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Owning the Past: Orbán’s Statue Craze Hungary’s monuments reflect a fragmented national identity, shaped by rival political agendas without a unifying vision for the country’s past or future.

#PublicArt - @greeneujournal.bsky.social starting an important edition on the social, political and environmental importance of cultural activities and products

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Migration: Anatomy of a Dutch Obsession Where does the Dutch obsession with migration come from, and how can it finally be overcome?

Stevig duidend stuk over de Nederlandse migratie obsessie in @greeneujournal.bsky.social: www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/migration-an...

Spain on Fire: The Cost of Polarisation Amid disinformation and distrust, politics has failed to engage with urgently needed climate adaptation. But solidarity offers hope.

Europe’s 2025 wildfire season broke all previous records, and Spain was the hardest-hit EU country. While citizens showed notable solidarity to fight the flames, political polarisation stalled desperately needed climate adaptation.

Land Stewards: Farmers Resisting a Broken System Once the motor of European integration, the CAP now rewards productivity and punishes sustainable agriculture.

Italy’s agricultural holdings have halved in twenty years. The Common Agricultural Policy has fostered a system in which many farmers “cultivate the subsidy rather than the field.” Small farms that care about sustainability barely survive.

Moldova’s Next Crossroads Moldovans are heading to the polls for parliamentary elections. Will they choose to keep their country on its European course, despite well-documented Russian interference?

What next for #Moldova?

Here's all you need to know about this weekend's crucial election

@paulaerizanu.bsky.social @greeneujournal.bsky.social

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Moravia-Silesia: What Future Without Coal? Despite efforts to facilitate the Czech region’s green transformation, its future remains uncertain amid political corruption and social exclusion.

Andrej Babis, Czechia's populist-in-chief, is ready to become prime minister again after the elections next week. He chose Moravia-Silesia as his battleground to bank on social discontent over the end of coal and the lack of a just transition

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Norway’s Elections: A Fossil Consensus Could the rise of smaller parties drive Europe’s biggest gas supplier to change course?

Norway elections next week🇳🇴🗳️

Russia war in Ukraine
= fossil phase-out🇪🇺
= fossil boost🇳🇴

Polls show ↗️ for @mdg.no backing transition and Progress Party pushing oil & gas—outcome will shape Europe’s energy path.

Great read with @elinlb.bsky.social
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Norwegian general election one week away. Climate issues are hardly discussed by politicians, but the election result may have profound impact on Norwegian climate governance. I talked about this with Green European Journal.

Adam Shatz · Berlin Diary Throughout my stay in Berlin, I kept hearing from Germans quietly critical of Israel that ‘cracks’ had begun to...

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Kyiv Independent: Protecting Democracy, Explaining Ukraine Ukraine’s independent media navigate the challenge of holding the state accountable without compromising the national interest.

On Tuesday, hundreds of Ukrainians took to the streets after the passage of a bill that weakens anti-corruption agencies. As Ukraine’s independent media has shown, authorities must be held to account even in times of war.

The battle over freedom Launch of the Green European Journal's Summer 2025 edition Venue: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union (Rue du Luxembourg 47-51, 1050 Brussels) and on Zoom.From the rise of the far right to the AI revolution, military threats, geopolitical tension, trade war...

🟢 14 July | Book presentation & discussion "The battle over #freedom: Launch of the @greeneujournal.bsky.social's Summer 2025 edition" with MEP @alexandrageese.bsky.social, @ailbhefinn.bsky.social, @elenapolivtseva.bsky.social, & Dominika Lasota 👉 calendar.boell.de/en/the-battl...
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In Memphis, Elon Musk Pilots a Corporate Takeover Strategy To build Colossus, Elon Musk’s pollution-spewing AI data center in Memphis, Musk used gag orders to silence city officials and bypass input from residents, whose asthma rates have since soared. Now Mu...

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Mass Protests Without Revolutions What can we learn from a decade of uprisings? An interview with Vincent Bevins.

"If We Burn" by @vincentbevins.bsky.social is an essential book for understanding the mass protest movements of recent years - and why many of them failed to deliver the change they aspired to. I interviewed him for the latest print edition of the @greeneujournal.bsky.social ✊

How Firewalls Fall Political and economic elites nurture far-right forces to prevent the emergence of genuine alternatives to the neoliberal consensus.

