Europe
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Restructuring of Europe: Greece Was the Prologue
29 August 2016 - by George Souvlis, Elias Ioakimoglou
Austerity experiments in Greece set the stage for a radical restructuring of Europe by elites. By now, the story of Syriza’s capitulation to the European creditor institutions is well-known. Syriza came to power in January 2015 with a mandate (...) -
Barroso’s Gold-plated revolving door
25 August 2016 - by Corporate Europe Observatory
Never before has a former European Commission official been criticised as much for their post-EU career as ex-Commission president Barroso since he joined infamous US investment bank Goldman Sachs earlier this summer. Despite its scandalous (...) -
Barroso and Goldman Sachs - a dangerous liaison
29 July 2016 - by Corporate Europe Observatory
The news that José Manuel Barroso will become non-executive chairman at Goldman Sachs did not exactly come as a surprise. This is a man who presided over the European Commission for 10 years and, from the beginning, his leadership followed a (...) -
The International Context of Global Outrage (in 5 parts)
28 July 2016 - by Eric Toussaint
We publish in a single block a series of articles written by Eric Toussaint [1] late 2011 - early 2012 which deals with the international context of global outrage. The text traces the milestones of the altermondialist movement between the early (...) -
EU / Trade agreements: UN rights expert warns against bypassing national parliaments
27 June 2016 - by United Nations - Human Rights
GENEVA (24 June 2016) – United Nations human rights expert Alfred de Zayas today warned that any plan by the European Union to bypass national parliaments to push through controversial trade deals would violate international human rights norms (...) -
Éric Toussaint: ‘If governments do not want citizen debt audits, it is because they are hiding something’
7 June 2016 - by Eric Toussaint, Maialen Mariscal Ruben Plaza
According to Éric Toussaint, States should default on their payments in order to renegotiate and radically reduce their debts. San Sebastian (Basque Country – Spain) – Éric Toussaint staunchly campaigns for the cancellation of a State’s debt (...) -
“Economy should serve the people, not vice versa” – UN expert says after assessing EU adjustment policies
6 June 2016 - by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky
Recent austerity policies are hitting the most vulnerable and are undermining economic, social and labour rights within the European Union, today said United Nations Independent Expert Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky at the end of his fact-finding visit* (...) -
Investment Court System put to the test
26 May 2016 - by TNI, Corporate Europe Observatory, Friends of the Earth Europe, Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung , Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
The European Commission says that its new investment proposal –the Investment Court System - will protect governments’ abilities to regulate on crucial matters such as public health and environmental protection. But analysis of five of the most (...) -
Local politics enters the global contest
23 May 2016 - by Sol Trumbo Vila
European municipalities join the battle against TTIP to protect sovereignty and public services, demonstrating how to take political initiative and build an alternative economy Opponents of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (...) -
Blockupy International Coordinating Group, May 15th 2016
Let’s strike back! Towards a Global debout, against Loi Travail and neoliberal European labor reforms!
17 May 2016 - by Blockupy Frankfurt
Blockupy International supports the convergence of struggles that is currently taking place in France against the Labor Bill and its system and austerity policies which are creating a society of injustice, precarity and inequalities. The (...) -
Towards an integral framework for debt management: Lessons from Latin America to Europe (Part II)
8 May 2016 - by Daniel Munevar
The first part of this presentation dealt with the parallels between the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980’s and the current crisis in Europe. In this second part of the discussion I will attempt to develop a series of ideas on how to think (...) -
PRESS RELEASE, Paris May 4th, 2016
Nuit Debout International Meeting on May 7th, 2016, 8th in Paris
4 May 2016 - by NuitDebout
NUIT DEBOUT INTERNATIONAL MEETING on May 7th & 8th in Paris, Place de la République, and #GLOBALDEBOUT mobilisations worldwide on May 15th, 2016. Together, we are an immense force! Let’s gather together on May 7th & 8th to rise up (...) -
New EU investment proposal won’t prevent corporate attacks
19 April 2016 - by Friends of the Earth Europe
Dangerous attacks against regulations protecting the public interest and the environment would not be prevented by the European Commission’s new investment protection proposals for future trade agreements, according to a new report. Developed (...) -
East and Central European Social Forum in Wroclaw
4 April 2016 - by Pierre Gottiniaux
Europe is about to implode. This was the first point made at the East and Central European Social Forum which was held in Wroclaw from 11th to 13th March 2016. Since the banking crisis broke out in 2008, rapidly becoming a worldwide crisis of (...) -
Towards an integral framework for debt management: Lessons from Latin America to Europe (Part I)
1 April 2016 - by Daniel Munevar
Part II A brief survey of the history of South America would reveal that one of the landmark spots of historical traditions is reserved, besides soccer and corruption, to debt crisis. As such the region has one or two words of wisdom it could (...) -
Fifth ICAN Assembly: retrieving new energies!
