EU crisis policies put on trial | Corporate Europe Observatory
EU crisis policies put on trial | Corporate Europe Observatory:
Location:
Rue Pletinckx 19, Brussels
Date:
Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 14:00 to Friday, May 16, 2014 - 17:00
After six years of crisis and four years of new EU economic governance measures and Troika policies, it is high time to assess their devastating results. Transnational Institute (TNI), Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and Transform!, with the support of several European networks and organisations1, are organising a People's Tribunal on EU Economic Governance and the Troika on 15 and 16 May in Brussels.
The Tribunal aims to analyse and expose the EU policy measures taken in response to the crisis, by presenting the social consequences of these measures in countries all over Europe.
The Tribunal will bring together a dozen witnesses from different European countries. In their testimonies, they will set out the social consequences of the EU's crisis policies related to an issue specific to their own country. For example:
Spanish anti-evictions campaign PAH
Greek neighbourhood solidarity initiatives
Portuguese dockworkers
German centre on precarious labour and child poverty
Attac Hungary on the rise of neo-fascism
The testimonies of the witnesses will be complemented by analyses of the broader European context in relation to the EU's crisis policies.
