ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on producing an alternative agenda for a Different Europe was not simply a smooth process of consensus forming which is seen to characterize the decision-making in the global justice movement (GJM). It also focuses on European Marches based around two main strategies. The first strategy regarded the European Marches as a vehicle for mobilizing pressure to assist in gaining immediate material improvements based on its core demands. The other strategy was to use these demands as a basis for constructing a broader social movement which could advance a longer-term project of social. The chapter discusses on European Marches associations did not participate in the civil dialogue promoted by the Commission, but assembled independently in the forums. European Union (EU) expanding social agenda in the wake of the introduction of an Employment Chapter in the Treaty of Amsterdam and the proposal to include a Charter of Fundamental Rights in the Treaty of Nice.
