Alexis Tsipras’s government promised to end austerity. Now it’s defending the banks against people evicted from their homes — and persecuting those who protest.
Many on the international left believe that things in Greece are slowly improving, and that the Syriza government remains a left-wing (...)
Two weeks passed since the German leftist movement “Aufstehen” was officially formed – and according to their own account, it already has more than 140,000 supporters. EURACTIV Germany spoke to Fabio De Masi, deputy chairman of Die Linke in the German Bundestag about the European ambitions of the (...)
The outcome of the Swedish parliamentary election on 9 September confirms a general European trend: rising rightwing populism and a weakening Social Democracy. The traditional picture of Sweden as the home of a progressive social democratic welfare state has been fading away for several (...)
The European Memoranda imposing austerity on Greece came to an end last week. But the country still has no way out of its crisis.
On August 21 Alexis Tsipras chose Ithaca as the place to announce Greece’s exit from the bailout programs imposed by the European Union in collaboration with the (...)
Punitive conditions attached to the ‘rescue’ package mean the Greek financial tragedy may never end
Over the past week, the world’s media have been proclaiming the successful completion of the Greek financial rescue programme mounted in 2010 by the European Union and the International Monetary (...)
Riot police in Bucharest use tear gas and water cannon on Friday night
Tens of thousands of protesters have rallied in cities across Romania against the ruling Social Democrat (PSD) government, with riot police in the capital, Bucharest, firing tear gas into the crowd and hundreds needing (...)
After years on the fringes of Italian politics, the populist leader of the Lega has stoked anti-immigrant panic and barged into power.
Matteo Salvini at the Lega’s annual meeting in Pontida in July. Photograph: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty When Matteo Salvini – Italy’s interior minister and (...)
Move welcomed by parents but critics warn it will worsen problems such as underpaid carers and a lack of places
Pre-school Berliners are to be given free childcare in a move expected to make the German capital even more attractive to young families.
The city is the first of Germany’s 16 states (...)
After electoral batterings across the Continent, the social democrats and left-wing parties are desperately seeking a path to revival.
THE HAGUE — Traditional left-wing parties across Europe are searching for a savior.
Some believe his name is Jeremy Corbyn.
The British Labour leader’s (...)
The government has persistently allowed private interests in construction, industry and tourism to be prioritised over serious ecological and safety concerns.
It’s difficult to discuss natural disasters, even more so in the case where dozens of human lives have been lost in the most horrific (...)
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 (...)
Introduction
Three years ago, a clear majority of the Greek people voted to reject the so-called Memorandum — the commitment to inflict drastic austerity measures in exchange for financial assistance from European governments and international institutions like the IMF. Hopes ran high that (...)
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 (...)
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