Daniel Cohn-Bendit

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We live in an egoistic society

Interview with Daniel Cohn-Bendit

June 10, 2008

Daniel Cohn-Bendit fears an Irish 'No' in the referendum about the "Lisbon Treaty". Irelands rejection of the new European constitution would have a massive impact on other European countries which have not ratified the treaty yet. But an Irish 'No' would also force Europe to rethink its democratic concept...

The interview is available in French only.

Breaking out of the vicious circle of EU politics

by Daniel Cohn-Bendit, published in "Europe's World"

Autumn 2007

How cynical and manipulative are the EU's national leaders in the European Council? Daniel Cohn-Bendit, co-president of the Greens/Free European Alliance Group in the European Parliament, charts the twists and turns of their commitment to the European ideal, and prescribes treatment for their bouts of political amnesia

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.

The EU 50 years on and a return to its origin - Energy

By Daniel Cohn-Bendit

Special Financial Times, March 23, 2007

Those of us that have engaged in explaining the Union to the younger generations will have quickly realised that their adherence to its principles and "raison d'être" is not self evident. Speak to them of fratricidal wars, of totalitarianism and of the worst horrors purportedly undertaken in their name, and you will understand that this past, though still relatively recent, remains irremediably gone. That European adventure of the past does not connect them to today's European reality.

"Bayrou puts all eggs in the basket"

Daniel Cohn-Bendit demands a new alliance of Socialists, Liberals and Greens in France.

Libération, February 22, 2007

The co-president of the Greens/Free European Alliance Group in the European Parliament, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, argues in an interview in the newspaper Libération for a new partnership between the French socialists, the liberal UDF and the Greens. Is an alliance between UDF and the Parti Socialiste after the presidential elections conceivable?

The whole interview in French only

Divorced from environmental and economic reality

Letter to the editor

Financial Times, November 27, 2006

The claim made by German commissioner Günter Verheugen, saying that EU "environmental leadership could significantly undermine the international competitiveness" of the European economy is scandalous and backward at the same time. In his letter published in the Financial Times, Daniel Cohn-Bendit criticises Verheugen's unusual initiative...

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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Islam in Europe

Debate between Dany Cohn-Bendit and Tariq Ramadan

Famous philosopher Tariq Ramadan and the leader of the European Greens Dany Cohn-Bendit will debate the role of the Islam in Europe on Wednesday evening, 29 March, in the European Parliament.

French unrest is no May 1968, says Danny the Red

Financial Times, 18. March 2006

Daniel Cohn-Bendit talked with a journalist of the Financial Times about the protests in France. For him these protests cannot be compared to May 68 but as a "a serious political crisis". In May 68 the protesting young people had a good vision of the future. Today they don't.

Daniel Cohn-Bendit: "No one has dared tell the French left that we live in a world of market forces"

The Independent, 23 May 2005

The Monday Interview

...For many people, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, 60 years old, will forever be "Danny the Red", the cheeky, ginger-haired, Franco-German, student revolutionary, who led the Paris student-worker revolt of May 1968. In truth, Cohn-Bendit has long since metamorphosed into Danny the Green, a French, then a German Euro MP, a "liberal-libertarian" ecologist and militant pro-European...