green party

For five years,  a great festival of green politics has been taking place in Poland every mid-July, the Green Summer University is organised by the Green Zone Foundation in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Warsaw and the Green European Foundation (GEF). Every year, activists, experts and politicians from Poland and abroad come together to discuss the most important challenges of green policy in the face of a multidimensional ecological crisis.

On 23 Juni 2017 Ralf Fücks was given an official farewell after being chairman of Heinrich Böll Foundation for over 20 years. With Sergey Lagodinsky and Eva van de Rakt he speaks about his history and political developments.

Green policies for sustainable transport, participatory democracy, public services, education, housing and spacial planning. These are the leitmotifs of the European Conference “Green Visions for Local Governance". Green European Foundation, Green Zone Foundation and  Heinrich Böll Foundation in Warsaw office are honoured to invite you to attend on 12-13.09.2014 thought-provoking sessions focused on Green New Deal conecpets and concrete best practices suitable for current challenges. Please register and join us during the Congress!

"The Greens remain an important player in European politics". This is how Rebecca Harms, co-president of the Greens/EFA, interpreted the results of the latest EP election. This outcome was not self-evident before the elections, as the European voters got more and more polarized in times of crisis, and many of them asked for simple answers, which might be the main reason for the success of populist parties  around Europe. But, as the results show, support for Green politics consolidated and, what is even more encouraging, not only in the Green “homelands” as Luxembourg or Sweden, but also in countries like Hungary or Croatia, where Green candidates have been elected into the European Parliament for the first time.

The Czech Greens (Strana zelených, SZ) were not counting on such a poor result in the recent EP elections. SZ won just 2.06 % of the vote and ended up in ninth place

Barely three months after its official formation Hungary’s new green party, LMP (Lehet Más a Politika / Politics Can Be Different) has managed to entrench itself on the country’s political map. Standing in coalition with the small Humanist Party, LMP obtained 2.6 % of the votes, coming in fifth place, well before the liberals, who have reached an historic low and may well disappear from the political landscape. This green success was overshadowed, however, by the unexpectedly strong showing of the radical right.