EU politics
Al Jazeera: Why is the EU offering Tunisia a financial assistance package?
The EU hopes to stem the number of refugees departing for Europe from the country’s coast during an economic crisis. Read the article HERE.
Articles by Ben Wray
Media
International Federation of Journalists – UK: Assange closer to extradition to the US after appeal rejected by High Court
The latest legal development on Assange’s extradition to the US. In a judgement issued on 6 June, a High Court in the UK has rejected the latest appeal by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange against an […]
Media
Branko Marcetic: Attacks on Freedom of the Press Are Ramping Up
The state of democratic rights for journalists in some of the world’s leading Western powers is becoming increasingly worrisome. In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
Climate Crisis
João Camargo: The Climate Crisis Will Be the Mother of All Financial Crises
The relationship between climate breakdown and a dysfunctional finance and insurance system Joao Camargo is a climate activist in grassroots movement Climaximo in Portugal and in the Climate Jobs campaign. He’s an environmental engineer and […]
Gig Economy
Gig Economy Project – EU member-states agree Platform Work Directive position
Both the platform lobby and pro-employment rights’ MEP Leïla Chaibi reacted critically to the Council’s Platform Work Directive position The Gig Economy Project is a BRAVE NEW EUROPE media network for gig workers in Europe. Click […]
EU politics
Brioni Bynun: Germany is criminalising Palestinian solidarity
In its latest attack on Palestinian human rights, the German police have unleashed a chilling crackdown on Nakba commemorations – including banning the holding of watermelons and repressing Jewish anti-apartheid protesters. Published in Tribune. Read the […]
Economics
Reuters: Lira plunges more than 7% as Turkey edges towards free market
Erdogan seems to be responding to his election victory by retreating towards more ‘orthodox’ macroeconomic policies. Read the article HERE.
Climate Crisis
Seán Fearon: Degrowth at a crossroads
The Beyond Growth conference was a landmark event for the degrowth movement, but it also highlighted the risks of co-option by the powerful. Seán Fearon is a PhD researcher at Queen’s University Belfast, working in […]
EU politics
Gig Economy Project – Open letter from French unions and worker collectives to EU labour ministers on the ‘French model’ and the Platform Work Directive
Labour ministers of EU member-states are set to finalise their position on the Platform Work Directive, with reports that France – the state must opposed to strong employment rights in the Directive – now holds […]
EU politics
Lilie Chouliaraki, Myria Georgiou: Power and resistance at Europe’s digital border
Host cities for migrants and refugees who reach Europe, like Athens, Berlin and London, are not only sites of surveillance and exclusion but also of struggle, agency and resistance. Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou are […]