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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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Watch out for the cops

18.10.2005 23:19

When the EU Home Office ministers were in Newcastle last month they TOTALLY over-reacted. So be prepared. For more info follow the link.

Thom Cowan
- Homepage: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/09/322769.html

EU Development cops

19.10.2005 23:25

Cops over -reacting you say? Come off it..your'e having a larf intcha?

Speak truth to power. Be the change you wish to see.

Puckthefolice

Back it up a bit more

24.10.2005 21:20


" 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 "

OK I am not doubting or belittling what you are saying but I could do with more sources as I am having to do an internet assignment for my course on the bloody EU. they fakin love em mate so if you're gonna go round and say the EU are lying scum when it comes to helping sort poverty out (like I say I don't doubt you) but I could do with some credible reading/websites that further illustrate the protest's calls,

Student wnaker