Launched: an Eastern Europe network of Greens

Paris -During the ’Kick-off’ meeting of their 4th congress in Paris, the European Green Party yesterday launched a network of Greens in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. According to official delegates from Russia, Romania, Hungary, Slovenia and Bulgaria, the two main problems in these countries are: not enough democracy and too much poverty. Green leaders from Eastern Europe and the Balkans states agreed that, for capacity building of green parties of the region, such a network might be useful. 

A few years after their entry to the European Union, countries like Hungary or Romania suffer from social problems, which are not a good soil to Green politics. The participants agreed that the problems these parties are facing are not the same as in Western Europe, and that the East-West dialogue and mutual exchange of information should be strengthened.