Fundación Galiza Sempre and Centre Maurits Coppieters organised a one day seminar on the role of free trade agreements in today’s societies. Are free trade agreements compatible with national sovereignty or even democracy?
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MORNING SESSION
10:30 – Opening address
10:40 – Lecture: The dismantling of Welfare States
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11:15 – Lecture: Free Trade Agreements, generating poverty and inequality in the last phase of Capitalism.
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12:30 – Roundtable: How Free Trade Agreements restrain development of Europe’s peoples and stateless nations.
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EVENING SESSION
17:00 – Lecture: The impact of Free Trade Agreements on Latin American societies.
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18:00 – Lecture: Europe’s role on plundering of occupied Western Sahara’s resources.
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19: 00 – Peoples of Europe: A Democratic response to Free Trade Agreements.
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Practicalities:
When: Saturday 1st July 2017
Where:
Paraninfo da Universidade da Coruña
Rúa da Maestranza, 9
15001 A Coruña, Galiza.
RSVP:
RSVP not required, free access
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This seminar is a joint initiative of Fundacion Galiza Sempre and Centre Maurits Coppieters.
This conference is financially supported by the European Parliament. The European Parliament is not liable for the content of the conference nor the opinions of the speakers.