Asia Europe People's Forum

EU-Asia Free Trade Agreements:
Strategising on alternatives that challenge the EU's corporate-driven agenda in the South October 2006

• Final Declaration Helsinki, 6 September 2006
• Presentation by Charles Santiago Helsinki, September 2006
• Contribution from Susan George Helsinki, 5 September 2006
• Asia-Europe cooperation, not competition, is key to defending social welfare TNI Press Release, 4 September 2006 - Spanish version - Dutch version

The Asia Europe People’s Forum (AEPF) will be held on 3-6 September 2006 in Helsinki, Finland. It is the sixth civil society forum to be held in parallel to the biannual Asia Europe Summit (ASEM), offering non-corporate, people-centered alternatives to the neo-liberalism of the official ASEM summit.

• ASEM Warned: Don't use bilaterals to revive WTO agenda
  TNI Press Release, Brussels, 31 August 2006
• Privileged Access for Business Lobbyists Undermines ASEM's Credibility
  A backgrounder by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), August 2006 - PDF version
• General AEBF information 6 August 2006

TNI Fellows Brid Brennan, Susan George, Achin Vanaik and Hilary Wainwright will attend. The Institute is also participating in several workshops across the AEPF’s three main themes: Peace and Security, Economic Security and Social Rights and Democracy and Human Rights.

For more details and the AEPF 6 programme, see www.aepf.net - TNI's AEPF6 page