Category: Editorials

Editorial – By Micha, FYEG Co-spokeperson

Posted on 6 October 2013

Reclaim Your Future – This slogan needs to be shouted out loud.

It expresses the anger and fury of the many young people that want to walk their own way through live, however our economy and society does not provide them with viable perspectives. It needs to be screamed in order for our generation not to loose their personality and to not submit our destinies into the hopeless policies of TINA* that are propagated by the Merkels of Europe. It needs to be shouted until it resonates in the ears and pens of the European policymakers, but also until it resonates in us.

We want to reclaim our future?

Editorial

Posted on 1 July 2011

The usual ways we communicate have faced tremendous changes in past few years. Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and all the other social networking tool seem to be shaking the throne of the “old” mass-media. TV channels and newspapers are left trying to adapt themselves to the internet and this new world.

And where is freedom of speech? Is the internet pushing mass media to be more open and less censored? Are all these social networking tools really making world a better place with more democracy? What happened in Egypt and Tunisia and is that related?

Europe in 2020 : green visions

Posted on 10 November 2009

After 3 months of work from the Editorial Board, we proudly launch www.ecosprinter.eu, the new web magazine of the Federation of Young European Greens. We’re also pleased to announce that this event has been reported through an unprecedented 14 European languages press release. To celebrate this launch, we offer you a special report on Europe…

« I am candidate to the European Constitutional Convention »

Posted on 9 November 2009

When you ask him about the future of Europe, he starts with… 1989. The year he started his European carrier as young and newly elected MEP. Twenty years, 4 MEP mandates and one European Parliament vice-presidential office later, his eyes still sparkle when he talks about the past, present and future of the European Union….

Three scenarios for the EU in 2020

Posted on 9 November 2009

Forecasting is a perilous exercise for those involved: we necessarily extrapolate from known facts and not from unknown facts, which normally makes the exercise quickly obsolete. Who would have predicted in October 2004, for example, that France will buck against the project of constitutional treaty, thinking she was choosing an economic model ; or the…

The Green European Foundation in 2020

Posted on 9 November 2009

When The Ecosprinter asked me to write about the Green European Foundation (GEF) I admit that I accepted with pleasure. In my view – through the eyes of one co-president of the foundation – a lot had been achieved in a very narrow timeframe from the set-up of the organisation in 2008 to its present…

Young Greens in Eastern Europe in 2020

Posted on 9 November 2009

When we think about Young Greens in 2020 maybe we should see where the society will stand then. It is very hard to predict the future, but there are some clues that can be tracked. Green values are not always inwrought in system of values, still there are many parts of traditions, custom laws, education…

Providing the future heads of Ecology

Posted on 9 November 2009

Young Green Movements in the EU It is certainly not easy to foresee where we, Young European Greens, will be ten years ahead. The very nature of this moment, which we hope to be taught to the future generations as an inflexion point in the history of humankind, makes it difficult to know what the…

FYEG in 20 years from now

Posted on 9 November 2009

In the year 2029 years a group of middle-aged women and men are meeting in Brussels, on Place Luxembourg in front of the European Parliament. They’re celebrating the election results that brought the European Greens to a majority, so a Green will preside over the federal European Union. But that’s not the only occasion that…

Welcome to the crisis

Posted on 11 January 2009

Talk of crisis has increased over the last months – but was it only the talk or also the crises going on in this world themselves? Most probably, most people have only started discussing about our world’s problems and needs when they themselves were affected. This edition of the ecosprinter aims to explore where this…