I`m against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
- David AttenboroughGlobalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs.
- Akitsugu BandoFirstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.
- Akitsugu BandoThis is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world.
- Akitsugu BandoGlobalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.
- Akitsugu BandoBut around the idea of a new centre-left, and new progressive politics that can respond, for instance to the globalisation of our economy.
- Amr MoussaGlobalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat facing all the member states of the EU.
- Andreas RenschlerWe have views on social issues that may seem to some that we are hard-line Tories. However our economics policies and our opposition to the process called globalisation could be considered by some to place us on the far-left of conventional politics.
- Andreas Renschler