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Moldova’s Next Crossroads

Alessio Giussani @alegius.bsky.social · 17d

What next for #Moldova?

Here's all you need to know about this weekend's crucial election

@paulaerizanu.bsky.social @greeneujournal.bsky.social

www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/moldovas-nex...

Moldovans are heading to the polls for parliamentary elections. Will they choose to keep their country on its European course, despite well-documented Russian interference?

Moravia-Silesia: What Future Without Coal?

Alessio Giussani @alegius.bsky.social · 17d

Andrej Babis, Czechia's populist-in-chief, is ready to become prime minister again after the elections next week. He chose Moravia-Silesia as his battleground to bank on social discontent over the end of coal and the lack of a just transition

www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/moravia-sile...

Despite efforts to facilitate the Czech region’s green transformation, its future remains uncertain amid political corruption and social exclusion.

Riconoscere la Palestina non cambia niente

Alessio Giussani @alegius.bsky.social · Sep 6

È solo un alibi e un modo per sviare l’attenzione dalla vera soluzione: denunciare il regime di apartheid d’Israele, agire per sanzionarlo e dare spazio alla volontà dei palestinesi. Leggi

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Norway’s Elections: A Fossil Consensus

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Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · Sep 2

Norway elections next week🇳🇴🗳️

Russia war in Ukraine
= fossil phase-out🇪🇺
= fossil boost🇳🇴

Polls show ↗️ for @mdg.no backing transition and Progress Party pushing oil & gas—outcome will shape Europe’s energy path.

Great read with @elinlb.bsky.social
🔗 www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/norways-elec...

Could the rise of smaller parties drive Europe’s biggest gas supplier to change course?

Norway’s Elections: A Fossil Consensus

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Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social · Sep 2

Norwegian general election one week away. Climate issues are hardly discussed by politicians, but the election result may have profound impact on Norwegian climate governance. I talked about this with Green European Journal.

Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · Sep 2

Norway elections next week🇳🇴🗳️

Russia war in Ukraine
= fossil phase-out🇪🇺
= fossil boost🇳🇴

Polls show ↗️ for @mdg.no backing transition and Progress Party pushing oil & gas—outcome will shape Europe’s energy path.

Great read with @elinlb.bsky.social
🔗 www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/norways-elec...

Could the rise of smaller parties drive Europe’s biggest gas supplier to change course?

Adam Shatz · Berlin Diary

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Alessio Giussani @alegius.bsky.social · Aug 30

Berlin Diary www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Throughout my stay in Berlin, I kept hearing from Germans quietly critical of Israel that ‘cracks’ had begun to...

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Alessio Giussani @alegius.bsky.social · Aug 25

Two weeks left to send your pitches ☀️

Alessio Giussani @alegius.bsky.social · Aug 7

What can culture and democracy do for each other?

At the @greeneujournal.bsky.social we've just launched a call for pitches for the next print edition

www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/call-for-pit...

#sendpitches

Alessio Giussani @alegius.bsky.social · Aug 7

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Kyiv Independent: Protecting Democracy, Explaining Ukraine

Alessio Giussani @alegius.bsky.social · Aug 7

What can culture and democracy do for each other?

At the @greeneujournal.bsky.social we've just launched a call for pitches for the next print edition

www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/call-for-pit...

#sendpitches

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Green European Journal @greeneujournal.bsky.social · Jul 23

On Tuesday, hundreds of Ukrainians took to the streets after the passage of a bill that weakens anti-corruption agencies. As Ukraine’s independent media has shown, authorities must be held to account even in times of war.

Ukraine’s independent media navigate the challenge of holding the state accountable without compromising the national interest.

The Anti-Orbán Pride: An Election Prelude

Alessio Giussani @alegius.bsky.social · Jul 17

Ahead of next year’s parliamentary vote, Budapest’s largest-ever pro-LGBTQ+ march offers a glimpse into the uncertainty of Hungary’s polarised politics.

The battle over freedom Launch of the Green European Journal's Summer 2025 edition

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Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union | Global Dialogue @boelleu.bsky.social · Jul 7

🟢 14 July | Book presentation & discussion "The battle over #freedom: Launch of the @greeneujournal.bsky.social's Summer 2025 edition" with MEP @alexandrageese.bsky.social, @ailbhefinn.bsky.social, @elenapolivtseva.bsky.social, & Dominika Lasota 👉 calendar.boell.de/en/the-battl...
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Venue: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union (Rue du Luxembourg 47-51, 1050 Brussels) and on Zoom.From the rise of the far right to the AI revolution, military threats, geopolitical tension, trade war...

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Alessio Giussani @alegius.bsky.social · Jul 7

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In Memphis, Elon Musk Pilots a Corporate Takeover Strategy

To build Colossus, Elon Musk’s pollution-spewing AI data center in Memphis, Musk used gag orders to silence city officials and bypass input from residents, whose asthma rates have since soared. Now Mu...

