A look back on more than one year of refugee-strike in Berlin by Grüne Jugend In the beginning of October a protestmarch of refugees, who started in Würzburg (Souther Germany), reached Berlin. Already at the city boundaries, the activists were loudly welcomed by other refugees and supporters. The German capital was the goal of the…
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The Germans want Merkel – but with her, there is no democratic, social and green Europe!
Let’s be honest. Although we wish otherwise, the most powerful institution in the EU is NOT the European Parliament. The EU suffers from the democratic deficit, since the member state governments are those who have the biggest say in EU policies. To be more precise: It is some national governments, backed by economic strength and…
Duisburg Love Parade – countdown for Sauerland's office
Some will say it was the ransom of excess : an event growing bigger by the year (up to 1 million people in 2010, as the organizers and the local authorities, among which the mayor, had told the press), a large proportion of participants making use of hard psychotropic substances, turning some weak minds into worse…
Torn between two worlds
Ten Young Greens from Germany travelled to Israel in May. They met with people from both sides of a conflict. People who are yearning for peace. However, many of them remain sceptical towards each other. After all, it seems to be a long way until peace and equality for everyone will be established. When we…
EC meeting in Berlin 23-26 June
The FYEG Executive Committee does its part for German Bundestag-elections! One part of being an EC member means being allowed to study the offices of Greens all over Europe. This time, the EC got the honour to study the office of Hans-Christian Ströbele, member of the German federal parliament and Green. As always, the meeting’s…
Grüne Jugend update
We at Grüne Jugend are currently working on the topic “right-wing extremism”, at the moment we mainly want to inform and elucidate about this problem. But we are also planning activities and information material. We are also having a discussion about the structure of our organisation at the moment. We already took some time to…
Grüne Jugend Update
Grüne Jugend (German Young Greens) is getting into the final stage of preparations for the EP Election Campaign. Our main topics for the campaign are democracy, private copyright and GMOs and we are supporting our young candidate for the EP: Benjamin von der Ahe. We are also going to take part in the Global Action…
News from Germany
On the 16th of January GRUENE JUGEND celebrated its 10th birthday! Besides that we have a new office co-ordinator who some of you might know; it’s Jeroen (Kuiper) board member of FYEG. And we are starting with the European election campaign. Our candidate Ben von der Ahe was elected on the 14th place of the…
News from Germany
The Green Youth of Germany had a very successful General Assembly in October. About 300 members discussed the establishement of a membership fee, a strategy paper about education policy and elected two new board members: Bene Lux, 21 was elected as Co-spokesperson after Ben von der Ahe resigned in order to focus on the Election…
Find your green lifestyle!
Two times a year the members of the GRUENE JUGEND (green youth) meet for the general assembly to debate on current issues, present new actions and have a great time together. The 20th federal assembly took place from March 8th to March 9th 2003 in Muenster (Westfalia). The main topic of the weekend was the…