Portugal has moved a step closer to ordering digital platforms such as Uber and Glovo to employ some of their drivers as staff with formal contracts and benefits, becoming the latest European nation to tackle the gig economy.
Geopolitics
Fréderic Lordon – Endgame
Equality in a binational, egalitarian state is the path to a viable peace in the land of Palestine. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
Climate Crisis
Mongabay: The Netherlands to stop paying subsidies to ‘untruthful’ biomass firms
Why is it newsworthy that a nation bans subsidies to criminal corporations? Becuase it hardly ever happens. Our whole economic system is based on criminality and rapaciousness. Read Here
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker – Germany: Downturn in the economy and a simultaneous downturn in economic analysis
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is not an economic expert. Nobody expects him to be. However, the head of government of the world’s fourth largest industrialised nation should have advisors to protect him from disqualifying himself […]
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