Europe’s young and aspiring farmers will face increasing barriers to entry as land is rapidly concentrated in relatively few big farms. Land is even more unevenly distributed than wealth. A steep decline in Europe’s small farms is underway with damaging consequences for food security, employment, and development.
Privatisations of state-owned assets have become a central plank of EU/Troika agreements with debtor nations such as Greece, Ireland, Italy, Spain and Portugal, but there has been little examination of their track record nor an examination of who really benefits. This report puts a spotlight on the legal and financial corporate giants making millions out of the new wave of privatisations across Europe.
Τα τελευταία χρόνια, η τρόικα (αποτελούμενη από την Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή, την Ευρωπαϊκή Κεντρική Τράπεζα και το Διεθνές Νομισματικό Ταμείο) επιβάλλει προγράμματα ιδιωτικοποιήσεων σε χρεωμένες χώρες της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης, παρά τη σημαντική λαϊκή αντίθεση σε αυτά. Η παρούσα έκθεση εξετάζει τις συνέπειες αυτών των ιδιωτικοποιήσεων. Επικεντρώνεται στη διαδικασία, στους επιχειρηματικούς παίκτες που έχουν επωφεληθεί και εξετάζει κατά πόσον η πώληση κρατικών περιουσιακών στοιχείων εκπληρώνει τις υποσχέσεις που δόθηκαν για να τη δικαιολογήσουν.
Hij beheerste vorige zomer alle krantenpagina's: Yanis Varoufakis, toen nog de Griekse minister van Financiën. Nu wil hij het bestuur van Europa hervormen. Nick Buxton, van het Transnational Institute, kreeg hem te spreken. Wij besloten het interview te vertalen. Want wat staat Varoufakis precies voor ogen?
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis argues that the nation-state is dead and democracy in the EU has been replaced by a toxic algorithmic depoliticisation that, if it is not confronted, will lead to depression, disintegration and possibly war. He calls for a launch of a pan-European movement to democratise Europe, to save it before it is too late.
Sol Trumbo Vila, Attac, Andy Storey, Alexandra Strickner, Steffen Stierle
25 June 2014
Primer
The Competitiveness Pact is the final stage of the new EU economic governance architecture. In this primer, we expose the myths and reality surrounding competitiveness – and what it really means for the lives of Europeans.
This working paper and infographic provide an overview of a great ‘fire sale’ of public services and national assets across Europe that is providing profits for a few transnational companies but is often fiercely opposed by its citizens.
Why are those responsible for the EU crisis profiting from it? Why are the same policies that caused the crisis being used to resolve it? An infographic expose of the EU crisis, its causes and its social impacts.
To which aspects of this crisis should Germans and especially German Christians be most attentive? What would be the right policies to escape from the debt crisis which has been allowed to fester and is now five years old?
A useful pocket guide on how a crisis made in Wall Street was made worse by EU policies, how it has enriched the 1% to the detriment of the 99%, and outlining some possible solutions that prioritise people and the environment above corporate profits.
Whose Crisis? Whose Future? contrasts the stark realities of multiple crises facing human society, during a period of growing poverty, insecurity and austerity, with the vast amount of wealth that has been concentrated in a few hands, and asks what kind of policy going forward can address this inbalance.
