I wrote for the Green European Journal about the challenges and opportunities for Green Parties seeking to win national elections in rural areas.
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Archive for the ‘environment’ Category
Tomislav Tomašević was elected on a grassroots reform wave, I interviewed him and spoke to people around him about how his history of youth and environmental activism has informed his administration.
Climate activists hope stronger EU laws will protect member states’ forests when governments won’t
Posted: July 1, 2022 in articles, environmentMy second piece for Euronews, this time on how EU law is helping to protect forests threatened by the combination of eroding democratic freedoms and the money that can be earned from logging.
At the beginning of the year, Poland started cutting a swathe through one of Europe’s most ancient forests, Białowieża, to block refugees with a 190-kilmometre wall along its border with Belarus.
“It’s five, almost six meters high. It goes down with concrete that is underground. And it has razor wire on the top,” said Augustyn Mikos from the environmental organisation Workshop For all Beings, one that has frequently come into conflict with the Polish government’s forestry policies.
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Samir Jeraj - Freelance Journalist 