Topic 6: Development Strategies for Alternative
European Policies
Development strategies for an alternative European policy: economic democracy, European labour and social policy; Deepening of democracy and the issue of the creation of a Europe-wide public opinion; Cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue; Development of the components for European policy education within the spectrum of the left.
Publications:
Considerations on Art as a "Third Place," and as a "Lingua Franca" of Intercultural Dialogue, by Wolfgang Siano, December 2011 (German)
Friedhelm Hengsbach: European Solidarity - not for free (Europäische Solidarität - nicht zum Nulltarif), Juni 2011 (Deutsch)
Solidarity-based and Co-operative Economy and Ethical Business - Trends, Innovations and Experiences in Europe, Background Paper by Sonia Buglione and Rainer Schlüter, 2010 (English)
Alternative Economy, Report on the conference in Palermo in June 2010
Luciana Castellina: Europe Must Become Conscious of its Own Culture, July 2010 (English, German)
Audios & Videos:
Audio: "I was, I am, I will be" - Rosa Luxemburg, A biography on her 140th birthday, Audio-documentary (77 min., with Download, in German), March 2011
Video: Luciana Castellina: Europe Must Become Conscious of its Own Culture, July 2010 (French)
Short video (15') / Long video (47')
Conferences, Seminars and Lectures:
The Self and the Other: Europe as a Provocation for Cultural Competence, international colloqium, Brussels, March 2012
Friedhelm Hengsbach: European solidarity – not for free, Lecture in Brussels, June 2011
Economic Democracy: Associations of small and medium enterprises in Latin America and Europe, Seminar in Brussels, June 2011
Europe and International Policy - Educational seminar, December 2010
Alternative Economy: Trends, innovations and experiences, Seminar in Palermo, June 2010
Luciana Castellina: The cultural identity of the Left in Europe, Lecture in Brussels, Dec. 2009
Thomas Schulz: Neuropean, Public event and exhibition in Brussels, Oct. 2009
Thomas Schulz: The European Sculpture, Opening of Exhibition in Brussels, July 2009
Books
A post-capitalist paradigm: The Common Good of Humanity
Ed. François Houtart and Birgit Daiber, 2012 (English, Spanish)
more ►Political Calendar
20 - 22 June 2012 | Rio de Janeiro
Cumbre de los Pueblos Rio+20
more ►20 June 2012 | Brussels
Rio+20 - Global Day of Action
26 - 27 June 2012 | Brussels
Setting the Agenda: launching the Alternative Trade Mandate Campaign
more ►05 - 15 July 2012 | Mediterranean
Boats4People
more ►13 - 22 July 2012 | Cologne
No Border Camp Cologne
more ►22 - 24 November 2012 | Berlin