DIE LINKE European Congress 2014 1 Prohibition of arms exports instead of military interventions 4 Security Conference in Munich – Agreement Against Parliamentarian Rights 4 TTIP - Immediately Stop Free Trade Agreement 5 Edward Snowden for Nobel Peace Prize 2014 5 Federal Government Makes False Start 6 Hopeful opening for year of European elections. On the 4th Congress of the European Left (EL) 6 „Long Live the Solidarity of the People“ - European Left: Start of the year in Berlin 7

DIE LINKE Kleine Alexanderstrasse 28 Member of the Party of the European Left D-10178 Berlin National Executive Fon ++49 (0)30 24009-300 Department of International Policy e-mail: [email protected]

„The Merkel government pursues Ger- man great power politics. These poli- tics threaten solidarity in Europe, for true Europeans renounce German great power politics and true Europe- ans renounce a cutback dictate. This cutback dictate promotes poverty and fear in Europe.” , DIE LINKE Party Chair

“Never has the people’s loss of confi- dence in the political institutions of the EU and the member states been as high as now. We, too, will have to raise all our powers to mobilize our voters for elections. (…) We have to fight for this . (…) We need more left forces in the European Parliament and a strengthening of in Europe. We need a stronger connection between our national and our European struggle. It is our com- mon task to alter the societal consent in the European Union, which we can only achieve when we change the balance of power.“ Gabi Zimmer, MEP and DIE LINKE Prime Candidate for European Elections

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“Compared to all other parties we are a real alternative, because we want Europe and the European Union, and at the same time criticise the devel- opment in the EU sharply. We have a great European top candidate, Alexis Tsipras from Greece! Let us fight to- gether in Germany and Europe, name- ly for peace and disarmament, for a good and solidary economic develop- ment, that has to create notably more social justice, for ecological sustaina- bility, always shaped socially, for more democracy, for more citizens rights Maite Mola, Vice Chair of the European Left and for more protection of citizens also against data theft, that is to say for more freedom.” , head of DIE LINKE par- liamentary group

“It is about showing, that the con- flicts do not exist between the Greek and the German, or the Spanish and the Romanian population. That is exactly the aim of the right wing populist forces: to play off the people all over Europe against each other. The borders do not run between na- tions and peoples, but between top and bottom.” Bernd Riexinger, DIE LINKE Party Chair

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Katja Kipping, DIE LINKE Party Chair 7

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