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.
In 2015, the Syriza party’s (the Coalition of the Radical Left) electoral victory in Greece, in the wake of dozens of one and two-day general strikes and a vibrant set of social movements, raised the prospects of a “rupture” with the Eurozone and the opening of a continent-wide confrontation with (...)
In early 1990s Italy, the retreat of the Left and mounting popular cynicism toward politics allowed a new radical right to begin building its hegemony. For all its idiosyncrasies, the Italy of those years looks increasingly like a mirror of our own future — a country where fascist talking points (...)
On May 25, 2020, Romanian Finance Minister Florin Cîțu declared that the government’s recovery plan would be presented to the public on June 1st. The plan has yet to be launched, and thus Romanians must rely on various declarations of political leaders to reconstruct their economic paradigm. The (...)
Bulgaria—and most East and Central European countries—have not had the devastating COVID-19 numbers that Western Europe has exhibited and unlike the US, for example, have managed to significantly bring down the number of infections. However, far from a major success on part of the country’s (...)
In moments of heightened crisis, such as today’s, one of the first strategies of a state is to defer its pretense of universal social solidarity, directing its energies towards the social groups it prioritizes but normally cannot single out. This same tendency often leads to postponing of its (...)
This is an edited version of a piece by Leopoldo Tartaglia of the international department of the CGIL, Italy’s largest union federation. Read further down to see how Italian workers have fought for their health with widespread strikes.
Italy is the Western European country where the coronavirus pandemic spread first and where its tragic effects are being felt the most. As of March 17, the official data say 26,062 have tested positive in Italy for (...)
Structural, racialized patterns of segregation and structural violence against Roma people have been institutionalized in Central and Eastern Europe for centuries, before, during and after state socialism. After 1989, despite the rise of human-rights and pro-Roma discourse in post-socialist (...)
Buoyed by fire sales of public assets, a tiny minority of Greeks are thriving. Everyone else is mired in hopelessness
Spring is already in the air across Greece. Even in the bleakest of times, nature’s renaissance renders hope irrepressible. But this one is proving a cruel spring for a people (...)
People caught entering or leaving outbreak areas to be fined, after country’s third death.
Italian authorities have implemented draconian measures to try to halt the coronavirus outbreak in the north of the country, including imposing fines on anyone caught entering or leaving outbreak areas, (...)
Five years after Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras capitulated to the Troika, the Left’s challenge to European neoliberalism is weaker than ever. The Greek case showed how the Left could exploit ruling-class crisis — but also the tragic consequences of a failure to prepare for power.
In 2010, Greece (...)
Last Saturday, Ireland bucked the European trend as its voters turned sharply left. Sinn Féin was the main beneficiary, but the party has some big choices to make in the months ahead if it’s going to capitalize on this breakthrough.
It took nine years and three elections, but the economic crash (...)
Our dear Vidya Bal passed away on 30-1-2020.
Vidyatai (tai in Marathi language means sister) was a highly respected feminist for her warm, affectiate and welcoming nature. She had a fan-following among 4 generations as she was ready to listen to them with genuine interest and enter into a (...)
Regional elections in two parts of Italy, Emilia Romagna and Calabria were held on Sunday January 26. They were seen as posing a big challenge to the government if Salvini’s Lega (League, formerly Northern League) won. Dave Kellaway looks at what happened and its implications.
During the last (...)
Croatia recently assumed the presidency of the Council of the EU, but has Europe had any effect on the country since it joined the EU in 2013? Marko Kostanić of the Croatian magazine Bilten takes stock of the last eight years.
The role of the European Union in Croatian political life is a (...)
Jaime Pastor is a leading member of Anticapitalistas, the author of several books, including Nationalism, the Spanish State, and the Left (Viento Sur) , and the editor of Viento Sur magazine, a leading voice of the left in the Spanish State. This article was published by Viento Sur and (...)
Denmark’s “ghetto plan” promises harsher policing of districts with high unemployed and ethnic-minority populations and selling off the public housing where they live. The Social Democrats’ shameful policy shows that anti-immigrant chauvinism isn’t a way of defending the welfare state — it’s an (...)
The last couple of months have been turbulent for The Left party (in Slovenian, Levica). Firstly, the Left failed to cross the threshold in the EU parliamentary election. Even the fact that their candidate, Violeta Tomić, was also the Spitzenkandidat for the Party of the European Left did not (...)
Parliamentary elections have failed to give a clear majority to the social democrats of PSOE or to the conservative bloc. An overview of the results and the implications for the left by Green Left Weekly’s Europe correspondent.
The apparent winner of the November 10 Spanish general election was (...)
It seems that former Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (PSOE) leader Pedro Sánchez and Unidas Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias have agreed to form a coalition government. Unidas Podemos might win a few concessions on labour rights and social protection. But they will have to agree to an austerity (...)
Will outgoing centre-left Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez make concessions to the radicals of Podemos, Más País and the Catalan and Basque nationalists? The radical left lost seats in the November 10 parliamentary election, but it may still has the potential to force concessions from the centre-left (...)
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