It is time for the EU to move away from its inegalitarian policies towards the countries of the South. A revived European left must come up with a plan for restructuring a profoundly unjust global economic system.

A series of verdicts by the Permanent Tribunal of the People, culminating in a hearing at the European Parliament in Brussels in November 2009, finds several European multinationals guilty of human, labour, or environmental rights abuses, and puts under scrutiny the complicity of European commercial policy.

Carbon trading is a complex system which sets itself a simple goal: tomake it cheaper for companies and governments to meet emissions
reduction targets.

This interactive, dynamic debate takes place in the context of rising concern about climate change, and takes place just before the crucial meeting at Copenhagen of the United Nations Climate Change Conference.

This is a synthesis of “Spotlight on Policy Coherence”, a 2009 report which is has been written by Concord with the intention of forming the baseline for future analyses of the positive and negative impacts of (in)coherent EU policies on the ground.

Immigration has always been an important issue in internal politics, especially in Southern Europe. Migrants are often seen as responsible for all sorts of national problems, from the high level of unemployment to the criminality issues. But the question we want to ask here is: why do so many human beings actually risk their life trying to arrive in Europe? Is the EU commercial policy responsible for the impoverishment of the Third World?