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European Union - Colonialism
The European Union is founded in 1993 as an evolution of the European Economic Community and it actively participates in the preparation and conduct of the third World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerances held from August 31st to September 7th 2001 in Durban in South Africa.
On October 3rd 2001, the European Parliament adopts the resolution "World Conference against Racism in Durban" which takes note that the European Union agreed to wordings in the final declaration on slavery, the slave trade and colonialism that went further than initially foreseen in the EU common position, while avoiding the question of reparation for victims of these practices.
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Colonialism Reparation
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European support to the Conference on reparations
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The thirty-fifth meeting of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community took place from 1 to July 4, 2014 in Dickenson Bay, Antigua and Barbuda, with the participation of a dozen delegations. During the meeting the Caribbean nations adopted the "Caribbean reparatory justice Program" proposed on last March by the CARICOM Reparations Commission at the twenty-fifth inter-sessional meeting of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community. |
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The end of the Empire
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This month we suggest you the reading of "BRICS against the Washington Consensus", an article written by Pepe Escobar about the VI summit of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) that took place in Brazil in mid July.
"The BRICS Development Bank - with an initial US$50 billion in capital - will be not only BRICS-oriented, but invest in infrastructure projects and sustainable development on a global scale. ... In a few years, it will reach a financing capacity of up to $350 billion. With extra funding especially from Beijing and Moscow, the new institution could leave the World Bank in the dust. ...Way beyond economy and finance, this is essentially about geopolitics - as in emerging powers offering an alternative to the failed Washington consensus."
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