Arms trade

This morning peace activists take action at the annual conference of the European Defence Agency (EDA). They are sitting in a pool of red paint to stop people entering the conference. Catherine Ashton, Claude-France Arnauld and other European top-politicians are convening with the CEOs of the arms industry.

Pictures of the action : http://www.vredesactie.be/nl/flickr/set/72157642996303805

QCEA's Chris Venables wrote an excellent introduction and critique to the militarization of the European Union. The analysis is not identically the same as ours, but in many ways it runs parallel to what is written in the dossier accompanying our campaign "Ctrl+Alt+EU: no military Europe", which is until now only available in Dutch.[Lees verder]