5-6 mei: EU in Crisis - analysis, resistance and alternatives to corporate Europe

Aankondiging, gepost door: Corporate Europe Observatory op 21/03/2012 03:12:29

Waar: Brussel, Belgium
Wanneer: 05/05/2012 - 13:30 t/m 06/05/2012 - 13:30

EU in Crisis - analysis, resistance and alternatives to corporate Europe
Saturday 5 – Sunday 6 May 2012; Maison des Associations Internationales, Brussels

Join Corporate Europe Observatory, Transnational Institute and representatives from social movements and trade unions across Europe for this two-day event to examine the EU’s response to the crisis, discuss democratic alternatives, strengthen networking, and develop concrete plans for action. Register now at: www.corporateeurope.org/EU-in-crisis-conf

Speakers include activists, trade unionists and academics from across Europe including: Susan George, Carola Fischbach-Pyttel, Leigh Phillips, Esther Vivas, Mariana Mortágua, Alexis Passadakis, Miren Etxezarreta, Jakub Patočka, Andy Storey, Trevor Evans

The economic and euro crises have given industry and the political establishment an opportunity to strengthen their neoliberal agenda. Austerity measures are being imposed, social rights are being squandered and social and environmental budgets are being cut – all in the name of propping up a system that is fundamentally flawed.

The influence of the corporate lobby in Brussels is a key factor in this crisis. Big business has pushed relentlessly for more and more deregulation – handing power to the financial markets so that banks and investment groups are now able to dictate the terms of the bailout.

This European version of ‘shock therapy’ not only threatens social and environmental justice, it challenges the core of democracy at the national level.

There is an urgent need to discuss real alternatives – and to come together to challenge the current dogma at the European level. Across Europe, people are rising up to protest and to call for change. Join us for this important two-day event to examine the EU’s response to the crisis, discuss democratic alternatives, strengthen networking, and develop concrete plans for action.

Workshop sessions to include: next steps to rein in financial markets; resisting social regression; a social and ecological way out of the crisis; economic governance and corporate rule; eurozone, debt and solidarity; resistance and alternatives to EU-driven privatisation; and countering the corporate lobby.

Find out more and register online at: www.corporateeurope.org/EU-in-crisis-conf or email: conference2012@corporateeurope.org

Information also available in: Français, Nederlands, Deutsch, Ελληνικά, Italiano, Portuguese, Español at: www.corporateeurope.org/EU-in-crisis-conf


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