Debating Europe: The Global Economic Crisis and EU Responses – Beyond the G20 (Video)

Gert Jan Koopman
March 2009

Video of the debate on the G20 between Walden Bello and the EU commission oficial Gert Jan Koopman.
Video of the debate on the G20 between Walden Bello and the EU commission oficial Gert Jan Koopman.

> Read Chair and Europe Business Correspondent David Gow's report on the debate "that shone light through the fog."
Walden Bello speech

Gert-Jan Koopman speech

Bello vs. Koopman discussion 1

Bello vs. Koopman discussion 2

Bello vs. Koopman discussion 3

Conclusion

Interview with Walden Bello after the debate

TNI Debating Europe Series:
The Global Economic Crisis and EU Responses
17th March 2009, Brussels

Senior analyst at Philippine think-tank Focus on the Global South, TNI fellow and Akbayan representative in the Filipino Congress.

Author of more than 14 books, Bello was awarded the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize) in 2003 for "... outstanding efforts in educating civil society about the effects of corporate globalisation, and how alternatives to it can be implemented." Bello has been described by the Economist as the man “who popularised a new term: deglobalisation.”

Bello predicted the financial crisis several years prior to the current meltdown and is a globally respected figure within the alternative globalisation movement. Canadian author Naomi Klein called him the "world's leading no-nonsense revolutionary."