Tag: EGP

  • Courage to Change: Policies on Migration

    Courage to Change: Policies on Migration

    Notes and comments on two meetings related to migrant rights. Reflection on migration policy and practice in Malta and the EU.

  • Observing the Kobanî case

    Observing the Kobanî case

    It is impossible to follow everything that is being said during the case, and we are not here to. We are here to show solidarity and remind them that the international community is supporting and paying attention.

  • Newsletter: What do the Greens say on Israel-Palestine?

    Newsletter: What do the Greens say on Israel-Palestine?

    Everyone who studies international relations, peace and conflict studies, European studies, foreign policy etc, knows that to comment on the Israel-Palestine conflict is risky. We’re thought to become conflict avoidant. Our policy makers, members of Parliament, states, in turn become conflict avoidant. But few are the conflicts resolved by avoidance.

  • My vision as Deputy Chairperson of ADPD – Malta’s Green Party

    My vision as Deputy Chairperson of ADPD – Malta’s Green Party

    Yesterday I was elected as deputy chairperson for ADPD – Malta’s Green Party. I have been a member of the party since 2017 and a committee member since summer 2019. When Sandra Gauci announced that she was interested in being the next Chairperson of the party we had a conversation to discuss my role in…

  • IDAHOT 2023: Speaking at Montecitorio

    IDAHOT 2023: Speaking at Montecitorio

    I put on a crisp white shirt that got creased within minutes of walking in a Rome that isn’t sure whether the weather is hot or cold. Slightly out of comfort zone, entering the lower house of the parliament of Italy. As much for the shirt, as for the the co-panelists at a seminar organised…

  • #ObservingTurkey – I recognise your grief, courge, resilience

    #ObservingTurkey – I recognise your grief, courge, resilience

    First reactions to the 2023 first-round elections in Turkey by Mina Jack Tolu, committee member of the European Greens and Interntional Secretary of ADPD.

  • Protections for Rainbow Families

    Protections for Rainbow Families

    This morning in Brussels I have met with Beppe Sala, Mayor of Milan, together with my colleague from the EGP Committee Vula Tsetsi. Sala addressed the meeting of the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament, to talk about the increasingly worrying situation in Italy as Meloni and her Government continue to extend their arm of…

  • In support to HDP and a democratic future for Turkey

    European Green Party: Press Release 13th March 2023 The Turkish Government’s increasingly authoritarian tendencies are unacceptable. Attempts to curtail democratic opposition parties and civil society have no space in modern democracies. We stand in full solidarity with HDP and Turkish civil society. Turkish citizens deserve a democratic and pluralistic country where people can live in…

  • ADPD Press: Mina Jack Tolu elected to the European Greens Committee

    ADPD Press: Mina Jack Tolu elected to the European Greens Committee

    Mina Jack Tolu is elected to the European Green Party Committee at the 35th Council of the EGP in Riga, Latvia.

  • EGP Council in Berlin

    22nd November This weekend I will be one of Alternattiva Demokratika – The Green Party‘s delegates at the European Greens Party (EGP) Council in Berlin. A lot will be happening this weekend, from the EGP choosing their leading candidates to the launch of EGP’s campaign plan for the elections! Follow the event on https://twitter.com/hashtag/egp29 and…