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The European Union priorities with Czech Republic as President

Since January 1st, 2009, Czech Republic holds the presidency of the European Union (EU). This country joined the bloc almost five years ago, and it is generally considered as "Eurosceptic". The main lines of action of the EU point out a strong bet on economic liberalism and agressive energy and labour policies, to the detriment of the global south.

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Brussels keeps trying to set up a free trade agreement and ends a year of strong pressures.

The EU insists on setting up an FTA with Peru and Colombia in the framework of the Andean Community of Nations, in spite of Bolivia and Ecuador´s opposition.

Brussels doesn´t rest... or as a saying from the Soviet era goes “Brussels doesn´t believe in tears”. The European bloc has restarted its campaign to sign a Global Agreement of Free Trade Agreement with Peru and Colombia, despite the fact that these negotiations have resulted in a division in the Andean Community of Nations (CAN).

Times of crisis and possibility

Uruguay: Representatives Vote Eight Hour Bill for Rural Workers

There is reason to celebrate. The National Rural Workers’ Union (Unatra) will mobilize today to celebrate their greatest victory, after the House of Representatives changed its mind and will pass the 8-hour bill for rural workers today.
The Senate agreed with the criticism made by different social actors to the bill written by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, and included the requested amendments.

Learning to take the fight to the streets

In the past few weeks, the Movement of Teresa Rodriguez (MTR) in the Argentinian province of Cordoba, have staged actions outside of local supermarkets in protest of hunger, unemployment, inflation, and the inadequate response of local government.

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Massive mobilization against hunger in Argentina

In one of the biggest expressions of popular unity in recent years, numerous social organizations in Argentina converged this Friday in the historic Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires to denounce the effects ofthe economic crisis on the most vulnerable sectors of society, such as children and workers, and to appeal to the government to take urgent measures.

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Greece: Death and Censorship in Protests

Growing resistence to Endesa’s project in Chile

The Chilean laws provide that environmental impact studies should consider the observations made by civil society organizations. That is not being fulfilled in the case of HydroAysen hydroelectric project, which Spanish corporation Endesa aims to install in the South of the country.

Several social organizations are warning about the impacts it will have on Baker and Pascua rivers, in the Chilean Patagonia, and they ask the Regional Environment Commitee to adopt firmer positions.

Latin America is the most dangerous region for trade unions, according to ITUC report.

An agreement kept secret by agrochemical transnational corporations seeks to block a bill to register generic products in Costa Rica and Central America, exposing how these corporations operate in the region.

CropLife International, the world federation of the main agrochemical transnational corporations like BASF, Bayer CropScience, Dow Agrosciences, Dupont, FMC, Monsanto, Syngenta and Sumitomo, held a meeting of its main CEOs in El Salvador to establish rules and control the Central American agrochemical market, Nuestro Pais newspaper reported.