Open letter: ‘The Paradox of Anti-Globalisation’

Open Letter by Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium and the President of the European Union, in which capacity he attended the recent G7/G8 summit in Genoa earlier in 2001. This open letter gives his view of the events that took place in Genoa. It includes a personal proposal for reviewing the way in which G8 meetings are organised. An international meeting to discuss the contents of this open letter was held in the auditorium of the University of Ghent (Belgium) on 30 October 2001.

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