Young Candidates in the spotlight

  • Benedetta Scuderi (Italy)

    Age: 32

    Benni is an incredible force for change and we believe she will fight for a sustainable, feminist, and inclusive Europe.

  • Anna Peters (Germany)

    Age: 27

    Anna Peters is determined: Financial policy should be made fairer and gender-equal throughout Europe.

    Her goal for the future is to see a fairer and more just EU. Before the European elections, Anna plans a transnational and national tour to gather ideas and knowledge and develop more modern financial and fiscal policies.

  • Wanja Kaufmann (Sweden)

    Age: 27

    Wanja lives in Stockholm, works as a PR consultant, and candidates to become an MEP because she wants to improve the EU's policies on security, migration and human rights. She has previously been the international secretary of Grön Ungdom (2017-2020), an EC member of FYEG (2020-2022) and is currently the chair of Green Forum.

  • Rosa Domm (Germany)

    Age: 25

    Since she is politically active, Rosa Domm fights for sustainable and inclusive mobility, against climate change, and for better mental health care. Rosa is a 25-year-old Young Candidate from Hamburg where she is currently a member of the state parliament and represents Gen Z.

  • Zuzana Pavélkova (Czech Republic)

    Age: 32

    Zuzana Pavelková was a member of FYEG Executive Committee between 2017-2018 and FYEG Co-Spokesperson between 2018-2019. For the past five years, she was fighting for fair and just asylum policies with Organization for Aid to Refugees (OPU) based in Czechia.

  • Emil Schenkyr (Germany)

    Age: 27

    Born and raised in small-town, rural Bavaria, Emil always felt the urge to go about and explore the world. He lived, worked, and studied in Malaysia, France, Belgium, Kazakhstan, and Russia. There and everywhere he can reach in Europe he fights for a Europe where we all can live in freedom.

  • Petr Doubravský (Czech Republic)

    Age: 22

    Has background in grasroot organising and activisim, co-founded Fridays For Future in Czech Republic, served in board of Greenpeace CZ and more. Studies Environmental studies and Economics. Is passionate about making fossil barons and landlords angry.

  • Francisco Paupério (Portugal)

    Age: 28

    From Porto, Portugal. Bioinformatician. PhD Candidate in Integrative Biology and Biomedicine in Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência. Theoretician.

  • Fausta Roznyté (Lithuania)

    Age: 25

    Fausta Roznytė is a chairwoman of the Union of Young Democrats of Lithuania. She is currently working as a policy advisor and assistant at the Parliament of Lithuania. Fausta specializes in the field of international relations and defended her Master’s thesis on “Just Transition” in India.