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| European Union
Core vs Periphery in the EUFrom 1980 to 2004 joining the European Union was quite popular among large sections of the populations in concerned countries. Portuguese, Greek and Spanish citizens regarded their countries’ participation in the European integration both as a guarantee of democratic stability (indeed all three of them were emerging from a period of dictatorship) and as a real opportunity to improve living conditions (there were significant transfers from richer countries in the EU towards the new members from the Mediterranean region during the first years of their adhesion. -> read article... |
| European Union
Europe: A strategy to break with the Europe of CapitalSoon the Spanish Government, through an agreement with the Popular Party, will pose the question, unprecedented since entry into the EU, of reforming the Constitution to enshrine budgetary stability, further tightening the criteria of the Euro Pact. Thus the current PSOE government, together with its presumed successor, the PP, are again posing as exemplary champions of rigor, submitting to the demands of the financial oligarchies and the governments of Merkel and Sarkozy. -> read article... |
| Tunisia
A government in continuity… but capable of retaking the initiativeThis interview with Ahlem Belhadj was conducted by Jan Malewski, on March 16th, 2011. -> read article... |