Europe

Putting an end to the EU’s neo-colonial policies in the field of trade and investment: Economic pressures from above, social reaction from below

22 September 2020 - by Patrick Bond

Summary: The European Union and Africa have had exceptionally conflictual relations even after slavery and colonialism ended. Still today, African-European civil society relationships from below are often arrayed against a nexus of state and (...)
Fighting the actors of financialization and prohibiting profit on illegitimate private and public debt

22 September 2020 - by CADTM, Collective, Virginie de Romanet, Renaud Vivien, PAH , Antonio Gambini , ACiDe, Vicente Losada, Eva Betavatzi, Gilles Grégoire, Spanish Platform against vulture funds , Mats Lucia Bayer, Walter Actis, Ángel del Castillo, Mari Ángeles Bueno, Roberto Moreno, Miguel Vázquez, Pedro Martin Heras

In January 2020, the “Package of common demands on debt and the need for citizens’ control of finance at the european level”, coordinated by CADTM, was published. This document was written collectively by activists of nearly fifteen collectives and (...)
Let us act now - European meet

17 September 2020 - by ReCommons Europe

Let us act now - Internationalist Alternatives to EU Policies (in times of coronavirus), is a European meet organised by the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) that will take place on September 22 and 23 in Brussels, with (...)
Trade unions need new strategies

16 September 2020 - by Asbjørn Wahl

With employers on a decades-long offensive against labour, the balance of power which once secured social dialogue has been transformed. Trade unions are on the defensive all over the world, under immense pressure from strong economic and (...)
ReCommons Europe

Impact of European policies on the Global South and possible alternatives

8 September 2020 - by ReCommons Europe

The year 2020 was marked by two events that revealed, once again, the limits of the capitalist system. First, the CoViD-19 pandemic caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, responsible for the deaths of several hundred thousand people and (...)
In the face of the past crimes of the European colonial powers and European neo-colonialism, reparations are needed

29 July 2020 - by ReCommons Europe

Phase 2 of the ReCommonsEurope project: “The impact of European financial policies and development cooperation strategies on the South and possible alternatives”. Thanks to the Black Lives Matter mobilizations that have been taking place in 2020 (...)
The pandemic has exposed the nakedness of European neoliberalism

27 July 2020 - by Eric Toussaint, Miguel Urbán Crespo

Miguel Urban is a member of the European Parliament elected from the Spanish state and a member of Anticapitalistas. He was interviewed by Eric Toussaint. What is the objective of the Covid Tax initiative at the European level and at the level (...)
The struggle against authoritarian liberalism is more urgent than ever. Epidemic and the far right on the European periphery

13 July 2020 - by Ana Podvršič, Jaša Veselinovič

Preliminary note: The article was written at the end of May 2020. Since then, the protests further intensified and the social initiatives, mentioned at the end of this article, succeeded in equipping the protests with better articulated and more (...)
A project against militarist Europe

2 June 2020 - by Nathan Legrand, ReCommons Europe

The role of militarism, arms trade and wars in Europe`s foreign policy This document is a longer version of the fourth of the five texts that form part of the publication entitled “The impact on the South of European financial policies and (...)
The DiEM25 Plan to Confront the Covid-19 Crisis in Europe

27 May 2020 - by Eric Toussaint, Olivier Bonfond, Eva Betavatzi

Strengthen the European Union and its institutions, include the ECB; increase public debt as much as possible in order to save the private sector; not question the legitimacy of public debt; pay €2,000 into the bank account of each European (...)
End the inhumane migratory policies of Fortress Europe

23 April 2020 - by ReCommons Europe

Today we publish the third text of the publication entitled “The impact on the South of European financial policies and development cooperation strategies and possible alternatives”, elaborated in the framework of the ReCommonsEurope project. (...)
For Immediate Release

We Won’t Pay for Their Crises Anymore!

