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Policy PaperFaced with the multiple crises of neoliberal capitalism and growing geopolitical tensions, the European Union (EU) shifts from one failed crisis management to the other. Thereby, the financial and economic crisis, as well as the failure of the EU migration regime, have revealed deeply rooted institutional weaknesses.As of now, the different crisis dynamics have merged into a general crisis of European integration, accompanied by growing right-wing populism and nationalism all over Europe. With this background, the European Commission tries...
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Policy PaperThis short explanation paper aims to provide the reader with a brief overview of what the Internal Energy Market is, how it has been developing so far and what barriers and conflicts can be associated with it.Download:
Policy PaperThe expansion of the electricity and gas distribution networks presents an obstacle to a decentralised, Europe-wide transition to renewable energy. Supporting electricity and gas infrastructure projects allows energy companies to profit on the energy markets from their production overcapacities of fossil fuels. At the same time, these fossil fuel-based infrastructure projects set the EU on a long-term emissions path that obscures official concepts such as climate neutrality. Fabian Huebner examines the EU’s negotiating mandate for the...
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Berichte aus den Arbeitsgruppen der zweiten RLS Brüssel Energiekonferenz, 3.-5. Juli 2013 in Wien>>See report in German>>See page of conference
Report on the international conference in Vienna, 3-5 July 2013More than 60 participants from 18 countries and a wide variety of areas of activity came together for the conference Socioecological Transformation – Focus Energy at the University of Vienna from July 3-5, to explore the possibilities and limits of just such a transformation. The conference was organized by Ulrich Brand of the University’s Institute for Political Science, and by the Brussels Bureau of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.In his welcoming statement,...
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Introductory paper for the Seminar “Socioecological transformation focus energy” from 3-5 July 2013 in Vienna, organized by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Brussels and Ulrich Brand, Department of Political Science, Vienna University Analytical-political starting points The energy landscape is presently shifting. We discussed last year – besides concrete resistances and alternatives – some dominant trends: Growing demand of energy due to the intensification of a resource intensive mode of...
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Short report on the RLS seminar and workshop at the Wold Social Forum in Tunis, March 2013Conflicts centred on resources and the effects of production and life models that are increasingly energy and resource intensive were central issues at the World Social Forum from the very start. At the same time, the problems have become more serious over past years: resources are becoming scarcer, human-caused climate change as a consequence of emissions is taking on ever greater political importance, the approaches of a Green Economy...
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Resistances and AlternativesContent:Ulrich Brand, Austria & Germany: Energy policy and resource extractivism: resistances and alternatives (background paper)Brian Ashley, South Africa: Climate jobs – the struggle of our timeSören Becker, Germany: Energy democracy and extractivism: Some theses on alternative forms of energy organisation in Europe (and beyond)Many Camara, Mali : Les énergies renouvelables : alternative crédible et durable à l'exploitation d'uranium. Exemple de la Commune rurale de Faléa au Mali (French only)Ana Esther Ceceña, Mexico: The...
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Report on the international seminar in Vienna, 11-14 July 2012 (German)Vom 11.–14. Juli 2012 hatten die Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Brüssel, die Universität Wien (Ulrich Brand) und das Karl Renner Institut nach Wien eingeladen, um konkrete Erfahrungen, Möglichkeiten und Strategien einer sozialökologischen Transformation zu diskutieren. Der Einladung folgten 70 WissenschaftlerInnen, AktivistInnen und PolitikerInnen aus Lateinamerika und Europa, darunter Alberto Acosta aus Ecuador, Iara Pietrikovsca aus Brasilien, die...
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Conference readerIn the current multiple crisis of global capitalism, which is developing differently in different regions, a variety of real and potential breaks are emerging, together with search processes for ways to handle the crisis. One major factor to be taken into account here is that of the continuities – as, in Europe, the still dominant neo-liberal social power relations, the security interests of property owners and the model of industrial competitiveness at any cost; or, in Latin America, the tendency to...
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