On Wednesday 27 January, members and friends of the European Green Party convened for a virtual New Year's Reception. Traditionally organised in Brussels and gathering mostly local supporters, this year we hosted our Green family from all over Europe. The reception was an opportunity to take stock of the year 2020 in all its unprecedented ways, but also celebrate our green successes. Our host was the talented Polish activist Michał Suchora who navigated through our virtual event taking place in both Brussels and Warsaw. 

Today, MEPs will vote/voted on an urgency resolution on the human rights situation in Turkey, notably the case of Selahattin Demirtaş and other prisoners of conscience.

Hosted by the EGP’s Committee Member Oras Tynkkynen, and featuring Terhi Lehtonen, State Secretary of the Finnish Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, as well as MEP Micha Bloss of the Greens/EFA Group, we discussed the European Climate Law in more detail.

From October 16 to 18, the European Green Party is joining forces with NGOs and other pro-European parties for the first ever virtual Run for Europe!

A Green recovery to the coronavirus crisis will build a better tomorrow! Check out the summary of the "Coronavirus Recovery" resolution adopted by our member parties last weekend.

As Greens, we have always pushed for building a more sustainable and fair future, built on the values of solidarity and democracy. The global health pandemic is a crisis that we must face together, but we believe we cannot simply go back to “business-as-usual” as we begin to rebuild our societies and our economies. We have experienced first hand, and on a global scale, the shortcomings and failures of our old systems. We must learn from these experiences and rebuild things, better.

Europe Day has traditionally been an opportunity to look back at Europe’s achievements in terms of peace and prosperity. This year it is impossible to celebrate the fact that the European Union has been a war-free land for almost 75 years in the same way as we have done before. However, we can still look back at the words of the Schuman Declaration, one of the founding fathers of the EU, which gave birth to the Europe we now celebrate every year on 9 May.