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  Mar 1st, 2013

  The EU, the U.S. and the BRICS countries

  >> See report in German here.>> See page of the event here.
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  Feb 6th, 2013

  Greece serves as a test arena for the abolishment of the right of asylum

  Media activist Andrea Plöger from Timecode e.V. reports in the German Journal "Analyse und Kritik" on the right of asylum in Greece, the situation of migrants and on the attacs by members of the neofascist political party "Golden Dawn". She abords the same topic in a video. Andrea participated in December 2012 in a joint seminar of Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brussels and the Liaison office in Athens on European and Greek migration policy ...
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  Dec 31st, 2012

  Stop the financialization of nature

  Background:One key approach of the Green Economy proposal is the financialization of nature: the pricing of nature and the application of market mechanisms for profit. A larger audience and policy makers lack information on these ongoing processes and concepts. This is the background of a decision taken ...
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  Dec 20th, 2012

  The European Union at the Crossroads? (German)

  "Die Europäische Union am Scheideweg? Europa könnte ein wichtiges Thema bei der Bundestagswahl 2013 werden" - Wer die Entwicklung der Europäischen Union und ihrer Politik als Zeitung lesender und Nachrichten hörender Beobachter aus nah und fern in diesem Jahr interessiert verfolgt hat, der ...
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  Nov 30th, 2012

  Not solving problems - European policy compounds problems in Greece (German)

  The outcomes of austerity policies in Greece are fatal. The population is becoming increasingly impoverished and the political system is losing its legitimacy. European measures have totally amplified the difficulties. However, the climate shifted in October. At first, experts assumed the so called 'Grexit' was likely but in the end the money lenders are now supporting the continuation of Greek membership of European monetary union ...
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  Nov 28th, 2012

  Peter Linebaugh | Magna Carta | Brussels 26/11/2012

  Within the framework of a course in "Ethics and the Economy" which focuses on issues of equality and freedom within current economic institutions, by referring to the main theories of justice (esp. Rawls). Professor Linebaugh will connect the contents of his book "The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All" with how current capitalist institutions limit liberty ...
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  Nov 14th, 2012

  Firenze 10+10 ends: call for action and road-map

  More than 4 thousand participants, 300 networks and organisations from 28 countries from all over Europe and beyond, met at Fortezza da Basso in Florence, to debate and strategize together for another Europe. Over 100 meetings, and many new networks and campaigns launched. A call for common action emerged from the convergences, and a proposed roadmap ...
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  Nov 14th, 2012

  Firenze 10+10 ends: call for action and road-map

  More than 4 thousand participants, 300 networks and organisations from 28 countries from all over Europe and beyond, met at Fortezza da Basso in Florence, to debate and strategize together for another Europe. Over 100 meetings, and many new networks and campaigns launched. A call for common action emerged from the convergences, and a proposed roadmap ...
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  Nov 9th, 2012

  Racism and Anti-Roma resentments in Central- and Eastern Europe

  Ein Seminar in Ostrawa? Fünf Jahre nach dem sogenannten Ostrava-Fall* war ein Seminar in der nordtschechischen Stadt durchaus geeignet, um mehr darüber zu erfahren, ob sich die Situation der Roma in der tschechischen Republik verändert hat und wie sie sich in den Nachbarstaaten in Mittel- und Ost-Europa inzwischen darstellt ...
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  Oct 31st, 2012

  The State Project Europe in crisis

  The EU crisis escalates to the end of 2012 again, and no end is in sight. There are many good suggestions from the left, as how the crisis could be resolved in a sustainable and just way. There is no lack of ideas and projects. So where does the lack of action come from? The article "The State Project Europe in crisis - The EU between authoritarian hardening and left alternatives" by Fabian Georgi and John Kannankulam contributes to the understanding of crisis management ...
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  Oct 31st, 2012

