New orders in manufacturing:
March 2023 (in real terms, provisional):
-10.7% on the previous month (seasonally and calendar adjusted)
-11.0% on the same month a year earlier (calendar adjusted)
EU politics
VilaWeb – Catalonia: Pro-independence parties surpass 50% of votes in Catalan election and increase parliamentary majority
Social Democrats win the vote, followed closely by the independence parties Esquerra and Junts per Catalunya, while far-right Vox enters Parliament for the first time Read here
Climate Crisis
Tim Jackson: Degrowth – How the light gets in
The Entropy Law still matters. CUSP director Tim Jackson responds to Michael Liebreich’s essay on the ‘The secret of eternal growth’. Read here
Geopolitics
Branko Marcetic – Israel’s Assault on Gaza Is Unlike Any War in Recent Memory
From the rate and scale of civilian slaughter to the killing of protected groups and the type of munitions, Israel’s war on Gaza is an exceptionally brutal campaign unlike almost anything we’ve seen. In ‘Jacobin’. […]
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