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  • Madrid: Spanish Revolution Sol (live stream)
    11 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Spanish Revolution Sol
    (live stream)

  • TAMING THE UNIONS - The mirage of a social Europe (by C. GOBIN)
    30 May 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    France and Italy have undertaken to introduce a 35-hour working week. But this step forward has been greeted with serious reservations by most European Union governments, and with downright hostility by employers and heads of finance. The key word is now flexibility. But it remains to be seen at this month’s European Council summit what hope there really is for a "social Europe". What is sure is that European trades unions have been hopelessly slow off the mark.
    by Corinne Gobin The (…)

  • (audio in greek) MASSIV PROTEST IN GREECE ("INDIGNADOS") ON AIR NOW
    25 May 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Greek protests that are happening as we speak in the mode of the indignados. Very few media are covering. And it’s massive!
    For greek speakers, Radio on air here:
    http://www.zougla.gr/page.ashx?pid=85&playerType=flash

  • Libyan migrants’ boat deaths to be investigated by Council of Europe
    10 May 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Human rights body demands inquiry into failure of European military units to save 61 migrants on boat fleeing Libya
    Europe’s paramount human rights body, the Council of Europe, has called for an inquiry into the deaths of 61 migrants in the Mediterranean, claiming an apparent failure of military units to rescue them marked a "dark day" for the continent.
    Mevlüt Çavusoglu, president of the council’s parliamentary assembly, demanded an "immediate and comprehensive inquiry" into the fate of (…)

  • German government looking to insure new quake-vulnerable Brazilian nuke
    31 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Despite Fukushima the German government intends to use tax funds to secure the construction of a Brazilian nuclear power station in the middle of an earthquake area.
    The Campact online action organization (similar to our GetUP! Or Aaaz) is calling on people to protest against the imminent decision.
    The support the German government is considering is in the form of 1.3 billion euros export insurance, that is if the deal goes sour, the German exporters to the project will be reimbursed (…)

  • RESALE RIGHT - lasts days for fair resale right contribution
    9 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Consultation on the implementation and effect of the Resale Right Directive (2001/84/EC)
    Period of consultation From 07.01.2011 to 11.03.2011
    All citizens and organisations are welcome to contribute to this consultation. Contributions are particularly sought from artists, art market professionals, and collecting societies managing resale right royalties. The Commission Services are preparing a report on the implementation and effect of the Resale Right Directive (2001/84/EC), as provided (…)

  • Nuclear waste wasting billions of German taxpayers’ euros
    3 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    A cash-strapped German state will fork out billions of taxpayers’ euros to deal with nuclear waste produced by an industry two out of three Germans want axed.
    And it won’t even be for permanent disposal, because worldwide there’s no safe technology for that.
    For years, anti-nuclear activists have demanded to no avail that the nuclear power industry fund the waste handling problem. One group, the Bürgerinitiative Umweltschutz Lüchow-Dannenberg, which has fought waste dumping at the (…)

  • ARTISTS for RESALE RIGHT in EUROPE
    2 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    CITIZEN CONTRIBUTIONS opened until 11th of march 2011
    Resale Right has been created to allow artists or their heirs to get some profit back from the resale of their works. Very often, artists sell low prices artworks which are resaled later much more expensive value.
    All citizens and artists unions can contribute to the european consultation to promote resale right in all Europe. Contributions are particularly sought from artists, artists unions and collecting societies managing resale (…)

  • Christian Arabs’ Plight: Foreign ‘Protection’ Counterproductive
    12 January 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    Suddenly, the U. S. - European alliance is acting to protect the “existence” of the Christian Arab minority against the Muslim Arab majority whose very existence is besieged and threatened by this same alliance, drawing on a wide spread Islamophobia while at the same time exacerbating Islamophobia among western audiences whom the international financial crisis is now crushing to the extent that it does not spare them time or resources to question the real political (…)

  • Ireland must find €17.5bn from its pension fund and reserves for bailout
    30 November 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Contribution demanded at meeting of eurozone ministers as proposals to shore up euro also outlined
    EU ministers tonight spelt out the terms of Ireland’s €85bn international financial rescue package, and revealed the Dublin government will have to raid its national pension fund and other cash reserves for €17.5bn as a condition of the deal to bail out its banks and debt-laden economy.
    The unexpected contribution from Ireland was demanded at a hastily arranged meeting of the eurozone’s (…)