European Greens

🌈 Let’s ban conversion ‘therapy’ in the EU! 'Against Conversion Therapy' (ACT) needs your help to sharing to ban all conversion practices in the EU and make this a European law. ✏️ For that, we need a million of you to sign the European Citizen’s Action 👉 https://lnkd.in/d3TfRyuA ❌ Conversion ‘therapy’ is unscientific, inhumane & based on the assumption that LGBTI identities are psychological disorders and therefore need to be ‘fixed’. 🌈 Love is love is love. Period. 

🙅 We cannot keep destroying forests. 🇪🇺 This Thursday, the European People's Party Group in the EU Parliament will try to weaken the EU Deforestation Law which was already adopted by the European Parliament. It poses the question: how can the EPP justify destroying nature? 🌳 This law is meant to prevent deforestation in supply chains and is a key element of the European Green Deal. It would compel companies importing raw materials and products into the European market to ensure that they no longer contribute to deforestation. ❌ For the sake of our planet, this law cannot be weakened.

🧐 Did you know that the richest 1% account for 16% of the world’s emissions? 🤬 They are jeopardising our chances to keep global warming below 1.5°C, and to reverse the worsening hunger, poverty and excess deaths, especially for the poorest. 😱 If everyone emitted carbon at the same rate as the rich are emitting it just for their luxury transport, the carbon budget would be gone in two days. ‼️ Two days ‼️ 🤑 And to make it worse, they do not pay fair taxes like the rest of us. 👉 How can we finance the Green transition you ask? By implementing fair taxes on the Super-Rich. That alone would bring in US$ 1.7 trillion per year. 💚 Let’s tax the rich & save the planet.

🇲🇩🇪🇺 Moldovans agree: they want to join the EU! 💪 Russian interference was very much in action again, with vote-rigging reported. But the people have spoken and confirmed their commitment to joining the EU. ✊ Moldovans have consistently shown they see their future in Europe, despite Russia’s relentless efforts to destabilise the country. They deserve the right to determine their own future, free from foreign interference. 💚 We want to extend the European family & we welcome Moldova’s constitutional changes.

Economic prosperity, social justice & security depend on the green transition. This was the theme of Benedetta De Marte’s (European Greens Secretary General) presentation at the Remarque Institute of NYU’s Art & Science department. Benedetta was a speaker as part of the ‘Europe and the Planet, the Day after tomorrow: Social (and) democratic responses to the climate crisis.’ As she said in her presentation titled ‘Green Ambition for Tomorrow’s Europe’, not only does economic prosperity, social justice and European security depend on the green transition but, in turn, a successful green transition depends on a next step forward of the European project politically and economically. “A successful green transition must match regulation with desirable green policies that improve lives. Protecting the planet, fighting for social justice, and ensuring security for Europe after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine all require renewing our vision of the future of the EU.” The green transition in Europe is balanced on knife-edge majorities. We want to be the political force who actually makes a fair and just green transition happen. The lack of public investment is the Achilles’ heel of the European Green Deal. Green industrial policy will need common public investment to succeed.”

📢 Action speaks louder than words!  Die Grünen Österreich have been in government in Austria since 2019 and they have introduced (and passed!) many proposals to improve the lives of the people in the country.  Some of their achievements include:  ☀️ massive increase in solar power funding  🚄 reduced public transport fees (sometimes even free!)  ⚡️ 87% of Austria’s energy comes from renewables, well on track for the 2030 goal of climate neutral!  🐮 improvements in animal welfare   Some memorable names:  🌻 Werner Kogler, Vice-Chancellor and Party Leader - pushing for a climate neutral Austria by 2030  🌻 Leonore Gewessler, Climate Minister - fighting (and winning!) for the Nature Restoration Law  🌻 Alma Zadić, Justice Minister - standing up for human rights  🌻 Johannes Rauch, Social Affairs & Health Minister - fighting for social rights and equality  🇦🇹 Dear Austrian friends, remember this when you go to the polls this Sunday 29 September. 💚 Vote for climate, vote for Die Grünen Österreich 

🫸 🫷We need to close the gap! 💶 Gender equality is one of the most basic principles of the European Union and yet, women continue to earn less than men. 🇪🇺 In 2022, the European Parliament launched a new directive for pay transparency that will force employers to make their employees’ salary public and establish criteria to determine salary levels without gender bias. 💚 This was a big win for both The Greens/EFA in the European Parliament & the people living in the EU as it supports the rights of employees & trade union representatives in raising equal pay issues. 💪 Talking about our salaries shouldn’t be a taboo, let’s normalise it so that we can close the gap! 

🧐 51% of people in Europe are women & yet only 39% of Members of the European Parliament are women. 💚 As Greens, we are committed to achieving gender balance at all levels, including Parliamentary & European Commission top jobs. 💪 Change needs to start at the top. Ursula von der Leyen must continue to pressure EU countries to achieve a balanced European Commission.

👏Every. 👏Action. 👏Counts 👏 💚 There are so many ways to help make our Europe a safer, fairer, greener place for all and here are 3 (& a half 👀) of them. Green values are: 💪Democratic 💜Feminist 🌍European 🌈Inclusive 🌱Sustainable ✊Social & many more. 🫶 Share in the comments one way in which you make every day Greener.  

🫶 The future can’t be build only for a few, it has to be for the many! 👉The climate crisis will affect the most vulnerable first, this is why there can’t be a Green Deal without considering the Social aspects of it. 🌱Renewable energy reduces the cost of living 🌱Renovating home to make them more energy efficient reduces energy bills 🌱Free public transport benefits everyone (including the planet) 🌱Minimum wages play a key role through difficult times & contributes to more social justice 👏 Affordable housing, clean water for all, healthy food for all, more green mobility, healthcare (including mental health!), education, fair wages: all of these are Green values. 💪 Here are a few of the Green successes for social justice in the past 5 years Drop a 🍏 if you’re proud of your local, regional, national & EU Greens 💚