SOLIDARITY with the people in Greece! No to the austerity agreement! No to the blackmailing negotiations imposed by the EU institutions! (scroll down for Dutch) During the last few days there are several rounds of negotiations between the Greek government and the Eurogroup in order a mutual agreement to be reached. However, this agreement is not a fair negotiation between equal partners but it is just the o ...

Thousands of jubilant Kurds flooded the streets of Diyarbakir, south east Turkey,on Sunday, setting off fireworks and waving flags as the pro-Kurdish opposition looked likely to enter parliament as a party for the first time. The Peoples’ Democratic party (HDP) said initial results from Sunday’s election showed it would take 80 of 550 seats, a stunning result for a party that pollsters had said would strugg ...

By Ingeborg Beugel on May 10, 2015 For five years, the Greeks have been publicly shamed, insulted, humiliated and spat upon by the rest of Europe. It is high time to show some respect. As a former correspondent in Greece I am still regularly invited to radio and TV shows in the Netherlands, or to give lectures or talks about the Greek debt crisis somewhere in the country. The latter are usually organized by ...

Athens, 30 March 2015 – A new report by the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) reveals that while Greece endures harsh austerity measures imposed by the European Commission, European Central Bank and IMF and supported by the Netherlands, Greece’s economic recovery is being undermined by large-scale tax avoidance – enabled by the Netherlands. Our report, Fool’s Gold , reveals that tax a ...

By Jerome Roos on March 8, 2015 The student occupation at the University of Amsterdam speaks to a deepening crisis of higher education not just in the Netherlands but across the globe. Image: David Graeber speaks at the Maagdenhuis (by Malcolm Kratz). For three weeks now, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has been shaken by a wave of student protests against the neoliberalization of higher education and the ...

scroll down for Greek The recent Eurogroup negotiations dispelled any remaining doubts about the purposes of the European Union. What we saw in the last few days had nothing to do with “our equal partners”, as the finance minister Y. Varoufakis had said, but was nothing less than a gang led by the interests of the German capital, shamelessly threatening and blackmailing the Greek people. The Greek governmen ...

By Dimitris Pavlopoulos (Dimitris Pavlopoulos works as an assistant professor in Sociology at the Free University of Amsterdam.) The Greek elections on January 25th are sending a message to whole Europe. On January 25th the Greek citizens are going to cast their votes. Since the announcement of the early parliamentary elections, intimidation of Greek citizens begun. The President of the European Commission ...

FILM SCREENING and POLITICAL DISCUSSION about GREECE:  "Are Greek elections, on January 25th, threatening Europe?" Date: 17 January 2015, 14.00 until 21.00 Location: LAB111 FILM & ETEN, Arie Biemondstraat 111, 1054 PD Amsterdam Schedule: 14.00 - 16.00: Film screening 16.00 - 19.00: Political discussion organised by ReINFORM 19.00 - 21.00: Break + Film screening A detailed schedule and a newsletter of th ...

Putin’s muscle-flexing shows the role of states in matters of war and peace, writes Mark Mazower Is the state making a comeback? It can certainly look like it. Old-fashioned interstate conflicts are roiling the China Sea and Russia’s western borders. Inter-governmental meetings such as the last Apec conference and the Group of 20 leading economies in Sydney took on an unwonted urgency. More positively, it i ...

Athens, Paris, 18 December 2014 – Austerity measures adopted in response to the economic crisis have adversely impacted human rights, such as the rights to work and health, and curtailed fundamental freedoms in Greece, denounce FIDH and its member organisation the Hellenic League for Human Rights (HLHR) in a report released today. The report gathers findings from a mission of investigation carried out by ou ...