Monday, 6 May , 2024

Germany

Growing Poverty Fuels Europe’s Extremism

Exclusive: The European Union’s neoliberal economic orthodoxy has spread income inequality and even poverty across the Continent, spurring extremist movements to challenge this system,...

Macron: a French (potential) Thatcher

by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos Macron “scooped the pool and decamped” in the second round of the French presidential elections, scoring an easy victory over Marine Le...

L’élection présidentielle française au cœur d’une opération européenne de reprise en...

Source: GEAB Mai 2017, pour le Laboratoire Européen d’Anticipation Politique   La voix de la France dans le monde semblait avoir disparu depuis 2007 au moins, bien...

DiEM25 debates its strategy

https://diem25.org/diem25-to-form-europes-first-transnational-political-party/ Comments from unofficial DiEM25 facebook group:   TM: I do not see any question like "Should DiEM25 become a political party?" anywhere to be answered. Pity...

The Greek Debacle and the political credibility of the European Left

By Klaus Dräger There are two things that remained quite constant since the onset of the ‘euro-zone crisis’ and the ‘Greek tragedy’ starting in 2010....

Stop Pretending on Greek Debt

Greece can't prosper unless the European Union breaks the cycle of falling growth and rising indebtedness. Greece and its creditors say they’ve made progress in...

The European Left and the Greek Tragedy

by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos (*)   The day Greek workers and employees went on general strike, protesting against a new barrage of so-called “reforms” imposed by the...

German enthusiasm for Macron begins to wane

By Peter Schwarz The German enthusiasm for Emmanuel Macron has not lasted long. On the evening of the election, all parties, with the exception...

Defence Minister Von der Leyen downplays size of right-wing terrorist cell...

By Christoph Vandreier After more information was made public Tuesday about the existence of a neo-Nazi terrorist cell in the German army (Bundeswehr), the...

Defence Minister Von der Leyen apologises for criticizing the German army

By Ulrich Rippert 8 May 2017   On Thursday, German Defence Minister Ursula Von der Leyen apologized to army generals after having mildly criticised top...