We are delighted to announce that the European Movement International (EMI) have welcomed the European Green Party as full members, completing the circle of pro-European parties within the network.

Dear colleagues I bring you the greetings of the CCOO of Catalonia. It is a pleasure to share with you this convention of the European Green Party. We were asked to explain you the vision we have in the south of the circumstances in Europe. Let me start with a metaphor. What has happened in the last years in the South is the same as what happens to a patient who is not attended by a doctor but by the pharmaceutical industry. As you know, nearly 50% of health spending in the life of a patient is concentrated in his or her last year of life. This makes it understandable that somebody has the brilliant idea to force a dangerous illness to place the patient in this uncomfortable position. A good way for this is administering the wrong medicine to a certain illness. In the case of the European South it is as if you would have been giving chemo or radiotherapy to a patient with a serious indigestion. As a result, the patient becomes weaker and weaker and his immunologic system deteriorates. This is very good news for virus and bacteria, and for all those elements and parasites that live from corruption, exploitation and contamination of their social and organic environments.

Today we are here to declare loud and clear that we are ready to compete for the future of Europe. We are sure of our capacity to give answers, to offer people voices to carry change in Europe and make it Green.

We stand united and confirm the pledge of ten years ago - we are a relevant, independent European political family. We can say today, after all the good work and the quality of our proposals over the years and on the Common Manifesto, that we are even more convinced of the solid ground of the project we present today for Europeans to vote on.

Dear friends, dear campaigners, dear activists, dear government members, dear out of parliament opposition, dear friends on the Euromaidan, dear Europeans!

It’s a great joy and honour for me to launch the European campaign together with you, and it's a great honour to address you today as one of your two leading candidates for the European election.

A tough, but very exciting challenge lies ahead of us. We’re used to fighting climate change when it’s about global warming. Climate change is causing major catastrophies, as flooded Great Britain and French Bretagne can bitterly testify, overwhelmed by the waves and storms.

Dear friends, dear campaigners, dear activists, dear government members, dear out of parliament opposition, dear friends on the Euromaidan, dear Europeans!

It’s a great joy and honour for me to launch the European campaign together with you, and it's a great honour to address you today as one of your two leading candidates for the European election.

A tough, but very exciting challenge lies ahead of us. We’re used to fighting climate change when it’s about global warming. Climate change is causing major catastrophies, as flooded Great Britain and French Bretagne can bitterly testify, overwhelmed by the waves and storms.

To start off this year’s European elections, the European Green Party (EGP) has adopted its common election manifesto. The manifesto will be presented to European citizens in all the 24 official languages of the European Union, and Catalan. The delegates from the 45 EGP member parties adopted the 2014 Manifesto unanimously.  

Austrian Green Madeline Petrovic has been elected to the EGP Financial Advisory Board at our Electoral Convention meeting in Brussels. Her confirmation to the post, which took place before the Plenary session, was uncontested.   

The Greens in the European Parliament have called for calm after the escalation of violence in Kiev, and said that the EU should adopt targeted sanctions against those who are responsible for the new bloodshed. Green Group co-president Rebecca Harms, who is a member of the EU Delegation to Ukraine, has also called for the Red Cross to be deployed to Kiev.