Whether the leap from Rotenburg to far-away Brussels was difficult? For Jan-Christoph Oetjen, who has been sitting in the European Parliament for the Liberal Group since 2019, the distance wasn’t too great: „Here, in terms of working methods, you’re actually close to local politics.“ And that’s just the way the 45-year-old likes it: „Party politics play a subordinate role, new majorities are always formed, you can make things happen crosswise.“