When I was doing my internship in Brussels for the past three months at the European Parliament, I received on invitation of FYEG. It was saying that in London would be an ‘Alternative Conference for the Rio Summit’ in June. Thanks to the Young Greens in Muenster/Germany who covered my travel expenses from Brussels to …
Category: Green Politics
France: change is now…for the Greens!
The year 2012 has been important year for French politics bringing long-awaited presidential and legislative elections. For the left, the results have been better than the expectations. The Greens could take advantage of this socialist wave, but the price for change was very expensive for Europe Ecologie – les Verts (EELV). Here are a few facts to help you understand the political change happening for the Greens in France.
Having tea with Juliette Boulet
Juliette Boulet’s election to the House of representatives in this year’s Belgian elections at the age of 26, making her the youngest member of the Belgian Parliament, marks the culminating achievement in what has already been a sparkling political career and a remarkable journey. Here she shares with us some of her views on climate…
Federation of Young African Greens created
The first Forum of the African Young Greens was held between the 21st and the 25th of August, in Cotonou, Benin. The Forum gathered 53 representatives of different environmental and green youth movements from 7 African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Niger and Togo. The meeting was a good opportunity for the Young…
Global Young Greens announce congress date
The Global Young Greens congress in Nairobi, Kenya 2007 has been confirmed to take place from January 16- 18, with a one day excursion on the 19th; and of course, the chaos will not stop there- the World Social Forum will happen directly afterwards from January 20-25. Next to the World Social Forums’ 100 000…
What is The Green Party of the US?
The Green Party of the United States is a union of smaller member states, each sovereign to some degree. It tries to coordinate the actions of separate entities with individualized ideologies and motivations. This could be a description of FYEG, the European Green Party or the American Greens. Even though there is an ocean between…
Revelations of a first timer…
Dia duit a chairde! Rome was my first experience of an FYEG event. I didn’t know quite what to expect from the event but the experiences had over that weekend were better than I had ever anticipated. I will never forget the feeling I had when I saw the FYEG migration campaign t-shirts for the…
Rainy Rendezvous in Rome
From February 19 to 22 February 2004, Thursday to Sunday, FYEG had a youth conference in Rome with 65 people from all over Europe. On Thursday and Friday we had a panel debate with over 100 persons on “Are the Greens getting old?”. Afterwards, in few hours without heavy rain, FYEG distributed together with Italian…
From a vegan point of view…
At first, green events normally are a period of starvation for me as I’m not eating meat, fish, eggs nor any milk products. I’m used to that and also it’s not very fortunate I can live with this (good for diet;-). But in Rome the Greens promoted one campaign I like very much: The food…
Of pink feathers and naked ladies
After all the political stuff for hours and hours even a workaholic green deserves some rest. Therefore everybody was happy when the happening was moved to a kind of theatre or bar where a buffet was offered that had at least some tomatoes for hungry vegans and which was a quite nice location. Satisfied and…