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Are we entering a Europe-wide ‘winter of discontent’?

6 January, 2011

by Sam Logan and Dominique Tuohy Education reforms and youth protest in Europe During the past few weeks, a remarkable wave of youth protest in a number of European countries has gathered pace. Murmurs of a return to 1968, or…

European Citizens’ Initiative approved

16 December, 2010

Transeuropa Network

On Wednesday 15th of December 2010, the European Parliament has approved the binding procedural rules for the European Citizens' Initiative. Thanks to this decision, the European citizens will have the possibility to directly taking part in the affairs of the…

Franziska Brantner: un service européen pour l’action extérieure

7 December, 2010

European Alternatives

(Photo: European Parliament/ Flickr) Franziska Brantner est députée européenne du groupe des Verts/ALE et membre de la commission des affaires étrangères et de la délégation des relations avec Israël. Elle a représenté le groupe des Verts/ALE durant les négociations pour…

Franziska Brantner: Europe’s new external action service

7 December, 2010

Transeuropa Network

(Photo: European Parliament/ Flickr) Franziska Brantner is an MEP in the Greens-EFA Grouping, and is a member of the Foreign affairs and relations with Isreal committees. She took part in the negotiations on the formation of the European External Action…

Development as Freedom? The Bhopal case

7 December, 2010

Transeuropa Network

(“Ruby who survived the disaster”. Photo by Greenpeace International.) Nowadays seems to be fair enough that words such as freedom, democracy, development, have become bare containers full of rhetoric with no meaning. Too often we hear examples of good or…

Lo sviluppo è libertà? Il caso Bhopal

7 December, 2010

European Alternatives

(“Ruby who survived the disaster”. Photo di: Greenpeace. ) Guardandosi attorno ai nostri giorni, sembra che le parole come democrazia, sviluppo, modernità, siano diventate contenitori di una vuota retorica senza significato. Troppo spesso si portano esempi di buona o cattiva…

Le développement synonyme de liberté ? L’accident de Bhopal

7 December, 2010

European Alternatives

(“Ruby a survecu au disastre”. Photo par Greenpeace International.) Par Valeria Venturini traduction de Maïwenn Kernaleguen Aujourd’hui, les mots liberté, démocratie et développement ne semblent plus que des coquilles vides de sens. Trop souvent, nous parlons de bonne ou de…

Are we entering a Europe-wide ‘winter of discontent’?

European Citizens’ Initiative approved

Franziska Brantner: un service européen pour l’action extérieure

Franziska Brantner: Europe’s new external action service

Development as Freedom? The Bhopal case

Lo sviluppo è libertà? Il caso Bhopal

Le développement synonyme de liberté ? L’accident de Bhopal

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