CommonSpace editor Ben Wray looks at how climate activists should respond to the Yellow Vests movement in France, which has defeated attempts to impose taxes on fuel prices
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Austerity
Financial Post: Europe’s rise in temporary work contracts puts lives on hold
Nuno Mendes, a 40-year-old Portuguese worker lives on six-month contracts. He earns 1,200 euros a month. Banks won’t give him a mortgage. “Everything in my life is on hold — starting a family, making long-term […]
Economics
Grace Blakeley: Another Europe is Unlikely: Why Socialist Transformation Won’t Happen Within the EU
Another Europe isn’t impossible, but it won’t come about until the EU has collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions. Until then, a socialist government trying to deliver a radical agenda from within the […]
EU politics
The Guardian: French police weapons under scrutiny after gilets jaunes injuries
Government facing calls to ban riot police’s use of explosives. What has been going on in France for almost three months is a brutal repression not appropriate for Europe. Why are we seeing this in […]
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