Between historical buildings of more than 2000 years the European Greens took their chance to make an historical step: After 20 years of first contacts, slowly growing together and becoming more and more one movement despite all differences they founded the first European Party: the European Green Party. They? And what about us? We as…
Category: Green Politics
Are you a Citizen of Europe ?
Well if so why not join the European Green Party in this way? That is what I am intending to do. It can be done as a member of the Heerlen Group. Any green minded individual has this right – party member or not. Because there are no real voting rights, there are no qualifying…
Greens didn't succeed to get into the government
After Finnish’s greens good result in parliamentary elections, the greens went with optimism to government negotiations. But after two weeks, it was clear that the greens are not going to be in government. The reason what was given from the main parties who went to government was: Social democrats wanted a left wing party to…
Elections in Finland
In the elections for the Finnish parliament on 16 March, the Greens League increased its seats from 11 to 14 (8,0% of votes, 28 000 new votes). This is a victory for the party: we were able to grow from the category of around 10 seats (the result in the three previous elections 1991, 1995…