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The Lisbon Treaty: Workshop with Susan George at Enlazando Alternativas, 2010
May 2010
Susan George

Despite repeated democratic rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, the European Commission pushed ahead with it via the EU Constitution via a private, technocratic and non-democratic process. Susan discussed the treaty and its implications in a workshop at the EA4 summit in Madrid, 15 May 2010.

When corporations capture the state: corporate lobbying and democracy
May 2010
Praful Bidwai

Washington-style practices of corporate lobbying have crept up on New Delhi politics, subverting the policy-making process to meet the profit imperatives of private corporations. The new trend of corporate lobbying in India presents a real and serious threat to democracy.

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