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Taking the Initiative Hearings, Conferences and Seminars Organised by The HEARING WOMEN & PEACE Women’s voices on: DEMOCRACY GENDER EQUALITY GLOBAL SOCIAL JUSTICE Opening address by Gabriele Zimmer, GUE/NGL President Keynote speaker Andros Kyprianou, General Secretary of CC AKEL Interventions by Mehmet Seyis President of the Revolutionary Trade Unions Federation (DEV-IS) Izzet Izcan General Secretary of the Turkish Cypriot United Cyprus Party (ΒΚP) Pambis Kyritsis General Secretary of the Pancyprian Federation of Labour (PEO) Derman Saracoglu President of the Turkish Cypriot Association for Democracy (KTDD) Kanatli Murat General Secretary of the Turkish Cypriot New Cyprus Party (YKP) Shener Elcil General Secretary of the Turkish Cypriot Primary School Teachers Trade Union (KTOS) Coordination Takis Hadjigeorgiou MEP GUE/NGL - AKEL EP • Brussels room • ASP 1G2 9.30-12.30 Gauche Unitair e Européenne • Gauc Wednesday 30 November 2011 he Verte Nor GR dique OUPE PARLEMENTA IRE EUROPÉEN GUE/NGL www .guengl.eu TAKING HEARINGS, CONFERENCES THE AND SEMINARS INITIATIVE ORGANISED BY THE 2009-2014 TAKING THE INITIATIVE Hearings, Conferences and Seminars organised by the European United Left/Nordic Green Left 2009 - 2014 WWW.GUENGL.EU 2 Contents Introduction by Gabi Zimmer 2 The Economic & Financial Crisis 4 Employment & Social Policy 14 War & Peace 22 hearing Environment 37 Regional Development 44 ARAB PEOPLES’ STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION TESTIMONIES FROM EGYPT, TUNISIA, PALESTINE AND WESTERN SAHARA Tuesday 29 March 2011 09.00-12.30 European United Left / Nordic Green Left Gauche Unitaire Européenne / Gauche Verte Nordique European Parliament Civil Liberties, Fundamental & Human Rights 48 EP Brussels room ASP 1G2 www.guengl.eu Gender Equality 54 Agriculture & Fisheries 60 Transport 64 GUE/NGL Parliamentarians 68 Dear reader, Robust discussion, argument and debate with fellow citizens, experts, NGOs, trade unionists, communities and elected representatives at the national and local levels is a key part of our work in the European Parliament. It doesn’t just inform our own thinking as MEPs, it enables us to keep one foot planted firmly on the ground and maintain links with extra-parliamentary forces which are not supported by big businesses, both European and global. As a left group, the GUE/NGL is working for alternatives to the current dominant and perilous right-wing conception of politics as a servant to the whims of ‘markets’. This publication seeks to highlight how important public hearings are to informing our work on issues such as social justice, social and public goods and services, climate, the women’s movement, workers’ rights, democracy, and the role of the EU in the world. The GUE/NGL Group in the European Parliament has a great tradition of exchanging ideas, dialogue and contestation. These events function as the forum and table around which we can set the scene for the kinds of conversations we must keep on having. Gabi Zimmer President of the GUE/NGL Group 2 3 THE ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRISIS EU leaders’ austerity drive continues to work for the rich and powerful by maintaining an economic system that puts the needs of financial markets ahead of social concerns. The austerity measures being applied by undemocratic means in the EU countries worst-hit by the crisis reflect the failure of the EU’s neoliberal architecture. 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