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    Default in Europe
    Boris Kagarlitsky

    The Euro zone crisis cannot be staved off. A building with the bad foundation cannot be durable.

    Debating Europe: WTO Doha Round and EPAs in an era of crisis: salvation or suicide for ACP countries? (Video)
    Dot Keet
     Ignacio Iruarrizaga Díez

    The international free trade and investment policies and the related WTO agreements played a major role in undermining so many developing countries' economies. The proponents of tese policies, including the EU, are now urging the govenrments of the world to end their resistance to such policies...

    The WTO Doha round and EPAs in an era of crisis
    Dot Keet

    The major causes of the economic and social crises are now being even more blatantly promoted by the EU - both within the multilateral WTO negotiations and bilateral and bi-regional FTA/EPA negotiations - as the fundamental solutions.

    Profit Before People and Human Rights
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    Brid Brennan
     Jesús Carrión, David Llistar, Erika Gonzalez, Tom Kucharz, Karen Lang, Francesco Martone

    The report exposes the role of EU institutions in constructing a complex political and legal architecture which allows European transnational companies to operate with impunity in the region.

    The deficits of the EU financial reforms
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    Myriam vander S...
     T. Kerckhoffs

    Will the financial sector reforms currently proposed at the EU level guarantee financial stability and protect the real economy from financial speculators?

    European election campaign
    TNI
    Over the past three decades, the “freedom” of financial actors has been extended at the expense of the huge majority of people. This is also the case for the EU. By exclusively seeking to satisfy the corporate interests, the EU trade policy undermines the living conditions of people both in...
    A partnership among equals?
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    The proposed EU-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement aims for reciprocal and progressive liberalization of substantially all goods and services. The EU-ASEAN FTA Campaign initiated in 2007 a research project that would examine the nature and scope of EU-ASEAN Relations. This report consists of studies of...

    Transnational Corporations on Trial
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    Wolfgang Kaleck, Miriam Saage-Maaß

    This study analyses existing legal means of holding European transnational companies liable for extraterritorial human rights violations. The authors examine four representative legal cases against European companies in Latin America that revolve around problems typical in the region.

    Where have all our Human Rights Gone? EU Migration Policy 2008: Response and Resistance
    Brid Brennan

    The Single European Act ratified in 1987, introduces the discussion on migrants in the same paragraph as drug traffickers and terrorists. Ever since, European migration policy has pursued an approach of criminalizing migrants.

    Europe deserves much better than the Lisbon Treaty
    Susan George
    We must avoid adopting an ill-conceived charter that places too much faith in the market and a US-led Nato, argues Susan George.

    European history provides a showcase of human beings at their worst. Constant conflict, the two bloodiest wars ever waged, famine, brutal industrialisation...

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