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    Ireland, vote NO for us on 31 May
    May 2012

    There is no popular support for EU-driven austerity. It’s up to the Irish people to raise their voice and say NO to permanent austerity.

    Ireland vote NO for us on 31 May
    May 2012

    Solidarity actions are organised across Europe asking the Irish to vote NO for all Europeans in their referendum on the austerity treaty.

    Video: Olivier Hoedeman: Going to the heart of the European Crisis
    May 2012

    Only if we tackle corporate power at the heart of the EU, do we have a chance to stop Austerity Europe.

    Video: Trevor Evans: Why is Europe in crisis?
    May 2012
    Trevor Evans

    The EU focus on fiscal deficit is completely mistaken. They are the result of the crisis, not the cause.

    For a different Europe
    May 2012

    There is a need for a strong and coordinated European effort to decisively end the attack on welfare and democracy and to make alternatives a reality.

    The European crisis through the lens of financialisation
    May 2012
    Antonio Tricarico

    The financial sector through the Euro crisis hopes to further extract wealth from public sectors, driven by its goal to commodify the whole economy and nature itself.

    The Fiscal Compact on European Budget Discipline
    April 2012
    Heikki Patomäki

    European political leaders and the institutions of the European Union have reacted to the Euro crisis by creating conditional debt packages, in cooperation with the IMF (International Monetary Fund). Such “aid packages” typically prescribe severe austerity measures, similar to the structural...

    Greece: life at the epicentre of the earthquake
    March 2012
    Alex Nunns

    Frontline report from Athens on the human consequences of the austerity measures, how they are being resisted and why solidarity is needed to stop EU-wide attacks on democracy and human rights.

    The EU's new austerity treaty - Interview with Lukas Oberndorfer
    February 2012

    Despite the strong and growing resistance in Greece and other European countries to the direction of EU policy responses to the...

    The EU's new austerity treaty - Interview with Kenneth Haar
    February 2012

    What are the economic and political implications of the new fiscal treaty? And once signed, will the treaty have to go through a...

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