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A crisis of legitimacy

G Buster — 2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

Following its enlargement to incorporate central Europe on May 1, 2004, the European Union (EU) appears plunged into ever more serious crisis. The very high abstention rates at the European elections on June 13, 2004, especially in the new member states, accentuate a crisis of legitimacy.

- IV360/1 - Autumn 2004 / Europe

The Lisbon strategy

G Buster — 2004-05-16T00:00:00Z

Adopted as a strategic programme by the European Union (EU) in March 2000, the Lisbon Strategy has as its declared objective the transformation of the single European market into the most competitive market in the world by 2010.

- IV359 - May/June 2004 / Europe

European Union: failure of the IGC - an aborted Treaty?

G Buster — 2004-02-17T00:00:00Z

The breakdown in December 2003 of the intergovernmental conference (IGC) that was supposed to approve the European Union (EU) draft constitutional treaty has brought out into the open the crisis of the project of neoliberal construction of the EU. This crisis has been in gestation since the Maastricht agreement of 1992.

- IV356 - February 2004 / Europe

The transition to capitalism

G Buster — 2003-12-18T00:00:00Z

The 20th People's National Assembly met in Beijing in March 2003 to approve changes in the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the executive bodies of the People's Republic of China (PRC) which had been decided on four months earlier by the nomenclature of the party at its 16th Congress.

- IV355 - December 2003 / China

European Union: the Spirit of Saint Denis

G Buster — 2003-11-18T00:00:00Z

Although the European Council at Thessalonica had given a 'positive welcome' to the draft Constitutional Treaty drawn up by the European Convention, it is obvious that the intergovernmental conference (IGC) has opened a Pandora's box.

- IV354 - November 2003 / Europe

European Union: at the crossroads

G Buster — 2003-11-18T00:00:00Z

The draft European Constitution - which raises neoliberal dogma to the rank of fundamental law - is a challenge to Europe's workers and peoples.

- IV354 - November 2003 / Europe

Seville: the anatomy of melancholy

G Buster — 2002-07-22T00:00:00Z

'Useless efforts produce melancholy and I am not prepared for Seville to be a summit of melancholy'. José Maria Aznar, June 3, 2002.

- IV342 - July/August 2002 / Europe

EU enlargement: from poverty to misery

G Buster — 2002-05-16T00:00:00Z

The enlargement of the European Union to include the Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) has now reached the decisive moment. The European Council meeting in Gothenburg confirmed that it was an "irreversible" process and adopted a final schedule for the negotiations, which are to conclude by the end of 2002, thus enabling the applicant states to participate in the elections to the European Parliament in 2004.

- IV340 - May 2002 / Europe

“All except weapons”

G Buster — 2001-05-03T00:00:00Z

A year after the end of the negotiations of the Cotounu treaty with the ancient colonies of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific the European Union has adopted the initiative" all except weapons" in it's foreign economic policy Asuntos Generales of 26 of Feb 2001.

- IV331 - May 2001 / Europe