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Plume-gate: Secret documents prove global cover-up of continued Fukushima radiation pollution

Автор: press-centre Дата: May 18 2012
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A Freedom of Information Act(FOIA) request filed by Friends of the Earth (FoE), Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), and the Nuclear Information and Resource Center (NIRS) has unearthed a shocking series of new evidence proving a deliberate, global cover-up of the true severity of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. And the unfortunate reality is that the mainstream media continues to blatantly...

GEF at Council

Автор: press-centre Дата: May 15 2012
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The gathering of hundreds of European Green activists at the EGP Council proved to be another great opportunity to promote GEF’s work among a key audience. As well as organising a series of workshops, GEF also promoted some of its most recent publications and met with many of its project partners to advance its 2012 work programme. On the Friday of the Council meeting, GEF organised workshops on...

Irish Greens contemplate Europe ahead of Fiscal Treaty referendum

Автор: press-centre Дата: May 15 2012
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Ireland is heading to the polls at the end of the month, as the only country of the 25 signatories that will be having a referendum on the European Fiscal Stability Treaty. Referenda on European issues are something of an Irish tradition at this stage, as their constitution means that they have voted on every one since Maastricht, and the debates can sometimes become controversial. In 2004 Ireland...

Barroso’s threat is a counterproductive act of arrogance

Автор: press-centre Дата: May 15 2012
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The European Green Party has strongly condemned declarations by Commission President Barroso suggesting Greece should ‘obey or get off the euro-train’. “Barroso’s ultimatum is a counterproductive act of arrogance”, said the European Green Party co-chair Monica Frassoni speaking from the 16th Council of the European Greens in Copenhagen. “The only answers to Greek citizens and voters from...

A way forward for a closer, greener Union

Автор: press-centre Дата: May 15 2012
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The EGP Future of Europe working group was established at the EGP Paris Congress last year, and brought together representatives of member parties, Green MEPs, the EGP and the Green European Foundation to put forward a new path for a Europe that Greens can work towards, a Union that would embody a political union to match the economic, and one that reinvigorates the interest of European citizens and...

Los Verdes loses membership in EGP

Автор: press-centre Дата: May 15 2012
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The Council of the EGP has ended the Spanish green party, Confederacion de los Verdes’, membership of the European Green Party. The executive Committee of the EGP, following an official complaint on the failure of internal democracy in the Confederacion de los Verdes, has been working for two years on an attempted process of reconciliation, but this process was judged to be unsuccessful,...

Greens in the EP. Group starts council with debates on Arab Spring and Green Jobs

Автор: press-centre Дата: May 15 2012
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The Green group from the European Parliament opened the 16th EGP Council on Thursday evening, with a public session on the aftermath of the Arab Spring. Almost half the group’s MEPs were present along with MPs from host party SF to discuss Europe’s involvement and role in helping with the transition from totalitarian regime to democracy in North Africa and the Middle East. Danish Foreign...

President Obama: Act now to prevent a second Fukushima disaster

Автор: press-centre Дата: May 14 2012
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The situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear site remains perilous. The area has been hit with hundreds of earthquakes since the March 11 Great Earthquake and Tsunami that led to the destruction of four reactors and caused release of massive amounts of radiation. The cooling system for all four damaged reactors is jerry-rigged, shaky, and prone to leaks. Of particular concern is the stability of...

Greens unite to tackle Europe’s social crisis

Автор: press-centre Дата: May 14 2012
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European Green Party Spring Council looks at unemployment, pensions and social inclusion. Since the beginning of the Eurocrisis, the Greens have been pushing for a greater level of economic solidarity towards European countries in difficulty, namely Greece, advocating a system of Eurobonds, public-private bank recapitalisation, making the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF) more robust and lowering...

EGP COUNCIL Spring Council launches in Copenhagen

Автор: press-centre Дата: May 11 2012
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The 16th EGP Council has begun in Copenhagen, with a public discussion of the aftermath of the Arab Spring organised by the Greens in the European Parliament, with special guest Villy Søvndal, Danish Foreign Affairs Minister and leader of host Party SF. (The event was livestreamed and the recording can be seen here). The Council begins properly tomorrow morning with another discussion with the Greens...

