01.03.2010
18:30 - 21:00

2010 European Year Against Poverty: Which Left Alternatives for the Fight Against Poverty in the "First World"?

Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
11, Rue Michel-Ange
1000 Bruxelles
Phone: +32-4-97542763
Email: daiber@rosalux.de

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transform!europe
Gußhausstrasse 14/3
A-1040 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43 1 504 6686
Fax: +43 1 504 6686
Email: office@transform-network.net

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Discussion / Debate / Lecture

Human Rights & Development

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Anna Striethorst
Officer
Policy and Research
Phone: +32 2 738 7665
Email: striethorst@rosalux-europa.info

Garcia Lorca Center
47-49 Rue Des Foulons
B-1000 Brussels

Belgium

This year the European Union will focus its overall political attention to the crucial question of poverty in Europe. The impact of the current economic crisis is creating an accelerated impoverishment of working and middle classes across Europe: unemployed without social benefits, pensioners with falling incomes, working poor young women, homeless migrant workers…and a long list of political constituencies of the Left. What should be the left-wing political principles inspiring practical policies to tackle this issue at the EU level?

Gaby Zimmer - Member of the European Parliament, Group GUE-NGL, Die Linke, Germany; Francine Mestrum - Lecturer University Libre de Bruxelles, Global Social Justice Network, researcher on development, poverty and globalisation; Stephen Bouquin - Senior lecturer of Sociology at the University of Amiens, France.