Who are we

We are a growing initiative of currently around 20 people, founded in autumn 2023. Our origin is in the Green New Deal movement, who's visions we still share as a long-term goal for our initiative.

Our initiative is made up of a wide variety of different people - students, doctoral candidates, workers, retirees, activists and school pupils. Our members are based in different EU countries, from Ireland to Spain, and from Belgium to Lithuania. Moreover, we are happy to also call people from Global South countries our members. The variety of backgrounds and professions in our initiative enables us to take a truly pluralist approach to our topics.

What unites us is our desire for a humane and prosperous future on a healthy planet. We share the belief that a well informed and vivid public debate that is inspired by progressive policy proposals is key to a path towards such a future.

Everything we are doing takes place on a voluntary basis, with the aim of not only making a meaningful contribution to the public debate, but also to counter the feeling of our own powerlessness and make a constructive difference together.

Moreover, we are collaborating with other action groups, associations and think tanks in various forms.

Jonas Plattner

Jonas Plattner (founder, working group on financing)

  • from Stuttgart, Germany
  • 25 years old
  • student of International Relations and Philosophy at the University of Erfurt
  • Member of the german branch of the association "Rethinking Economics" and the heterodox economic think tank "Samuel Pufendorf Gesellschaft für politische Ökonomie" 
  • former intern at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action 

Christian Scheurer (working group on financing)

I'm Christian, a 47 year old mechanical engineer developing battery-electric trucks. I am located in Stuttgart, Germany. Besides technical stuff, I am very interested in economics and politics, espicially in the European context. I was really excited when I heard about this project because I want to learn more about how the EU works and how it can be developed further into a good direction.


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