Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by BENSAÏD Daniel, CALLINICOS Alex, FERNANDEZ BUEY Francisco, JERVOLINO Domenico, KOUVELAKIS Stathis, LOUÇA Francisco
In a ’tribune’ in Le Monde on May 3rd [1], some distinguished German intellectuals (including Jürgen Habermas, Günter Grass and Wolf Biermann), called their “French friends” to account. They exhorted them to approve the constitutional treaty. Our German friends are welcome in the French debate, (…)
, by KAMIDZA Richard
The Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) being currently discussed between the Africa-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP) and the European Union (EU)are essentially free trade areas (FTAs) in which farmers, producers and companies from the poorest Eastern and Southern African (ESA) countries are set to (…)
, by ROUSSET Pierre
On Asia-Europe Relations
, by ROUSSET Pierre
Contribution presented at the Philippine Forum on the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) “Understanding the Process and Potentials and Defining Civil Society Engagements”, Manila, 26-27 November 2004.
Introduction
There is -or there should be- a historical dimension in the building of a unified (…)
, by VERCAMMEN François
Faced with an employers’ offensive seeking to impose counter-reforms throughout the European Union, largely spontaneous social mobilizations have borne witness to the legitimacy crisis of the neoliberal model, already apparent in the success of the movement for global justice.
However, a (…)
, by KWA Aileen
Introduction
The European Union (EU) has a clear trade agenda vis a vis developing countries, that is to gain access to markets for their corporations. This trade agenda was in the past addressed through trade Rounds to lower tariffs at the borders. Increasingly, given that tariff levels are (…)
, by HOEDMAN Olivier
Introduction
In contradiction with its lofty rethoric about “harnessing globalisation”, the EU continues to shape its international trade policies around the ’offensive interests’ of major EU-based corporations. The Asia-Europe Business Forum (AEBF), through which corporations enjoy privileged (…)
, by DRUCKER Peter
A SPECTER IS haunting Europe — and despite the disquietingly high vote for the far right in some recent elections, it is not really the specter of fascism. It looks more like the specter of Americanization.
Of course, the reshaping of European politics along lines similar to the United States, (…)
, by CONWAY Terry, DRUCKER Peter, SAP/Grenzeloos (Nederlands)
The elections in the Netherlands on May 15, 2002 took place in an extraordinary context following the murder of right-wing populist Pim Fortuyn, whose party could emerge from the contest as the largest single party. Terry Conway from the British socialist newspaper Socialist Outlook talked to (…)
, by VERCAMMEN François
The attack on the United States by a terrorist organization of Islamic fundamentalist origin has shaken the planet: nowhere is safe any more, not even the USA. After all the other wildcat privatisations, states have now lost their monopoly control over the most destructive and pernicious (…)
, by VERCAMMEN François
Those who leaf through the newspapers of the years 2000 and 2001 in 10 or 20 years time will not fail to be impressed by the intense debate on the construction of the European Union (EU) which has taken place over this period.
German foreign minister Joschka Fischer began it in May 2000, (…)
, by McGIFFEN Steve
An introduction to the book by its author, and Spectrezine editor, Steve McGiffen.
This book was written with two aims in mind: the first might be summed up as “know your enemy”. Quite simply, many people who rail against the EU don’t really know what they’re talking about. This doesn’t (…)
, by VERCAMMEN François
Nervousness reigns in the highest European spheres as the Nice summit approaches. The Danish setback followed a series of failures: the fall of the Euro and the inability of Duisenburg and his cronies at the European Central Bank (ECB) to develop a coherent policy (from a bourgeois point of (…)
, by RICHARDS Gareth Api
Presented at the Trade and Economy Forum: “The Impact of Neo Liberal Globalisation and the Struggles for People’s Alternatives”, ASEM 2000 People’s Forum , Seoul, 18-19 October 2000.
Introduction
For many authoritative commentators the worst of the East Asian economic crisis is over. (…)
, by European Commission
The ASEM Process
, by BOVÉ José
Following is a statement by Jose Bove, French farmer and unionist, to a French court during a trial on charges of destroying genetically modified maize. Bove is best known for actions against the McDonaldization of food.
The strength of our union movement rests on this determination to (…)
, by SAMARY Catherine
When the Berlin Wall fell, the peoples of Eastern Europe were told that privatisation and the market would bring them economic efficiency and freedom. They were also told that as soon as they set up democratic regimes they could join the “civilised, normal world”. In other words, “back to (…)
, by GOWAN Peter
The end of the Cold War is itself now coming to an end, as Europe enters a new phase marked by the redivision of the continent. This is the real significance of the NATO enlargement and the likely significance of the next moves of the EU in the long saga of what is called EU eastward (…)
, by KEET Dot
Reports from Cape Town on the counter strategies by South Africa and its partners in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to the EU’s thrust for free trade access to - and through - South Africa into the rest of Southern Africa [1].
Since the European Union turned down South (…)
, by SCARGILL Arthur
Below is the text of the speech made by Arthur Scargill, the then General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, to the 1984 NUM Conference.
Fellow members, this Presidential Address has been completed within the last 24 hours, and obviously I have tried to take account of all the (…)
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