December 2007
The Asia Europe People’s Forum 2008 held from 13-14 October will discuss critical issues from alternative energy policies to regional security and militarisation to developing models of participatory democracy.
June 2007
The backlash from business and the opposition against Bolivia's trade policy with the EU was shrill enough to suggest that Bolivia had announced the end of external trade. Yet the Bolivian government's position is based on experience of the heavy costs of free trade for the majority of its citizens.
June 2007
Rodolfo Aguirre Reveles
The Mexico-EU FTA after seven years in force shows how the objectives that were announced during negotiations and that it purportedly promoted were nothing more than rhetoric in light of the evidence of economic and social impacts it has caused.
June 2007
The Asia-Europe People's Forum (AEPF) is an inter-regional network of progressive civil society and social movements across Asia and Europe. Since 1996, AEPF has critically engaged the ASEM and has been organising the biennial gathering of people from Asia and Europe parallel to the official ASEM Summit Meetings. It has sustained its advocacy and commitment for peace and security, economic and social rights and democracy and human rights in Asia-Europe relations.
April 2007
The hemispheric Meetings of struggle against the FTAA has been a contribution to the social struggle against the policy of the US government geared towards enforcing FTAA in the Region as an expression of their pretended hegemony.
One of the positive results of this struggle has been the stagnation of the negotiations around the FTAA and therefore its non-application as a continental agreement. However, we are aware that the danger that FTAA represents remains to be an absolute fact.
January 2007
Roelien Knottnerus, Abel Esteban
