slow decision-making and complicated existing processes.[17]

Political positions

About the European Union (EU), Van Lanschot declared that he agreed with the view of eurosceptics but that instead of destroying it he wants to improve it by making it more transparent, democratic and social.[18] Van Lanschot claims that Brexit and the recent spike in popularity of Thierry Baudet have strengthened the party.[18] He and his party also believe in the cause of environmentalism.[19]

Awards

On 19 December 2018, Van Lanschot and Dassen were named "EuroNederlander of the Year" by the European Movement Netherlands.[20]

On 23 January 2019, Van Lanschot was selected as one of Elsevier weekly magazine's "30 under 30" talents.[21]

References

  1. ^ "Reinier van Lanschot: 'Volt is een politieke startup'". MT.nl (in Dutch). 2019-05-21. Retrieved 2019-08-24.
  2. ^ a b "European Board". Volt Europa. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
  3. ^ a b "Reinier van Lanschot". Linked in. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  4. ^ "Reinier van Lanschot - Politicus & inspirerend spreker | deSpreker.nl" (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  5. ^ Korteweg, Ariejan (2018-06-24). "Nieuwe partij Volt wil de geschiedenis ingaan als eerste pan-Europese partij". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  6. ^ "'We willen nieuwe energie in Europa brengen'". NRC (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  7. ^ Korteweg, Ariejan (2018-12-19). "Volt staat klaar om Europa te veroveren". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  8. ^ "Nieuwe politieke partij Volt heel sterk vóór Europa". dagblad070.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  9. ^ Schmidt, Christoph (2018-10-28). "De jongeren van Volt willen de EU een positieve stroomstoot toedienen". Trouw (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  10. ^ Müller, Tobias (2019-05-10). "Europäische Parteien: Große Hoffnung auf kleine Chance". Die Tageszeitung: taz (in German). ISSN 0931-9085. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  11. ^ mariettenieuws (2019-06-12). "Nederlanders om in de gaten te houden: voormalig lijststrekker en oprichter in Nederland van de Europese partij Volt Reinier van Lanschot (29)". Nieuws.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  12. ^ "De Europese jongerenpartij Volt richt zich nu op de nationale politiek". De Groene Amsterdammer (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  13. ^ a b "Reinier van Lanschot: 'Volt is een politieke startup'". MT/Sprout (in Dutch). 2019-05-21. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  14. ^ "Kiesraad - Verkiezingsuitslagen". www.verkiezingsuitslagen.nl. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  15. ^ "Partijgeschiedenis". Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. 2021-07-27. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
  16. ^ "Volt Elects New Leadership". Volt Europa. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  17. ^ Fabre, Emile; D'Antuono, Francesca Romana; Lanschot, Reinier Van (2021-10-28). "Time to make the leap with European crisis response units". www.euractiv.com. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
  18. ^ a b "Pro-Europese idealisten, ze bestaan nog". NRC (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-08-24.
  19. ^ mariettenieuws (2019-06-12). "Nederlanders om in de gaten te houden: voormalig lijststrekker en oprichter in Nederland van de Europese partij Volt Reinier van Lanschot (29)". Nieuws.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-08-24.
  20. ^ Beweging, Europese. "Publiek kiest Volt Nederland tot EuroNederlander van het jaar 2018 | Europese Beweging Nederland" (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  21. ^ "30 onder de 30: jonge talenten om in de gaten te houden". EWmagazine.nl (in Dutch). 2019-01-23. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
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