Greens to discuss banking crisis and Lisbon with EU Presidency in Paris
The Green Party’s spokespersons on Finance and European Affairs will travel to Paris this week to discuss the crisis in the international financial sector and the future of the Lisbon treaty with the French Presidency of the European Union and Green politicians from across Europe
.Party Chairperson Senator Dan Boyle and European Affairs spokesperson Senator Deirdre de Burca will participate in the European Green Party’s biannual Council Meeting, which is also being addressed by Bernard Kouchner, French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Michel Barnier, French Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, and Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, French Secretary of State for Ecology.
The Meeting takes place in the Parisian suburb of Montreuil from 9-11 October, and is hosted by the former French Environment Minister and current Mayor of Montreuil Senator Dominique Voynet, and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Co-President of the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament.
Having launched the first pan-European election campaign in Rome in 2004, the European Greens will discuss progress in preparations for the common campaign in next June’s European elections. Delegates will also hear about how the French Greens are building alliances with NGOs and civil society ahead of next year’s vote.
Íngrid Betancourt, the former Colombian Green Party Senator and anti-corruption activist, who was rescued from FARC gorillas in July after spending six and a half years in captivity, is due to speak on Saturday, while José Bové, the famous French farmer and anti globalization activist will participate on Friday – alongside the French Agriculture Minister and former EU Commissions Michel Barnier – in a session that deals with food security and GMOs. Other discussion topics include: the EU’s energy and climate change package; capitalism’s first socio-ecological crisis; human rights and European foreign policy; and migration and integration.
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