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Mass Protests Without Revolutions

Alessio Giussani @alegius.bsky.social · Jun 24

"If We Burn" by @vincentbevins.bsky.social is an essential book for understanding the mass protest movements of recent years - and why many of them failed to deliver the change they aspired to. I interviewed him for the latest print edition of the @greeneujournal.bsky.social ✊

What can we learn from a decade of uprisings? An interview with Vincent Bevins.

Political and economic elites nurture far-right forces to prevent the emergence of genuine alternatives to the neoliberal consensus.

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Green European Journal @greeneujournal.bsky.social · Jun 5

From France to Austria to Brussels, political and economic elites are choosing tactical alliances with extremists rather than progressives to preserve neoliberal consensus. Read ✍️Francesca De Benedetti’s analysis.

How Firewalls Fall

Double Dehumanisation: The EU Borders and Gaza

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Green European Journal @greeneujournal.bsky.social · Jun 6

Yesterday, the Freedom Flotilla boat bringing aid to Gaza diverted its route to rescue migrants, with Lybian coast guard refusing help. Discrimination against migrants reaching European shores and oppression of Palestinians are more linked than it seems. www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/double-dehum...

The violence and oppression against Palestinians in Gaza and the discrimination and surveillance against migrants trying to cross European borders have more in common than meets the eye.

“A Land of Conquest”: The Solar Rush Hits Italy’s Breadbasket

Alessio Giussani @alegius.bsky.social · Jun 11

In the Po Valley, investment in renewables offers financial relief for struggling farmers, but local communities worry about food security and the loss of identity. By Stefano Liberti, co-published by @greeneujournal.bsky.social and @internazionale.it

While large-scale investment in renewables provides short-term financial relief for struggling farmers, it also poses a threat to local identity and food security.

Hope, divorced from reality, is a liability. Strategic pessimism can help us more in our current crises.

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Omnicrisis @sybren.bsky.social · Jun 2

The 2008 financial crash exposed the lie at the heart of the neoliberal promise. It had not delivered growth and stability, but speculation, debt, and deepening inequality. Since then we've had one crisis after the other. Why would we support this system? www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/in-defence-o...

In Defence of Pessimism

Can Romania Overcome Its Divisions?

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Alessio Giussani @alegius.bsky.social · May 19

The Romanian election exposed the deep tensions in society and the institutions. Dan's most difficult job as president will be healing the country's divisions.

www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/can-romania-...

The results of Romania’s contentious presidential election show citizens’ disillusionment with the country’s established political forces and institutions.

Serbian Protests: A Revolution in Progress?

Alessio Giussani @alegius.bsky.social · Apr 10

Serbia has grown accustomed to protests and mass mobilisations that eventually fizzle out. But this time could be different

Predrag Momcilovic explains why in the @greeneujournal.bsky.social

As protesters continue to demand justice and accountability for the victims of the Novi Sad tragedy, Serbia could be standing at a turning point.

To the Last Drop: Europe’s Hidden Water Crisis

Alessio Giussani @alegius.bsky.social · Apr 4

Water scarcity is coming for Europe as climate change compounds the impacts of groundwater mismanagement.

A cross-border @journalismfund.bsky.social investigation by @eledda.bsky.social @elenamatera.bsky.social @adina-flo.bsky.social @aagro.bsky.social out now in the @greeneujournal.bsky.social

A cross-border investigation explores groundwater depletion in Romania, Italy, and Germany, three of the EU’s hardest-hit countries.

The Green New Deal: A Bitter Victory or a Sweet Defeat?

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Xan López @xanlopez.xyz · Apr 1

This is the situation we try to think through. A conflicted version of the Green New Deal has brought some advances in a very dangerous situation. Are those advances *despite* those dangers? Or *because* of them. That tension must be faced head on if we are serious about this project.

While the advances of the Green New Dealproject were worth celebrating, the overall context of progression towards militarism and geopolitical conflict was not. That is why we speak of a flawed victory or a positive defeat. The essential question posed by the co-opting of the Green New Deal is therefore particularly perverse: the high point of the project coincides with the exhaustion of the social forces driving it, and its transformation (run down and distorted) into a programme of modernisation of capital and raison d’état.

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Xan López @xanlopez.xyz · Apr 1

The Green European Journal publishes a revised and condensed version of our “The Green New Deal: A Bitter Victory or a Sweet Defeat?”, written by @htejero.bsky.social, @esantiago.bsky.social and myself. www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/the-green-ne...

With climate action caught up in the geopolitical struggles and threatened by the MAGA counter-revolution, can greens and progressives regain the initiative?

“A Landscape of Greed”: The Collapse of Denmark’s Fjords

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Alessio Giussani @alegius.bsky.social · Mar 27

Decades of pollution from intensive pig farming have left Denmark's fjords depleted of oxygen and its marine life in decline. Now people demand change

Danes demand change after decades of pollution from intensive pig farming have left their country’s fjords in decline.