The 10 countries due to join the European Union next year must turn their attention from adopting EU environment laws to implementing them, Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom said today. She was addressing the ninth and last annual informal meeting with accession country environment ministers. European Union Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom Wallstrom, together with Enlargement Commissioner,…
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The European Youth Convention
From July 9th to 12th the European Youth Convention met in Brussels. 210 young delegates were supposed to discuss about the “Future of Europe” and thus advise the “senior” Convention. The delegates were either nominated by the national delgates to the Convention in cooperation with the National Youth Councils or by the delegations of the…
Denmark, President of the European Union
The big news on the day that the Danish presidency were that the new waiting rooms (not cages!) were ready for captured demonstrating people. By accident the policeman at the press conference called them cages. Accoding to radio they look like dog cages but supplied with fruit and white plastic garden chairs. So maybe it…
Malta, the EU and AD
Malta is one of the candidate countries vying for EU membership and therefore is going trough a very important phase in its long history. At the same time the European Union too is passing trough a very important phase. These changes in the EU will be discussed in the convention on the future of the…
Did you know that Europe has east too?
This time Federation of Young European Greens made it different and brought energy for sustainable development to Eastern Europe, to the Balkans. From 15th to 21st of July around 34 young greens gathered in green paradise, Oplenac, hill nearby town Topola in central Serbia. Reason? To evaluate process of sustainable development from Rio summit in…
Another Europe is possible
Next January, Spain takes up the presidency of the European Union at a period of stagnation of its development, and, needless to say, utter paralysis in terms of its social and political depth. The member states appear to be only concerned with not losing importance in the face of the growth of the Union,…