The Covid-19 crisis, the most serious global health crisis in a century, forces us to fundamentally rethink the notion of international solidarity. Beyond the right to produce vaccines and medical equipment, it is the whole question of the right of poor countries to develop and to receive part of the tax revenues of the world’s multinationals and billionaires that must be asked. We need to move beyond the neo-colonial notion of international aid, paid at the whim of rich countries and under their control, and finally move towards a logic of rights.
EU politics
VilaWeb English: How Spain uses its Constitutional Court to prevent Europe from protecting the rights of Catalonia’s political prisoners
Sànchez and Turull’s hunger strike aims to expose the hurdles laid on their path to the European Court of Human Rights Read here
Economics
Alphaville: Modern Monetary Theory – America has never worried about financing its priorities
Is it MMT, the rise of progressive voices in the USA, zeitgeist? Things are certainly changing Read here
EU politics
Gary Younge – What Black America Means to Europe
From the vantage point of a continent that both resents and covets American power, and is in no position to do anything about it, African-Americans represent to many Europeans a redemptive force: the living proof […]
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