Category: Editorials

I attended a Green event the week before putting this magazine together. Arranged by a Green party, attended by two MEP’s, industry representatives and local Greens as speakers, it was a 2-hour session of male back-slapping, ego-boosting and talk, talk, talk. 100 % of all speakers were male. 100 % of the voices from the…

Since the FYEG Winter Camp on Social Policy in Norway in the beginning of 2007 there has been a debate on work going on within FYEG, mirroring a wider one in the Greens in general. In this issue of the Ecosprinter we have a wide variety of issues dealing with the quality and quantity of…

you are holding in your hand the Autumn 2007 issue of the Ecosprinter. In this issue we will consentrate on the topics that are the political priorities in the work of the Executive Committee of FYEG during the next year. These themes are Ethnical Minorities, Homophobia, Migrants and Climate Change. This Ecosprinter is also the…

A lot of questions are facing FYEG in the next half year or so. It is clear that FYEG today with 34 Member Organisations is not the same as that of a few years ago, and needs more people able to work on it in addition to the volunteers. At the same time, a lack…

The FYEG General Assembly (GA) of 2006 was held in Poznan, Poland, from the 9th to the 12th of March 2006. 43 delegates from 31 Member Organisations were present. In total, 70 people participated in the event, including a member of the European Parliament and four people from the European Green Party. One of the…

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…

Looking at the world through huge, saucer-wide eyes, our thin, genderless bodies glistening wetly we pass through the undergrowth, short, big-headed and constantly amazed. The little green people. Is that who the FYEG are? Is that who we should be? Alien to this world, looking at it through new eyes? Strange, off-putting, persecuted? Or maybe…

A new Ecosprinter for you. Twentyfour pages stuffed with articles on diverse topics, updates from member organisations, pictures, an interview and … an ad for the new fyeg t-shirts and flags. In the middle of the ecosprinter fi fteen candidates for a new EC introduce themselves. Each of them have exceptional qualities and are ready…

This is not an opportunity one gets every day, so I am proud to deliver to you this edition of the most well written and most read magazine I have ever layed out! You’ll find contributions from all corners of Europe on a broad range of topics. Although only 20 pages thick, this issue is…

Summer is here again. The smell of holly hocks, tea and croquet on the vicarage lawn. Ah how I remember my Childhood, playing in the long grassy meadow at my Gran’s house wandering down the leafy Donkey Lane to the River Severn and relaxing beneath the Crab apple trees on the dappled sunlit mossy lawn….