Green Party (Romania)

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The Green Party supports environmental causes, such as reforestation and reductions in carbon emissions. It supports an extension in individual rights as well as greater separation of church and state, including a gradual removal of all state funding for religious institutions. Like the vast majority of Romanian political parties, it is supportive of European integration.

Environment and green economy

The Greens consider that the budgetary and private financial flows invested in industries with high carbon dioxide emissions are today greater than the budgetary and private financial flows intended for adaptation to climate change and a green transition.^[23]

They support the participation and representation of young people in democratic and decision-making processes at all levels, i.e. by having children involved in the evaluation and formulation of policies through dialogue with experienced people and by organizing debating groups in schools, high schools and universities.

They also support the right to vote from the age of 16 for all types of elections.

Youth politics

The party advocates for all new legislative acts and public policy projects to be approved only after assessing their impact on young people up to 30 years old. They support the introduction of a mechanism for monitoring legislation from a youth perspective, including both an impact assessment and a mechanism for consultation with youth representatives when legislation has an impact on young people.

A decrease in the number of NEETs in Romania (young people who neither work, study, nor participate in professional training) can also be done by developing a wider professional orientation process, starting from the age of 12. The party wants to enable young people to benefit from visits and short experiential internships at for- and non-profit organizations, in close cooperation with schools, local administrations and respective organizations and enterprises to allow young people to have their first contact with a professional environment.^[24]

They also support the introduction of universal basic income for students over a period of 3 years.

Work and workers

The Greens consider that in Romania and beyond, the "price of work" has become the "cost of work", and that work is not rewarded at its true value. The party believes the country is still one of cheap labor, with an explosive potential that risks destabilizing all social balances. The Greens support increasing the minimum wage and linking it to the minimum consumption basket for decent living, so that decent living will no longer be a dead letter in the Constitution, and purchasing power will not collapse under the pressure of inflationary crises. The party supports the introduction of a minimum wage in the European Union as a mechanism of social justice, at the national and supranational level. They support the strengthening of social dialogue in Romania, the reform of the Labor Code from the perspective of the right to collective negotiations, respect for health and safety at work and the balance between work and private life. The party calls for a new social dialogue law to confirm and guarantee negotiations at the national level, to facilitate the formation of unions, the initiation of strikes, and the negotiation of collective contracts at the sector level. They demand the reduction of the union representativeness threshold from 50%+1 to 30%.^{[further explanation needed]} They also demand transparent reports on health and safety at work and hours worked by employees, for all companies. The party considers a successful green transition to mean decent, safe, sustainable jobs, and a healthy work-life balance. They ask the Government and the Parliament to urgently ratify the ILO Convention no. 190, of the International Labour Organization for the elimination of violence and harassment in the world of work.^{[25][26][27][28]}

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