4 articles

• Indigenous Blood: Not a Single Drop More!

  7 October 2019, by Articulaçao dos Povos Indigenas do Brasil - APIB

  Between October 17 and November 20, the campaign "Indigenous Blood: Not a Single Drop More" will be held, led by Brazilian indigenous leaders, who will travel through 12 European countries denouncing the serious violations against indigenous peoples and the environment of Brazil, which has been occurring systematically since the inauguration of President Jair Bolsonaro in January this year. The envisaged countries on the route include Italy, Vatican, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Portugal and Spain.

• Call against the EU Tunisia DCFTA

  14 May 2019, by no-aleca@riseup.net

  Organizations that want to sign the call can write to : no-aleca@riseup.net (First signatories at the end of the article)

  The European Union is currently negotiating a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with Tunisia. The EU wants its companies to get open access to the Tunisian market, and aims at imposing its norms, standards and procedures. Such an agreement would most probably worsen the socio-economic problems faced by Tunisia to benefit only to European corporations, and especially French ones.

  As European organisations and movements, we denounce this DCFTA as a violent neo-colonial project. In solidarity with Tunisian organisations that oppose this agreement, we support their struggle against liberal policies imposed upon them by the European Union.

• What does "China’s One Belt, One Road" might means for the environment ?

  11 February 2019, by Globalization Monitor

  China’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR) seeks to develop cooperation, trade and infrastructure networks between Asia, Africa and Europe through the creation of a Silk Road Economic Belt and a Maritime Silk Road.
  While many governments and businesses have seemingly welcomed the policy significant concerns need to be raised about what OBOR might mean for the environment.

• Deadly convergence of views between the European Union and the African Union: African agriculture in the free trade cyclone

  5 April 2018, by Jacques Berthelot

  Africa is caught between two neoliberal projects, between two forces: that of the European Union which is pushing for the signing of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) and the African Union that launched last June negotiations to create a large Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA).