European elections: Romania doesn't take the Greens seriously

The daily Romania Libera comments on the increased share of the vote that went to the Greens in France and Belgium in the European elections: "Against the backdrop of the economic crisis they have presented new ideas and a solid leftist programme. The coherence of their political discourse gained them a good share of the voters who traditionally vote for the socialists, and in the case of France, for those small parties that make French political life so exotic: Maoists, Trotzkyists, anarchist trade unionists. In Romania it hasn't even sunk in that you can base a political programme on ecological ideas. Environmentalist party lists aren't taken seriously despite the long series of ecological disasters that communism left behind. Somehow it's as if the discourse of the Greens were trivial and their sole mission was to ensure we don't throw away any more cigarette butts or greasy packaging on the street."

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