Not every day, a Member of Parliament’s call for a new position is heard. Even rarer is when they actually receive that position. Markus Pieper, the Member of the European Parliament (CDU) from northern Münsterland (Lotte), has achieved this feat. After two decades of negotiating many important dossiers (most recently the Renewable Energy Directive, RED) as a rapporteur, the 60-year-old is now moving to the Commission.