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.

Rethinking regionalisms in times of crises

October 2013
Cecilia Olivet
Gonzalo Berrón
Sol Trumbo Vila
Carlos Bedoya, Jenina Joy Chavez, Dorothy Grace Guerrero, Afsar Jafri, Dot Keet, Meena R Menon, Mariana Mortágua, Graciela Rodriguez, Andy Storey, Oscar Ugarteche

The demand for people-centred regional alternatives has been at the core of people’s struggles in Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe. This reader pulls together perspectives of social movement activists, describing the restrictive regional spaces within which they work and propose regional alternatives.

Debating Economic Governance with the European Commission

August 2013

On 26 June 2013, TNI and Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) hosted a public debate in Brussels about economic governance in Europe with the title Competitiveness vs. democracy?

End the Impunity of Transnational Corporations Now!

June 2013

The time has come to unite the hundreds of struggles, campaigns, networks, movements and organizations that are combating the different ways transnational corporations are appropriating our destinies, natural heritage and rights in every corner of the planet.

Alter Summit: A People's Manifesto

June 2013

TNI was one of the participating organisations at the Alter Summit and signatories to the Manifesto: Our urgent common priorities for a democratic, social, ecological and feminist Europe.

The day Greece’s TVs went dark

June 2013
Hilary Wainwright

Hilary Wainwright reports from Thessaloniki on what happened when the state ordered Greece’s state broadcaster to shut down, and the situation now.

TNI at the Alter Summit

June 2013
Sol Trumbo Vila

The Alter Summit is taking place one week after the big mobilization against the Troika in 100 European cities and the blockade of the ECB led Blockupy.

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.

Public Debate: Economic Governance in Europe

May 2013

This Public Debate on the case of the ECB and the Banking Union is organised 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.