Its extraordinary success in gaining 54 parliamentary seats at the first attempt should have guaranteed Germany's new Left Party, formed of a fusion of the largely east German PDS with the predominant
A group of Danish citizens this week presented a document to the Danish High Court instituting legal proceedings against Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen for breaches of the Constitution in connec
Corporate Europe Observatory, the Amsterdam-based research and pressure group which, as its name suggests, keeps a watchful eye on the influence exerted on EU decision-makers by major corporations and
A delegation from the European Parliament's United Left Group will this week travel to Geneva to put the left's views on current developments in world trade. On Tuesday 18 October represent
The Transnational Institute (TNI), a progressive,
internationalist thinktank based in Amsterdam is
looking for a Communications Officer to start, at the
Now that the European Union has decided to establish accession negotiations with Turkey, supporters of basic human rights should be using the opportunity as a lever, whatever may be our feelings about
In what looks like a game of “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours”, Austria seems to have given up its opposition to Turkey’s accession to the European Union in exchange for a start being made on
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams MP was this week for a series of meetings with political groups, as well as the Regional Development Commissioner Danuta Hubner.
Workers in France and neighbouring Belgium are fighting back against right wing government plans to adhere to the European Union neo-liberal Lisbon Strategy by undermining hard-won pension and social
The European ruling elite likes to pretend that the crisis afflicting the Eurozone countries was something both unforeseen and unforeseeable, the result of circumstances beyond its control deriving
The EU is today going through the worst crisis since its foundation. This crisis is part of a global financial, economic, social, ecological and political crisis, which is hitting people very hard, starting with women and young people, for whom the future is looking darker.
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