15 April 2020 - by CADTM Europe

In the midst of the Coronavirus crisis, Mario Draghi stated in the pages of the Financial Times that “whatever it takes” must be done to guarantee the future of the Eurozone. He was reaffirming a principle that has been applied by European (...)
Abolish illegitimate and odious claims by European countries from third parties and give absolute priority to human rights

3 April 2020 - by ReCommons Europe

Phase 2 of the ReCommonsEurope project: “The impact of European financial policies and development cooperation strategies on the South and possible alternatives”. This document is the first of the five texts that form part of the publication (...)
List of signatories of the Manifesto for a new popular internationalism in Europe

2 April 2020 - by ReCommons Europe

Today, 2nd of April 2020, we publish again the list of the 160 first signatories of the Manifesto for a new popular internationalism in Europe, which was publicly presented in March 2019. In the current context of the Covid-19 epidemic, we (...)
In the times of the coronavirus, a look back to the Manifesto for a new popular internationalism in Europe

2 April 2020 - by Eric Toussaint, Esther Vivas , Catherine Samary, Costas Lapavitsas, Stathis Kouvelakis, Tijana Okic, Nathan Legrand, Alexis Cukier, Jeanne Chevalier, Yayo Herrero

The coronavirus pandemic is a serious public health problem and the human suffering caused by the spread of this virus will be enormous. If it massively affects countries of the Global South with very fragile public health systems that have been (...)
Crisis on the Greece-Turkish Border : let’s have done with Fortress Europe

7 March 2020 - by CADTM

Press release of the CADTM International network Once again, European policies have proved to be murderous. For several days now tensions have increased at various cross-border points between Greece and Turkey. Attempts by migrants to cross (...)
ECB: You can take a horse to water but….

18 September 2019 - by Michael Roberts

Last Thursday, Mario Draghi, the current head of the European Central bank, soon to be replaced by Christine Lagarde from the IMF, announced a parting gift to banks and financial markets. The ECB decided to reintroduce its bond purchasing (...)
Debt is the Hidden Issue in These Elections

26 May 2019 - by UndebtedWorld

The citizens of the European Union are called to vote this week for the European Parliament. It is not a real parliament, and it lacks prospects for becoming one, since all important decisions are taken by the unelected heads of the European (...)
ReCommonsEurope: Manifesto for a New Popular Internationalism in Europe

26 May 2019 - by Eric Toussaint, Esther Vivas , Catherine Samary, Costas Lapavitsas, Stathis Kouvelakis, Tijana Okic, Nathan Legrand, Alexis Cukier, Jeanne Chevalier, Yayo Herrero

This text is the short version of the “Manifesto for a New Popular Internationalism in Europe”, which was published on 21 March 21 2019 in English, French and Spanish. This Manifesto has been drawn up by a group of activists and researchers from (...)
Debt is the Hidden Issue in These Elections

21 May 2019 - by UndebtedWorld

The citizens of the European Union are called to vote this week for the European Parliament. It is not a real parliament, and it lacks prospects for becoming one, since all important decisions are taken by the unelected heads of the European (...)
No DCFTA in Tunisia / لا للآليكا في تونس

2 May 2019 - by Collective

The European Union is currently negotiating a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with Tunisia. The EU wants its companies to get open access to the Tunisian market, and aims at imposing its norms, standards and procedures. Such (...)
Municipalities and citizens movement defeat anti-democratic EU directive

24 April 2019 - by CADTM, Collective, Corporate Europe Observatory, ACiDe

Trade unions and other social movements, city councilors, municipalities, regional councils and even some governments can now claim victory over a proposal tabled by the European Commission in January 2017. The proposed Notification Procedure (...)
ReCommonsEurope Manifesto: a left-wing initiative in Europe

8 April 2019 - by Eric Toussaint

While the campaign for the European elections on 26 May 2019 draws very little interest, the initiative launched by ReCommonsEurope with its ‘In the times of the coronavirus, a look back to the Manifesto for a new popular internationalism in (...)
A critical review of the critical reviews of the book ’Adults in the Room’ by Yanis Varoufakis

12 February 2019 - by Eric Toussaint

The book Adults in the Room [1] by Yanis Varoufakis has given rise to some very interesting criticism from Adam Tooze in The New York Review of Books (“A Modern Greek Tragedy”), J.W. Mason in the Boston Review (“Austerity by Design”), Pavlos Roufos (...)
Bolkestein returns: EU Commission power grab over services

18 December 2018 - by Corporate Europe Observatory

As early as 2004, the CADTM and other social movements resisted the adoption of the Bolkestein Directive which, in line with the EU’s free trade approach, aimed to define a framework that gives private corporations full and unimpeded access to (...)