LIMA - Peru is one of the economically fastest growing countries of Latin-America. Still, inequality stays high and social conflicts are raging throughout the country.
In March 2013, a free trade agreement with the European Union will come into force. Why Peru? And what does free trade bring the Peruvians?
Wies Willems sought it out for MO* Magazine, with support of the Pascal Decroos Fund.
How generous is the EU: development aid only for the rich?
ANKARA - When you think of development aid, you think of poor countries. But the biggest receiver of EU development aid happens to be the 18th biggest economy of the world: Turkey. In 2013, Turkey received 2.4 billion Euros...
West-Europa is sinds de val van de muur duidelijk veranderd. Onder druk van de E.M en de globalisering, bekeerde regering na regering zich tot de bekende neo-liberale maatregelen: privatisering, deregulatie en liberalisering van kapitaal- en arbeidsmarkten. Als gevolg hiervan gaat Europa steeds meer lijken op het continent waar het zich het liefste tegen afzet: Amerika.
BRUSSELS - Europe is expanding. May 2004 will be the moment of truth. Europe will then extend beyond the tundra of Finland, the sovkhozes and kolkhozes of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the billboard-cluttered landscape of Poland, the gypsy settlements of Slovakia and the nationalism-ridden countryside of Hungary. In another three years, poverty-stricken Romania and Bulgaria will join the European Union.