European Grandparents for Climate: Annual Meeting in The Hague

European Grandparents for Climate: Annual Meeting in The Hague

By Hugo Swinnen 25-27 September: 50+ delegates from 12 countries, representing 15 national organizations. A full programme with fascinating talks, exchange of knowledge and experience. We reflected on the past year’s activities and made plans for the future. But above...
EGC urge to put the taxing of fossil fuel profits on the ECOFIN agenda

EGC urge to put the taxing of fossil fuel profits on the ECOFIN agenda

Subject: ECOFIN meeting 18 September : Taxing fossil fuel profits Dear Minister, We, the European Grandparents for Climate (EGC), are writing to urge you to put the issue of taxing fossil fuel profits on the agenda for the upcoming informal ECOFIN meeting in Dublin on...
Climate Alarmist in Brussels

Climate Alarmist in Brussels

by Wim Aerts As of 20 August 2026, every working day, two brightly dressed Grandparents stroll through Brussels with a pimped-up pram. Climate activists have been warning for decades about heat drones, droughts, torrential downpours, natural disasters and other...
We Are Dying in Silence … and No One Is Talking about it

We Are Dying in Silence … and No One Is Talking about it

by Godela von Kirchbach and Eva Riemer, co-chairs of EGC This Statement has been sent to the Commissioner for Climate, Teresa Ribera, and the General Secretariat of the EU on August 20, 2026. As Europe reels from one heatwave to the next, people are dying. Not...