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 plans,” he says.
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Geopolitics
Marco D’Eramo – Empire’s Stakes
Trying to make sense of Trumpism. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
Austerity
Labour Heartlands: France should renegotiate EU treaties or leave!
FRENCH socialist leader Jean-Luc Melenchon said that France should leave the EU if it proves impossible to renegotiate treaties that are “incompatible” with his party’s socialist programme. Read here
EU politics
Politico: Greece faces €200M fine for failing to stop Chinese fraud network
We are seeing the break down of law as German imposed austerity drives nations to seek whatever revenue they can find. Passports and visas are sold, money is laundered, taxes can be avoided, import frauds […]
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