During the third week of July in Topola, small place in central Serbia (44° 45′ east longitude, 20° 21′ north latitude), many young people from all around Europe were brought together to discuss, learn, exchange ideas and experiences, cooperate, create, improve, search, express one’s opinion, and all above mentioned for the purpose of making better…
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Did you know that Europe has east too?
This time Federation of Young European Greens made it different and brought energy for sustainable development to Eastern Europe, to the Balkans. From 15th to 21st of July around 34 young greens gathered in green paradise, Oplenac, hill nearby town Topola in central Serbia. Reason? To evaluate process of sustainable development from Rio summit in…
Fight stupidity
Not only because it’s annoying. It is also infectious. When walking around on the Student Island, biggest music festival in Central and Eastern Europe, most of us, greens were shocked to notice among the tents of the so-called civil village an organization called Youth for Nuclear Energy. First you start joking and playing around that…
What members for FYEG?
Though this has been an issue discussed inside FYEG lately, I’m not writing about if the membership at FYEG should be restricted to organizations or include individuals. I’m just wondering : what kind of organizations in our federation ? The statutes say that ecology is a whole and cannot be restricted to protectionof nature, women’s…
Grüne Jugend exchange with Dwars
From the 6th to the 9th of december 2001 some members of the Gruene Jugend drug politics workgroup visited DWARS in Utrecht. The visit was part of an exchange : earlier some DWARS members visited Berlin with special interest in antiracism and antifascism. As the Netherlands have a different way of dealing with the drug…
Another Europe is possible
Next January, Spain takes up the presidency of the European Union at a period of stagnation of its development, and, needless to say, utter paralysis in terms of its social and political depth. The member states appear to be only concerned with not losing importance in the face of the growth of the Union,…
Editorial – January 2002
Last week I met this boy to whom I told I was doing politics. And he said this was far too complicated for him, he’d chose his voting paper according to its colour and last time he had voted… yellow. Politics regard everyone but so many people think this is not for them, there are…