The organising committee of the upcoming
Congress of the EFGP is looking for persons and groups to
host and organise working groups.
One of the key parts of the EFGP Congress is interaction
and communication among European Greens. Working groups
shall catalyse this process and thus have a prominent space
in the Congress. Following our understanding of a "best-practice",
groups could on the one hand promote and present successful
Green projects on any level - possibly in a European comparative
perspective (e.g. French and Belgium Green policy on sea
protection) and on the other hand discuss opportunities
of Green future issues (e.g. EP election manifesto).
Working groups shall be dealing with
any relevant topic organised by an interested group or person.
However, we would like to draw your attention to a few subjects
already in preparation for this point of the agenda:
|
topic
|
contact
|
| Local
Councillors' Forum (Friday AND Saturday) |
Gerhard Jordan (Wien),
gerhard.jordan@gruene.at; Monika Vana (Wien city councillor),
monika.vana@gruene.at; Claes Roxbergh (Göteborg);
Hans-Jörg v. Berlepsch (dep. Mayor, Mainz), esther.rathke@stadt.mainz.de;
|
| energy
policy |
Hartwig Berger (Berlin),
hartwig.berger@t-online.de, Hans-Josef Fell (Member
of Bundestag), Hiltrud Breyer (MEP) |
| the
European Green Party |
Karola Wolprecht
(LAG Europa Berlin Greens) Karola.Wolprecht@rz.hu-berlin.de |
| small
parties on small funds |
Caroline Hoffmann,
Caroline.Hoffmann@gal-fraktion.de; Isabel Vertriest
(MP), isabel.vertriest@agalev.be |
| languages
in the European institutions (e.g. Esperanto) |
Asocio
de Verduloj Esperantistaj (AVE),
c/o Dr. Manfred Westermayer
Kandelstr 62, DE-79194 Gundelfingen, M.WESTERMAYER@3LANDBOX.comlink.apc.org |
| globalisation and
Johannesburg |
Pekka Haavistö
(EFGP committee), pekka.haavisto@upi-fiia.fi |
| Youth Policy |
Aleksander Jovanovic
(FYEG spokesman) aleksandar@fyeg.org |
| conflict
prevention |
Paolo Bergamaschi
(assistant Green Group) pbergamaschi@europarl.eu.int;
Ernst Guelcher (assistant Green Group) eguelcher@europarl.eu.int,
Joost Lagendijk (MEP) |
| Green
monitoring of sustainability strategy of the EU |
Frieder Otto Wolf,
Pia Paust-Lassen paustlassen@aol.com |
| the
one-world-project |
Stefan Wenzel (ML
Lower-Saxony) wenzel.stefan@t-online.de |
|
the impact of different
electoral systems on the politics, strategy and sucess
of Green Parties in the EFGP
|
Margaret Wright
(EWGP), 4, Corona Road, Cambridge.CB4 3EB England (mew30@hermes.cam.ac.uk);
Steven Hill, Center for Voting and Democracy (shill@ige.org) |
| nationalism
in an enlarged EU |
Lucile O'Shea (Ireland)
drlucille@devilsmother.com |
| Why
do mountains need an international year? |
Marie Schaffer (EFGP
Committee) schaffer@vtx.ch |
| the
Amazon as a Rainforest |
Rubens Hering (Brasilian
Greens) hering@onda.com.br |
| strategy
and manifesto for European elections 2004 |
Arnold Cassola (EFGP
SG) efgp@europarl.eu.int; Juan Behrend; Franz Floss
(Austrian Greens) franz.floss@gruene.at |
| gender
mainstreaming |
Sabine Brauer brauer@gruene-nrw.de;
Marije Cornelissen mvcornelissen@hotmail.com |
| facing
EU enlargement |
BAG Europa: David
Schneider-Addae-Mensah addaeme@yahoo.de, Sandra Rössler
sandra.roessler@mail.awi.uni-heidelberg.de, Annegret
Bendiek |
| rural development
and reform of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) |
Isabel Vertriest, Vera Dua |
| spiral
dynamics |
Peter Merry peter@engage.nu |
| referenda
and direct democracy |
Gerald Häfner (member of
Bundestag), gerald.haefner@bundestag.de; Heidi Hautale
(MEP) hhautala@europarl.eu.int |
| immigration/asylum
(Friday) |
Margit.Gottstein@gruene-fraktion.de,
immigration expert of Green Group in Bundestag |
| education |
Niombo Lomba, buero.lomba@gruene.de |
| transborder cooperation |
Hans Niessen (minister German
community Belgium), kab.niessen@@dgov.be |
| Green Press&Media coordination |
Helmut Weixler, hweixler@europarl.eu.int |
| fringe events: |
Böll-Foundation
discussion: "globalisation and sustainability"
in context of Johannesburg
Summit activities
Thursday evening, 16th May |
www.boell.de or
www.worldsummit2002.org |
EP-Group "the
Green convention"
Friday, 17th May |
Juan Behrend (EP-Group
coordinator), jbehrend@europarl.eu.int; Mychelle Rieu,
myrieu@europarl.eu.int |
| international FYEG
and Grüne Jugend seminar |
Anna Lührmann,
Aleksander Jovanovic, alex@fyeg.org |
The main framework of working group
activity is on the Saturday afternoon of the Congress between
13.30h and 16.00h (see Congress agenda).
Nevertheless, working groups can also convene on the Friday
afternoon parallel to the fringe meetings.
To sustain the work of the working groups we would also
like to encourage you to submit papers for the relevant
working groups. Successful discussions require good preparation
(good speakers, moderation and papers) but should also deliver
results which can be presented to the broader party public.
For this the Congress-website is to be used extensively.
Even though we Greens are supposed
to be spontaneous in our actions, the way we organise the
Congress is very "German", i.e. the earlier we
know about your ideas on workshops and what you require
for them, the better we can help you by providing the right
infrastructure ;-)
