Croatia

The 6th Subversive Festival, "The Utopia of Democracy", Zagreb, May 4-18, 2013

11 avril 2013

Featuring Oliver Stone, Alexis Tsipras, Álvaro García Linera, Aleida Guevara, Slavoj Žižek, Tariq Ali, Silvia Federici, Chantal Mouffe, Franco Berardi Bifo, Yanis Varoufakis, Maurizio Lazzarato, Susan George, Bernard Stiegler, E. O. Wright, Costas Douzinas, Eric Toussaint, Bernard Cassen, and many others Detailed program soon to be published at : www.subversivefestival.com After waves of protests in the past few years—from North Africa, the Middle East and New York to Frankfurt, (...)

Why the EU needs Croatia (even more than Croatia needs the EU)

11 December 2012

Croatia is expected to become the 28th member of the European Union by July 2013. Strangely enough, as things stand now the EU might have more to gain from this accession than Croatia does. When in late 2005 the accession negotiations between Croatia and the EU officially started, a leading Croatian liberal daily triumphantly published the following headline all over its front page: "Bye, bye Balkans!". At that time, this was the prevailing and typical stance towards the European Union: (...)

Eric Toussaint - Europe is not imploding

12 July 2012

Belgian political scientist and historian Eric Toussaint (Committee for the abolition of third world debt) on the current Eurocrisis. The talk was held at the 5th Subversive Festival in Zagreb. http://www.subversivefestival.com/

Eric Toussaint: “All the loans accorded by the Troika are illegitimate”

7 June 2012

Eric Toussaint interviewed by Ana Benačić for net.hr In this interview first published in Croatian on the portal net.hr and taken up by several websites in Croatia, Eric Toussaint develops ways out of the debt crisis which are very useful for different countries in Europe and beyond. He comments on the situation in Greece after the elections of May 6, 2012. He tackles the issue of the accession to the EU and the Eurozone that some countries like Croatia, Bosnia, and Serbia are seeking. He (...)

Balance of the first Balkan forum: another Balkans is possible

6 June 2012

The 1st Balkan Forum took place within the 2012 Subversive Forum in Zagreb on May 17th and 18th and gathered up to 40 progressive organisations and movements from across the region. During two days of intensive discussion panel participants and audience members analysed current social struggles in the Balkans, identified the neuralgic spots of the widespread crisis of both neo-liberal economic order and representative democracy in this region and, finally, defined possible strategies of (...)

Zagreb-Sarajevo : Resistance in the Balkans as crisis grips the EU

18 May 2012

Zagreb (Croatia) is the stage for the 5th Subversive Festival being held from 5 to 19 May 2012; this will be followed on 19 and 20 May 2012 by the first “Antifest”, set to take place in Sarajevo (Bosnia Herzegovina). Every evening in Zagreb, as the feature meeting of the day gets underway, the main theatre of the cinema hosting the festival is full to overflowing (600 to 700 people, with another 100 standing in the aisles or sitting on the floor). Among the speakers invited for the evening (...)