  European-Israeli Dialogue

  Die Büros der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Brüssel und Tel Aviv führten im Oktober 2012 zum zweiten Mal gemeinsam ein Expertentreffen durch, um zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteuren, Akademikern und linken Politikern ein Forum für gegenseitige Information und einen intensiven Meinungsaustausch zu geben sowie die Bildung gemeinsamer Netzwerke zu eruieren ...
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  Oct 31st, 2012

  The Work of Trade Unions in multinational Corporations

  Exactly a year after the first meeting, the works councils of the Coca-Cola bottling company CCE AG in Germany and of the Norwegian, Dutch and Belgian CCEs met in Brussels on October 4 and 5, 2012 with colleagues from Spain, Croatia and Italy and representatives of the German Food, Beverages and Catering Union (NGG) and of the European Federation of Food, Agriculture & is Tourism Trade Unions, to consult on the next stage of cooperation at the European level ...
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  Sep 30th, 2012

  The German political left and the European austerity policies: Challenges and debates in the fourth year of the crisis

  The dramatic austerity measures as in Greece and Spain, the ESM and the restructuring of the European institutions will irreversibly shape the future of the European Union. The German government has taken a distinctive position in pushing these decisions and in pursuing a Europe of several speeds. Against that background many European leftists set their hopes on the ability of the German left to turn public opinion, against austerity and towards solidarity within Europe ...
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  Sep 30th, 2012

  The German political left and the European austerity policies: Challenges and debates in the fourth year of the crisis

  The dramatic austerity measures as in Greece and Spain, the ESM and the restructuring of the European institutions will irreversibly shape the future of the European Union. The German government has taken a distinctive position in pushing these decisions and in pursuing a Europe of several speeds. Against that background many European leftists set their hopes on the ability of the German left to turn public opinion, against austerity and towards solidarity within Europe ...
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  Jul 31st, 2012

  The Potato as a Symbol and Material Necessity

  About Urban Gardening in the center of the European Union and the "Back-to-rural-areas" movement in the Southern periphery of the European Union.In early 2012, there are two contravening trends in Europe of which we are not sure whether they may not, in the near future, come together in their practice and in political discourse; clearly, however, they might ...
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  Jul 31st, 2012

  Socio-ecological Transformation and Energy Policy in Latin America and Europe

  The central issue of the seminar: What does emancipatory social-ecological transformation mean concretely, and, in terms of practical policy, particularly in the area of energy resources and their production, distribution and consumption – today and in future?The goals of the Conference are (a) an analysis ...
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  Jul 19th, 2012

  Another road for Europe

  In preparation of the forum Florence 10+10 in November 2012, groups have formulated a call that describes ways towards a more democratic Europe in which social rights are secured - vis-à-vis the European financial crisis in which processes of de-democratization and European desintegration take place ...
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  Jul 14th, 2012

  Socioecological Transformation and Energy Policy in Latin America and Europe

  Vom 11.–14. Juli 2012 hatten die Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Brüssel, die Universität Wien (Ulrich Brand) und das Karl Renner Institut nach Wien eingeladen, um konkrete Erfahrungen, Möglichkeiten und Strategien einer sozialökologischen Transformation zu diskutieren. Der Einladung folgten 70 WissenschaftlerInnen, ...
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  Jul 11th, 2012

  The Potato as a Symbol and Material Necessity

  About Urban Gardening in the center of the European Union and the "Back-to-rural-areas" movement in the Southern periphery of the European Union.In early 2012, there are two contravening trends in Europe of which we are not sure whether they may not, in the near future, come together in their practice and in political discourse; clearly, however, they might ...
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  Jun 30th, 2012

  Rosa Luxemburg and Challenges for a Socialism of the Twentyfirst Century (German)

  "Lassen Sie mich mit einer Beobachtung beginnen. Und erlauben Sie mir, ein pures, schlichtes, unübersehbares Faktum ganz pathetisch zu formulieren: Immer, wenn alte Formationen der Linken erstarrt sind, wenn jede lebendige Kraft die Hüllen vergangener Aufbrüche verlassen hat, wenn aus den gestrigen ...