Revolting Europe
housing
Spanish firefighters refuse to be ‘puppets of the banks’
Spanish firefighters are refusing orders to participate in evictions because their duty is to “serve the public ” and intervene in “emergencies” and not to be “puppets of the bank or its servants in the government”. Firefighters in Galicia, Catalonia and the Madrid region have rejected any action that “contributes to inequalities and miseries suffered … Continue reading
Winners and losers in Spain’s financial crisis
By Manel García Biel The Spanish financial system crisis was caused by the over-indebtedness of financial institutions resulting from over-exposure to real estate which went boom and then bust. To deal with this financial crisis Spain implemented ‘reforms’ , paving the way for the country to obtain a bailout from the EU of 100 billion euros. … Continue reading
Bailing Out the Landlords
Fast-Tracking Evictions in Spain: The Spanish government’s bill on the rental market has come under attack by consumer groups. Check out why at Counterpunch
They gambled, the banks won, the citizens lost
By Joan Pere Enciso i Rodriguez One of the main neoliberal economic policies implemented over the past decades has been liberalizing the domestic and international financial system. One of the key planks of this policy was less regulation and less control: goverments’ allowed capital to move without any control and they lost control about where taxes … 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
DATA
Watching Corporate Europe
- It is time the EU scraps its carbon Emissions Trading System
- For a European Spring
- BITs that bite into budgets
Hate Crimes in Europe
- Bosnian Serb Town Flags Discriminatory
- For Italy's 'ultras,' nothing black and white about football and racism
Fight discrimination in Europe – Amnesty Int’l
- Listen to Roma Rights
- Roma Housing in Spotlight as NGOs Meet New Government in Romania
Discrimination: legal news
- FYR Macedonia - Prospects for Using Situation Testing in Macedonia (PDF 70 kB)
- Latvia - New Law Prohibiting Discrimination of Natural Persons Engaged in Economic Activity Adopted (PDF 67 kB)
- Ireland - Employer failed to establish that compulsory retirement of employee serves a legitimate aim or purpose (PDF 45 kB)
