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EU Development Ministers Meeting next week in Leeds

Gob Beldof | 17.10.2005 16:47 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Sheffield

The EU Development Ministers are meeting in Leeds on 24 – 25 October at the Queens Hotel. A protest has been called by local groups for 4-6pm, Tuesday 25th in City Square. They are calling for a thousand people to take to the streets against the EU's neo-colonial policies in Africa and across the global south.

The G8 again lied about cancelling debt, boosting aid and stopping forced economic liberalisation – we chased them out of Gleneagles. Now it is the turn of the EU Development Ministers who are meeting in Leeds on 24 – 25 October at the Queens Hotel.

 EU Development policy is not about abolishing poverty but enforcing neoliberalism in poorer countries
 Bogus aid and debt relief deals are being used as blackmail to privatise the economies in the interests of Euro-corporations
 EU Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are in fact free trade deals that lead to increased poverty, inequality, human rights abuses and environmental destruction

Our demand is simple: EU get out of the Global South

PROTEST AGAINST THE
EU DEVELOPMENT
MINISTERS’ MEETING

TUESDAY 25TH OCT,
4-6 PM
CITY SQUARE, LEEDS

see www.leeds.indymedia.org.uk for updates as they happen

Gob Beldof

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  1. Watch out for the cops — Thom Cowan
  2. EU Development cops — Puckthefolice
  3. Back it up a bit more — Student wnaker