YESTERDAY, the Constitutional Court in Madrid handed down sentences for the arcane offence of “sedition”. Those sentences were so severe that even the most trenchant critics of the Spanish legal system were shocked. Read here
Andy Storey analyses Costas Lapavitsas’s book “The Left Case Against the EU” (review by BRAVE NEW EUROPE here) and the future of Lexit (Left exit from the EU). To view the footnotes just click on […]
The strategy of Salvini’s Lega is simple: “depicting immigrants as intent on unfairly benefitting from the social welfare system designed for the Italian taxpayers”. Valerio Alfonso Bruno is a researcher in politics and political philosophy […]
The sentences issued by the Constitutional Court in Madrid today were surprising even to close observers of the Spanish justice system. Yet the writing has been on this particular courtroom wall for a long time. […]
Syriza lost the last Greek elections after 4 1/2 years in power. What happened to a party that, for a time, represented the European radical left’s hopes? Did it achieve anything in power? Many talk […]
This is the sort of democracy that the EU embodies. Chris Bambery is author and broadcaster. Co-author (with George Kerevan) of Catalonia Reborn: How Catalonia Took on the Corrupt Spanish State and the Legacy of […]
Our author Aleks Szcerbiak explained almost four weeks ago why the PIS party has been so successful here. The answer is simple: anti-austerity by redistributing wealth from the metropolitan professional elite and corporations to lower […]
You might be able to police a protest, but you can’t arrest a rising tide. Bill McGuire is Professor Emeritus of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at UCL, and a co-director of the New Weather Institute. His current […]
We all know that Germany’s Climate Package is a disaster. Climate Analytics was so kind as to give us a deep insight into its shortcomings. By Robert Brecha, Bill Hare, Carl–Friedrich Schleussner, Andrzej Ancygier On […]
An arms build-up, barriers at the borders, and spurious climate policy measures will dominate EU policy over the next few years. The far right failed to make the gains many expected at the European elections, […]
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