Geopolitics
UN News – Mass graves in Gaza show victims’ hands were tied, says UN rights office
We are only scratching the surface of the horror Israel has inflicted in Gaza. Read the article HERE.
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Braiz Fernandez, Dave Kellaway – Remembering the Carnation revolution
Western Europe’s last revolution was half a century ago. Will it take another half century for the next one? In ‘International Viewpoint’. Read the article HERE.
Economics
DeStatis – German Recession: Exports to non-EU countries in March 2024: expected decrease of 1.5% year on year
Exports to third countries (calendar and seasonally adjusted exports of goods), March 2024 59.4 billion euros -0.8% on the previous month -1.5% on the same month a year earlier Exports to third countries (original values, […]
Geopolitics
LRT: Lithuania opts not to contest ECtHR ruling on CIA prison
Lithuania has not appealed the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR) ruling on the unlawful detention of a Saudi national in a suspected secret CIA prison near Vilnius two decades ago. Read HERE The European […]
Geopolitics
Rajan Menon: How to end the war in Ukraine
After such enormous violence and destruction, we need a far more nuanced understanding of the war—its causes, how it might be ended, and the challenges that will remain once it is over. Read HERE Photo: […]
Aviation
Transport & Environment: Low cost airlines pollute more than ever, latest emissions data shows
More than three quarters of European aviation emissions aren’t subject to a carbon price, new study shows. Read HERE Photo: Public Domain
Finance
Euronews: Low-income Europeans face hard times in housing cost struggle
“ECB research shows that more than one-fourth of low-income households expect late payments on their mortgages in the coming months.” In EuroNews. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Kjell Östberg – Sweden’s Welfare State Was a Product of Class Struggle
‘Swedish Social Democracy is often idealized as a benign reformist force that delivered welfare to the grateful masses. Yet the Swedish social model was the product of conflict — and a working-class radicalism that the […]
Economics
DeStatis – German Recession: Stock of orders in manufacturing in February 2024: -5.8% year on year
The real (price adjusted) stock of orders in manufacturing was down 0.2% in February 2024 month on month after seasonal and calendar adjustment, according to provisional figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). The calendar […]
Geopolitics
United Nations: No evidence yet of Israel’s claims against UNWRA: Colonna report
Israeli authorities have provided no proof yet following their three-month-old claim that a dozen UN staff colluded with Hamas in the 7 October attacks in Israel, according to the final report of an independent review […]