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On its website LMP states: “The parliamentary majority of the governing parties Fidesz and KDNP are poised to adopt new laws and rules this week that will end the era of democracy in Hungary that begun 1989. We will make sure they do not get away with that. A New Resistance movement will unfold.”

The movement starts with a rally in front of the Parliament building in Budapest, on Friday December 23 at 15h. If you don’t live in Hungary, you might want to support LMP financially to organise the demonstration. Go to its English donation page.

To read more about what is happening in Hungary at the moment, read what LMP has to say about it. Read also the letter of the Greens in the European Parliament to Barroso.

Read an article in the New York Times of 21 December 2011, about what is happening in Hungary and LMP.

Because Europe isn’t capable of addressing the Euro crisis – or any other requiring international actions; nationalist egoisms are about to destroy the common dream of peace and sustainable prosperity; strong threats require strong answers, the French ecofederalist group Fédécolos, warmly supported by the EGP Supporters’ Network and profiting from the 4th congress of the European Greens, the most pro-European of all political groups, ask all who share their ideals to call for

• A United States of Europe, 
• A Constituent assembly by 2015 latest, and
• A Democratic constitution by 11-11-2018, 100 years after the end of World War I.
• Time: 11-11-’11 (World War I armistice commemoration), 11h
• Location: Place de l’Europe, Paris, France
• Click here for details, to let know if you’ll be participating, and find the link to send to your friends.

In May, the Geneva Greens delivered, together with several local anti-nuclear organisations, a petition to the State Council enjoining it to take legal action against the building of a nuclear waste storage facility. The facility, to be built by the firm ICEDA in the area of the Bugey nuclear plant some 70 kilometres south of Geneva in neighbouring France, is scheduled to receive 2000 tons of radioactive material per year from the nine nuclear reactors currently being dismantled in that country.

A few weeks later, Ueli Leuenberger, a national Councilor, queried the Federal Council during its summer session. The Federal Council remained evasive in its response, but promised to obtain more specific answers from the French Authority for Nuclear Safety. The initiators of the petition are particularly concerned about the evolution of the activities of ICEDA, whose mandate seems far from transparent.

As the French Prime Minister François Fillon visited the Bugey plant on August 30th, a group of demonstrators gathered outside the French consulate in Geneva to draw attention to the danger represented by this nuclear plant, whose four reactors have been in operation for over 30 years.October 15th: international demonstration

Meanwhile the Réseau Sortir du Nucléaire, the Nuclear Exit Network to which the French Greens belong, is planning a demonstration calling on the French authorities to stop ICEDA’s expansion. It also asks the authorities to close down the four reactors at Bugey, because plans are being made to prolong their operation for another 10 years. The number of incidents is increasing, Surtir du Nucléaire argues. Moreover, the plant, the oldest in France after Fessenheim, does not conform to anti-seismic norms, although it is potentially exposed to Fukushima-like flooding should the Vouglans dam located upstream, on the Ain River, rupture. Opponents to the plant emphasize that 2,2 million people live within a fifty-mile radius from the reactors.

Film du happening des Verts devant la consultat de France

Pour la première fois depuis 1982, des militants anti-nucléaires de l’Euregio Belgo-néerlando-allemand et du Luxembourg se mobilisent pour atteindre un but commun: la fermeture immédiate des trois plus vieux réacteurs nucléaires belges (Tihange 1, Doel 1 et 2) et une fermeture aussi rapide que techniquement possible des autres centrales belges.

La centrale de Tihange avec ses 3 réacteurs, est une des plus anciennes en Europe. La construction à commencé en 1969. Depuis 1996 de nombreuses incidents se sont produits. En 2003, le gouvernement fédéral belge, dont les Verts faisaient parti, ont annoncé la fermeture des 3 centrales en 2015 au plus tard. Cette fermenture n’a pourtant toujours pas eu lieu.

Le samedi 17 septembre à 14 heures il y aura des  manifestations parallèles devant la centrale nucléaire de Tihange, sur la Meuse entre Liège et Namur, et devant la centrale de Cattenom (sur la Moselle en Lorraine). Rejoignez-nous pour un événement pacifique, festif et international. Départ à 14 heures du Centre de Huy pour marcher vers la centrale de Tihange.

Pour cette action, organisé par le réseau « Nucléaire Stop ! » en association avec Inter-Environnement Wallonie et Aktionsbündnis gegen atomenergie Aachen, des verts de plusieurs pays voisins se mobiliseront pour cette occasion:

• Depuis l’Allemagne: Les Verts de Düren, Aachen and Cologne organisent un bus pour s’y rendre. Contactez B90-gruene-schleiden@web.de, ou oliver.krischer@wk.bundestag.de. Cliquez ici Pour en savoir plus. D’autres adhérentEs et associations de toutes sortes qui soutiennent la manifestation sont plus que bienvenus pour en faire un grand succès et pour participer à son financement.
• Depuis la Wallonie: Écolo-J, a organisé fait appèl à tous de se rassembler dans le centre de Huy à 13.45, pour marcher ensemble jusqu’à la centrale.

La centrale de Tihange

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