Social movements welcome UN vote against impunity
Despite a block vote by the EU, global corporate impunity was dealt a blow following a vote in Geneva. Urgenci’s Judith Hitchman reports. […]
Despite a block vote by the EU, global corporate impunity was dealt a blow following a vote in Geneva. Urgenci’s Judith Hitchman reports. […]
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Arc2020 UK Correspondent Peter Crosskey gives his prognosis of TTIP stakeholder engagement […]
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Pop-up community gardens […]
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Joint civil society statement on the G8’s New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition […]
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Twitter battles […]
UK prime minister David Cameron set to address land grabbing in context of transparency […]
EU and Irish context to upcoming event remain somewhat hostile to stated aims […]
The fallout from David Cameron’s à la carte EU membership speech is likely to divide the UK’s parliamentary voice in the crucial final round of CAP reform negotiations. The UK prime minister has done more than offend European political figures who might once, under other circumstances, have heard him out. He has effectively locked himself out of several processes at once and scored more than one own goal in domestic politics, into the bargain. This increases the opportunities to recruit MEP support for the crucial European Parliamentary vote on the CAP in March. As the head of a UK coalition government, Cameron has ridden roughshod over the Liberal Democrat (Lib Dem) parliamentarians who keep him in power. Deputy prime minister and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg is both a former MEP and former European Commission civil servant: he also speaks Dutch, Spanish, French and German. Clegg was one of the first to criticise the prime minister’s bull-in-a-china-shop performance when one of Downing Street’s worst-kept secrets finally saw the light of day. He described Cameron’s notion […]
Ahead of Cameron speech […]
All aboard for a realistic view […]
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