ALTER-EU media coverage

Is the European Union damaging to democratic rights?

Publication date: 
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Author: 
John Hilary (executive director of War on Want, an international anti-poverty charity and supporter of ALTER-EU)
Media title: 
New Internationalist

 

"It would be great [..] if the EU acted as a force of resistance to corporate power in the global economy. Yet the reality is that the institutions of the EU have consistently sided with capital at the expense of workers’ rights, environmental standards and social cohesion."

 

Un solide bouclier

Publication date: 
Friday, December 2, 2011
Author: 
AFP
Media title: 
La Libre

Les allégations de corruption, même limitées à un petit nombre de députés, cela ternit l’image d’une assemblée. Soucieux de sa réputation, le Parlement européen s’est doté d’un "code de conduite" qui protègera, dès le 1er janvier 2012, les parlementaires de tout conflit d’intérêts.

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