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Economics

rfi: Refineries strike and rebate lead to fuel shortages in French stations

October 6, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

More than one petrol station in ten was out of all or part of its fuel in France on Thursday, as workers at TotalEnergies continued their strike at the oil giant’s refineries. Read Here

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Economics

RFI: UK economy shrinks for second month in a row

June 13, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Britain is heading into recesssion. Can Europe be far behind? Read Here Photo: Henning Schlottmann licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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EU politics

rfi: Hungary court avoids EU conflict after Orban challenge

December 11, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Hungary’s constitutional court on Friday rejected a bid by Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government to challenge an EU court ruling against its harsh asylum policy. Read here

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Environment

rfi: France moves to ease pesticide ban to save sugar beet farmers

September 7, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is typical for the EU. First a law forbidding neonicotinoids, then providing openings to by-pass the law and use this insecticide. Ten other EU member states have also used the exemption.Thus the EU can […]

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rfi – Macron backs down on pledge to ban glyphosate in France

January 29, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Macron does not back down regarding tax breaks for the rich, or destroying the pension system of people who work, but for Germany’s Bayer he will do anything – to please his ami le plus […]

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rfi: Self-employed workers in France join strike over pension reform

January 4, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Representatives of more than 16 professions including doctors and lawyers have joined strike action to defend their self-funded pension schemes which they say the government’s pension reforms ignore. Read here

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EU politics

rfi – French unions vow no surrender in month-long strike

January 1, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Yellow Vest did not go away, nor does it appear that this strike will disappear without a resolution. Read here Head of the French CGT labour union, Philippe Martinez, urged public and private sector […]

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EU politics

rfi: Red and Yellow Vests in joint strike, but can they become joint force?

February 5, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Tens of thousands of people across France downed tools on Tuesday and marched against President Macron’s policies. The day of strike action was called by the hard left CGT trade union. And for the first […]

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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

June 15, 2025 0

Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

Geopolitics

A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

May 5, 2025 0

Book Review by Chris Green It provides a modicum of relief to one’s mental health to turn from Nicholas Kristof’s lame bothsidesism and Bernie Sanders’s blather about Israel’s “right to defend itself” to reading Chris […]

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