Editorial
- Transform! Europe was founded in 2001 to initiate and promote alternative thinking and political dialogue aimed at transforming contemporary society according to social, feminist, ecological, democratic and pacifist values. During the complicated though necessary processes of “Europeanisation” of the left taking place within a neoliberal dominated European Union and capitalist globalisation, Transform! was established as a net- work of mainly European organisations working in political education and critical research. From its inception Transform! Europe has worked toward a new and common political culture of the left in Europe.
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Re-founding the European Union?
Transformed Treaty – But No Transformation of Europe!
- Let us recall first of all the principal stages envisaged for the process that is supposed to lead to the future European Treaty: On July 23, 2007, the ministers of foreign relations of the “27” met...
What are we Arguing?
- The purpose of left politics is to encourage and convince people to work together in solidarity for their interests and for those of the underprivileged. Left politics tries democratically to reduce...
Constitutional Democracy Without State
- Article 4, one of the most important articles of the 1957 Treaty of Rome, obliges the member states to create a common market, and strongly commits the state to the mechanism of the market. ”For the...
The Future and the Constitution
- The Left was always internationalist. We wish to end the threat of war and the subordination of poor and weak states to the rich and powerful ones. We accept neither social and humanitarian...
Another Constitutional Prospect for Political Europe
- The failure of the project of the European political and technocratic elites to constitutionalise of the European Union (EU) obliges us to reconsider the foundations and the process of the political...
A Global Perspective for the European Left
- The European Left today is a force in retreat. With only a few exceptions and with no real programme, the political formations to the left of mainstream Social Democracy in the European Union have...
A Social Europe or No Europe
- ”The ‘European social model‘ is still in its infancy. The European left could make this its hallmark, its joint project if only it has the will.“ (Michael Krätke) 1. Two main propositions are...
Non-Alignment and Neutrality from a Nordic Perspective
- Tradition has it that back in the good old days the world was much easier to understand. During the Cold War two ideologically hostile camps faced each other over the Berlin Wall, barbed wire fences...
The European Union – Superpower or Power for Peace
- It would be interesting, to say the least, to know if the political, economic, social and cultural system of what is called the European Union was what the first advocates of the Pan-European concept...
Externalities: How Social and Ecological is the EU?
- Globalisation is itself nothing new in human history. However, in the last 20 years, due to the collapse of actually-existing socialism and the rapid pace of development of information technologies...
Renewal of the European Social Model
- Europe is shifting into greater public view. On the one hand, party political actors are announcing that social Europe is our democratic answer to globalisation. On the other hand, the process of the...
The Anti-Development Agenda
- The European Union is currently negotiating Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), with 77 States in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP). For the past three decades, ACP countries have had...
Chronicles
Nicolas Sarkozy: A Model for the European Right?
- The May 2007 election of Nicolas Sarkozy as President of the French Republic has up to now produced few formal analyses regarding the ideological nature of the political project for which he was...
France: Resistance to Neoliberalism and the Historic Failure of the Left
- The results of the 2007 presidential elections are altogether the worst for the left since 1969. It is true that Sarkozy’s clear majority as President still did not give the UMP the two-thirds...
The LEFT
- The LEFT received 8.4 percent of the vote in the 2005 federal elections and is now represented with fraction strength in the German Bundestag. As is generally known, in their agreement the Left...
The Left in Finland After the Elections
- On March 18, 2007 parliamentary elections took place in Finland. The result was a victory for the opposition National Coalition Party, i.e. the conservatives. The party obtained 22.3 % of the votes,...
The Left in Italy
- In Italy, the left which emerged after 1989 is undergoing a profound restructuring. For the third time, the party created by the majority of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) is changing its name and...
Projects/Upcoming Events
ICT and Participatory Democracy: The ePOLIS Project
- One of the most promising yet problematic issues for deepening democracy is the use of the so-called new information and communication technologies (ICT). On the one hand, computerbased networking can...
European Social Forums (ESF)
- The ESF process is very important for Transform! because our network was formed during our participation in earlier ESF forums. And Transform! is in turn an important actor of the Forum. In this...
The Charter Of Principles Of Another Europe
- Now, as the confrontation over European construction is being relaunched, I would like to focus on the elaboration of the network fully in synchronisation with current events. Initially this network...
Basic Income in Austria: A Research Proposal
- In the last decade the condition of Austria’s population and that of other EU member states has deteriorated, with increasingly unequal income distribution, a greater number of working poor and high...
Left Actors and the European Social Model
- In June, the European Commission opened the pilot phase of the upcoming European Political Foundations by issuing a public call for projects which have to be submitted to the Commission by September....
The Revolution of the 21st Century
- Does it make sense to talk about socialism in the 21st century? An attempt at an answer to this question is the purpose of the research initiated last year by Transform! Europe during a meeting...
The 10th Anniversary of the Nicos Poulantzas Institute
- During the first two weeks of December 2007, a series of public events will take place in Athens, Greece, in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Nicos Poulantzas Institute...
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