Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Previous articles concerning EU countries (and not EU institutions) are beginning to be regrouped in this new section. It will take time. Some countries not formal members of the EU are included in this section.
On 5 May a series of elections took place in the United Kingdom. Scotland, Wales and England (i.e. Britain) renewed part of their local governments (about 150 assemblies out of a total of 400, or about 4,000 seats out of a total of 20,000). On the same day, Northern Ireland re-elected its (...)
Poland’s populist government has been under pressure over rights and democracy. Now it feels it has the moral high ground
Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine was a pivotal moment for Poland: proof positive it had been right about Russia all along, and the start of an immense national humanitarian (...)
The Irish establishment has been using Putin’s brutal war on Ukraine as an excuse to launch an assault on the idea of Irish neutrality. Richard Boyd Barrett takes on their arguments and makes the case for defending and strengthening Irish neutrality.
The Irish political establishment, led by (...)
There is war once again, and the re-radicalised right in Bulgaria is using the war in Ukraine to establish its final hegemony. While the Russian invasion of Ukraine is in full swing, in Bulgaria opinions, commentaries, analyses, performances, memes and all kinds of public expressions are (...)
On 27 October 2021, the budget put forward by Portugal’s ruling Socialist Party (PS) was voted down by the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) and Left Bloc (BE), resulting in the dissolution of Portuguese parliament, the collapse of the government and an early general election. The subsequent (...)
Portugal’s ruling socialists under prime minister, António Costa, achieved a surprising victory in parliamentary elections on Sunday. The Socialists gained an outright majority in the new parliament over all other parties and will be able to rule without a coalition. The previous so-called (...)
Dave Kellaway looks at the Portuguese general election result.
Election results (226 out of 230 seats declared) Party % 2022 % 2019 PS (Socialist Party) 41.68 (117 seats) 36.4 PPD/PSD (Centre Right) 27.8 27.8 Chega (neo-fascist) 7.15 1.3 Initiativa Liberal (...)
Three decades after the dismantlement of Yugoslavia, a portrait of Yugoslav leader Tito still hangs on the wall of Croatian factory ITAS. Elsewhere on the notice board, printed A4 paper sheets announce severe salary delays. Passing by, workers comment: “it didn’t used to be like that in Tito’s (...)
To put it plainly: the coalition agreement of the traffic light government is a clear rejection of the 1.5° target; it is no longer even maintained in words. The welfare state is being further weakened with privatization and digitalization. Externally, the eco-liberal competition state supports (...)
Since the beginning of November, Romania’s infection rates dropped significantly compared to the previous month. The number of people in ICUs and the death rate remain however, high. Its medical authorities fear that the country’s still low vaccination rate (now at around 38%) leave its (...)
Leader calls legislation ‘greatest blow to civil and political liberties’ since return to democracy
The leader of Spain’s Podemos party has defended the coalition government’s push to change its predecessor’s “gag law”, calling it “the greatest blow to civil and political liberties” since the (...)
While the defeat of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš at the hands of a right-wing coalition surprised everyone, the electoral results can hardly be heralded as the end of populism. They do mark the demise of the billionaire oligarch Babiš, but they also show how far the political scene has shifted (...)
It is correct to call for the banning of fascist and extreme right-wing organizations, but there can be no illusion that their threat will be defeated as a result of actions from capitalist institutions.
The events of the last few days confront us with a particularly serious political and (...)
Prime minister Andrej Babiš’s party narrowly lost in the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election. For the left, the result was a disaster: both social democrats and communists failed to enter Parliament.
Results
With 27.8% the SPOLU (Togther) coalition, consisting of the Civic Democratic Party (...)
The parties in the “grand coalition” of Angela Merkel’s government, the conservative CDU/CSU (Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union) and the SPD (Social Democratic Party+ attracted only a quarter of the electorate each. The CDU/CSU had its worst result ever with 24.1% of the vote. The (...)
It was evident by about midnight on Monday, September 13, that the Left bloc, spearheaded by the Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet), was comfortably bagging an important victory in Norway’s elections.
The Red Party’s Bjonar Moxnes. Photo and graphics: roedt.no. Inset: Toni Usman. Image supplied
The (...)
“Do you all forget that not having s3x is an option?” The comment on 28-year-old Katie Jagielnicka’s TikTok post — a video criticising a recent near-total abortion ban in Poland — already has 261 responses. It’s a testament to the heated feelings that surround Jagielnicka’s support of abortion and (...)
“Welcome to the 19th century!” This is how Efimerida ton Syntakton (“The Editors’ Journal”, a daily aimed at a democratic and left-wing public) commented on the Parliament’s approval of the monstrous bill of the Minister of Labor, Kostis Chatzidakis, presented as a “reform” of labour relations which (...)
Last year the strongest and most-organized umbrella organization for unions, the Federation of Autonomous Trade Unions of Croatia (Savez samostalnih sindikata Hrvatske, SSSH) organized its very first e-protest in Croatia, titled “A thank you is fine, but workers’ rights come first!” (Radnicima (...)
Trade unions have been organizing protests since the start of 2021 against the newly adopted austerity measures of the Romanian government, which, among other things, froze the minimum wage despite rising living costs continued blocking collective labor negotiations and the social dialogue (...)
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