November the 15th 2003, will always be remembered as one of FYEG’s finest moments. On that day four young people consecrate their love for each other in Paris at Notre Dame… This is how it could have been but unfortunately there is a twist to it: We asked the four for their reasons to marry:…
Month: November 2003
News from Malta
Alternattiva Demokratika’s youth section previously known as Alternattiva Demokratika Studenti has been reorganized and changed its name into Alternattiva Demokratika Zghazagh – Green Youth (ADZ) ADZ – Green Youth has been rejuvenated by the influ x of a number of motivated and dynamic young persons. ADZ – Green Youth is an observer member of FYEG…
News from Ireland
Since the return to school and college, the Irish Young Greens have been busy getting new members and making lots of plans for the coming year. The summe r saw everyone travel around Europe and further afield having a fantastic time (particularly on the Sumava trip by all accounts!) and now we are back with…
News from Germany
The Green Youth of Germany had a very successful General Assembly in October. About 300 members discussed the establishement of a membership fee, a strategy paper about education policy and elected two new board members: Bene Lux, 21 was elected as Co-spokesperson after Ben von der Ahe resigned in order to focus on the Election…
News from the Netherlands
1) There has recently been a lot of commotion in the Netherlands about the activities of the Animal Liberation Front and related groups. Right-wing politicians see in their militant operations a reason for calling all activists for animal rights “terrorists”. Left-wing politicians fear their activities might be counterproductive. This evening (Monday the third of November)…
News from Catalonia
16th November: Elections in Catalonia The next 16th of November there will be regional elections in Catalonia. It is an important date because for the first time in 23 years Mr.Jordi Pujol, the President of the Catalan Government who has ruled the country since the beginning of the eighties, is not running again for his…
Switch to green
Two years ago, during one of those “let’s change the world” conversations in a pub we were wondering what we could do for the environment at our university. We knew about the university’s environment programme: full of ambitious but vague commitments. What to do? At the time, the government was thinking about building new nuclear…
After the development
“Development” is a term used in biology to express such things as the blooming of flowers. Its sense of acquiring material prosperity, sense that is now the most obvious to us, was born a bit more than fifty years ago. The inventor of this notion is Harry Truman, in his 1949 speech on the ***. During…
Women and migration
Millions of people (20 Million in 2001) are fleeing every year from their country to another; from a region in the North to a region in the south; from one misery into another one. A particular group among the refugees is the women. In fact, they are quite a big group, since 75-80% of the…
Migration campaign report
Now that the migration campaign has started, it was time for all the prep team members to meet once more. Actions needed to be planned, budgets worked out and deadlines set. Therefore we met from 10 till 12 October in Antwerp, Belgium. Jong Agalev booked one of their luxurious office buildings for us which was…