During this last week of the campaign, the Ecosprinter decided to give you some insights on a few European candidates that are trying to make the Green Wave a reality in their respective country. We let each candidate interviewed chose her/his favorite topic. Today’s article is about human rights. Wanja Kaufman is a green hero…
Tag: Sweden
Green Ideals in Election time – David Ling from Grön Ungdom (Sweden)
The European Parliamentary elections are right around the corner, and throughout Europe parties are mobilising to campaign. How do young people see the green future of Europe? In this series you’ll meet political youth parties from all over the continent: from Spain to Slovenia. Today we are speaking to David Ling, vice chair of Grön…
The Swedish Tongue and the Holocaust: A Swedish hindsight 70 years later
By Anna Tranberg, Swedish Young Greens In 1943 the Israeli poet Natan Alterman wrote a poem of gratitude to thank Sweden and the Swedes for opening their borders for Jewish refugees. “And while Sweden declared: ‘Let them in!’ while referring To the exiled Jews who were running away, The entire Swedish people couldn’t speak or…
Never Again! Never Fascism: The European Hindsight 70 Years Later
By Michael Bloss, Co-Spokesperson for the Federation of Young European Greens The day of the liberation of Auschwitz was a cornerstone to the end of the worst time in European history. Its survivors, freed by the Soviet army, coined the famous slogan: „Never Again!“ – a parole that inspired generations of anti-fascist activists in the…
Swedish Young Greens on NATO
As young greens, we share many common beliefs and values. Yet as individuality and independence are some of our most cherished values, we also have some different positions on some issues. In order to explore these differences and understand where other young greens are coming from around Europe, we have asked different FYEG member organizations…
The Swedish “Hen”-debate
During the past few years there has been an ongoing debate dividing Sweden into two camps. What was the source of discussion? The gender neutral pronoun “hen” is to be used as a third pronoun in addition to she or he, to be used when gender of a person is irrelevant or unpredictable. The so…
A Swedish perspective on the European Constitution
The FYEG is facing many important issues to discuss at the upcoming General Assemby, but there is one that lingers on our mind especially. The GA will decide whether or not to pursue a common campaign for the new “Treaty for a European Constitution”. Campaigning is one of FYEG’s most important tasks and we do…
Sweden’s Green Youth General Assembly 2003
Last weekend, on the 7-9th of March, as Sweden’s Green Youth, we had our General Assembly (GA) in Lund, in the south of Sweden. Around 120 members showed up in order to make decisions on the future managing of the youth party, the election of a new board, and the election of a new male…