The place is Wisely chosen: The Green start to the political year 2019 with a retreat in Frankfurt (Oder). In may 2004, the current Green party leader Anna Lena Baerbock was one of the people who celebrated on the Oder bridge linking Frankfurt with the Polish town of Slubice, the Eastern enlargement of the European Union. 15 years later, is no longer felt by the then euphoria too much. However, up to the European elections in may of this year, the Greens want more enthusiasm for the community and a further growing together of Europe Wake up.
In the 2014 European elections, the Greens got 10.7%
At the last election in the year 2014, the Greens got 10.7 percent, and sent eleven members to the European Parliament. The party, which has always seen itself as the European party, was able to mobilize in the past, their followers often better than other parties. This Time you want to increase your earnings – given the current poll numbers, this should be a realistic goal.
In the forthcoming elections, the Greens see, however, is more than ever required, also because the opponent of Europe try to mobilize this Time. For “arrogance and self-certainty” is not a space, therefore it is called the Europe Declaration to be passed by the Federal Executive and which the daily mirror. A second focus of the exam at the beginning of next week will be the three state Parliament elections in Brandenburg, Saxony and Thuringia.
No return to the nation-state
In Europe, paper in the Green to designate open problems: For the first Time in its history, the European Union, with the UK losing a member country. In addition, social and economic imbalances were the living conditions of the people far from drifting apart. Loss and relegation fears, disappointments, lack of recognition, as well as doubt that the state was in the interest of all and not only in the interest of powerful lobbies, “populism and nationalism is a breeding ground”.
The response to the crisis, and can’t for the Greens, but in the return to the nation-state as right-wing populist forces to summon in the whole of Europe. “Peace, security and prosperity, there is not in the National,” reads the statement. And further: “A Europe where national borders be drawn, would separate rooms, common living, commuting in a traffic jam and the traffic of Goods.” That would be “not only for the people in the border regions, but for the whole of Europe, is fatal”.
The Greens want the rule of law in Europe
defend To the beginning of the year, the Green set is a clear message: the defense of the rule of law in Europe. In Poland and Hungary, but also in Italy and Austria, democracy and freedom of expression would be attacked by the own governments that they criticize. However, the rule of law, in the past decades, especially in Eastern Europe so hard a struggle had been, should not be abandoned. “Without a liberal rule of law, no democracy.” A small jab of the Green to miss the politicians in the ranks of the CDU, the call for rights of action by environmental associations restrict.
Better protection for whistleblowers
be deprived of suggest to strengthen the rule of law in Europe, the Green concrete instruments: for example, the disposal of EU governments, which violate rule of law principles, money. The Commission should withdraw this in the future directly to municipalities or other recipients of Funding. Who wants to receive funding, you must also be ready, a control on the lawful use, and with the European public Prosecutor’s office to cooperate. In addition, the Greens demand better protection of whistleblowers and a mandatory lobbying register for all EU institutions.
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choice program can already be found in Europe – but exams are always also the self-assurance. When it comes to the newly elected Frankfurt’s Lord mayor René Wilke, have chosen the Green in any case, the place of meeting suitable for: When he took office last summer, the Left-politician who was supported in his candidacy by the Greens, described the neighbouring cities of Frankfurt and Slubice as a “beacon of hope for the European idea”. His city, he wants to make to the “place of the European debate”. And the Or Wilke would like to build a second bridge, in order to strengthen the connection to Slubice.
