Europe

“Exceptional circumstances can help indebted States”

14 January 2021 - by Eric Toussaint

A judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union states that a State is entitled to impose losses on its creditors. This is a most significant decision. Several States facing a radical change of circumstances because of the impact of (...)
The strategic debates of the European left - from Recommons Europe to the pandemic

8 January 2021 - by Catherine Samary, Srećko Pulig

On 13 December as part of the “Subversive Festival” in Zagreb, two European zoom-panels were organised presenting the two texts translated into Croatian produced by the network Recommons Europe (see (...)
Deep and comprehensive dependency: How a trade agreement with the EU could devastate the Tunisian economy

9 December 2020 - by Hamza Hamouchene, Layla Riahi

Tunisia has undergone radical changes in the past decade, and faces more in the years to come, if the EU has its way. As the first country to topple its dictator in early 2011, it set off a chain of revolutions across North Africa and West Asia (...)
Report on the International Situation and the activities of CADTM International since May 2020

1 December 2020 - by Eric Toussaint, CADTM International, Jean Nanga, Christine Vanden Daelen, Sushovan Dhar, Maria Elena Saludas, Omar Aziki, Rémi Vilain

This report was presented by Éric Toussaint at the biannual meetings of CADTM Belgium on Tuesday 17 November 2020. The text was completed in the annexes by an addendum on the action of the coordination of feminist struggles written by Christine (...)
The crisis triggered by the pandemic and the economic policy of the European Union

19 November 2020 - by Daniel Albarracín

This chapter will address the pandemic crisis at the level of political economy and, in particular, the fundamental decisions that the European Union is adopting, whose measures will take precise form once its particular institutional procedure (...)
Covid 2021: more calamity ahead?

16 November 2020 - by Michael Roberts

The news that a COVID-19 vaccine could well be available by the start of 2021 sent the stock markets of the world shooting up to new record levels. However, the rally was quickly tempered by the rocketing rise in COVID-19 infections as the (...)
Europe and the Pandemic

9 November 2020 - by Eric Toussaint, Manoel Barbeitos

Éric Toussant interviewed by Manoel Barbeitos for Tempos dixital. For example since the first semester 2019, industrial production had fallen in several key economies, with a reduction of production in Germany and in several industrial branches (...)
Putting an end to the EU’s neo-colonial policies in the field of trade and investment: Economic pressures from above, social reaction from below

22 September 2020 - by Patrick Bond

Summary: The European Union and Africa have had exceptionally conflictual relations even after slavery and colonialism ended. Still today, African-European civil society relationships from below are often arrayed against a nexus of state and (...)
Fighting the actors of financialization and prohibiting profit on illegitimate private and public debt

22 September 2020 - by CADTM, Collective, Virginie de Romanet, Renaud Vivien, PAH , Antonio Gambini , ACiDe, Vicente Losada, Eva Betavatzi, Gilles Grégoire, Spanish Platform against vulture funds , Mats Lucia Bayer, Walter Actis, Ángel del Castillo, Mari Ángeles Bueno, Roberto Moreno, Miguel Vázquez, Pedro Martin Heras

In January 2020, the “Package of common demands on debt and the need for citizens’ control of finance at the european level”, coordinated by CADTM, was published. This document was written collectively by activists of nearly fifteen collectives and (...)
Let us act now - European meet

17 September 2020 - by ReCommons Europe

Let us act now - Internationalist Alternatives to EU Policies (in times of coronavirus), is a European meet organised by the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) that will take place on September 22 and 23 in Brussels, with (...)
Trade unions need new strategies

16 September 2020 - by Asbjørn Wahl

With employers on a decades-long offensive against labour, the balance of power which once secured social dialogue has been transformed. Trade unions are on the defensive all over the world, under immense pressure from strong economic and (...)
ReCommons Europe

Impact of European policies on the Global South and possible alternatives

8 September 2020 - by ReCommons Europe

The year 2020 was marked by two events that revealed, once again, the limits of the capitalist system. First, the CoViD-19 pandemic caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, responsible for the deaths of several hundred thousand people and (...)
In the face of the past crimes of the European colonial powers and European neo-colonialism, reparations are needed

