IN MEMORIA DI STEVE EMMOTT, UN VERDE GLOBALE
STEVE EMMOTT, dell'Esecutivo dei Verdi europei dal 2009, é morto dopo una brevissima malattia il 24 settembre scorso. Il mio ricordo affettuoso.
Steve was a proud green and a citizen of the world. He was serious and focused and he had this amazingly sweet and bright smile that sometimes surprised me. I met him when he arrived in the Green Group in the EP many years ago and he started to work on GMOs, which what was then still an exotic and certainly not mainstream issue; he gave a crucial contribution to make it one of the most successful and impactful campaigns for the Greens.
But it was after our respective EP experiences, as a fellow committee member, that I was able to discover and appreciate better his calm commitment, his precious capacity to work in a team and the real added value that he represented for all of us in the EGP.
Delegates to the EGP Council will not forget his talent in accompanying and leading votes and decisions, after careful preparation and a lot of work. We, as a Committee, will miss his presence and his original voice. In this very last period, in these very last weeks, I was very glad that we could work together so well on a most unexpected issue for the crazy federalist I am and the global Briton he was: the future of Europe and how to revive the European dream. We were just at the beginning of this work and we had just agreed on a (for me) exciting workplan, when the news of the illness arrived.. It is also for this reason that I feel a very deep sense of loss. Not only for me personally, of course. But for the whole of the Green family.
Arrivederci, Steve, e che la terra ti sia lieve.
Monica Frassoni
EGP Co-chair
STEVE EMMOTT, dell'Esecutivo dei Verdi europei dal 2009, é morto dopo una brevissima malattia il 24 settembre scorso. Il mio ricordo affettuoso.
Steve was a proud green and a citizen of the world. He was serious and focused and he had this amazingly sweet and bright smile that sometimes surprised me. I met him when he arrived in the Green Group in the EP many years ago and he started to work on GMOs, which what was then still an exotic and certainly not mainstream issue; he gave a crucial contribution to make it one of the most successful and impactful campaigns for the Greens.
But it was after our respective EP experiences, as a fellow committee member, that I was able to discover and appreciate better his calm commitment, his precious capacity to work in a team and the real added value that he represented for all of us in the EGP.
Delegates to the EGP Council will not forget his talent in accompanying and leading votes and decisions, after careful preparation and a lot of work. We, as a Committee, will miss his presence and his original voice. In this very last period, in these very last weeks, I was very glad that we could work together so well on a most unexpected issue for the crazy federalist I am and the global Briton he was: the future of Europe and how to revive the European dream. We were just at the beginning of this work and we had just agreed on a (for me) exciting workplan, when the news of the illness arrived.. It is also for this reason that I feel a very deep sense of loss. Not only for me personally, of course. But for the whole of the Green family.
Arrivederci, Steve, e che la terra ti sia lieve.
Monica Frassoni
EGP Co-chair