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CHAPTER 6
local herbalist, “Sometimes you could EU countries with a lack of financial few months, this initiative grew to
feel the vibration between the people support and state recognition for unexpected proportions and similar
when they talked about their work those working in this area. For many, movements were created in France,
with herbs. At other times you start to working with herbs can thus only be the Netherlands, Switzerland,
speak and the other person already a hobby. These realisations emerge Sweden, UK, Italy, Spain, Norway and
knows how you’re going to finish your through exchanges. Denmark. Their plan was to adopt all
sentence.” Finding out how other
people are tackling similar issues
can provide ideas of where work
is still needed. For example, local
participants were annoyed to find out
13.123 villages in Romania in order
Solidarity grows
at dinner tables
The ‘systematisation of territory’
to protect them from destruction.
It was an astonishing movement
and a beautiful example of inter-
European solidarity – witnessing
that compared with other countries programme I mentioned earlier and aiding those in need. This is
in the EU, Romania has no national generated a wave of protests outside what the European project at its
strategy for medicinal and aromatic Romania. In 1988, the Opération best is all about. In a smaller, simpler
plants. They felt that regulations in Villages Roumains Association way, this kind of solidarity is what
Romania are more rigid than in other was founded in Brussels. In only a Forum Synergies tries to foster in its
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