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Democracy must not be suspended

Green leaders call for ‘solidarity and ambitious cooperation’

Leaders from Green Parties across Europe call for cooperation in the face of the Covid-19 crisis

Women’s rights must be protected during pandemic

Green Party Deputy Leader Amelia Womack looks at the gendered perspective of the coronavirus pandemic

Fighting coronavirus needs an economy that works for everybody

The Green Party has proposed various measures including suspending all mortgages and rents

Spotlight

Q&A: Councillor Dave Wells

Natalie Bennett, Baroness of Manor Castle.

Getting through coronavirus requires basic income for all

Green peer Natalie Bennett calls for a universal basic income to support workers during coronavirus outbreak

Coronavirus emergency legislation: Short-term safety and long-term threat

Green peer Jenny Jones raises concerns about the long-term implications of the Coronavirus Bill

Coronavirus: Are we watching Dad’s Army?

Alan Story calls for the government to implement widespread testing for coronavirus

Features

Non perishable foods donated in Birmingham

Community resilience key to responding to coronavirus outbreak

Green councillor Gina Dowding calls for a community approach to supporting the vulnerable during the Covid-19 outbreak

Extend Brexit transition period by 12 months

Green Peer Natalie Bennett calls for Brexit transition extension amid coronavirus outbreak

Lack of Budget ambition fuelling climate emergency

Green London Assembly Member Caroline Russell criticises the lack of ambition on climate in the Budget

Stamping out domestic abuse is vital to stronger communities

Amelia Womack calls for poverty alleviation, education and equality to end domestic abuse

Air Quality

Aviation has its days counted

Diego Pedraza Lahoz, campaigner at Stay Grounded, considers the future of the aviation industry

The fight against Heathrow expansion

Jenny Bates, campaigner at Friends of the Earth, explores the impacts of an expanded Heathrow

Sheffield city centre road with vehicles

Sheffield Greens: Clean air zone is missed opportunity

Sheffield City Council’s current proposals for a clean air zone won’t charge private cars

Protesters from Flyglarm Arlanda group walking with banner

Climate activists protest expansion of Swedish airport

Campaigners held up fuel delivery trains headed for Stockholm’s biggest airport

Global Greens

Irish Greens record best ever election result

The Green Party of Ireland has won 12 seats in the Dáil Éireann in its best ever general election result and will now have a strong hand in forthcoming coalition negotiations after no one party won enough seats to form a government following Sinn Féin’s historic surge.

Leave a light on for us

Green MEPs reflect on their time in the European Parliament as the UK leaves the EU

Between a rock and a hard place

Green MEP Molly Scott Cato weighs up the Austrian Greens’ decision to go into coalition with the right-wing Austrian People’s Party

A image of the European Parliament building with flags of EU states

European Parliament votes for Green Deal for Europe

Green MEPs have welcomed the European Parliament vote to support the EU Green Deal

Participants in the Green Academy in North Macedonia

Young Greens find a voice in North Macedonia

The GPEW International Committee gives an overview of the Green Academy training weekend in North Macedonia

Popular

To change politics, we must open the conversation

HS2 using pest controllers to deter birds from woodlands

Community resilience key to responding to coronavirus outbreak

Police officers controlling a group of Extinction Rebellion protestors

Parliament must define what constitutes domestic extremism

MEP candidate for the Eastern England region Catherine Rowett

MEP calls for decarbonisation of the East of England

The role of citizens’ assemblies

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