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  • Short report of a Symposium by the EL Education Working Group

  • Education seen through women's eyes

  • By Sonja Crivelli | 23 Mar 15
  • The conference in Prague provided the opportunity of an interdisciplinary approach on the condition and formation of women in the educational systems in Europe: an analysis from a class and gender point of view. It took place on 14 and 15 March and gathered about fifty persons coming from eleven countries of Europe.
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  • Press Release by Blockupy Alliance

  • Blockupy will continue

  • 23 Mar 15
  • 25.000 participated in the colourful Blockupy demonstration for a Europe of solidarity / deadly policy of austerity clearly rejected in Frankfurt / irresponsible actions merit criticism
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  • Commitment launched by Alter Summit

  • Give Greece a chance!

  • 23 Mar 15
  • For a democracy from below, let’s fight austerity everywhere! A commitment launched by Alter Summit, supported by Blockupy International Coordination, ATTAC-Europe, EuroMemo Group, transform! europe, and Solidarity for All.
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  • Call to action from Coalition Climat 21

  • Mobilizing collectively against climate change throughout 2015

  • 18 Mar 15
  • To prepare for the United Nations conference on climate change in December 2015 in Paris, close to 100 civil society organisations have collectively founded the French platform « Coalition Climat 21 » to: build the pressure needed for ambitious and just climate action, and transformational and sustainable public policies.
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  • Appeal

  • Renewing Europe: for a common social and ecological industrial policy

  • 18 Mar 15
  • As the crisis continues and the average EU industrial output remains far below its pre-crisis level, the European Commission's “Jobs, Growth and Investment Package” and the European Central Bank's moves lack of ambition to meet the dramatic challenges the EU is confronted with. SYRIZA has been given a clear mandate to challenge the EU crisis management and to propose a new path for Europe – paving the way for an ecologically sustainable and socially useful new model of development. Initiated by the Member of Bundestag Axel Troost and signed by a wide range economics, trade unionists and politicians from across Europe, this appeal is intended as an input for a debate on this issue in Europe.
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  • The ECB's Noose Around Greece : How Central Banks harness Governments

  • By Ellen Brown | 13 Mar 15
  • Remember when the infamous Goldman Sachs delivered a thinly-veiled threat to the Greek Parliament in December, warning them to elect a pro-austerity prime minister or risk having central bank liquidity cut off to their banks? (See January 6th post here.) It seems the European Central Bank (headed by Mario Draghi, former managing director of Goldman Sachs International) has now made good on the threat.
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  • The return of politics to Greece and Europe

  • By Yiannis Bournous | 10 Mar 15
  • Learn to swim, mateThat the tide will liftThat freedom is happening here(Sergio Godinho, Mare Alta) Long period of clashes ahead The Eurogroup agreement does not bring the negotiation into conclusion. It does not even postpone the clash. In contrast, it opens a new, long period full of hard...
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  • Essay

  • The death of international development

  • By Jason Hickel | 10 Mar 15
  • The European Union decided to focus on the development in 2015 with the event "2015 European Year of Development". It's a good opportunity to deal with the European Union's external action and its failures. As Jason Hickel wrote in this ‘Development’ has failed to deliver. The reason is that organisations have failed to address the structural drivers of poverty.
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  • Contact

  • 05 Mar 15
  • transform! europe Working AddressGusshausstrasse 14/31040 ViennaAustriaPhone: +43 (0)1 504 66 86Fax: +43 (0)1 2533 033 2683Email: office@transform-network.net Coordination office, ViennaHeidemarie Ambrosch: ambrosch@transform-network.net, +43 (0)1 504 66 86-20 Katerina Anastasiou:...
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  • Short report of the Vienna Seminar

  • Civil society's response to the political change in Greece

  • 02 Mar 15
  • With the SYRIZA government in Greece Europe, the Left in Europe as well as progressive social movements and trade unions are entering in a new phase with new opportunities and challenges. transform! europe invited on 23 and 24 February to a seminar in order to deepen the discussion on how to cope with the new situation.
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  • The Far Right in Europe

  • By Walter Baier | 02 Mar 15
  • In last year’s European elections of which in three countries (Great Britain, Denmark and France) radical right-wing nationalist parties became the strongest forces.
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  • ITUC on the Greece-EU Accord

  • IMF should not play politics with European recovery

  • 02 Mar 15
  • The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has strongly criticised the negative attitude the International Monetary Fund has taken towards the agreement reached on 24 February between Eurozone finance ministers and the Greek government for a four-month extension of the current European crisis loan to Greece.
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  • Reading The Greek Deal Correctly

  • By James K. Galbraith | 01 Mar 15
  • On 20 February, as news of the Brussels deal came through, Germany claimed victory and it is no surprise that most of the working press bought the claim. They have high authorities to quote and to rely on. Thus from London The Independent reported: “several analysts agreed that the results of the talks amounted to a humiliating defeat for Greece.”
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  • Izquierda Unida and Iniciativa Por Cataluña

  • Urgent motion to the Spanish National Congress

  • 11 Feb 15
  • This morning, in order to support the efforts of the Greek government and understanding that the debt problem concerns the whole of Europe, Izquierda Unida and Iniciativa Por Cataluña submitted to the National Congress an urgent motion stipulating:
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