Greens to use EU election mandate to focus on climate crisis

Green politicians to push agenda urging climate action, social justice and civil liberties

Europe's Greens, big winners in Sunday's European elections, will use their newfound leverage in a fractured parliament to push an agenda of urgent climate action, social justice and civil liberties, the movement's leaders say.

"This was a great outcome for us - but we now also have a great responsibility, because voters have given us their trust," Bas Eickhout, a Dutch MEP and the Greens' co-lead candidate for commission president, told the Guardian.