France has launched a “flash fuel loan” program offering up to 50,000 euros to small businesses in the transport, agriculture, and fisheries sectors as the US-Israeli war on Iran continues to drive up fuel prices and disrupt global energy markets.
Austerity
Manolo Monereo – Spain’s Left-Wing Coalition on the Ropes
Spain’s coalition between PSOE and Unidas Podemos gambled on rowing back austerity measures in a period of relative calm – but now, facing a historic recession, its forces find themselves increasingly at odds. Read here
EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck: The International State System after Neoliberalism: Europe between National Democracy and Supranational Centralization
In 1945 Karl Polanyi outlined a vision of a peacetime global state system with a political economy in which small countries could be both sovereign and democratic. The present essay reviews developments between then and […]
Finance
Fairwork: First round of Fairwork’s yearly platform ratings in Germany launched
The Fairwork Germany 2020 report (English; German) highlights how platforms in Germany fare in the working conditions they provide to their workers. This research is particularly timely in light of the COVID-19 public health crisis, which has brought the risks faced by front-line […]
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