EU politics
AP – Turkey: 12 migrants freeze to death after alleged EU pushback
Would anyone really be surprised if the Turkish claims prove to be true? Read Here
Year: 2022
Gig Economy
Gig Economy Project – ‘We are still fighting against Macron, only now at the European level’: Interview with Edouard Bernasse of the Collective of Autonomous Platform Delivery Workers (CLAP)
The Gig Economy Project speaks to Edouard Bernasse of the Collective of Autonomous Platform Delivery Workers (CLAP) about the gig economy in France, Macron’s new platform worker ‘social dialogue’ law and much more. Vous pouvez […]
Climate Crisis
Reuters: Europe misspent business energy savings funds, auditors say
More than 2 billion euros of European Union funding to help businesses save energy contributed little to climate change targets and in some cases funded investments that would have happened anyway, auditors said on Monday. […]
Climate Crisis
Balkan Green Energy News: Fossil fuels still subsidized more than renewables in EU, auditors find
The EU’s energy taxation and carbon pricing policies don’t square with its climate goals, the European Court of Auditors said in a review. The document reveals most member states gave more subsidies in 2020 for […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: RBA rejects theory that interest rate rises cure Covid and make trucks go faster
“There was an important speech delivered by the Governor of Australia’s central bank today that reveals the reasons that the RBA is once again refusing to be bullied into increasing interest rates rises by the […]
EU politics
Patrick Cockburn – Russia Gains Much From Threats to Invade Ukraine, But Knows That Actually Doing So Would be a Disaster
Has Putin outwitted the West still again? Patrick Cockburn is the author of War in the Age of Trump (Verso) Cross-posted from Counterpunch Photograph Source: Kremlin.ru – CC BY 4.0 The essence of the crisis in […]
National Politics
Amnesty International – Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity
For this report, Amnesty examined massive seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, drastic movement restrictions, and the denial of nationality and citizenship to Palestinians. Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organization […]
Economics
Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – How to burst the housing bubble
House prices in Australia continue to rise. According to Domain’s House Price Index, prices in Sydney have risen by a third in the last year, to a median value of $1.6 million. Housing affordability has […]
Climate Crisis
AP: Measuring climate change: It’s not just heat, it’s humidity
When it comes to measuring global warming, humidity, not just heat, matters in generating dangerous climate extremes, a new study finds. Read Here Photo: Alexandermcnabb licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International
EU politics
VilaWeb: Exposing the fallacy of Spain’s “full democracy”
A report published by a team of Catalan economists highlights the methodological shortcomings of the democratic quality indices which conceal repression in Spain Read here