GLOBE Europe started as an offshoot of GLOBE EU in 1994, initially focused on helping national parliamentarians of the 10 candidate countries to EU membership which joined the EU in 2004 to assimilate the acquis communautaire (EU law) in the field of environment policy.

Since then, the goal of GLOBE Europe has been to help national parliamentarians interested in the wider environmental protection agenda keep abreast of policy developments at EU level, and stimulate them to engage pro-actively in the formulation of EU policies in their national legislatures, through whatever means their constitutional framework may put at their disposal.

The Weekly EU Policy Update is a service freely offered by the Joint Secretariat to all parliamentarians of the European region. It currently reaches out to some 1,500 parliamentarians from the 27 EU member states and from Norway, Iceland, Turkey, FYROM, Moldova and Croatia. GLOBE Europe has also got over 250 contacts in environmental NGOs, ministries, industry, business and scientific institutions.

President		Vice-President
Steen Gade MP Danish Parliament Chairman the Environment Committee   SF (Greens/EFA)		Michael Kauch MP FDP Environment Spokersman at the Bundestag President of GLOBE Germany   FDP (ALDE)

GLOBE National Focal Points:

• Keep the Joint Secretariat aware of the interests and sensitivities of national parliaments on topical policy subjects with an EU dimension, and eventually organise national parliamentary hearings on EU policy proposals under discussion in Brussels with the support of the Secretariat;
• Meet their GLOBE counterparts at the European parliament and in other national parliaments at Strategy Meetings on a regular basis - Click here for details of the last Strategy Meeting, on 30th April 2009
• Convey the initiatives of the GLOBE community to their fellow parliamentarians in their respective legislatures.

Our Focal Points also receive frequent invitations as speakers at high-level conferences organised by the wider environmental policy community in Brussels and elsewhere.

Being a members-only, members-lead organisation, we are keen to respect the traditions and political culture of the legislatures in which we are present: in some countries our Focal Point is the Chairman of the Environment Committee, in some he or she belongs to the party in government; in others they belong to a minority party. Similarly, being a full member of a Standing Environment Committee is not a pre-condition for being an active Member or a National Focal Point of GLOBE Europe.

National Focal Points
Petra Bayr MP Austrian Parliament Socialist Party (S&D)		Thérèse Snoy MP Belgian Federal Parl. Ecolo (Greens/EFA)		Mirela Holy MP  Croatian Parliament Socialist Party		Bedrich Moldan  Czech Senate EPP		Serge Poignant French National Assembly Economic Affairs Committee Vice-Chair UMP (EPP)
Costas Cartalis Hellenic Parliament Environment Committee Chairman PASOK (S&D)		Mark Soosaar Estonian Parliament Sotsiaaldemokraatliku Erakonna fraktsioon (S&D)		Pentti Tiusanen Finnish Parliament Green Party (Greens/EFA)		Dr Andor Nagy Hungarian Parliament EPP		Þórunn Sveinbjarnardóttir Icelandic Parliament Socialist Party
Ciaran Cuffe Irish Parliament Green Party (Greens/EFA)		Roberto Della Seta Italian Senate Partito Democratico (S&D)		Jonas Simenas Lithuanian Parliament (EPP)		Marcel Oberweis Luxembourgish Parliament (EPP)		Boris van de Ham Dutch Second Chamber Democrats-66 (ALDE)
Peter Gitmark Norwegian Parliament Conservative Party (EPP)		Jan Rzymelka Polish Chamber of Deputies Civic Platform (EPP)		José Eduardo Martins Portuguese Parliament (EPP)		Milenko Ziherl Chair of GLOBE  Slovenia Democratic Party (EPP)		Hugo Alfonso Morán Environment Spokesman Spanish Chamber of Deputies Socialist Party (S&D)
Sofia Arkelsten Chair of GLOBE Sweden Conservative Party (EPP)		Haluk Özdalga   Turkish National Assembly   Environment Committee Chairman		Graham Stuart British House of Commons Vice-Chair of GLOBE International Conservative Party (ECR)