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…
Tag: democracy
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…