Why all pay taxes, don’t we ? At least this is the theory but in reality billions of euros are lost every year in the European Union on tax avoidance and tax planning depriving public budgets of much-needed resources to fund education, health care, social services and public infrastructure. A (...)
Europe must increase efforts to investigate and control the ivory trade, say campaigners
Illegal ivory has been found on sale in 10 European countries, contravening international efforts to cut down on the trade which campaigners say encourages the poaching of elephants.
The campaigning group (...)
Eric Toussaint, what do you think of the agreement between the Eurozone ministers? Has Greece got through the crisis?
E.T.: The crisis is not over. What’s more, from the point of view of the European leaders, the situation is not particularly brilliant either. To claim a reduction of debt, when (...)
At the June 8 ceremonial hand-over of portfolio briefcases from outgoing People’s Party (PP) ministers to their incoming Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) substitutes, the contrasts were pretty dramatic. A bunch of reactionary lifetime political operators and religious obscurantists were (...)
The far right won the June 3rd elections in Slovenia. Can the left mount a challenge?
On June 3, Slovenia held early general elections. Incumbent prime minister Miro Cerar triggered the elections — the eighth parliamentary elections since the republic proclaimed independence from the former (...)
Portugal’s Socialist-led government looks like an exception to the decline of European social democracy. But its record in fighting austerity is less clear.
[An answer to this article has been written by three members of the leadership of the Left Bloc. See on ESSF (article 44797), Lessons and (...)
Mariano Rajoy, the conservative president of the Spanish state, was forced out June 1 after the parliament voted for a motion of censure (similar to a vote of no confidence) put forward by the biggest opposition party, the center-left Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), and supported by the (...)
On June 1, the Spanish government of the ruling People’s Party (PP) of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy fell to a no-confidence motion brought against it in the 350-seat Spanish congress by the opposition Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), led by its federal secretary Pedro Sánchez. The vote (...)
The racist Salvini could not have asked for a better speech writer for his upcoming electoral soundbites than the Italian president, Matterella, writes Dave Kellaway.
Matterella vetoed Salvini’s choice of Savona, a Eurosceptic economist, for Minister of the Economy in the name of safeguarding (...)
The collapse of the planned coalition government in Italy opens the way for a fresh breakthrough for Matteo Salvini’s hard-right Lega.
With March 4’s general election, the Five Star Movement (M5S) became Italy’s largest party, winning 32 percent of the vote. Yet its historic opposition to (...)
It makes business sense for the Nordic elite to actively woo Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But the deviation from its ‘feminist foreign policy’ may have domestic political consequences for Sweden.
Stockholm: Before reaching London to attend the Commonwealth Heads of the Government Meeting, Indian PM Modi will spend two days in Sweden. The reason for Modi’s visit – beginning April 16 – is the first India-Nordic summit which will bring together the prime ministers of Denmark, Finland, (...)
After several years of rising wages and social stability, corruption scandals are shaking the populist government. Mass protests have mobilised the liberal and conservative half of society. Conspiracy theories about the Italian mafia and Russian interference are the flavour of the moment.
Mattia Gallo: On Friday, March 9, 2018, tens of thousands of people animated the center of Bratislava in a peaceful demonstration against the government of Prime Minister Robert Fico to ask the truth (...)
Europe doesn’t know what to do with its trash. The poorest countries of the EU face the greatest challenges. EU directives and environmental incentives and penalities benefit mostly west European interests.
The policy of the European Union (EU) in the field of environmental protection and (...)
As in 2013, the Italian general elections have not produced a government majority. No party or coalition has crossed the 40% threshold that would allow them to form a government. So has nothing changed, asks Dave Kellaway?
On the contrary, Renzi’s Partito Democratico (PD) failed to break even (...)
Introduction
Italy’s political future is unclear more than a month after general elections that failed to produce a working parliamentary majority for any single electoral coalition or party. Nevertheless, the March 4 election was a triumph for the right-wing coalition of parties led by the (...)
February 28, 2018 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — In the middle of the harshest winter for more than a decade, Britain finds itself still gripped by the icy fingers of neoliberal austerity. Both the health service (NHS) and local government stagger from crisis to crisis, as (...)
New EU Trade deals would harm consumers, the environment and demorcracy
The European Union is currently negotiating a series of new free trade agreements that would have a negative impact on consumer rights, environmental standards and democratic principles. These are the findings of a report (...)
The new government of the ÖVP (Austrian People’s Party) and FPÖ (Freedom Party of Austria) in Austria opens the way towards radicalised neo-liberal economic and social policies.
As in some other EU countries, such as Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark and Finland, a traditional liberal-conservative party (...)
To say that last week was a remarkable week in politics does not do it justice, writes Alan Thornett.
Theresa May travelled to Brussels at the start of the week to try to persuade Michel Barnier and the EU Commission to agree that ‘sufficient progress’ had now been made—regarding the financial (...)
In Spain’s municipal elections of May 2015, a constellation of new political forces emerged. For the first time in almost 40 years of Spanish democracy, the country’s major cities would no longer be ruled by either the Partido Popular (PP) or the Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE), or any of (...)
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