Author: Thilo Buchholz

Candidacy for the Executive Committee of FYEG

Thilo Buchholz

Dear people! Vrienden! Grüne! Europeans! Amoureux de la terre! 🌍💚🇪🇺

Because I don’t want you to all fall asleep on your summer vacation and because we all want to have summer vacations in a few years without being grilled alive, I’ve got an announcement to make!

I am running for a position. I want to become a part of the Executive Committee of the Federation of Young European Greens – FYEG. You can find more details on that as well as on the candidacies of other amazing people here: https://fyeg.org/GA19/candidacies

I’m sending the warmest heartfelt regards to all of you from Brussels! See you around the continent! 🚲🚉

What one year as President of JEF Maastricht taught me

Thilo Buchholz

I had the trust and honour of being the President of JEF Maastricht, a local chapter of a European youth NGO focusing on the promotion of European citizenship and participation of young people in European politics. I learned a lot of things during my year in which I presided the association. 9 of my learning experiences are written down here, and I hope that they can be of use for enthusiastic minds who are about to embark on their own journey within JEF or another youth organisation.

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Ende Gelände 2019.

Thilo Buchholz

Das ist ein Beitrag nach einem Tag Braunkohlerevier. Nach einem Tag mit dem Fahrrad über Landstraßen, Wege an Landstraßen, Feldwege, Schotterwege, Dörfer, Landstriche, Fahrradschutzstreifen fahren. Nach mehrstündigem Warten an Bahnhöfen auf verspätete Züge die mich wieder zurückbringen können.

Ich war am Sonntag in den Revieren. Den laufenden. Den bereits vollständig ausgebeuteten. Und ich habe bei meinen Anblicken einen deftigen Schlag in die Magengrube gespürt.

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Good morning European democracy!

Thilo Buchholz

This article was published on 23 May 2019 as op-ed in the Special Edition of The Observant on the European Parliament Elections 2019.

Dear European Union, I know you’re a bit sleepy and think we can all relax after the elections, but now it’s time to wake up. The fact that the turnout of the European Parliament elections will be far below 100% in the EU’s countries won’t surprise any of us. We knew it would happen that way. And we knew that we couldn’t send the turnout skyrocketing.

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Young Europeans Lab: Check!

Thilo Buchholz

about last weekend!
The Young Europeans Lab: Your Idea to Change Europe took place. What it showed to me, once again:

1) We are all political actors, whether we like it or not 😉
2) People whom we tend to call politicians are also really reachable if you only want to reach them!
3) Youth commitment rocks! 💪🇪🇺️💚

Only question remaining: Why don’t other parties and parliamentary groups rapidly start hosting such idea labs and direct consultations of young citizens from all across Europe? 😉