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A Week in Revolting Europe
This is a weekly round-up of news, comment and analysis from Revolting Europe blog, plus our selection of the stories, photos and videos on the web. Click here A Week in Europe – Archive 2013 Friday May 10 Friday May 3 Friday April 26 Friday April 19 Friday April 12 Friday April 5 … Continue reading
Why Hollande’s plan for more Europe is bad
French President Francois Hollande wants us to believe that further European integration would fix the crisis. This is a bad strategy, for there’s no social dimension to Europe, just neo-liberalism. Eric and Guillaume Etievant Coquerel of the Left Party say France must stand up to Germany to change the future direction of the Old Continent. Francois … Continue reading
Sick France must reform!
Reform, reform! Yes, now it’s France, back in recession for the third time in four years, which is being lectured on the need to submit to the rigours of neo-liberal change. Read in the Morning Star newspaper
Eurocrisis: why northern Europe should be celebrating
According to legend, the bailouts of countries of Europe’s south have been costly for Germany and other northern countries such as Finland, Austria and Holland. Hence their obsession with policies of ‘rigor’ and deficit reduction. The truth is that they have earned tens of billions of euro from the south. Maurizio Ricci shows how. Someone – possibly Angela Merkel … Continue reading
Why French radicals are marching – Interview with Mélenchon
As French radicals march in Paris Sunday against the austerity policies of Socialist President Hollande, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, co-leader of the Left Party and last year’s Presidential election candidate for the radical Left Front, argues for a broad popular front of resistance. Interview by French Communist daily Humanite: Francois Hollande’s poll rating is very low. How do … Continue reading
Eurozone: A step closer to the precipice
Why Merkel has no choice to pursue austerity in Europe, despite its catastrophic social and economic consequences. And to save Europe, the Eurozone must be ditched. By Jacques Sapir Thanks to the combined effect of austerity policies, the Eurozone is sinking into crisis. Yet never have debates on economic policy been so intense. Political leaders, both Germany … Continue reading
Are Germans Really Poorer Than Spaniards, Italians And Greeks?
What’s behind the headlines about poor Germans subidizing rich southern Europeans? A con-trick seeking to mask large wealth inequalities within Germany. And to shield the rich and corporations in Europe’s super power from parting from some of their euro-zillions. Social Europe Journal
The austere roots of Nazism and fascism
Europe today is facing, on the one hand, the rise of ”apolitical” technocratism, and on the other, right-wing authoritarian government. The Continent needs a democratic alternative, or else we are heading towards a disaster that will bring enormous suffering to the popular classes in the name of the ruling financial and economic elites, says Vincent Navarro … Continue reading
Cyprus: European oligarchs must pay
Governments can and should impose a tax on the wealth of the super-rich to help resolve Europe’s banking crisis, says Attac Cyprus is experiencing a banking crisis of Irish or Icelandic proportions: a bankrupt banking system, which the European Union is demanding taxpayers bail out. Ireland and Iceland took radically different decisions, one favourable to … Continue reading
Who are Europe’s real clowns?
Peer Steinbrück, the SPD opposition candidate for Chancellor in this autumn’s elections in Germany, caused a diplomatic row in the wake of the Italian elections by describing ‘populists’ Silvio Berlusconi and Beppe Grillo as clowns. But neither Peer Steinbrück nor Angela Merkel have understood a thing about Europe’s crisis, argues Jakob Augstein. A Swiss vote against greed and … Continue reading
Everything you wanted to know…about Austerity in the EU
Poverty, unemployment, wages, the economy, public services, tax dodging, wealth and gender inequality – check out the latest facts and figures in the Europe of the bankers and austerity. http://wp.me/P1bMfw-oA
Filthy rich Europeans – richer than ever
This year’s Forbes’ billionaires list shows a super rich elite getting richer as most European citizens get poorer A tiny elite are getting richer, the rest of us are getting poorer. This is a familiar story in a world where greed and extreme wealth are central to the dominant capitalist system, and its periodic crises, … Continue reading
Currency wars, the Euro and Frexit
News that the G20 will ‘avoid a currency war’ is supposed to be a piece of good news. But for millions of ordinary people in France and the weaker, Mediterranean Eurozone states who are really struggling economically there’s no relief in site from the rising exchange rate of the Euro against its major trading partners, … Continue reading
Inequality back on the agenda in Germany
A recent opinion poll revealed that most Germans think top managers in the country’s big companies are paid too much. Three out of four Germans say pay packets were too large… Read on at Left Foot Forward
Tsipras: For a European debt Conference
By Alexis Tsipras IN THE RADICAL PRESS / MICROMEGA, IL MANIFESTO February 1953. The Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) is crushed by the weight of public debt and threatens to drag other European countries into the vortex. Concerned about their own salvation, FRG’s creditors – including Greece – take note of a phenomenon that may … Continue reading
WAGES SLIDE
Wealth Inequality in Europe
RADICAL VOICES
Italy’s Healthcare Crisis
NO TO WATER PRIVATISATION
Filthy Rich
SANTA DRAGHI’S COMING
WORKERS FIGHTING BACK
FLORENCE’S BUS LUMACA
Massive Spanish protest
FRENCH FACTORY OCCUPATION
International Workers Day 2012
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Discrimination: legal news
- Lithuania - A group of NGOs address the Parliament proposing amendments to the Law on Equal Treatment (PDF 63 kB)
- Romania - Amendments to the Anti-discrimination Law adopted as emergency ordinance without observing public consultations procedures (PDF 59 kB)
- Romania - Proposed amendments to the Anti-discrimination Law are presented by the NCCD for public consultations (PDF 58 kB)
