Danish Environment Minister Connie Hedegaard and Friends of Europe Secretary General Giles Merritt listen to FoEE director Fouad Hamdan, at a Friends of Europe debate on GMOs. Read Fouad's speech
Fouad Hamdan speaking at a Friends of Europe panel debate on waste, May 2006. Read speech
Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson listening to Fouad Hamdan speak at a DG Trade Civil Society Dialogue, November 2006.
Dr. Martin Rocholl, Chairman of the FoEE Board, speaking on the EU services directive at a German trade unions mass rally in Berlin, February 2006. Read speech
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Speeches and panel discussions
Friends of the Earth Europe's campaigners and Director often take part in panel discussions and make speeches at events, in Brussels and around Europe.
21 January 2008, Brussels
Who: Charly Poppe, Trade Campaigner, FoEE, and Meenakshi Raman, FoEI Chair
Event: "Climate Change and International Change: The Need for a Paradigm Shift", in 'New Thinking on Trade Policy and Development - Trade and Climate Change', Socialist Group in the European Parliament.
Read paper: in English, in French, in German, in Spanish
28 June 2007, Brussels
Who: Sonja Meister, Climate Campaign Co-ordinator, FoEE
Event: EUROCOOP conference: Climate Change: The Major Challenge of the 21st Century? Maximising the response of consumer co-operatives, Brussels, 28 June 2007
Read Speech: Climate Change as an Environment Priority: an NGO Voice
27 June 2007, Brussels
Who: Meenakshi Raman, FoEI Chair
Event: "Trade and Climate Change - How to make Trade Contribute to Tackling Climate Change?", organised by DG Trade of the European Commission, Brussels, 27 June 2007
See: Programme and list of participants
Read Paper: Trade & Climate
3 June 2007, Brussels
Who: Fouad Hamdan , former FoEE Director
Event: "Sustainability plus? Global challenges 20 years after the Brundtland Report", organized by the European Foundation Center, Madrid, 3 June 2007
Read Paper: The green movement 20 years after the Brundtland Report
15 May 2007, Brussels
Who: Fouad Hamdan , former FoEE Director
Event: "Participative Democracy Beyond Borders? Civil Society Engagement - a Comparative Perspective". Conference organized within the framework of CONNEX, a Network of Excellence on "Efficient and Democratic Governance in a Multi-Level Europe". Session on "Civil Society engagement in international and European governance: Cooperation and Resources of Civil Society Organizations".
Read statement: Lobbying the EU - and rocking the boat
20 April 2007, Brussels
Who: Charly Poppe, Trade Campaigner, FoEE
Event:Civil society conference organised in parallel to the ECOFIN meeting of European Economic and Finance Ministers in Berlin.
Read statement: Global Europe - Getting rid of Europe's social and environmental 'privileges'
9 March 2007, Brussels
Who: Fouad Hamdan, former Director of FoEE and Tony Juniper, Director of FoE EWNI (England, Wales and Northern Ireland)
Event: Friends of the Earth Europe Giant EU Energy Flag action, outside the EU Spring Summit
Read statements: EU Energy Policy - Fouad Hamdan; Climate Change - Tony Juniper
20 February 2007, Brussels
Who: Fouad Hamdan, former Director of FoEE
Event: Friends of Europe debate "What should be the EU's stance in the global debate on GMOs?"
Read statement: Agricultural biotechnology: great expectations but even greater disappointments
23 January 2007, Brussels
Who: Paul de Clerck, Corporates and Transparency campaigner
Event: Palm Oil and CSR hearing at the European Parliament
Read statement: Palm Oil and CSR
20 January 2007, Paris
Who: Aleksandra Kordecka, Nanotechnology and Chemicals campaigner
Event: Citizen's Conference on nanosciences and nanotechnologies
Read statement: Nanotechnology and environment
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| Articles + Interviews |
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Interview (in Spanish) with FoEE Chair, Martin Rocholl, on renewable technology and nuclear energy
"Integral" Spanish magazine, October 2007
"EU Structural Funds: Biggest Opportunity Wasted" Interview with FoEE EU Funds Campaigner, Martin Konecny, on how EU funds are being misspent in new member states in light of climate change, in Euractiv, July 2007
"Nanotechnology - the next big thing" Article by FoEE Nanotechnology Campaigner Aleksandra Kordecka in the Parliament Magazine, June 2007
"Fair lobby work in Brussels" Article (in German) by FoEE Director Fouad Hamdan, the German magazine "Kommuniskations-Manager", April 2007
"Arab states ignore climate change". Article (in English) by FoEE Director Fouad Hamdan, the Lebanese English-language monthly "Executive", April 2007
Interview with Charly Poppe, FoEE Trade Campaigner on the role of the EU in global trade negotiation and their impact on the environment, Radio Mundo Real: English, French, Spanish
"A Matter of Interest". Article (in English) by Paul de Clerck, FoEE Coprorates Campaigner in Public Affairs News, March 2007
Interview (in English) with FoEE Director Fouad Hamdan on the EU's environmental policies, "NEWS sheet" of the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU (AMCHAM EU), March 2007.
Interview (in French) with FoEE Director Fouad Hamdan on EU energy policy, Le Monde, March 9 2007 - the day of the EU Spring Summit and FOEE's Giant EU Energy Flag action.
"Time to break free of Putin's grip" Article on the EU's energy policy (in English) by Open Society Europe's Director Andre Wilkens and FoEE Director Fouad Hamdan, the Weekly European Voice, January 2007
"Going nowhere fast" Article on GM food in Europe by Rosemary Hall, Parliament Magazine, January 2007
"How transparent is the Council of the European Union?" Article (in German) by FoEE Corporates and Transparency campaigner Christine Pohl, Deutschen Naturschutzring (DNR), 8 September 2006
"The war's other victim: The Environment". Article (in English) by FoEE Director Fouad Hamdan about the impact of the 2006 Israel-Hizbullah war, the Lebanese newspaper "Daily Star", 21 August 2006
Interview (in Italian) with FoEE Director Fouad Hamdan in the Italian Greens magazing, 21 July 2006
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Phone: +32.2.542 0180
Email: info@foeeurope.org
Fax: +32.2.537 5596
Postal address:
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