The FYEG General Assembly (GA) will take place in Poznan, Poland, from the 9th to the 12th of March 2006. A large part of this issue of the Ecosprinter will be devoted to the most important yearly event of FYEG, the General Assembly. We will give profiles of the candidates for the Executive Committee, starting…
Month: March 2006
Melilla – Gateway to Europe
Melilla and Ceuta, two Spanish enclaves in northern Morocco, have recently been subjected to a lot of pressure by hundreds of Sub-Saharans seeking refuge or asylum in the European Union. The reaction of the Spanish and Moroccan authorities resulted in a series of deaths and major Human Rights violations. Under these circumstances , FYEG considered…
Green MEP supports “1 million faces” photo petition for an international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT).
Every minute one person on Earth is killed by a weapon. That makes more than half a million each year. While there are international conventions dealing with the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, no global treaty limits the trade in conventional weapons. Small arms and light weapons but also tanks, helicopters, rocket launchers and…
FYEG wintercamp 2006 completed
The FYEG wintercamp was held from the 11th till the 18th of February 2006 in Judenburg, Austria. In totally over 48 participants from eleven different nations were debating, getting to know each other, working together, exchanging cultures and building international relations in the strongest way you can imagine. The countries attending were Austria, Bulgaria, Catalonia,…
Lebanon Snapshot
Random conversations in Lebanon are rarely mundane. People are not shy with their opinions here. Take our taxi driver at the weekend, who, on seeing we were Westerners (and therefore automatically Christian) wasted no time informing us that Arabic is not a Lebanese language, since the Lebanese are Phoenicians, and that Lebanese culture has been…
FYEG demands equal salary for equal work!
The latest report on equality of women and men published by the Commission on 27th of February shows that women still earn less than men even when employed in the same position and with the same qualification. Some countries have managed to decrease this gap whereas in others this inequality is even increasing. Ernest Urtasun,…
Final statement of FYEG in Melilla ‘06
We, the participants of the exchange on human rights and migration in Melilla, a Spanish enclave in the north of Africa, in January 2006, members of the Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG), non-governmental organisations and affiliated networks, have acquainted ourselves with the local situation. On both theoretical and practical levels we have explored the…
Border Crossing – A review from Malta
When I was by asked by Alternattiva Demokratika Zghazagh-Green Youth to take part in the seminar “Crossing the Mediterranean” in Melilla, the Spanish enclave in Morocco, I was really enthusiastic about it, it sounded like the ideal opportunity to discover what irregular immigration is like in another South European country. And I was not deceived….
Who owns what?
I really should write on the General Assembly. But since the candidates anyway fill up most of the issue, well, enough is enough. Instead, this editorial will play around with being a little self-referential. I will in this article ask: who owns the words that I am right now writing? The Ecosprinter is the publication…