Today, Ska is hosting the youth conference “Get the Youth out of Crisis” together with The Greens/EFA and FYEG for the second time. The conference is meant to provide a platform for young people to exchange views on their different perspectives of the crisis, develop own ideas for solutions and translate them into precise…

The Lisbon Treaty has provided the European Parliament (EP) with significant amounts of power in trade policy. Before Lisbon, trade deals were mainly negotiated by the Commission. Now, the Parliament has to give its consent to international trade agreements. It is time for an assessment. One example from my life…

Obama is in Brussels today to talk about the free trade agreement with the EU, called TTIP. In its current form, TTIP is a threat to European citizens – it would lower standards on food, health, and the environment. Time for a limbo dance on Place Luxembourg! We ask Barroso,…

Having a look over the rim of the tea cup is no easy task. It get’s even harder, when you lack information and media to du so. Ska supports media-pluralism, which is not only emporering people to see the bigger picture, but fostering diversity of opinion and cultural variance.  

TTIP website of the Greens/EFA group online The Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament has set up a new web site on TTIP. There you can find campaign videos, up-to-date information and much useful background material. http://ttip2014.eu/   Two LSE studies about ISDS There are two new studies of the…