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		<title>Portugal: Local polls to test government austerity policies</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/09/28/portugal-local-polls-to-test-government-austerity-policies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: The local elections held in Portugal on Sunday resulted in the centre-left Socialists, the main opposition party, gaining 36.3 per cent of the vote and control of 106 of Portugal’s 308 town halls, which was their biggest local election victory to date. The governing PSD won 26.5 per cent of the vote and 99 town &#8230; <a href="/2013/09/28/portugal-local-polls-to-test-government-austerity-policies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7307&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Troika&#8217;s Men in Black and the Crime of Organised Money</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/05/27/the-troikas-men-in-black-and-the-crime-of-organised-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 22:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing to force states to finance themselves at high-interest rates is just a strategy to justify wage control, the privatisation of public services and, ultimately, to enslave peoples, says Juan Torres Lopez Spain has once again received a visit from the so-called Men in Black, the Troika inspectors, coming to elucidate if all is going as &#8230; <a href="/2013/05/27/the-troikas-men-in-black-and-the-crime-of-organised-money/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6874&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spain: No Country for Old Men</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/05/10/spain-no-country-for-old-men/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 10:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nacho Goberna Spain is no country for old men. Maybe it was before, when today&#8217;s older generation were young, when shoulder to shoulder, with hope, they participated in building this society that we now share with them, or perhaps it will be again in the future when the time comes to leave behind the &#8230; <a href="/2013/05/10/spain-no-country-for-old-men/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6781&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Portugal&#8217;s unions hail court rejection of pension, wage cuts</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/04/06/portugals-unions-hail-court-rejection-of-pension-wage-cuts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 21:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Portuguese unions welcomed the decision by the country&#8217;s Constitutional Court to strike down four out of nine austerity measures in this year&#8217;s budget. The court on Friday rejected cuts in pensioners&#8217; and public servants&#8217; holiday bonuses, as well as reductions to sickness leave and unemployment benefits, which formed part of a swinging austerity plan designed &#8230; <a href="/2013/04/06/portugals-unions-hail-court-rejection-of-pension-wage-cuts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6514&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>François Hollande – distant from popular expectations</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/03/30/francois-hollande-distant-from-popular-expectations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 08:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN THE RADICAL PRESS / HUMANITE During the interview with TV station France 2, François Hollande did not indicate the slightest flexibility in his political course despite strong dissatisfaction among the working class and the left electorate. Pascal Cherki, the socialist deputy of Paris, who had hoped that the President would &#8220;change gear&#8221; was not &#8230; <a href="/2013/03/30/francois-hollande-distant-from-popular-expectations/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6443&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>France: Gold-plated pensions for the bosses, rigour for the 99%</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/01/23/france-gold-plated-pensions-for-the-bosses-rigour-for-the-99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How French bosses want sacrifices from pensioners, but more for themselves. My piece in Liberal Conspiracy Blog http://liberalconspiracy.org/2013/01/19/how-french-bosses-want-sacrifices-from-pensioners-but-more-for-themselves/<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=5840&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spanish socialists get irresponsible</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2012/09/15/spanish-socialists-get-irresponsible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2012 07:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Spanish socialists have ditched ‘responsible opposition’. But have they got enough fight to stop Rajoy? ‘Responsible opposition’ has been the watchword of Spain’s socialists since their inglorious defeat by the right wing Popular Party at the elections of November 2011. More at Left Foot Forward<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=4615&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Closing gender pay gap requires tougher sanctions and end to austerity</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2012/05/24/closing-gender-pay-gap-requires-tougher-sanctions-and-end-to-austerity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 11:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Women earn 16.4% less than men and the gender pay gap is getting worse despite legislation at national and international level,&#8217; Portuguese GUE/NGL MEP Inês Zuber told MEPs Thursday in a debate on equal pay. Zuber pointed to collective bargaining rights as one of the best ways to protect women from wage discrimination. &#8216;Sanctions on &#8230; <a href="/2012/05/24/closing-gender-pay-gap-requires-tougher-sanctions-and-end-to-austerity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=3359&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Italian pensioners didn&#8217;t have to pay the price</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2012/03/13/why-italian-pensioners-didnt-have-to-pay-the-price-they-did/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unions questioned and challenged it time and again. Others who actually looked at the figures couldn&#8217;t under why. But the European Central Bank and the vast majority of Italy&#8217;s politicians were in agreement that a further &#8216;reform&#8217; of the Italian pension system was absolutely indispensable. And so it was in December that the government pushed &#8230; <a href="/2012/03/13/why-italian-pensioners-didnt-have-to-pay-the-price-they-did/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=2257&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Commission&#8217;s pensions proposals mean working longer, for less &#8211; European Left</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2012/03/10/commissions-pensions-proposals-mean-working-longer-for-less-european-left/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[European Left on the European Commission&#8217;s regressive pensions proposals and how they will hit women hard. Video<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=2224&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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