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Asia, Europe groups reject EU raw materials policy |
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BRUSSELS, Belgium—International working group on indigenous peoples, extractives and climate change hit the EU policy on accessing raw materials in a meeting of civil society organizations during the 8th Asia-Europe People’s Forum being hosted here.
They claimed that the policy, the Raw Materials Initiative which is embedded in the Global Europe Strategy, was impacting on the lives and livelihoods of indigenous peoples in developing countries, such as the Philippines and Indonesia, and effectively making them poorer.
The EU Raw Materials Initiative is an aggressive policy paper of the EU Commission on Trade. It defends European corporate interests to get access to international resources at cheap prices, to ensure European growth and jobs. The policy clearly called for “undistorted access of European companies to raw materials.” The groups claim that this policy fails to address important issues like climate justice, rights of indigenous peoples, and sustainable development.
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SAYS GLOBAL ANTI-POVERTY ADVOCATE
Europe sees Asia as both threat, opportunity
Source: Inquirer.net
BRUSSELS, Belgium—Europe sees Asia as both threat and opportunity, and this perspective characterizes the relationship between the two continents as the global economic crisis still rages, an international anti-poverty advocate said at the Eighth Asia-Europe People’s Forum (AEPF-8).
“With Asia coming to the fore in a multi-polar world, Europe is veering toward Asia. EU (European Union) leaders see Asia as both threat and opportunity,” said John Hilary, executive director of the London-based War on Want, at the first plenary of AEPF-8.
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Asia-Europe relations in a changing global context: the impact of the crisis in Asia and Europe
AEPF-8 participants confront ‘crisis of crisis’
MORE than 400 representatives of civil society groups from across Asia and Europe have come together for the Eighth Asia-Europe People’s Forum (AEPF-8) in Brussels to confront the global financial “crisis of crisis” and its “brothers and sisters” of crises on food, climate change, trade and investment, and job losses.
Civil society groups from Asia and Europe noted how the global financial crisis has impacted on Asia and Europe and their relationship with each other.
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Europe ‘felt very bad’ when Aquino cancelled Asem attendance |
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Source: Inquirer.net
BRUSSELS, Belgium—The European Union “felt very bad” when President Benigno Aquino III cancelled his attendance to the Asia-Europe Meeting (Asem) of summit, Akbayan party-list Representative Walden Bello told civil society groups here Saturday.
At the start of the Asia-Europe People’s Forum (AEPF), Bello said European ambassadors to the Philippines expressed their disappointment at Aquino’s decision, which coming around the time of the President’s trip to Washington DC tells “how Europe is regarded in the Philippines…(and that) Washington is more important than Brussels.”
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Raise workers' salaries to solve economic crisis--activists |
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http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/breakingnews/view/20100824-288533/Raise-workers-salaries-to-solve-economic-crisis
INQUIRER.net First Posted 13:39:00 08/24/2010
MANILA, Philippines—As trillions of dollars in stimulus packages are running out and as governments deliberate on new ones to stave off the inevitable collapse of the world economy, social movements belonging to the Asia-Europe Peoples’ Forum (AEPF) urge decision-makers to re-think their assumptions and actions.
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