The 27th February 2020 marks the sixth time that World NGO Day is celebrated globally. This day is dedicated to those in our society who carry out the invaluable work that governments neglect or ignore. It is about celebrating those, who relentlessly and tirelessly work for the ones in need, for those whose voices are rarely heard, for a sustainable future in harmony with nature, for inclusive societies, for holding governments accountable and for the respect of inalienable human rights and democracy.

Tonight, finally, the first reactor of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant will be shut down for good. French, German, Swiss, Luxembourgish and European ecologists are delighted with this event after 43 years of struggle.

The European Greens support a petition to the European Parliament by a coalition of NGOs to save the unique Mar Menor Lagoon.

Young people who will once again take the streets across Europe on Friday 7 February 2020 have understood it: oceans need protection as much as any other ecosystem on the planet.

Friday's march, as part of the Fridays for Future movement, is supported by Ocean Week 2020, a civil society coalition that tells the dire truth: "Overfishing. Pollution. Acidification. Warming. Our precious ocean and the life that calls it home are now more at risk than ever before."

Friday 31 January 2020 opens a new era for European history and integration. More than three years after voting in favour of leaving the European Union, and after three years of negotiations, the United Kingdom is the first member state to leave the bloc after over 60 years of progressive integration and enlargement. The European Green Party strongly recalls its commitment to deep cooperation between the EU and the UK to fight the climate crisis.

On 26 January 2020, Thomas Waitz, co-chair of the European Green Party visited the village of Horní Jiřetín, Czechia. The village, under the leadership of its mayor, Vladimír Buřt from Zeleni, has been resisting threats of demolition because of the nearby coal mining operations.

This is the main message Thomas Waitz and Evelyne Huytebroeck, co-chairs of the European Green Party have enthusiastically shared at the occasion of the re-opening of the Vienna-Brussels night train line.

Austria joins Green parties in Luxembourg, Sweden and Finland to currently hold ministerial positions, as a string of Green Wave victories swept Europe in recent months and years, proving that people realise that the only guarantee of more effective Green policies is to vote Green.