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 […]
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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 […]
Migrants dead or missing: no faces or figures
Little is known about the identities of the 30,510 deceased migrants recorded by the Missing Migrants Project in the last five years. It is only known that almost 1,600 were children, 1,700 women and about 5,000 men. It is assumed that they left their homes and families seeking to improve […]
Portugal, underdeveloped memories of colonialism
French director Ariel de Bigault talks about the illusions of colonialist ideologies, which laundered the brutalities of slave trafficking. She highlights the failures of the left in Portugal and Brazil to recognize the racism inherent in their cultures. And tells a story of a journey that led her from music […]
Church vs. State
Why European courts don’t cut churches much slack during confinement. Darrin Burgess When Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York ordered a second wave of lockdowns last October to stem the contagion of Covid-19, he evoked the now-familiar distinction between essential and non-essential venues, and put severe restrictions on […]