Programme

Tuesday, 6th May

Tuesday, 25th May

Wednesday, 26th May

Thursday, 27th May

Friday, 28th May

Networks meetings

Mediterranean Network (closed meeting - by invitation only)

European Network of Green Seniors: Homelessness and Poverty (read more)

Tilt! Digital campaigning in Europe (read more)

General Assembly of the European Network of Green Seniors (read more)

Street and online action: Join us in Brussels or online to #SaveTheGreenDeal (read more)

Host of the thematic part of the Council: Dena Vahdani (read more)

Parallel sessions 

 Defending our fundamental rights in the face of biometric mass surveillance in Europe (read more)

 Campaigns of the Greens/EFA in the European Parliament (read more)

 Fit-for-Climate? Understanding what the EU legislative package means for member states and the climate (read more)

 Green European Journal: Democracy ever after? Reimagining representation (read more)

Opening of the Council

Speakers: 

Evelyne Huytebroeck, Co-Chair, European Greens

Meyrem Almaci, Co-chair, Groen

Rajae Maouane, Co-chair, Ecolo 

(read more) 

Artistic performance: Dha Khan (read more)

Plenary: Caricaturing the Greens: A desperate move from competitors? 

Speakers: 

Philippe Lamberts, Member of the European Parliament, co-President of the Greens / EFA group in the European Parliament

Grégory Doucet, Mayor of Lyon

Tonia Mastrobuoni, journalist, Berlin correspondent for la Repubblica 

Terry Reintke, Member of the European Parliament, Vice-president of the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament 

Sandra Benčić, Member of the Croatian Parliament, Možemo Political Platform 

Rokhaya Diallo, journalist, writer, and filmmaker 

Ernest Urtasun, Member of the European Parliament, Vice-president of the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament 

Maria Ohisalo, Chairperson, Finnish Greens, Minister of Interior

Erika Solomon, journalist, Berlin correspondent for Financial Times

Moderator: Mélanie Vogel, Committee Member, European Greens

(read more)

Keynote session with Annalena Baerbock, Candidate of the German Greens for chancellor 2021, Co-leader of the German Green Party and Member of the Bundestag

Interviewed by: Vula Tsetsi, Committee member, European Greens

(read more)

Saturday, 29th May

Membership relations and reporting

Finances

Q&A with candidates

Test vote, quorum check

Elections

Voting session

Host of the thematic part of the Council: Dena Vahdani (read more)

Parallel sessions 

 Digital Gender Gap and Digital Feminism (read more)

 Tilt: Biodiversity, climate ambition and marine protected areas: banning bottom trawling (read more)

 How do Green local leaders act for quieter, safer and less polluted streets and public spaces? (read more)

 EU Recovery Fund - Will National Plans deliver the Green and Social Transformation we need? (read more)

Plenary: Climate and Biodiversity - exchange between youth movements, Global South activists and Green policy makers

Speakers: 

Beppe Sala, Mayor of Milan

Elizabeth Wathuti, Kenyan climate activist, founder of the Green Generation Initiative and Head of Campaigns at Wangari Maathai 

Tara Houska, Tribal attorney fighting for indigenous rights and justicee, land defender, and former advisor on Native American affairs to Bernie Sanders. She is a co-founder of Not Your Mascots

Zaïre Krieger, spoken word artist

Pia Olsen Dyhr, Leader of SF (Denmark)

Adélaïde Charlier, Fridays for Future activist 

Eleonora Evi, Member of the European Parliament, Greens/EFA Group

Nyke Slawik, Candidate for the Bundestag, Climate Activist Grüne Jugend

Moderator: Thomas Waitz, Co-Chair, European Greens

(read more)