The new EU Migration and Asylum Pact, while intended to streamline and improve migration processes, has faced widespread criticism from human rights organizations, experts, and civil society activists. Instead of providing a humane response to the migration crisis, the pact relies heavily on security-focused and restrictive approaches.
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Major insurers invested billions of dollars in fossil fuels
A new report exposes the complicity of global insurers in the climate crisis by insuring and investing in fossil fuel companies. Key findings include $6.5 billion invested in fossil fuels by Allianz, AXA, Aviva, Zurich, and Intact. Blood money fuelling climate collapse; Insurance giants like Allianz and AXA prop […]
A political change in Cuba requires economic prosperity
The North American intervention, the ideological battle, the manipulation of the Western media and the contradictions of the Cuban regime are some of the elements which depict an uncertain future for the Latin American country. (The Prisma memoirs) Juanjo Andres Cuervo The end of the Cold War was […]
iyatraQuartet and its modern environmental chamber music
Creating free-flowing music that travels on the wind of improvisation rather than the confines of the anticipated, takes skill and inspiration. And this group has both. Its new collection of compositions and songs called “Wild Green’ is an enchanting exploration of the strength of the cycles of the natural world […]
700,000 empty buildings, but politicians are indifferent
Portugal is one of the countries worst affected by the loss of residential housing, yet successive governments of whatever party seem uninterested. Lisbon Council has just approved two more hotels in the centre of the city. An empty state-owned barracks in Lisbon is in the process of being sold to be made into a 5-star hotel.
















