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The euro project and the international integration of the South-Eastern European economies

13 October 2018 - by Ana Podvršič

In the recent years, scholars in critical international political economy have considerably explored the differences and similarities between the countries of the European periphery. Most of the studies, however, have focused on the structural (...)
The open violence of the Balkan labour reforms: an interview with Aleksandar Matković

11 October 2017 - by Aleksandar Matković, Petar Protić

The following interview between Petar Protić and Aleksandar Matković originally appeared in Serbo-Croatian at Al Jazeera Balkans and concerns the recent labour laws that have been carried out almost simultaneously across several Balkan countries, (...)
The government actively blocks the unity of the protests

15 April 2017 - by Marko Stričević

Current mass protests throughout the Republic of Serbia are the culmination of years of dissatisfaction of the population with the systematic devastation of the welfare state, privatization of public enterprises and the persistent insistence of (...)
Sarajevo: Hope and Social Rebellion in 2014

12 December 2014 - by Eric Toussaint

Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, a country ravaged by a war that between 1992 and the beginning of 1996 caused 100,000 deaths (exact figures are unavailable), is certainly looking a lot better but the social situation is dramatic. One (...)
Solidarity with the people of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia: the CADTM demands a moratorium on the debt of these countries and an end to austerity measures

2 June 2014 - by CADTM International

Since May 17, floods in the Balkans have taken a heavy toll with 17 deaths in Serbia, 27 in Bosnia and 2 in Croatia. Add to this disaster tens of thousands of displaced people and of homes without electricity, and enormous material damage. (...)
Vidéo

Croatia should not enter the eurozone

27 March 2014 - by Eric Toussaint

Eric Toussaint, president of the CADTM, about Croatia, who became a member of the EU on 1st of July, 2013. Filmed in Zagreb, July the 10th, 2012.
The Debt Crisis: From Europe to Where?

25 March 2014 - by Eric Toussaint

Conference by Eric Toussaint given on May the 16th 2013 during the Subversive Festival in Zagreb The Debt Crisis: From Europe to Where? Contents 1. Editors’ note 2. Prologue The CADTM: 20 years of struggle for the oppressed - Eric Toussaint (...)
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mostar Rising: The Most Divided City in Bosnia is Standing up to Nationalism and Government Corruption

25 February 2014 - by Revolution News

Every day more and more citizens are overcoming their fears and misconceptions and joining the protest movement in Mostar, one of the most essential cities active in the current uprising in Bosnia and Herzegovina. They gather every day, and have (...)
Open Letter of support for Citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina

We, the undersigned, express our full support for the legitimate demands and justified outrage of citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Their cry for a decent life, true democracy, solidarity that knows no borders—be them ethnic, national or religious, (...)
The Demands of the Workers and Citizens of Tuzla Canton

Today, in Tuzla, the people are creating a better future. The government has submitted their resignation and have ceded power; this was our first demand. By achieving this, we now have an open path for resolving our existing problems. Our anger (...)
Historical Verdict and Citizens’ Victory against the Banks

5 July 2013 - by Franc Association (Croatia)

The first-instance verdict in the first and historic collective citizens’ claims against the banks in Croatia and Europe
The 6th Subversive Festival, « The Utopia of Democracy », Zagreb, May 4-18, 2013

Featuring Oliver Stone, Alexis Tsipras, Álvaro García Linera, Aleida Guevara, Slavoj Žižek, Tariq Ali, Silvia Federici, Chantal Mouffe, Franco Berardi Bifo, Yanis Varoufakis, Maurizio Lazzarato, Susan George, Bernard Stiegler, E. O. Wright, Costas (...)
Why the EU needs Croatia (even more than Croatia needs the EU)

11 December 2012 - by Srećko Horvat

Croatia is expected to become the 28th member of the European Union by July 2013. Strangely enough, as things stand now the EU might have more to gain from this accession than Croatia does. When in late 2005 the accession negotiations between (...)
Eric Toussaint - Europe is not imploding

12 July 2012 - by Eric Toussaint

Belgian political scientist and historian Eric Toussaint (Committee for the abolition of third world debt) on the current Eurocrisis. The talk was held at the 5th Subversive Festival in Zagreb. (...)
Eric Toussaint: “All the loans accorded by the Troika are illegitimate”

7 June 2012 - by Eric Toussaint, Ana Benačić

Eric Toussaint interviewed by Ana Benačić for net.hr In this interview first published in Croatian on the portal net.hr and taken up by several websites in Croatia, Eric Toussaint develops ways out of the debt crisis which are very useful for (...)
Balance of the first Balkan forum: another Balkans is possible

The 1st Balkan Forum took place within the 2012 Subversive Forum in Zagreb on May 17th and 18th and gathered up to 40 progressive organisations and movements from across the region. During two days of intensive discussion panel participants and (...)
Zagreb-Sarajevo : Resistance in the Balkans as crisis grips the EU

18 May 2012 - by Eric Toussaint

Zagreb (Croatia) is the stage for the 5th Subversive Festival being held from 5 to 19 May 2012; this will be followed on 19 and 20 May 2012 by the first “Antifest”, set to take place in Sarajevo (Bosnia Herzegovina). Every evening in Zagreb, as (...)