Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by Herri Batasuna
Batasuna considers very positive the inclusion in the order of the day of the European parliament plenary session the debate on the situation of the political negotiation in the Basque Country, Euskal Herria, the oldest and smallest country in Europe, it does not reach three million inhabitants (…)
Santo Domingo, September 21st, 2006.
Preamble: Organizations of small agricultural producers, women, business leaders, academic institutions, youth, national and international NGO´s from the Caribbean region gathered in Santo Domingo for the Fifth round of EPA negotiations declare the (…)
, by BUCKIN Tobias
Brussels,
Peter Mandelson, the European Union trade commissioner, will today call for the Union to negotiate new bilateral trade deals with countries in Asia, a further sign that hopes of a successful global trade agreement are dimming.
In a speech in Berlin, Mr Mandelson will say: “We (…)
, by BOS Willem
This contribution was presented at the Sixth Asia-Europe People’s Forum (AEPF) in Helsinki, Finland, September 6, 2006 at the plenary session of Cluster 3 on “Democracy and Human Rights”.
If we discuss the question of democracy in the EU we first of all have to discuss the character of the (…)
AI Index: EUR 01/008/200614 June 2006
Introduction
“The body of information gathered makes it unlikely that European states were completely unaware of what was happening, in the context of the fight against international terrorism, in some of their airports, in their airspace or at American (…)
, by KOUVELAKIS Stathis
There is currently the most important student mobilisation to have happened in Greece since the 1970s. The target of the mobilisation is the draft law that would: make private universities possible (they even propose to amend the Constitution to remove all legal obstacles); require public (…)
20,000 students at the largest student march in the past 20 years surge through downtown Athens on June 8th. 1,200 students of the School of Economics voted in favor of continuing the occupation of the university in a count that took place in 3 lecture halls! 2,000 students in the jam-packed (…)
, by TURIGLIATTO Franco
The recent election defeat of Berlusconi was not any kind of lasting defeat for the Italian right, which waged an agressive and mobilising campaign. By contrast the centre-left “Union” waged a very defensive campaign and has resulted in a weak and divided government. It is far from being a (…)
, by NICHOLS Dick
In the April 9-10 Italian general elections, outgoing prime minister and media super-boss Silvio Berlusconi just failed to pull off a miracle win for his centre-right coalition the House of Freedoms. The centre-right came to within 25,000 votes of defeating the centre-left Union, led by former (…)
, by CANNAVO Salvatore, TURIGLIATTO Franco
Legitimate satisfaction with having beaten the Berlusconi government cannot justify triumphalism on the Union’s part, nor inspire an optimistic outlook as to the recent national elections. The incredible division in Italy, the House of Freedom’s numerical success in the Senate, a margin of (…)
, by RAMON CASTANOS José “Troglo”
There are many reasons to suppose that the declaration of a “permanent ceasefire” made on February 22, is the beginning of the end of ETA. The news, which surprised nobody, given the replacement of deadly assaults by others of “low intensity” (there have been no fatal attacks for three years (…)
, by Japan Center for International Exchange, University of Helsinki Network for European Studies
Prepared by:the Japan Center for International Exchange and the University of Helsinki Network for European Studies
Introduction and Background to the Report
The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) was launched in March 1996 with an inaugural summit of leaders from ASEAN, China, Japan and Korea and (…)
, by COSTA Jorge Duarte
For the first time in Portugal, the right wing wins a presidential election. Ex-PM Cavaco Silva, defeated by the socialist Sampaio in 1996, was now elected at the first turn with 50,6%. Less than a year after the electoral disaster of PSD/CDS coalition, the right wing is celebrating again. But (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
English presentation of the petition borrowed from Susan George website. For the text of the petition, see the French version of this document (click “translation” on the left side), or the url indicated above.
José Bové has once more been sentenced to four months in prison for uprooting (…)
, by BERSICK Sebastian
1. Introduction
Since the end of the systemic bipolarity, non-State actors have become objects of interest for
theorists who deal with international affairs. Conceptualising ‘Governance without
Government’ Rosenau and Czempiel were among the first to stress the “growing importance
of (…)
, by Inf’OGM
Self-presentation taken from the association’s website, September 21, 2005.
I. General presentation
Inf’OGM is a non-profit organisation, created in 1999 in order to establish a francophone citizen watch on the GMO issue.
It deals with all GMO related current news in the world, and (…)
, by McGIFFEN Steve
Spectrezine editor Steve McGiffen, who was also adviser to the European Parliament’s United Left Group (GUE/NGL) at the time that the package of laws currently governing the cultivation and distribution of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the EU was adopted, calls for a campaign to (…)
, by JUEGO Bonn
People (sic) make history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves; but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The history of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of (…)
, by TANURO Daniel
“We are disposed to review our position. The result of the studies could lead to profound modifications. The Commission has not adopted a dogmatic position”. Thus the new European Commissioner for Industry, Günter Verheugen, speaking last January to the European Parliament on the REACH (…)
, by SMITH Murray
At ten o’clock on Sunday night, as the last polling stations closed, the result came down like the blade of a guillotine. France’s electors had voted “No” to the projected European Constitution. All the polls in the last few days before the vote were predicting a victory for the “No”. But the (…)
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