Daniel Cohn-Bendit

No, not everything is doomed...

By Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Gabriel Cohn-Bendit, Jean-Yves LE DRIAN, Jean-Pierre MIGNARD, Joël ROMAN

Libération, Rebonds May 07, 2007

We are sad today. A desire didn't fulfill. Certainly we respect the votes and hope that Nicolas Sarkozy, inebriated by his victory, will not establish a brutal social policy. However, everyone needs to face the consequences and responsibilities of ones defeat. Ségolène Royal must not become the scapegoat. She brought new wind to the French Socialists: Now it is about to further developing this mood of new beginnings. We still support an alliance of the Socialists, the Greens and the new center. But the Socialists should not regard the allies just as useful vassals. Alliance-partners, on the other hand, shouldn't confuse autonomy with irresponsibility.

It won´t work without God!?

Five intellectuals argue at the ZEIT forum for culture about the role of faith in society.

Event, February 09, 2007

„Religion has returned into consciousness", wrote Thomas Assauer last week in the lead story of DIE ZEIT. He is right: Since several years, in the light of Islamic terror, faith and religion stand on top of political agendas again. The weekly journal took this for cause to launch an introduction series about world religions. To the prelude, chief editor Giovanni di Lorenzo discussed in the Hamburger ethnological museum with five intellectuals about the role of faith and religion in the secularised society.

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The big challenges of "The Europe of tomorrow"

Radio transmission of October 5th, 2006

This week Dany Cohn-Bendit has been invited to the "Big Thursday debate" on Radio BFM. Interviewed by the journalist Noëlle Lenoir he talks about his childhood, the 1968th and of course about the future of the European Union...

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European-wide Green alliance brings together 25 parties

Financial Times, 5 June 2004

An alliance created by 25 Green parties before next week's European parliamentary elections has helped counter the focus in many countries on national rather than European issues, according to a leader of the Green parties.

Save and secure energy for Europe

Interview with Lester Brown, September 20, 2006

During the Finnish Presidency of the European Union, the Greens organized a two-day seminar in Finland to discuss about energy issues and the visions for a safe and secure future for Europe. Dany Cohn-Bendit talks to Lester Brown, Director of the Earth Policy institute, about ways to promote renewable energies...

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2006 Sakharov Prize

September 26, 2006

Every year, the European Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize for "Freedom of Thought" to exceptional individuals or organisations fighting against oppression, intolerance and injustice. On the behalf of the Greens/EFA, Daniel Cohn-Bendit proposes for this year the candidature of the group of people fighting against hostage-taking and supporting the victims and their families in Colombia...

Turkey

Nobel Prize for Turkish writer counteracts damage done to open debate on Armenian genocide

Brussels, October 12, 2006

Today at noon it was announced that Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, formerly prosecuted in Turkey for having questioned openly the official Turkish position on the Armenian question, has won the Nobel Prize for literature. In parallel, the French Parliament adopted a bill criminalising the denial of the official French position on the Armenian genocide. Commenting on these developments, Green MEPs Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Joost Lagendijk, Cem Özdemir and Helga Trüpel declared: