To my surpise the Dutch Academy of the Green Party was asked if they had a trainer who was able to come to Athens at april the 9th en 10th. The Greek Green Party organized, in coxf6peration with the staff of the Europian Green Party, a conference for their members and politians in Greece.

Suddenly I was sitting in an airoplane flying to Athens. Together with an Irish collegue, Tommy Simpson, I was invited by the Greek to tend to the conference in Athens. My contribution to the progamm was a lecture of good practises and lessons learned and a lecture of setting the right ambition, the right goals and the right stategy to communicate these ambitions and goals.

My Irish collegue would emphazise how you could structurize a party as the Greens and how you could get better organized. Further we both would accentuate trends in politics and the Green point of view and how to act in conflict-situations.

We didn't have the same group in our conference during both days, so we had to improvise at some point and repeated some of our issues during the second day. As matter of fact the time was quite short to train all the aspects the Greek Green Party would like us to describe. We were very glad there was a very good translater during both days. I made it possible to communicate better with each other.

I think it was a very nice conference and I was very happy to be invited. There's a lot more to discuss and lot more to tell. So hopefully based on this conference we can make an arrangement for a next conference to discuss the futher ambitions of the Greek Greens and to be more able to reflect on their specific situation in Greece.

The Greek Greens gave us a very warm welcome. During both friday and saturday evening we had a lovely time and we dined together. There also was a small period of time I had the opportunity to see some parts of the ancient city. I would like to thank the Greek Greens very much for inviting me and I'm looking forward to meet them again.