Published Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 14:20
by
Duncan Anderson 
in EU in the world (261 views and 1 comments)
A future European Parliament and EU MUST address Resource Security ASAP. We already talk about Energy Security, but "feedstock" security must also be addressed.
China is currently buying up all scrap steel and iron worldwide and India is dismantling ships for the scrap. The price of steel is now going out through the roof. It is more than doubling its price every six months.
Without scrap steel and iron you drastically reduce the "feedstock" for blast furnaces, so the price of steel increase dramatically and then out manufacturing industry can't compete.
The price of other materials is also increasing due to scarcity, in particular non-ferrous metals.
If this basic problem isn't address soon there won't be a European manufacturing industry.
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Published Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 11:23
by Julian from Schaerbeek in EU in the world ( comments)
This is a great video about a really important issue - THE racism now being peddled by the far right is anti-Muslim - trying to create fear about and hatred towards Muslim communities. We must expose and oppose any 'clash of civilisations'. Of course there are genuine issues about integration which we should address in a spirit of respect and tolerance - but we must say a very clear no to anti-muslim rhetoric.
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