A different Europe should adopt a policy of peace and neutrality. For the moment, demands like this arise as the dispersed expression of very diverse groups and citizen initiatives but they are gaining ever more ground among wide sections of the population. Juan Diego García Public awareness is improving […]
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The deterioration of the democracies in Europe
The democratic system is experiencing notable erosion in the so-called consolidated democracies of Europe, and the United States is suffering a process of acute deterioration which restricts the democratic spaces through practices believed to be dead and buried after the nightmare of McCarthyism and institutionalised racial discrimination. Juan Diego […]
Searching for Britain’s true calling in life
With newfound diplomatic flourish, the United States has announced that it will no longer sell arms to Saudi Arabia in support of its role in Yemen’s civil war. Darrin Burgess* The conflict has already cost 100,000 lives, and prevailing international opinion is that Saudi Arabia’s largest weapons supplier […]
Pandemic and privatisation: when the market becomes deadly
From hospitals to care homes, the outsourcing and privatisation of healthcare, in combination with various austerity policies, have significantly degraded EU member states’ capacity to deal effectively with COVID-19, costing extra lives. A new report by lobby watchdog Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) recently published shows that neoliberal reforms that […]
The hostile Europe of undocumented immigrants
The new migratory agreement is among the most important European events of 2020, despite the fact that it constitutes the regional bloc’s greatest failure of the last five years and becomes a difficult challenge to solve. Ernesto Hernández Lacher The pact distributes responsibilities among the member states, reinforces […]
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