Photo by Joan Carles Claveria – Own work Mar Garcia Sanz is a Catalonian and Spanish politician. As Secretary General of the European Green Party, she notably fought for gender equality and equal rights for LGBTQI+ people and, regarding environmental policies, divestment from fossil fuels. She is an enthusiastic European fighting for social and environmental…
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Inside #EGP29: The search for a difference between the lead candidates
The 29th EGP Council, the last Council of the European Green Party before the decisive European Election in May 2019, took place in Berlin from November 23rd to 25th. 100 Delegates from all parties of the European Green Family came together to elect their lead candidates and vote upon the EGP Common Manifesto and Campaign…
As we pick up the pieces: 10 thoughts on Brexit
Like many, I’ve struggled to come to terms with the result of Thursday’s vote. So, here are some thoughts as I and many others try and make sense of the situation: 1. No one knows how to react, because almost no one saw this coming. Almost all the polls predicted a Remain win. All the…
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…
Small trouble in big Roma
As you know, the “young greens” have been in Roma, the capital of Italy, not so long ago. There was a huge meeting of people, who want make our world better and greener. For this reason few hundreds got together to sign any papers and celebrate it very intensively. But it is another story. I…
From Rome into a Green Future!?
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…
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…
Young Greens in Berlusconi's country
A couple of weeks ago, a large number of young greens, members of the FYEG, meet in Rome in order to discuss our future as young greens and about the greens future. We were in Rome, the wonderful capital of a wonderful country such as Italy, a country that as many other countries in Europe…