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.
EU politics
France 24: ‘It’s up to Turkey’, say Lesbos locals of migration surge
Kicking the can down the road, and down the road, and down the road. Read here
Climate Crisis
ITV: ‘Why so generous?’: Inside Italy’s scheme offering huge subsidies towards low-carbon eco-homes
Italy’s government is encouraging households to convert their living spaces into eco-homes by covering 110% of the cost Read here A worker operates at a construction site in Milan, Italy. Credit: AP
Finance
David Graeber: We’re racing towards another private debt crisis – so why did no one see it coming?
From The New Statesman As in 2008 private debt threatens to provoke the next financial crisis in the United Kingdom. Once again the facts are being ignored by those financial instituions responsible. Read here
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