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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8146

8 February 2002
Contents Publication in full By article 24 / 34
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/world social forum
Concrete proposals for a new world order - Forum goes from making protests to making proposals, says Jean Lapeyre (ESC) - Supporting network of parliamentarians from every continent

Brussels, 07/02/2002 (Agence Europe) - The second edition of the World Social Forum, held from 31 January to 5 February in Porto Alegre (see EUROPE of 24 January, p.15, and 2 February, p.16), allowed those who are never able to take the floor, such as the Brazilian peasants or the various world NGOs, to express their views and to build viable socio-economic alternatives for "another world". The 60,000 participants from 130 countries appealed to the United States for there to be "resistance...

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