Democratisation of Europe

Building Together “Another Europe” Over the last 10 years, TNI has been exposing the flaws of the European Integration model and calling for a more democratic, socially and environmentally just Europe. Particularly, TNI has demonstrated the problems of neoliberal regional integration and the limits of the export-led integration model in Europe. Since 2010, TNI’s work on Europe has focused on challenging key components of the European Commission’s Economic Governance legislative plans that transfers powers away from EU member states and EU citizens to Brussels. TNI and its partners have analysed the changes and their economic and democratic implications, brought them to the attention of a wider CSO audience, and proposed and supported alternative responses to the EU financial crisis.

Oscar Lafontaine’s call to return to national currencies

May 2013
Trevor Evans, EuroMemo Group / Berlin School of Economics and Law

Major industrial and financial corporations are organised internationally; at the European level there is a possibility of establishing greater democratic control over their activities; a step back towards the nation state would be a move in the wrong direction.

Economic governance in Europe - the case of the ECB and the Banking Union

May 2013

The Transnational Institute (TNI) and Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) are taking the initiative to organise this Public Debate in response to the unprecedented series of Directives and legislation which are fundamentally restructuring economic and political governance in the EU.

The European Spring 2013 – A New Beginning?

March 2013
Sol Trumbo Vila

The European Spring's Days of Action, that targeted the EU Summit and its austerity agenda, provides important lessons on how to develop alliances between trade unions, grassroots movements and civil society organisations.

Video: For A European Spring Action

March 2013

The coalition 'For a European spring' called for de-centralized actions all over Europe on the 13th of March.

The Great European Fire Sale

March 2013

A visual overview of privatisation of public services and assets enforced on crisis countries by the European Commission and European Central Bank. And the popular resistance movements to defend public services that have emerged as a result.

Privatising Europe

March 2013
Joseph Zacune

This working paper and infographic provide an overview of  a great ‘fire sale’ of public services and national assets across Europe that is providing profits for a few transnational companies but is often fiercely opposed by its citizens.

Profits and Loss in the EU crisis

March 2013

Politicians like to argue that we are 'all in it together' when it comes to austerity measures but there are definitely winners and losers in the current Euro crisis.

EU crisis infographics

March 2013

Why are those responsible for the EU crisis profiting from it? Why are the same policies that caused the crisis being used to resolve it? An infographic expose of the EU crisis, its causes and its social impacts.

For A European Spring

February 2013

TNI is joining hundreds of organisations to call for a 'European Spring' against austerity and anti-democratic EU policies. The call for action seeks to put pressure on the EU Council Spring summit that meets in Brussels on 14-15 March 2013.

Economic Crisis and the Christian Conscience

January 2013
Susan George

To which aspects of this crisis should Germans and especially German Christians be most attentive? What would be the right policies to escape from the debt crisis which has been allowed to fester and is now five years old?