Greens gain seats in U.K. local elections

Автор: press-centre Дата: May 07 2012
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In local elections across the United Kingdom, the Green Party is celebrating progress  after adding new councillors and defending existing seats in England and Scotland. In England, Greens won 26 seats, including defended all six seats in Norwich, retaining their position there as the official opposition to Labour, and gaining seats on three new councils. Overall the Green Party of England and Wales...

Green Party celebrate steady progress in local election polls

Автор: press-centre Дата: May 07 2012
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The Green Party of England and Wales are celebrating a night of steady progress after they added to their number of councillors and successfully defended seats in existing strongholds. The Greens won 34 seats – a net increase of 11. They succeeded in winning seats in target areas such as Reading and Dudley and defended all six seats in Norwich. As counting continues in London, mayor candidate...

Strategic Review of the Global Greens

Автор: press-centre Дата: May 07 2012
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In the lead up to the Dakar 2012 Global Greens Congress the Global Greens Coordination commissioned public policy students from Harvard University to conduct a strategic review of the Global Greens.  Their report was released not long before the congress and can be downloaded below. During the review the authors conducted a survey of Green Parties from around the world as well as interviews with individuals...

Bombs wound 27 in Ukrainian city

Автор: press-centre Дата: May 07 2012
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Four bombs exploded in a city in eastern Ukraine on Friday, wounding 27 people, including nine children, in what authorities described as an “act of terrorism”. President Viktor Yanukovich said the blasts in Dnipropetrovsk, six weeks before Ukraine plays host to the European soccer championship, represented “a challenge … to the whole country.” Bomb attacks are a rare...

Chernobyl: solidarity as anti-nuclear initiative launched

Автор: press-centre Дата: April 28 2012
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On the 26th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Friends of the Earth Europe stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine and neighbouring countries, remembering those affected by the catastrophe. For many people the consequences of Chernobyl are still a reality, and nuclear power remains more than ever a threat to people and planet. But, resistance against nuclear power continues to...

Women’s issue hits home

Автор: press-centre Дата: April 27 2012
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I am not a feminist. Maybe I have lived in cotton wool – or in Finland. Daughter of a successful woman, CEO of a family business and a husband that does more than his fare share of house work. Actually, in gender-emancipated Finland my sympathies have often been with the poor men! Women’s issues just have not been an issue for me – until now. In Global Greens Congress in Dakar we organised a...

German Green Power

Автор: press-centre Дата: April 27 2012
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After a session on renewable energy laws in the German Parliament, I caught up with some Greens MPs who have been at the forefront of driving the country’s transition to renewable energy economy. Renata Kunast (r) now leads a party that includes members such as Herman Ott (l) and Hans-Josef Fell, an author of the country’s “feed-in tariff” laws, central to Germany’s ‘energy...

Chernobyl: solidarity as anti-nuclear initiative launched

Автор: press-centre Дата: April 26 2012
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On the 26th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Friends of the Earth Europe stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine and neighbouring countries, remembering those affected by the catastrophe. For many people the consequences of Chernobyl are still a reality, and nuclear power remains more than ever a threat to people and planet. But, resistance against nuclear power continues to...

Most Chernobyl towns fit for habitation

Автор: press-centre Дата: April 26 2012
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Ukraine is making plans to rebuild civil society in the areas affected by the Chernobyl accident, as the man responsible for the Exclusion Zone announces most of the affected towns could be resettled. A round of comments have come from Ukrainian leaders today ahead of tomorrow’s 26th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident. Speaking to parliament, prime minsiter Mykola Azarov announced extra funding...

There is no planet B

Автор: press-centre Дата: December 05 2011
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This weekend was abuzz with talks of a looming Durban Mandate that would be crystallised as one of the outcomes of the Climate talks.  As delegates try to make sense of the unfolding drama there are strong indications that the talks will end with a political declaration that would essentially lock the world into inaction over the next decade. It was for precisely this reason that more than ten thousand...