Kenneth Haar is an activist and researcher at Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), a lobby watchdog based in Brussels. Since starting work for CEO in 2008, he has worked on finance, the euro crisis, trade, patents on COVID vaccines and many other issues.
Sessions
19.
10:00
105 min
E028 Functioning and development of the European Union
The EU is very crucial to the daily lives of Europeans.
This workshop will explain how the European Union works and discusses possible developments of the EU.
Civil liberties, democracy
W307
18.
10:00
105 min
B134 Regulating finance for a future free of fossil fuels
Stopping the proliferation of fossil fuels means stopping their financing. EU regulation of the financial sector must be used to make it almost impossible for banks to lend money to fossil fuel...
Ecology and climate justice
S104
20.
10:00
105 min
A151 The EU push to ”complete the internal market” – strategies for reclaiming democratic space and protecting public services
Corporate lobby groups are demanding drastic new EU powers to ”complete the internal market.” This could mean yet another EU push for deregulation and privatisation, and new neoliberal obstacles...
Capitalism, health and social crisis
W300