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Upcoming Events
European Ideas Lab on Climate and Biodiversity in Milan and online
Are you a changemaker invested in fighting the climate crisis?
Announcing the European Ideas Lab – our new project that facilitates the meeting of Green leaders and activists with changemakers.
Find out more about our event and register today!
Green Screen Recap - Burning Out: Why our healthcare workers need more than just applause
As part of The Green Screen project in which we explore films and debates for a better future, we explored how burn out has been affecting hospital workers pre- and post-Pandemic. This month, we featured the film 'Burning Out' following staff in a Parisian hospital and held a debate on how to guarantee healthcare as a common good.
Tilt - The ChangeMaking Network
Ban clear-cutting in European forests
Our forests are under threat. Right now, our continent’s last ancient forests are being cut down. Clear-cutting is rampant across Europe. The speed at which heavy harvesters are chopping down Europe’s forests demands urgent action from European leaders.
News from our member parties
Pride in Budapest
Our Hungarian member party LMP – Magyarország Zöld Pártja along with Staf Aerts, MP from the Flemish Green Party Groen, as well as Green MEPs Terry Reintke, Henrike Hahn and Kim van Sparrentak, and other members of our green family, went to Budapest Pride during the weekend to support the LGBTI community in their fight for dignity and equal rights in Europe.
The European Union is a #LGBTIFreedomZone: we cannot tolerate Viktor Orbán using the LGBTI community as a scapegoat to further entrench societal divides in Hungary and advance his own political goals in the shade of the debates he started.
The European Commission has finally initiated 3 cases against Hungary and Poland as part of an infringement procedure due to their breaches of EU law and the rights of LGBTI persons. Yet, the Commission still refuses to address systemic problems with the rule of law in EU countries, despite a regulation tying disbursement of EU funds to the rule of law situation in member states coming into force at the beginning of this year, and despite its own recently published rule of law report identifying several serious problems with the handling of EU funds in Hungary.
It is high time for concerns and worries to be turned into action. If the Commission is serious about addressing taxpayer euros ending up in the pockets of politicians’ friends and family, about protecting the rights of all EU citizens to be equal before the law, and about protecting the financial interests and the legal order of the Union it needs to use the tools it was given.
Events
Future Events - Save the Date
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21- 23 September | The Green Screen: screening and debate
- 30 September to 02 October | European Ideas Lab on Climate and Biodiversity in Milan and online
- 03 – 05 December | #EGP34
Past
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15 June | Making the Transition Just - From the European Level to the Local - Watch the recording here.
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02 July | Green Recovery conference “For a Green recovery!”, 2 July, EGP and Greens/EFA Group. Watch if you missed it.
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15 July | Green Talking Heads Podcast
- 21 - 22 July | The Green Screen Online cinema
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