Civil Society

Youth movements have shaken up the political landscape across Europe. But countries in eastern and southern Europe saw smaller protests in 2019. We hear why from activists in Croatia.

This interview on eco-social struggle in Latin America highlights the importance of social movements and warns against the illusion of change from above.

Faced with the systemic shock of the coronavirus crisis, the guiding principle for recovery should be resilience.

In a reinvigorated debate, a political reading of proposals put forward to confront the climate emergency is necessary.

After 40 years of neoliberalism tearing at the social fabric, what form will the 21st-century counter-movement take?

The Green European Journal turned to young activists to ask how they envisage political change in this time of climate crisis.

Rather than insisting on external limits, environmentalists should call for society to make its own. The way forward is to organise an alternative project based on different view of the good life.

This gargantuan project has aroused public enthusiasm and anger in equal measure, and continues to hold lessons for understanding people’s relationships with cities.

Viewed with suspicion, TTIP hangs over us like a dark cloud. Deemed as a threat to social rights, welfare, the environment and constitutional sovereignty, a civil society resistance movement continues to gain traction. In light of a recent leak by Greenpeace Netherlands further exposing these threats, it is time now to reassess the state of play.

Green Parties in Europe have undergone astonishing growth and development over the past decades, but has the time now come to ask ‘Quo vadis’? An interview with Reinhard Bütikofer and Catherine Larrère by Michel Genet.