As the UK laid its longest serving monarch to rest last week, the royal family of Great Britain and the Commonwealth is again in the spotlight. In the context of an estimated 6.7 million people in the UK predicted to be living in energy poverty by October 2022, the pomp and circumstance of a royal…
Category: Democracy
INTERVIEW WITH WANJA KAUFMANN
Wanja Kaufmann (she/her/hers) is the former international secretary of Grön Ungdom, the Swedish Young Greens. She has been active in the Green movement since 2010 and attended her first FYEG event in 2016. As a member of the Executive Committee she is among other things responsible for Member Organisation coordination, Northern Member Organisation relations and…
Interview with Clara Winkler
Photo Credits: Ali Khademolhosseini Clara Winkler (she/her/hers) started with activism in 2016 and is originally from Germany, where she has been involved in the work of GrĂĽne Jugend for several years now. As a member of the Executive Commitee she is responsible for the Central and Western Member Organisations and focuses her topic on mental…
Will Covid-19 Leave a Permanent Scar on Young People’s Futures?
This article is a cross-publication from the Green European Journal’s website. A year and a half after the onset of the pandemic, young people in Europe are reflecting on the impact it has had on their lives and questioning what it will mean for their future prospects. William Hayward examines the evidence to uncover whether…
Interview with GĂĽlce Yeniev
GĂĽlce Yeniev (she/her) is the treasurer of the FYEG Executive Committee. In our interview, GĂĽlce gives us an insight into her work as a Treasurer and into the present stance and past history of the Turkish Greens, which she’s a part of. She addresses the issue of LGBTQI+ rights, the representation of Eastern and Southern…
It’s the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, again
And now? The images incoming from Afghanistan are dramatic: masses of people flocking to the airport trying to escape. The fear is great. Women are among the first objectives of the dramatic talibans’ extremist regime: they have already been removed from their workplaces, some schools and universities have been closed to them and in some…
The EU is committed to helping Afghanistan, but not Afghans
“People should not come to Europe. People should stay in their region” “People should not come to Europe. People should stay in their region”. This sentence is probably the best summary of the current EU standing on migrants fleeing Afghanistan after the Taliban have taken over in the country. Not only for its crystal clarity…
Why you rebel
The following article is an excerpt from Ecosprinter’s 2021 printed edition on a just transition. We decided to bring you the articles from this edition in a digital form as well. Times are dire. Last year, Australia lost a fifth of its trees and billions of animals to wildfires. The fires were so massive that…
Environmental costs of the Syrian Civil War
The devastating civil war in Syria entered its tenth year. A decade of war has caused one of the biggest humanitarian crises in the world of an estimated death toll of 384,000-593,100 people as of December 2020. Besides, the displacement of approximately 12.7 million people, with nearly 6.1 million displaced internally struggling to survive. The ongoing long war has…
Diary of Palina – fighting for Belarus
I try to express myself, but there are so many thoughts that I can’t put them together. I just cry all day, crying out all the things that have accumulated over the past months. I cry and pray, even though I don’t believe in God in the accepted sense of this word. I pray that…