27.02.2024
Covas do Barroso: Local Resistance to Europe’s Lithium Race

While lithium is at the heart of the green transition, mining it is unsustainable. The residents of Covas do Barroso resist.

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16.02.2024
Polluting Education: Eni’s Greenwashing in Italian Schools and Universities 

Despite recognising the need to fight climate change, Italy’s green transition is still lagging. How is the energy giant Eni involved?

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19.01.2024
Lessons from Germany for a Just Transition

To win popular support, the green transition must address social concerns and allow for democratic participation.

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04.12.2023
Not About Treaties: EU Integration Needs a Cultural Shift

Green MEP Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield reflects on institutional reforms, enlargement, and a different “European way of life”.

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04.12.2023
Europe’s Turning Point

Spain’s Labour Minister Yolanda Díaz on the fundamental choices Europe faces. Interview by Rosa Martínez Rodríguez.

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04.12.2023
Roads to Pursue

The response to recent crises shows that the European project is simultaneously advancing and fraying. In the context of a newly found appetite for EU enlargement and with crucial elections just months away, progressives need to outline what kind of Europe they are striving for. From the Green European Journal’s winter 2023 print edition.

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14.11.2023
Source of Division: Bulgaria’s Contested Green Transition

Media coverage frames Bulgaria’s green transition as an imposition from Brussels that will damage the country’s coal-intensive economy.

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03.11.2023
The Czech Republic Needs a Green Velvet Revolution

In the heavily industrialised communist Czechoslovakia, the democratic revolution of 1989 was also an environmental one, which produced important results in the 1990s. In today’s Czech Republic, that green momentum has run out: the country is among the most carbon-intensive in the EU, and fossil oligarchs control most of the media. But change may come when least expected.

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15.09.2023
From Energy Crisis to Energy Democracy

Fossil fuels have kept us hooked to large, impersonal energy systems. Could renewables re-politicise or even democratise our relationship with energy?

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02.08.2023
Steering Germany Through the Climate Storm

To reconcile the physical reality of climate change with the attitudes of German society, pragmatism is key.

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