Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Previous articles concerning EU countries (and not EU institutions) are beginning to be regrouped in this new section. It will take time. Some countries not formal members of the EU are included in this section.
The 2024 cycle of German regional elections finished with the elections to the Brandenburg Landtag on 21 September. As was the case on 1 September in Saxony and Thuringia, the far-right AfD (Alternative for Germany) party achieved historic results and can feel a winner. Co-president Alice Weidel (…)
Seven people have died and 118 have been injured in the fires that have been raging since September 15 in the north and centre of the country. In just three days, 2024 has become the year with the fourth-largest area burned in the last decade.
Seven people have died and 118 have been injured (…)
Germany’s liberal education minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger has struggled to shake off calls to step down after an internal inquiry about cutting funding to academics based on their political positions went public. The ongoing scandal is illustrative of Germany’s uniquely restrictive approach (…)
Anti*Capitalist resistance statement on the General Election. Tories annihilated, Labour have a ‘loveless’ landslide, and hard-right Farage surges. There is a challenge from the left and on Gaza: organise the resistance now.
1 – The overwhelming majority of people will be glad to see the (…)
Dave Kellaway looks back at an election campaign that was over before it began
The Tory Collapse
It’s over. It has been over since Johnson’s partygate. The Tories have been finished since Liz Truss’s interest rate-boosting budget. This government lost when people realised they were worse (…)
With the final tallies counted and remaining seats filled, People Before Profits (PBP) Dublin South West and RISE members Diarmuid Flood and Paul Murphy review the deeply polarised Local and European Elections and outline five key takeaways.
For the second election in a row, dramatic (…)
OVIEDO, Spain
The confederation of Spanish universities (CRUE) announced on Thursday that it will cut ties with Israeli universities and research centers “that have not expressed a firm commitment to peace and compliance with international humanitarian law.”
The decision came as students (…)
Students encamped on the grounds of Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in protest at the university’s ties with Israel will stay “indefinitely, until our demands are met”, a spokesman for the group said.
Massive public support for the students and staff encampment for Palestine @tcddublin. @tcdsu (…)
Dave Kellaway reports on the controversy surrounding a historian’s attempt to give a minute’s monologue on the meaning of Italy’s National Liberation Day, April 25.
A few days ago, The Guardian wrote about how the RAI, which is the country’s public TV and radio company in Italy, had cut a (…)
Since the October 7th Hamas attacks and the subsequent Israeli offensive in Gaza, the German authorities and cultural institutions have embarked on a heavy-handed censorship against those who denounce the massive death toll of Palestinian civilians. Along with bans on demonstrations, there has (…)
As repression of Palestine solidarity penetrates every sector of life, the state’s liberal self-image is fast becoming a story Germans can only tell themselves.
After years in which Germany has increasingly narrowed the space for Palestine solidarity, the state’s intense clampdown on freedom (…)
Dave Kellaway provides an initial response to yesterday’s general election in Portugal.
Chega, the far-right party led by ex-TV football pundit Andre Ventura, was the big winner of the night, increasing its votes by over ten points but quadrupling its seats to 48. It now competes as the (…)
Romania won’t have to pay any compensation to the Canadian mining company Gabriel Resources for stopping the gold mining project at Rosia Montana, the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes in Washington (ICSID) decided on March 8, 2024.
Romania’s Government issued a (…)
At a press conference on Tuesday, the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK) explained its efforts to establish negotiating channels with the Finnish Government in recent weeks. These efforts have been futile, and the Government has instead announced the intention to continue (…)
Two groups are striking for better working conditions and investment in Germany’s underfunded public transport
Kaja Schwab, a Fridays for Future and #WeDriveTogether activist, joins Johnny Kiele, a Berlin tram driver, at a picket line. Photograph: Kate Connolly/The Guardian
At first sight, (…)
Two years after the invasion:
Russia out of Ukraine
Neither Putin nor NATO
Two years after the Putin regime’s criminal invasion of Ukraine, the attack has developed into the most devastating major war in Europe since 1945. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and injured, (…)
If his appeal fails this week, the WikiLeaks founder could soon be on a plane towards a potential jail term of 175 years
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he sought refuge for several years, in 2017. Photograph : Frank Augstein/AP
Walk past the (…)
At the request of South Africa, on January 26, 2024, the International Court of Justice, in a first procedural step, judged Israel’s war of annihilation against the Palestinian Gaza Strip and its 2.3 million-strong population to be a “plausible” violation of the 1948 Genocide Convention, both in (…)
As a young man, I listened to a speech by Bernadette McAliskey the year before the signing of the Good Friday Agreement – the pinnacle of what became known as the ‘peace process’. McAliskey did not object to peace, she had notoriously been subtitled by the BBC in a 1992 interview, when she said: (…)
The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance party has shifted the givens of the political situation... but in the wrong direction. For those who have been, for the past two decades, active members of the Die Linke party and one of its predecessor organisations, the “Electoral Alternative for Labour and (…)
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