The German Green Youth met for their 43rd General Assembly in Dresden from 10.-12. October. Alongside the 300 participants from Germany also some international guests from Austria, Norway and the Czech Republic were invited. There are certain things which one can always count on: for example, general assemblies of the Green Youth of Germany will…
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Young Greens begin week of action against university pay inequality
The Young Greens of England & Wales launched actions at campuses across the country starting from Monday as part of a national week of action against pay inequality at UK universities. Actions are being held at the University of East Anglia, Imperial College London and Leeds Met to draw attention to the huge rise in…
An IDEA in progress
In the farthest reaches of Eastern Europe, environmental initiatives are booming. The region is eager to reach outwards, as recentlyshown by the various FYEG membership applications by young greens from Israel, Kazakhstan and Lebanon. Another recent initiative has been the founding of the IDEA Campaign in Azerbaijan. We had the opportunity to follow the first…
Pekka Haavistos success as candidate of the Greens at Finnish elections for president 2012
The candidate of the Greens, Pekka Haavisto did considerably well at the Finnish presidential elections in early 2012. He received 18.8 % of the votes at the first round among eight candidates of eight different parties and made it with that result to the run-off round against Sauli Niinistö, the candidate of the right-wing conservative…
Shocking Elections Lead The Way To Rainbow Government
The Finnish Parliamentary Elections held in April 2011 together with the formation of the government turned out to be more exciting than anyone had expected. In recent months everyone in Finland seems to have had an opinion on politics. This is new to Finnish politics, as for a long time the number of members of…
CDN Network Meeting 2009
After three days of too little sleep, intensive discussions and amazing parties the CDN Network Meeting was eventually over. Activists from many different European countries came to Zagreb in order to vote for a new EC, discuss the political platform of CDN and other documents and get to know each other. It was a weekend…
CDN Network Meeting Zagreb 2009
A bit more than a year had passed since the last CDN network meeting hosted in Belgrade by the Serbian Young Greens . A year passed and had to be evaluated. Time had come to make some decisions, to vote, to discuss and to plan, to MEET again! This happened during a nice autumn weekend…
CDN Report
The Cooperation and Development Network Eastern Europe has been taking active responsibility to encourage and support young greens in Eastern Europe. Based on strong fundaments and significant experiences the Network achieved during the previous work, we strongly believe in growth and development of a young green movement in Eastern Europe. In cooperation with FYEG, CDN…
…in bed with the conservatives!
Imagine the president of a country, who by name singles out a member of your organisation, asking for why that person is attending a conference on climate change. Then imagine that your mother party is in a coalition government, led by the party of that president. Imagine further a prime minister who attacks a minister…
Green Alternative Youth of Austria introduce themselves
Hello, Platform GAJ, could you introduce yourself shortly, in one or two sentences? Hello, we are a group of young people who work on their alternative view on society. We are united in the basic values that we are working on. GAJ – where does the name come from originally? We call ourselves “Green alternative…