This year we have two candidates for the position of FYEG Secretary General: Tomáš Křemen from Czech Republic and Artur Wieczorek from Poland. The Ecosprinter would like to provide you with more information about them than you can read in their official CVs and motivation letters. By doing so we hope to make the decision…
Author: aleksandra
The Ecosprinter Reviews FYEG Spokesperson Candidates
During the next FYEG General Assembly in Prague the delegates will also decide who are going to be the next spokespersons. As there there are always two spokes there need to be at least two candidates of different genders. This year we have two candidates: Teo Comet and Marie Pochon. Marie Pochon. Photo: courtesy of…
After Super Tuesday: What’s Your Plan B Mr. Sanders?
#USElections #SuperTuesday #FeeltheBern #BernieSanders #HillaryClinton #Clinton #Sanders #Trump #DonaldTrump #DNC #GOP It is time to prepare for post-Sanders Left politics in the US. On a discursive level, he contributed a lot to shifting the epicenter of Democratic politics and he will likely continue his campaign after. But the question to raise is today, what will…
World Economic Forum: Are the leaders working for us?
Time to rethink our political and economic system I am an environmentalist, but this label has never sat well with me. The term “environmentalist” is of limited use and those who worship at the altar of limitless growth struggle to see past the label – as if being “green” was no more than a fashion…
The EU Seen by an Englishman
The text was originally published in the magazine of French Young Greens Journal La Souris Verte . English version Interview of Mikey, 34 years old, English. He’s a teacher and a fireman. What do you think of the European union ? How do you see it? I’m kind of in favour of the European Union but…
Holocaust Remembrance Day
As we know “History is the best teacher with worst pupils”. On 27th of January we should remind the planet, how we as a human beings can be mistaken if we are following issues based on hate and fears. We all remember what happened with Jewish minority in Europe during second world war, but as…
Political Change in Poland
I have been confronted with bad news from Poland almost every day. German media talk about the new government in connection with protests, taking control of public media, introducing an authoritarian Budapest Model, breaking other EU democracy rules and so on… That is why I’m asking myself: What’s going on in my beloved neighbouring country?…
#Ausnahmslos – No Excuses
On New Year’s Eve at Cologne main station several women became victims of sexual assaults. Groups of men gathered and assaulted women. The assaults attracted not only in Germany but also international widespread public attention. Key point of the reporting was sadly not the showed sexism and rape culture, but the ethnic background/origin of the…
To meat or not to meat? – survey results
How do people, who consume meat or abstain from eating meat, see their habits and how do their habits influence them? In May 2015 the Food Systems & Animal Rights Working Group of the Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG) conducted a survey on the consumption of meat. The survey aimed to provide a clearer…
Refugees’ crisis: Berkasovo / Bapska border crossing
Human Rights monitoring 28. – 30. 10. 2015 I have spent 3 days on Serbian-Croatian border in Berkasovo (SR) as a volunteer involved in the grass root, self-organized and self-named “Czech Team”. During that time there were more than 100 volunteers working and an absolute majority were from the Czech Rep. The main task of…