To address a housing shortage, Spain’s second city says bank-owned properties can no longer sit empty.
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CityLab: Barcelona Forces Banks to Turn Repossessed Homes Into Affordable Housing
Economics
Eurostat: EU records trade deficit as gas from Russia and Norway takes its toll
Imports to the EU from Russia and Norway increased year on year 59.1 and 56.4 percent respectively for the period January to October. It is only thanks a rapidly increasing trade surplus with Britain (27 […]
Deregulation
Aditya Chakrabortty: The fat cats have got their claws into our universities, and will eat them up
In neo-liberalism everything is a commodity, there to be exploited by the “New Meritocracy” of business people. In the UK they are now plundering what were once true bastions of meritocracy: universities. Read here
Climate Crisis
Media Lens: Why There Is No Public Sense Of A Climate Crisis
Increasingly, now, we do have citizens among us: scientists – particularly, climate scientists – who are awakening from their ‘mainstream’ slumber to the reality that they are citizens of a decaying society on a dying […]
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