New orders in manufacturing:
March 2023 (in real terms, provisional):
-10.7% on the previous month (seasonally and calendar adjusted)
-11.0% on the same month a year earlier (calendar adjusted)
EU politics
Middle East Eye: France: MP told to ‘go back to Africa’ in parliament says racism growing across Europe
Carlos Martens Bilongo tells MEE the comment aimed at him by a far-right parliamentarian also exposes the increasing confidence of such forces in France Read Here
Economics
Kate Mackenzie, Tim Sahay: Grievance and Reform
The precursor of 2022’s energy crisis was 2020–2021’s vaccine apartheid. These shortages were in no way natural but reflected financial and geopolitical hierarchies: those with more power and resources bid up prices and developing countries […]
Climate Crisis
DeZeen: “Our dependency on growth, like on concrete, must be abolished”
The pursuit of infinite economic growth is driving climate breakdown and producing ecologically toxic architecture, argues Phineas Harper, one of the chief curators of the Oslo Architecture Triennale. Read here
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