29 July 2020 - by ReCommons Europe

Phase 2 of the ReCommonsEurope project: “The impact of European financial policies and development cooperation strategies on the South and possible alternatives”. Thanks to the Black Lives Matter mobilizations that have been taking place in 2020 (...)
The pandemic has exposed the nakedness of European neoliberalism

27 July 2020 - by Eric Toussaint, Miguel Urbán Crespo

Miguel Urban is a member of the European Parliament elected from the Spanish state and a member of Anticapitalistas. He was interviewed by Eric Toussaint. What is the objective of the Covid Tax initiative at the European level and at the level (...)
The struggle against authoritarian liberalism is more urgent than ever. Epidemic and the far right on the European periphery

13 July 2020 - by Ana Podvršič, Jaša Veselinovič

Preliminary note: The article was written at the end of May 2020. Since then, the protests further intensified and the social initiatives, mentioned at the end of this article, succeeded in equipping the protests with better articulated and more (...)
A project against militarist Europe

2 June 2020 - by Nathan Legrand, ReCommons Europe

The role of militarism, arms trade and wars in Europe`s foreign policy This document is a longer version of the fourth of the five texts that form part of the publication entitled “The impact on the South of European financial policies and (...)
The DiEM25 Plan to Confront the Covid-19 Crisis in Europe

27 May 2020 - by Eric Toussaint, Olivier Bonfond, Eva Betavatzi

Strengthen the European Union and its institutions, include the ECB; increase public debt as much as possible in order to save the private sector; not question the legitimacy of public debt; pay €2,000 into the bank account of each European (...)
End the inhumane migratory policies of Fortress Europe

23 April 2020 - by ReCommons Europe

Today we publish the third text of the publication entitled “The impact on the South of European financial policies and development cooperation strategies and possible alternatives”, elaborated in the framework of the ReCommonsEurope project. (...)
For Immediate Release

We Won’t Pay for Their Crises Anymore!

15 April 2020 - by CADTM Europe

In the midst of the Coronavirus crisis, Mario Draghi stated in the pages of the Financial Times that “whatever it takes” must be done to guarantee the future of the Eurozone. He was reaffirming a principle that has been applied by European (...)
Abolish illegitimate and odious claims by European countries from third parties and give absolute priority to human rights

3 April 2020 - by ReCommons Europe

Phase 2 of the ReCommonsEurope project: “The impact of European financial policies and development cooperation strategies on the South and possible alternatives”. This document is the first of the five texts that form part of the publication (...)
List of signatories of the Manifesto for a new popular internationalism in Europe

2 April 2020 - by ReCommons Europe

Today, 2nd of April 2020, we publish again the list of the 160 first signatories of the Manifesto for a new popular internationalism in Europe, which was publicly presented in March 2019. In the current context of the Covid-19 epidemic, we (...)
In the times of the coronavirus, a look back to the Manifesto for a new popular internationalism in Europe

2 April 2020 - by Eric Toussaint, Esther Vivas , Catherine Samary, Costas Lapavitsas, Stathis Kouvelakis, Tijana Okic, Nathan Legrand, Alexis Cukier, Jeanne Chevalier, Yayo Herrero

The coronavirus pandemic is a serious public health problem and the human suffering caused by the spread of this virus will be enormous. If it massively affects countries of the Global South with very fragile public health systems that have been (...)
Crisis on the Greece-Turkish Border : let’s have done with Fortress Europe

7 March 2020 - by CADTM

Press release of the CADTM International network Once again, European policies have proved to be murderous. For several days now tensions have increased at various cross-border points between Greece and Turkey. Attempts by migrants to cross (...)
ECB: You can take a horse to water but….

18 September 2019 - by Michael Roberts

Last Thursday, Mario Draghi, the current head of the European Central bank, soon to be replaced by Christine Lagarde from the IMF, announced a parting gift to banks and financial markets. The ECB decided to reintroduce its bond purchasing (...)
Debt is the Hidden Issue in These Elections

26 May 2019 - by UndebtedWorld

The citizens of the European Union are called to vote this week for the European Parliament. It is not a real parliament, and it lacks prospects for becoming one, since all important decisions are taken by the unelected heads of the European (...)