[3] On 5 June 2022 he was reelected to the EGP Co-chair together with the French senator Mélanie Vogel[4] Waitz was born in Vienna, Austria.

[citation needed] According to Waitz, the Greens are "the only serious political force interested in maintaining small-structured agriculture with all its positive effects on the environment and food quality and which is committed to small and organic farmers".

[15] After the 2019 European Parliament election Waitz was unable to take up his mandate directly but had to wait until the British MEPs left in February 2020 due to Brexit.

Waitz is committed to a common, eco-social economic policy of the EU and uniform social standards within Europe.

For example, in 2016 he laid down tree trunks infested by bark beetles in front of the country house in Graz's Herrengasse street,[18] and in January 2018 he cooperated with the Styrian police to stop illegal animal transporters.

The joint protest action at Tom received particular attention from the members of parliament Tilly Metz from Luxembourg, Molly Scott Cato from Great Britain, and Michèle Rivasi, who supported the unfurling of a banner on the runway of the military airport Kleine Brogel in Belgium, which drew attention to the permanent presence of US nuclear warheads in the middle of Europe.