Debating Europe: The Global Crisis, solutions, and implications for EU Trade Policy (video)

Susan George

February 2009

Talk of the dangers of trade protectionism is used by European politicians to obscure the need for protection from transnational corporations whose control of European trade policy continues to cause negative social and environment impacts. Susan George and Myriam Vander Stichele debate MEP Ignasi Guardans and Chief Economist DG Trade, Gaspar Frontini, in TNI's Debating Europe series.

Susan has amended and clarified the transcript of this video HERE. Please use this text version for any references.
Susan George - Part 1

Susan George - Chair of the Transnational Institute

Susan George - Part 2

Susan George - Chair of the Transnational Institute

Myriam Vander Stichele

Myriam Vander Stichele - Senior researcher with SOMO and fellow of the Transnational Institute

Ignasi Guardans

Ignasi Guardans - MEP and Vice-Chair of the EP Committee on International Trade

Gaspar Frontini

Gaspar Frontini - Chief Economist DG Trade

PANEL
Gaspar Frontini - Chief Economist DG Trade
Susan George - Chair of the Transnational Institute, well-known author of many books including: Another World is Possible if.., The Lugano Report and We the Peoples of Europe.
Ignasi Guardans - MEP and Vice-Chair of the EP Committee on International Trade
Myriam Vander Stichele - Senior Researcher of SOMO – Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations and TNI Fellow
MODERATOR
Gie Goris - Editor in Chief of MO – a Flemish Magazine on globalisation
Debating Europe Series: The Global Crisis, solutions, and implications for EU Trade Policy, Brussels, 17 February 2009

Myriam vander Stichele

Senior Researcher, Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO)

Myriam Vander Stichele has been monitoring international trade negotiations and agreements since 1990, both at a regional and global level. She is an advisor to many NGOs whose indepth research on investment agreements and policies, and private investor strategies has sparked many international campaigns.

With an M.Phil in International Relations from Cambridge, Myriam's research is particularly focussed on the financial, food and supermarkets sectors, and the corporate strategies and services liberalisation related to these.

Susan George

TNI fellow, President of the Board of TNI and honorary president of ATTAC-France [Association for Taxation of Financial Transaction to Aid Citizens]

Susan George is one of TNI's most renowned fellows for her long-term and ground-breaking analysis of global issues. Author of fourteen widely translated books, she describes her work in a cogent way that has come to define TNI: "The job of the responsible social scientist is first to uncover these forces [of wealth, power and control], to write about them clearly, without jargon... and finally..to take an advocacy position in favour of the disadvantaged, the underdogs, the victims of injustice."