EU politics
Devriş Çimen: Turkey’s election is about democracy itself
Turkey’s 14 May election could be a significant turning point. In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
Europe
Finance
Ben Wray – May Day: Labour and Platform Capital in Europe
For International Workers Day, Gig Economy Project co-ordinator Ben Wray finds that digital labour platforms are responding to the inflation crisis by finding new algorithmic means to ratchet up the rate of exploitation, but platform […]
Climate Crisis
Charlotte Sophia Bez, Lorenzo Feltrin – Why Europe must address the problem of ‘noxious deindustrialisation’
Many areas in Europe are seeing a sharp decline in industrial jobs, without high-polluting industries disappearing Charlotte Sophia Bez is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the FutureLab CERES at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) […]
EU politics
Laura Lambert, Martin Lemberg-Pedersen: Europe outsourcing asylum to African countries is a terrible idea – there are alternatives
Denmark and the UK have led the way in seeking to export the problem of refugees and economic migrants to the global south Laura Lambert is a Senior Researcher at the University of Freiburg. Martin […]
EU politics
Thomas Fazi: Does Europe need to split?
Thomas Fazi writes in ‘Unherd’ on the growing East-West divide in the European Union. Read the article HERE.
Finance
#ReWolt: Why are Wolt strikes spreading across Europe?
Strikes at Wolt have taken place in at least eight European countries since the start of the year, with four occurring in the past week. Why are the riders taking action now? The Gig Economy […]
EU politics
Jacobin: How Russia’s war broke the backbone of the European left
Interesting interview with author of new book ‘This war does not end in Ukraine’. Read the article HERE.
Economics
Serena Di Luccio – Windfall profits for banks, crisis for people: The money system is unfair and needs to be reformed
As a consequence of the European Central Bank (ECB) raising its interest rates, banks in the euro area will earn €70 billion in unearned windfall profits. Cross-posted from Positive Money Europe There is a huge […]
Finance
Tech Won’t Save Us: What new EU rules might mean for gig workers
Paris Marx, host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast, is joined by Ben Wray, Gig Economy Project co-ordinator, to discuss the fight to win a pro-worker Platform Work Directive in the European Union, Uber’s […]
Finance
Ben Cuzzupe, Peter Norwood: Crunch time for consumer credit in Europe
As the cost of living crisis bites, working class Europeans are increasingly getting into problematic debt. Ben Cuzzupe is an Editor and Communications Officer at Finance Watch. Peter Norwood is a Senior Research and Advocacy […]