GLOBE Europe: Board, National Focal Points, Activities

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Tuesday, 12 May 2009 12:23

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)

The GLOBE community is present in the majority of national parliaments of the European region and of the EU Member States, whose role in the EU policy making process has been redefined by the Lisbon Treaty, in the form of individual members and of national GLOBE parliamentary chapters (currently present in Sweden, Germany and Slovenia). Typically the Joint Secretariat relies on the collaboration of one parliamentary co-ordinator in every legislature in which GLOBE Members are active. These co-ordinators, called "National Focal Points", are the link between the national Parliaments (and the national GLOBE chapters of Slovenia, Sweden and Germany), GLOBE EU and the Joint Secretariat.
 
GLOBE Europe Members in the press

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)

    

 

 

 

 

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