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  • European consumers ignore most famous US brands
    29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Market specialists believe that the reduction of sales in Europe might last for quite a long period of time
    The US government is suffering losses not only in Iraq. Cult American brands such as Marlboro, Coca-Cola, MsDonald’s, Ford and others are currently experiencing a decline on the European market, particularly in Germany in France.
    According to the results of the third quarter of this year, American companies have found themselves in a rather unpleasant situation. Car makers Ford and (…)

  • LDH comments on the London ESF, preparing the Athens ESF
    29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By LDH
    Both European and World social forums aim to be spaces of open and pluralist democracy. They intend to bring together people who share the idea of possible alternatives to the neo-liberal model, as well as to facilitate the broader convergences through meetings and debates.
    Keeping that in mind, we are forced to state that some events occurred during the London ESF want comments from Ligue des Droits de l’Homme - French Human Rights League.
    Each ESF or WSF takes place in a given (…)

  • SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE LONDON EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM
    27 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Piero Bernocchi, Marco Bersani, Raffaella Bolini, Salvatore Cannavò, Roberto Giudici, Maurizio Gubbiotti, Piero Maestri, Alessandra Mecozzi, Felice Mometti, Luciano Muhlbauer, Alfio Nicotra, Anna Pizzo, Franco Russo For a year we worked on organizing the London European Social Forum. We were aware that the situation in Great Britain was complex: a great capacity to mobilize, especially against the war, and a wide social participation didn’t coincide with sets of relationships aimed at (…)

  • Germany Softens Stance on Sending Troops to Iraq
    13 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Erik Kirschbaum
    BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany said Wednesday it could not rule out sending troops to Iraq, dropping its firm refusal to consider any deployment to the country whose invasion last year it staunchly opposed.
    Defense Minister Peter Struck said in an interview with the Financial Times newspaper that Germany might deploy troops if conditions in the country, now riven by insurgency, changed.
    "At present I rule out the deployment of German troops in Iraq," Struck told the (…)

  • The Hoax of Paris Marie and the Ghosts
    21 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By URI AVNERY
    Sometimes a trivial episode throws a revealing light on a grave public disease.
    A classic example: the Captain of Koepenick. On the face of it, it was a minor criminal incident: in 1906, a shoemaker named Wilhelm Voigt was released from prison, after serving a sentence for forgery. To get work he needed a passport, which, as a former convict, he could not get.
    So he went to a junk shop and bought the uniform of an army captain, commandeered some soldiers in the street, (…)

  • Iraq War Supporters Lose in European Elections
    14 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dutch opposition parties critical of the Iraq war scored significant gains at the start of elections for the European Parliament, while Prime Minister Tony Blair lost support across Britain in local voting, key tests since the invasion last year.
    Iraq, as well as domestic issues, concerned voters as the 25 nations of the recently expanded European Union began electing legislators a four-day process that started Thursday in Britain and the Netherlands.
    While Britain’s results in the EU (…)