This is Paul Adamson and welcome to In Conversation, the regular podcast of my online magazine InCompass.

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My guest is Terry Reinke.

Terry Reinke is a German member of the European Parliament and vice president of the Green Group.

Welcome to the podcast, Terry.

Pleasure to be here.

There's so much we could talk about, but we haven't got time to talk about everything.

So I suggest we, if we can, just talk about three pretty big things. One is EU-K relations after Brexit. Secondly, the green

movement and the success of the Greens, especially in your country, Germany. And then this recently

launched a conference on the future of Europe and what you think that whole process will deliver in the months ahead.

So let's start with the UK relations post-Brexit.

I see you found this something called the EUK Friendship Group.

What made you decide to create such a grouping inside the European Parliament?

Well, you see when it was clear that Brexit was finally happening,

one thing was also clear about it is that we would lose our colleagues from the UK,

which I think had been really bridge builders over the past years between what was happening in the UK,

the debates that were going on,

but also maybe kind of leveling out a little bit, sometimes I would even call them hostile

positionings that happened. And I felt that if we lose that, we also lose a lot of this

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