28 March 2016 - by Chiara Filoni
ICAN conference. The vigour shown by the PACD, the citizens’ debt audit platform in Spain, who organised this meeting, as well as the debt chapter of the Plan B Conference, was echoed in the renewed level of motivation that it inspired in the (...) -
Woe unto you European Pharisees hypocrites!
18 March 2016 - by Moisis Litsis
According to an EU agreement on relocation of asylum seekers in 28 countries members, which is not even respected, Europe cannot afford to host 160,000 refugees but bears ... more than 4 million homeless! Thanks to social networks, came to (...) -
Plan B doesn’t include a reform of the EU
17 March 2016 - by Eric Toussaint, Amanda Andrades
Éric Toussaint (Namur, Belgium, 1954), PhD in Political Science from the University of Liege and Paris VIII, has spent at least 26 years analyzing and denouncing how the IMF and the World Bank use debt “to discipline a country.” First, focusing on (...) -
Can the New Left Govern Europe?
29 February 2016 - by Conn Hallinan
After a year of earthshaking victories and devastating setbacks, Europe’s new progressive parties are slowly learning how to balance governance with activism. Over the past year, left and center-left parties have taken control of two European (...) -
Declaration For a Democratic Rebellion in Europe
25 February 2016 - by Plan B Europe
Since the start of the global economic crisis, a new movement has arisen across the world. It is a movement for true democracy and participation, for the right of the people to decide for themselves and have their mandate respected and (...) -
The Privatising Industry in Europe
24 February 2016 - by Sol Trumbo Vila, Matthijs Peters
Privatisations of state-owned assets have become a central plank of EU/Troika agreements with debtor nations such as Greece, Ireland, Italy, Spain and Portugal, but there has been little examination of their track record nor an examination of (...) -
Manifesto for Civil Liberties
19 February 2016 - by Por las libertades civiles
In Defence of Civil Liberties in Spain and Europe Freedom without Charge for the Puppeteers Europe is moving towards a self-inflicted decline. The same continent that emerged from the Great War as the guarantor of freedoms and civil rights is (...) -
Madrid: Plan B - Complete program
15 February 2016 - by Plan B Europe
“Society has now started to work towards a radical change in the policies of the EU. There are many proposals on the table that could do away with austerity,” says the Plan. Complete program in english (without participants, see in spanish (...) -
Videos: Documentary series about the TTIP
10 February 2016 - by Art.35 Films
Documentary series about the TTIP, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which the United States and the European Union are negotiating. TTIP: The privatizacion of justice TTIP: Energy and climate change TTIP: A corporate (...) -
“We Need a Plan B for Europe”: Interview with Éric Toussaint
9 February 2016 - by Eric Toussaint, Gokhan Terzioglu, Steve Knauss, Antoine Dolcerocca
Potemkin Review met with Dr. Éric Toussaint, a founding member and President of the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt (CADTM) - Belgium, and a global spokesperson for the movement. Author of more than a dozen books on the political (...)
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