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FORTRESS
EUROPE
Germany's
refugee politics and its deadly consequences: 1993
to 2003
Anti Racist Initiative Berlin annual report
documenting deaths and injuries of refugees, in
more than 3,400 individual cases, that resulted
directly and indirectly from Germany's refugee
policy
"Nothing
is true, nor is it a lie?"
a powerful and moving essay on the indifference of
Europe to dead migrants whose lives end on Spain's
beaches
EU
planning joint expulsion flights
The Irish Presidency of the Council of the European
Union is pressing ahead with plans for the
collective expulsion of refugees and
asylum-seekers
Sweatshops,
unions and Fortress Europe
The EU is continuing the exploitation of the people
of North Africa through creating a special trade
zone of some of the North African countries similar
to the free trades zones North America has created
in Mexico.
Murdered
by Fortress Europe
The discovery of the bodies of 8 asylum seekers in
a container in Wexford in late November shocked
everyone. For those concerned with the plight of
asylum seekers the deaths were not only a disaster
waiting to happen but just the latest instalment in
an ever grosser tale of human misery and
exploitation
Drowned,
suffocated and beaten to death - 'Fortress Europe'
- legalised murder
[2000]
These are the victims of 'Fortress Europe' - the
human cost of a policy which places the needs of
capital over the rights of people. In fact over
2063 people have died in and around the European
Union since 1993 as a result of the anti-refugee
policies of governments across Europe.
Fortress
Europe pulls up the drawbridge
The essence of globalisation is mobility, but now
it is clear that true mobility is to be limited to
money and the global elite that manipulates
it.
Fortress
Europe and the effects of the Nice
Treaty
If the Nice treaty allowed the imposition of
sanctions on third world countries if they refused
to cooperate with "migrant management", to be
passed by qualified majority voting.
Spain
in hi-tech war on immigrants
Immigrant pressure groups in Spain say that 4,000
people have drowned on the crossing in the past
five years
EU
splits on linking aid to action on
migration
At Seville EU governments split over the proposal
to suspend financial assistance to developing
countries which fail to crack down on
people-smugglers and take back their own nationals.
Because the old decision making methods were still
in force the proposal was vetoed. If the Qualified
Majority proposals of Nice were active it would
have passed!
Asylum
crisis hyped in Europe, says UN
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees said the
number of refugees entering Europe had fallen by
almost 50 per cent over the past decade.
Big
Brother
"the
war on freedom and democracy"
an analysis of the effects on civil liberties and
democratic culture in the EU
EU:
Exchanging information on terrorists or
protestors?
The same Working Party has already agreed on a
standard form to exchange data on real terrorists.
So why is this measure necessary?
Biometrics
EU takes another step down the road to 1984, see
also part 2 of this report
EU
biometric passport proposal exceeds the EC's
powers
"no powers conferred upon the EC by the EC Treaty,
taken separately or together, confer upon the EC
the power to adopt the proposed Regulation "
EU
security research agenda
List of "personalities" includes eight
multinational companies
E.U.
Surveillance of Telecommunications
The E.U. have accepted an amendment to a directive
on accepting data retention and surveillance by the
law enforcement agencies
The
Nice treaty and the extension of police
powers
Given the growing spying by EU police on
globalisation activists and the oppression of
immigrants the is reason to be concerned by the
extension of police power in Nice
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Neoliberalism
and privitisation
"Better
Regulation": For Whom?
EC Prepares to Dismantle Business Regulation and
Expand Corporate Control
GATS:
Undermining Public Services
Worldwide
The European Commission is trying to expand GATS to
as many sectors as possible, working closely with
the European Services Forum to champion the
interests of the European services industry.
Why
does Article 133 matter?
Bin Collection, Aer Rianta, An Post, CIE, FAS, Bord
Failte, ESB - all of these bodies have their
futures discussed at the Article 133 meetings. When
we want to know what's behind 25% of bus routes
being introduced, or the push behind service
charges we HAVE to think about these
meetings
Why
are Article 133 Committee meetings not made
public?
International trade negotiations affect all aspects
of our lives, and are therefore a matter of public
interest. We think they should be open to scrutiny
by citizens and public representatives alike
Leaked
Confidential Documents Reveal EC's Neoliberal GATS
Agenda
The leaked documents show that the European Union
intends to ask all WTO member states to open up the
water sector (including water collection,
purification, distribution and wastewater
treatment) and energy for international
competition
The
Nice Treaty and globalisation
A look at the corporate agenda behing the Nice
treaty and in particular at Article 133
The
Cunning Bully - EU Bribery and Arm-twisting at the
WTO
September 2003 - This report, written by Fatoumata
Jawara and co-published by CEO and TNI, documents
the EU's systematic use of inappropriate tactics
inside the WTO
EU,
Globalisation and the Seville
Protests
How the EU is a motor for globalisation and how its
decision effect Irish workers.
The
Lisbon Strategy
The Lisbon Agenda specifically targets "gas,
electricity, postal services and transport" for
privitisation. The Irish governments official EU
website declares "The Lisbon strategy is a major
priority for the Irish Presidency"
Who
really runs the show?