From France to Austria to Brussels, political and economic elites are choosing tactical alliances with extremists rather than progressives to preserve neoliberal consensus. Read ✍️Francesca De Benedetti’s analysis.

Double Dehumanisation: The EU Borders and Gaza The violence and oppression against Palestinians in Gaza and the discrimination and surveillance against migrants trying to cross European borders have more in common than meets the eye.

Yesterday, the Freedom Flotilla boat bringing aid to Gaza diverted its route to rescue migrants, with Lybian coast guard refusing help. Discrimination against migrants reaching European shores and oppression of Palestinians are more linked than it seems. www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/double-dehum...

“A Land of Conquest”: The Solar Rush Hits Italy’s Breadbasket While large-scale investment in renewables provides short-term financial relief for struggling farmers, it also poses a threat to local identity and food security.

In the Po Valley, investment in renewables offers financial relief for struggling farmers, but local communities worry about food security and the loss of identity. By Stefano Liberti, co-published by @greeneujournal.bsky.social and @internazionale.it

In Defence of Pessimism Hope, divorced from reality, is a liability. Strategic pessimism can help us more in our current crises.

The 2008 financial crash exposed the lie at the heart of the neoliberal promise. It had not delivered growth and stability, but speculation, debt, and deepening inequality. Since then we've had one crisis after the other. Why would we support this system? www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/in-defence-o...

Can Romania Overcome Its Divisions? The results of Romania’s contentious presidential election show citizens’ disillusionment with the country’s established political forces and institutions.

The Romanian election exposed the deep tensions in society and the institutions. Dan's most difficult job as president will be healing the country's divisions.

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Serbian Protests: A Revolution in Progress? As protesters continue to demand justice and accountability for the victims of the Novi Sad tragedy, Serbia could be standing at a turning point.

Serbia has grown accustomed to protests and mass mobilisations that eventually fizzle out. But this time could be different

Predrag Momcilovic explains why in the @greeneujournal.bsky.social

To the Last Drop: Europe’s Hidden Water Crisis A cross-border investigation explores groundwater depletion in Romania, Italy, and Germany, three of the EU’s hardest-hit countries.

Water scarcity is coming for Europe as climate change compounds the impacts of groundwater mismanagement.

A cross-border @journalismfund.bsky.social investigation by @eledda.bsky.social @elenamatera.bsky.social @adina-flo.bsky.social @aagro.bsky.social out now in the @greeneujournal.bsky.social

While the advances of the Green New Dealproject were worth celebrating, the overall context of progression towards militarism and geopolitical conflict was not. That is why we speak of a flawed victory or a positive defeat. The essential question posed by the co-opting of the Green New Deal is therefore particularly perverse: the high point of the project coincides with the exhaustion of the social forces driving it, and its transformation (run down and distorted) into a programme of modernisation of capital and raison d’état.

This is the situation we try to think through. A conflicted version of the Green New Deal has brought some advances in a very dangerous situation. Are those advances *despite* those dangers? Or *because* of them. That tension must be faced head on if we are serious about this project.

The Green New Deal: A Bitter Victory or a Sweet Defeat? With climate action caught up in the geopolitical struggles and threatened by the MAGA counter-revolution, can greens and progressives regain the initiative?

The Green European Journal publishes a revised and condensed version of our “The Green New Deal: A Bitter Victory or a Sweet Defeat?”, written by @htejero.bsky.social, @esantiago.bsky.social and myself. www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/the-green-ne...

“A Landscape of Greed”: The Collapse of Denmark’s Fjords Danes demand change after decades of pollution from intensive pig farming have left their country’s fjords in decline.

Decades of pollution from intensive pig farming have left Denmark's fjords depleted of oxygen and its marine life in decline. Now people demand change

Why Military Spending Alone Can’t Save Europe The recently agreed European fiscal rules are not designed for the current era of polycrisis, and Europeans must invest far more than the current constraints allow.

"The real question isn’t whether we can afford to fund defence – but why only defence is being freed from the rules that still constrain everything else."

@sebmang.bsky.social @neweconomics.bsky.social for the Green European Journal

Caught in Between: The German Greens After the Election To regain trust and political relevance, the party must offer new and bolder economic and industrial policies.

There's no going back from the pragmatic turn German Greens undertook under Robert Habeck's leadership. But how to win back a polarised electorate?

Read @peterunfried.bsky.social in the Green European Joirnal

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