Democracy in a Bad Constitution? – The Technocratic and Populist Challenges in Hungary and beyond
How could it happen that the once model transformation country has turned into the bogeyman of Europe? Can such an apparent break in the democratic development also threaten other countries? These are questions that will be debated during the panel dis…
EU summit – 'Growth strategy' little more than a speech bubble
It is high time to end the damaging blinkered focus on public spending cuts and start addressing ways to strengthen national revenue sources. A long-overdue step to this end is to take common measures to tackle tax avoidance and evasion, as well as fin…
Brussels Agenda – Weekly Preview of the Greens/EFA Group – 5-9 March 2012
Priorities for the Greens/EFA group this week include improving enforcement of EU environment law, fixing the ETS and EU climate policy, the consequences of the Fukushima nuclear disaster one year on, how to stop land grabbing, and the current state of…
GMO (In)Digest – Issue 3 of the GMO Campaign Newsletter
In this issue: GMOs by the back door? Protests in Berlin; New Ban in France; Patent on Plant thrown out in Netherlands; Non-GMO brand success in the USA and more…