Europe
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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. (...) -
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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 Okić, 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 (...) -
ReCommonsEurope: Manifesto for a New Popular Internationalism in Europe
26 May 2019 - by Eric Toussaint, Esther Vivas , Catherine Samary, Costas Lapavitsas, Stathis Kouvelakis, Tijana Okić, Nathan Legrand, Alexis Cukier, Jeanne Chevalier, Yayo Herrero
This text is the short version of the “Manifesto for a New Popular Internationalism in Europe”, which was published on 21 March 21 2019 in English, French and Spanish. This Manifesto has been drawn up by a group of activists and researchers from (...) -
Debt is the Hidden Issue in These Elections
21 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 (...) -
No DCFTA in Tunisia / لا للآليكا في تونس
2 May 2019 - by Collectif
The European Union is currently negotiating a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with Tunisia. The EU wants its companies to get open access to the Tunisian market, and aims at imposing its norms, standards and procedures. Such (...) -
Municipalities and citizens movement defeat anti-democratic EU directive
24 April 2019 - by CADTM, Collectif, Corporate Europe Observatory, ACiDe
Trade unions and other social movements, city councilors, municipalities, regional councils and even some governments can now claim victory over a proposal tabled by the European Commission in January 2017. The proposed Notification Procedure (...) -
ReCommonsEurope Manifesto: a left-wing initiative in Europe
8 April 2019 - by Eric Toussaint
While the campaign for the European elections on 26 May 2019 draws very little interest, the initiative launched by ReCommonsEurope with its ‘In the times of the coronavirus, a look back to the Manifesto for a new popular internationalism in (...) -
A critical review of the critical reviews of the book ’Adults in the Room’ by Yanis Varoufakis
12 February 2019 - by Eric Toussaint
The book Adults in the Room [1] by Yanis Varoufakis has given rise to some very interesting criticism from Adam Tooze in The New York Review of Books (“A Modern Greek Tragedy”), J.W. Mason in the Boston Review (“Austerity by Design”), Pavlos Roufos (...) -
Bolkestein returns: EU Commission power grab over services
18 December 2018 - by Corporate Europe Observatory
As early as 2004, the CADTM and other social movements resisted the adoption of the Bolkestein Directive which, in line with the EU’s free trade approach, aimed to define a framework that gives private corporations full and unimpeded access to (...) -
Facing the left-wing challenge in the European Union
22 November 2018 - by Eric Toussaint
It is shocking to see that the right-wing government in power in Italy since Summer 2018 refuses to reduce the budgetary deficit while so-called left-wing governments bow to the constraints of austerity. It is now, when the peoples of the (...) -
Stop the EU’s Services Notification Procedure - municipalities need democratic space to protect the interests of citizens!
15 November 2018 - by Collectif
A coalition of more than 75 civil society groups, unions, mayors and progressive parties running major European cities has come out to oppose a controversial proposed EU directive that has been pushed by business lobbies and would create major (...) -
Building walls
11 November 2018 - by Ainhoa Ruiz Benedicto, Pere Brunet
This report reveals that member states of the European Union and Schengen Area have constructed almost 1000 km of walls, the equivalent of more than six times the total length of the Berlin Walls, since the nineties to prevent displaced people (...) -
“The European Commission is the most obscure power of all”
19 October 2018 - by Real World Radio
MEP Lola Sánchez: “There is a struggle between democracy and corporate power within the EU” MEP Lola Sánchez, of Podemos Party, Spain, said this Monday in Geneva (Switzerland) that the head of the European Union delegation at the UN negotiations (...) -
The Challenges for the Left in Europe and the Eurozone
24 September 2018 - by Eric Toussaint
As from May 2010 the question of the debt became a central concern for Greece and for the rest of the Eurozone . The first programme imposed by the Troika provoked a brutal increase in Greek public debt. This was also the case in various forms (...) -
EU Not Ending Greek Crisis, They End Greece
17 July 2018 - by F. William Engdahl
With great fanfare at the end of June, the 19 EU Eurozone finance ministers announced the end to the eight-year-long Greek debt crisis that brought the entire Euro structure into its deepest crisis to date. The exercise is a deep deception. The (...) -
Is it possible to call the political regime of the euro democracy?
15 July 2018 - by Sergi Cutillas
Sergi Cutillas is an economist and worked in the financial sector before taking up his work as a financial justice activist in early 2012. He is a member of the European Research Network on Social and Economic Policy. He is now Secretary of (...) -
Deloitte, EY, KPMG, PWC: How the Big Four are embedded in EU policy-making on tax avoidance
12 July 2018 - by Corporate Europe Observatory
We pay our taxes, so why don’t corporations? This new report shows how the Big Four are embedded in EU policy-making on tax avoidance, and concludes that it is time to kick this industry out of EU anti-tax avoidance policy. EU policy towards (...) -
The politics of quantitative easing
3 July 2018 - by Rodrigo Fernandez, Pablo Bortz, Nicolas Zeolla
A new age of debt crises in emerging economies is on the horizon. Debt levels have been rising across developing countries since the 2008 global financial crisis, on the back of favourable monetary policies in developed economies. The end of (...)
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