“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…
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Inadequate policy activates grassroots actions: The story of RE-PEAT and the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy
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. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a EU subsidy scheme for the farming sector which makes out about one third of the EU’s budget….
How are Green MEPs fighting for a Just Transition in the European Parliament?
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. With the new Commission of Von Der Leyen and the ongoing Green Deal talks put forward by it, the Commission has never seemed as…
No New Rules – In thoughts of the people in Moria 2.0
Over the past year, there has been more talk than ever about the “crazy times” we live in, and it seems that people are longing for something simpler or more predictable. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why we spend so much time thinking and debating about new rules and laws in the almost…
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…
Colonialism in the Immigrant Detention Center: Resistance and Hope
This article was originally published by the Jovent, the magazine of the Catalan young greens under the title: “Colonialitat als CIE: Resistència i esperança” on 18/07/2019. It has been translated by the author and slightly modified for its publication by the Ecosprinter. Samba Martine died alone at the Immigrant Detention Center (CIE in Catalan abbreviation)…
“The most effective thing for solving the climate crisis is to adopt better policies and to hold the biggest polluters accountable”
Bas Eickhout is a Member of the European Parliament for the Greens since 2009. Currently, he is the deputy chairman of the Greens–European Free Alliance group, as well as the vice-chair of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and a member of the Delegation for relations with the People’s Republic of…
Milan Zlatanovic: “The first step would be to open a dialogue”
In an interview with the Ecosprinter, Milan Zlatanovic, member of the Executive Committee of the Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG), answered questions ranging from his ideas to make FYEG more inclusive as an organization, green politics in Eastern Europe, to his visions for European policies. Besides of being a member of the Executive Committee…
Interview with Mar Garcia
Photo by Joan Carles Claveria – Own work Mar Garcia Sanz is a Catalonian and Spanish politician. As Secretary General of the European Green Party, she notably fought for gender equality and equal rights for LGBTQI+ people and, regarding environmental policies, divestment from fossil fuels. She is an enthusiastic European fighting for social and environmental…
Interview with Mina Tolu, FYEG’s newly elected co-spokesperson
We talked to Mina Tolu, newly elected co-spokesperson of the Federation of Young European Greens during the Federation’s General Assembly in Istanbul.