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Debt Crisis in Europe: What to expect in 2012?

6 February 2012 - by Daniel Munevar

The first weeks of January have served to dispel any illusions about the ability of European governments to deal effectively with the debt crisis that is sweeping the continent. On January 13th, in an unprecedented move, the rating agency (...)
Breaking Up? A Route Out of the Eurozone Crisis

7 December 2011 - by Costas Lapavitsas

An urgently needed discussion of the future of the eurozone, the possibility of exit, and what that would mean for the people of Europe. The authors: C. Lapavitsas, A. Kaltenbrunner, D. Lindo, J. Meadway, J. Michell, J.P. Painceira, E. Pires, (...)
The EU Crisis Pocket Guide

21 November 2011 - by TNI

A useful pocket guide on how a crisis made in Wall Street was made worse by EU policies, how it has enriched the 1% to the detriment of the 99%, and outlining some possible solutions that prioritise people and the environment above corporate (...)
Dexia Krach: The start of a domino effect in the EU ? *

8 October 2011 - by Eric Toussaint

In the early days of October 2011 the virtual bankruptcy of the Franco-Belgian bank Dexia is yet another sign of how deep is this crisis that brings governments to serve public money to private interests. Dexia’s krach shows that it is the (...)
In the eye of the storm: the debt crisis in the European Union (7/7)

Alternative ways out of crisis

26 September 2011 - by Eric Toussaint

In July-September 2011 the stock markets were again shaken at international level. The crisis has become deeper in the EU, particularly with respect to debts. The CADTM interviewed Eric Toussaint about various facets of this new stage in the (...)
In the eye of the storm: the debt crisis in the European Union (6/7)

Has the crisis peaked yet

24 September 2011 - by Eric Toussaint

In July-September 2011 the stock markets were again shaken at international level. The crisis has become deeper in the EU, particularly with respect to debts. The CADTM interviewed Eric Toussaint about various facets of this new stage in the (...)
In the eye of the storm: the debt crisis in the European Union (5/7)

CDS and rating agencies: factor(ie)s of risk and destabilization

23 September 2011 - by Eric Toussaint

In July-September 2011 the stock markets were again shaken at international level. The crisis has become deeper in the EU, particularly with respect to debts. The CADTM interviewed Eric Toussaint about various facets of this new stage in the (...)
In the eye of the storm: the debt crisis in the European Union (4/7)

A European Brady deal: austerity for life

19 September 2011 - by Eric Toussaint

In July-September 2011 the stock markets were again shaken at international level. The crisis has become deeper in the EU, particularly with respect to debts. The CADTM interviewed Eric Toussaint about various facets of this new stage in the (...)
In the eye of the storm: the debt crisis in the European Union (3/7)

The ECB, ever loyal to private interests

16 September 2011 - by Eric Toussaint

In July-September 2011 the stock markets were again shaken at international level. The crisis has become deeper in the EU, particularly with respect to debts. The CADTM interviewed Eric Toussaint about various facets of this new stage in the (...)
The small and dark secret of European banks

24 August 2011 - by Daniel Munevar

At the onset of the recent volatility that has taken place in the global financial markets, much attention has been focused on the behavior of stock exchanges and the evolution of the debt crisis in Europe. But while the markets are reacting (...)
The European debt crisis and the threat of dictatorship

22 July 2011 - by Stefan Steinberg

Just two weeks ago, the Greek parliament passed a fresh round of austerity measures which will have a devastating impact on the living conditions of Greek workers. The parliamentary vote was preceded by a propaganda campaign by the finance (...)
ToxicAid. On the European Bill of Fare

5 May 2011 - by Eric Toussaint

In May 2010 the European Commission created the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), financed with several hundred billion euros. Aid was intended for three years, but it is already clear that this limit will be overstepped. It is (...)
Eastern Europe faced with the crises of the system

7 April 2011 - by Catherine Samary

The “European construction” (associated with the redefinition of continental relationships after the fall of the Berlin Wall) aroused popular aspirations, which were radically opposed to the current situation: aspirations for a continent that (...)
Spring Social Conference

The European Competitiveness Pact is unacceptable. But there are alternatives! We will fight for them.

