Fascism is a problem across Europe – its threat needs answers Fascism has regained a foothold in Europe1. Both ‘lone wolf’ terrorists and organisations actively identify and engage with this growing movement. They form international networks, spreading and replicating each other’s rhetoric, political, financial and communication strategies. As the movement grows, they become bolder and…
Tag: democracy
Does COP27 matter? 🤔
Naomi Klein recently claimed that COP27 is “greenwashing a police state.” I agree. So why am I going? Why, with the Young European Greens, am I organising a delegation of eight people to go there? What do we hope to achieve? In 2011, Egypt was a burning flame of hope in the Arab Spring. The…
Let’s talk about the hijab – but how? 🧕
Mahsa Amini died on 16th September after succumbing to her injuries. She was arrested three days prior by the Iranian “morality police” for allegedly not wearing the hijab in accordance with “government standards”. She died while still in captivity. She was 22 years old. Her unjust and tragic death has triggered a wave of protest…
The Queen is dead, long live the King? 👑
As the UK laid its longest serving monarch to rest last week, the royal family of Great Britain and the Commonwealth is again in the spotlight. In the context of an estimated 6.7 million people in the UK predicted to be living in energy poverty by October 2022, the pomp and circumstance of a royal…
Energy democracy
To avert the worst socioenvironmental impacts stemming from climate change-inducing emissions, we need to transition to a different energy system. This transition requires more than simply adopting renewable energy production technologies. We need to break the crony-capitalist structures in which imperialist energy oligopolies are embedded. A just transition rigorously reorganises the way we produce, transport…
The First and Last Level of Political Resistance: an Europe of municipalities or municipalities of Europe?
There seems not to be many promising scenarios on the near future for progressive policies. From Spain to Hungary, the right, in all its forms, has the power of member states. In such a situation, where transnational financial elites are re-founding neoliberalism using new faces such Macron or old ideologies such Le Pen’s, how can…
A Dialogue on Europe
During the last years, Europe hasn’t had the lack of continental crises: the economic and social crisis heightened by austerity policies; the Ukraine crisis and a new perceived danger along EU’s eastern border; the refugee crisis with thousands of people dying in the Mediterranean Sea because of our lack of answers; the climate crisis that…
Political Change in Poland
I have been confronted with bad news from Poland almost every day. German media talk about the new government in connection with protests, taking control of public media, introducing an authoritarian Budapest Model, breaking other EU democracy rules and so on… That is why I’m asking myself: What’s going on in my beloved neighbouring country?…
Regenerate Europe !
This article has been initially published on the blog “Green Window” by the organisation Zeleni Prozor. In this special issue on the FYEG European Campaign, we tried to gather information on all Summer Camps, FYEG and young greens gatherings that took place all over the Summer in Europe, marking the beginning of the European elections…
Women in Tunisia and in revolution
In the context of a women exchange between Tunisian activists and Grüne Jugend (Young Greens of Germany), Sabine Hackbarth (participant in the exchange, green youth activist and spokesperson of the women’s group of the University in Mainz) organized a lecture at her University about women in Tunisia and in the revolution. For this, she invited…