WSF opens in Dakar with thousands of marchers
On the first day of work of the Forum, more than 10,000 people have marched through Dakar claiming that the popular revolutions happening across northern Africa are a reflect of the crisis of capitalism.
However, the World Social Forum in Dakar,... more
European energy council agenda eclipsed by the events in Egypt
The beginning of the EU Energy Summit, taking place in Brussels today, emerges eclipsed by all the recent developments in the North of Africa. The back position that the European Union has assumed, firstly in the Jasmine revolution, and now in... more
EL members urge solidarity with Egyptian and Tunisian people: People and democracy above business and dictatorship
The EL vice-president Marisa Matias appealed yesterday to the European institutions to be alongside with the Egyptian people and to impede "the creation of a panic strategy that forces people to return home."
"We don’t need to be... more
Jordan's king Abdullah II has dismissed his government answering to the wave of street protests and has been negotiating with an ex-army general to form a new Cabinet.
The decision comes after almost five thousand Jordanians called for the... more
Agora on economic crisis and poverty: the citizen at the center of all European policies
The social impact of all the economic measures that have been taken due to the crisis were the biggest concern of EU citizens that participated in third Citizens' Agora, on various forms of poverty, that took place in the European Parliament on 28... more