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Following the last European elections, 10 more members than in the elections in 2004 will join the Green/EFA Group in the European Parliament, which accounts for a 23,5% increase of Green representation in the EP. The Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG) would like to thank all youngsters who went to vote and especially the ones who thought Big, voted Green and thereby expressed their wishes to further strive towards a progressive and ecological alternative to our old model of society .

In the week before the 17th of May, the International Day against Homophobia (IDAHO), gay prides took places all around Europe celebrating freedom and diversity. Still, we are warned once again that Human Rights'  violation towards LGBTQI  is still present in Europe.

Yet again the organisation of prides has been precarious. In Moscow the pride has been forbidden as this has been a common practice. And in Riga the pride had to go through hard times as only 3 days before the permission to organise it had been revoked. This happened under the false pretence of morality and conservatism. Thankfully the court decided against this outrageous act and the pride will take place.

According to the last Eurobarometer released 66% of all eligible voters might not turn up to cast their vote during the European Parliament elections from the 4th until the 7th of June in all member states of the EU. This is a significant sign that the European Union is failing again by not solving its democratic deficit. The three biggest European political parties (conservatives, socialists and liberals) mainly compose the European institutions and are thus mainly responsible for continuing this situation. The youth wings of these parties, namely YEPP , ECOSY and LYMEC , sent out a press release yesterday encouraging youngsters to go out and vote, under the false pretence that they represent all young European political organizations, at the same time forgetting that they failed in adequately encouraging young people to be involved in European democratic processes beforehand. This document thus surprises the Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG) and the European Free Alliance Youth (EFAY) since:

Almost 100 young greens from all over Europe participated in the General Assembly of the Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG) which was held in Maastricht from the 23th to the 26th of April. In the General Assembly, Young Greens elected a new Executive Committee for the FYEG and enlarged their organisation with six full Member Organisations. 

  On Saturday, March 21st, the Federation of Young European Greens joins “NATO Game Over” a peaceful, non-violent demonstration in Brussels against military globalisation. On this occasion, the young greens reaffirm their core values such as peace and non-violence and point out that the world's conflicts will not be solved through military violence or power displays.

JOINT PRESS RELEASE of European Youth Forum (YFJ), Political Party Youth Organisations (PPYO) and the Young European Federalists (JEF)

On the 8th of March, the International Women's Day is celebrated world-wide. On this occasion, the Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG) draws attention on the fact that true gender equality is unfortunately still an ideal rather than a reality in European societies and therefore reaffirms its commitment to strive for the de facto gender equality cause.

After decades of systematically ignoring UN resolutions and after one and a half year lasting blockade of the most densely populated area of the world -during which its civil population has been trapped without access to many basic goods and deprived from several Human Rights-, on December 27th Israel started a military attack on Palestinian territory. After three weeks of permanent indiscriminate bombing, more than a thousand people died, among which many children, women and elderly civilians. Many more have been wounded in attacks targeting not only military but also civil facilities, such as a UN school where 40 people were killed.  Even with a unilateral ceasefire -under Israel's conditions-, still 1.5 million Palestinians are trapped in the Gaza Strip, where new corpses are constantly being found under the ruins every day.

Today, in a plenary vote of the in Strasbourg, the European Parliament rejected with an absolute majority the common position of the Council on the Working Time Directive. Having been the second reading of the proposal means that the proposal will now have to go through the conciliation process, entailing re-negotiation of the text by representatives of Parliament, the Council and the arbitration of the European Commission. If an agreement is not reached after this process the directive will fall. With majority support to the crucial amendments and removing the most conservative proposals agreed about by the 27 Member States' governments, the EP rejected today the exceptions to the maximum of 48 hours of working week, assured the computation of the total time per person in case of multiple contracts -as proposed by the Greens-, set the obligation to end up any opt-out in a maximum of three years after the adoption of the directive and established that on-call time is working time, among other aspects. This voting pattern exceeding by far the absolute majority of MEPs can be said to have influenced by the civilian pressure and mobilizations of last weeks, which raised up the voice of opposition of the European citizenship to a new attack to Social Europe.