1. On the 10 and 11th of March, representatives of trade unions, both national and European, NGOs and social networks from 15 EU countries (from both East and West) got together for the first Spring Social Conference. The conference aims to (...)
Hit by the crisis, Spain moves into recession

2 July 2010 - by Jérôme Duval

Profoundly affected by the financial crisis, the Spanish economy has moved into recession. Madrid has been compelled, or has deemed it necessary, to genuflect before the International Monetary Fund which has saddled it with a harsh austerity (...)
Press Release

Greece: the CADTM condemns an austerity plan that entails major social regression

6 March 2010 - by CADTM

The Greek government has announced the implementation of an austerity plan which has the blessing of both the EU and the IMF. But in the view of CADTM, the measures it contains are wholly unacceptable. What the Greek government presents as a (...)
Public Hearing, 9 december

Natural Resources Curse in Central Africa: Can the EU Contribute to Fairer Economic Relations? Recommendations to the European Parliament

20 December 2009 - by Belgian Network on Natural Resources

Presented by the members of the Belgian Network on Natural Resources A. In order for natural resources to be managed in a transparent and sustainable manner 1.The EU should include transparency, good governance, and the principle of free and (...)
After the 5^th ESF in Malmö

The challenges of European social movements

3 October 2008 - by Esther Vivas , Josep Maria Antentas

The 5th European Social Forum (ESF) that ended last 21st of September in Malmö (Sweden) is a good occasion to reflect on the trajectory and challenges of an initiative that has allowed activists and movements from across the continent to meet and (...)
Declaration of the social movements during the ESF in Malmo

2009: To Change Europe

On the European level, we are witnessing a liberal and anti-social front on all domains: economic financial crisis, price increases, food borne illness crisis, privatization and disassembly of public services, movements against work reform, (...)
PAPDA again calls for the unconditional cancellation of Haiti’s debt, and calls on the Haitian authorities to use the debt payments for the hundreds of thousands of victims of recent storms and floods

19 September 2008 - by Camille Chalmers

Port-au-Prince, 10 September 2008 - (AHP) - The secretary-general of the Haitian Platform to Advocate for Alternative Development (PAPDA), Camille Chalmers, has pleaded again for international donors to unconditionally cancel Haiti’s external (...)
THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM IS COMING TO MALMO!

From September 17th to 21st 2008 the European Social Forum (ESF) is being held in Malmö, in the south of Sweden. The forum is by far the biggest meeting place for social movements and a progressive civil society in Europe - with the aim to (...)
How Europe underdevelops Africa and how some fight back

26 June 2008 - by Patrick Bond

http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/48819 In even the most exploitative African sites of repression and capital accumulation, sometimes corporations take a hit, and victims sometimes unite on continental lines instead of being (...)
Chavez Throws Down the Guantlet to EU’s Racist Immigration Policy – Threatens to Cut Off Oil and Return Investments

Two hours ago President Hugo Chavez issued an unprecedented challenge to the European Union’s new anti-immigrant Return Directive. He promised that no Venezuelan oil would be sent to any European country that applies the directive, and that if (...)
Appeal to MeP’s: Reject The “Return” Directive

During the next plenary session in Strasbourg (16-19 June), members of the European Parliament are being asked to vote on the so-called “Return Directive”. The text has already been adopted by EU Interior Ministers and includes an administrative (...)
Regarding “The Return Directive”

17 June 2008 - by Evo Morales Ayma

Until the end of the Second World War, Europe was a continent of emigrants. Tens of millions of Europeans came to the Americas to colonize, escape hunger, financial crisis, wars, European totalitarianisms and the persecutions of ethnic (...)