Discount
Davos: the European Business Summit
2002
According to the organisers, the EBS is the "most
important European dialogue between leading
business people and policy makers" No less than
eight Commissioners participated in debates.
The
European Roundtable of Industrialists and the
Lisbon Agenda
The European Roundtable of Industrialists (ERT),
representing the largest transnational corporations
in Europe, continues to book disturbing successes
in its strive for a sweeping neoliberal
restructuring of European societies.
From
Lisbon to Stockholm: The ERT Evaluates 'Progress'
in Neoliberal Reforms
The ERT works hard to ensure that reluctant EU
governments do not step back from implementing
sweeping deregulation and privatisation commitments
made in Lisbon.
In
Defence of the Roundtable
Former ERT Boss Evaluates Ten Years in EU Corporate
Politics
European
Business Summit (EBS): Consolidating Corporate
Power
1,000 of Europe's business leaders and officials
from EU institutions gathered in Brussels for yet
another high profile corporate get-together.The
conference centre itself was a veritable fortress
surrounded by razor wire barricades and a small
army of Belgian police.
ICC
steps up counter-campaign against critics of
corporate-led globalisation
The ICC leadership presented their 'New Europe'
vision, in which democracy is subjected to the
disciplines of financial markets and where
competitiveness is the leading principle of
policy-making.
Other
information sources
The
official Irish presidency site
All wrapped up and made pretty by the southern
Irish government
Statewatch
Monitoring the state and civil liberties in the
European Union
European
Round Table of Industralists
Striaight from the horses mouth. The organisation
of 40 top industralists behind the direction of the
EU
Corporate
Europe Observer
Campaign
against the Europe of Capital
Spanish language resource
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Nice
Referendum results
Alone in the EU the people of southern Ireland got
to vote on the Nice treaty. When we returned the
wrong vote the first time around we were sent back
to do it right the second time!
Oct
2002 Turnout 49.47% - Yes 62.89% - No 37.11%
Constituency
breakdown
June 2001 Turnout 34.79% ( Electorate: 2,867,960 -
Total Poll: 997,826) - Yes ( 453,461) No ( 529,478)
Spoilt (14,887)
Constituency
breakdown
EU
Protests elsewhere
Report
of EU summit Copenhagen protests
In December protests were held at the EU summit in
Copenhagen
The
Seville 2002 EU summit protests [with
photos]
An Irish anarchist reports from the European Summit
protests in Seville
The
Barcelona Breakthrough
Lessons from the largest ever demonstration against
corporate globalisation in Europe
From
Barcelona to Seville
Time was when an EU summit was every leader's wet
dream. But not any more. The EU summit in Barcelona
over the 9 to the 16 of March saw between 250,000
and 600,000 people take to the streets!
The
media coverage of the Nice treaty
demonstrations
You may remember the news being dominated for
several nights by coverage of the European Summit
in Nice. An endless stream of politicians and
political experts offered us their opinions on what
new voting arrangements might be introduced. You
might even be aware that there was some opposition
on the streets of Nice to the summit, on December
7th most TV news items started with brief footage
of a bank being set on fire
Battle
starts outside European summit in
Nice [In
French] [In
Italian]
Mainstream press sites and the wire services are
carrying reports that battles have broken out
between the protesters in Nice and the riot police
guarding the European Summit.
Libertarians
Against Nice treaty
LAN fought the campaign on many fronts. From
Limerick to Louth, Kinsale to Kildare, Dundalk to
Donegal the battle raged. Even in Dublin we put up
a fight. 50,000 (count 'em) leaflets were
distributed, hundreds of posters of various types
went up.
'Libertarians
against Nice' launched
LAN is a network of groups and individuals across
Ireland campaigning against the Nice treaty from a
libertarian perspective
Fighting
Nice and Getting involved
(report on 1st referendum)
The ruling class got an almighty slap in the face
when we voted to reject the Nice Treaty. The
Workers Solidarity Movement and other anarchists
campaigned for a 'no' vote
The
unemployed are on the march
[1997]
A European March against Unemployment, Job
Insecurity and Exclusion has been called by a wide
coalition of unions, unemployed and political
groups. Eleven separate legs of the march will
arrive in the centre of Amsterdam on the afternoon
of June 14th, to coincide with a European Union
Inter-governmental Conference
Vote
No to Maastricht
[1992]
"Fortress Europe" seeks to unite the European
bosses and workers against the peoples of the rest
of the world. Integration means a tightening of
immigration controls. The Maastricht treaty in
particular covers two other things besides monetary
union. It is these that determine how we will vote.
These are the questions of European defence and the
Protocol.
The
cost of MEP's
The cost to the public for each sitting MEP for one
year is in the order of ¤1,300.000
Links
to be sorted
An
anarchist response to Ireland on
Sunday
Feb 8th, Ireland on Sunday published a scare story
about anarchism and the forthcoming EU protests.
Below is a reply
Maps
of Ireland
"Because information wants to be truly free'
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