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.
While the defeat of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš at the hands of a right-wing coalition surprised everyone, the electoral results can hardly be heralded as the end of populism. They do mark the demise of the billionaire oligarch Babiš, but they also show how far the political scene has shifted (...)
It is correct to call for the banning of fascist and extreme right-wing organizations, but there can be no illusion that their threat will be defeated as a result of actions from capitalist institutions.
The events of the last few days confront us with a particularly serious political and (...)
Prime minister Andrej Babiš’s party narrowly lost in the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election. For the left, the result was a disaster: both social democrats and communists failed to enter Parliament.
Results
With 27.8% the SPOLU (Togther) coalition, consisting of the Civic Democratic Party (...)
The parties in the “grand coalition” of Angela Merkel’s government, the conservative CDU/CSU (Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union) and the SPD (Social Democratic Party+ attracted only a quarter of the electorate each. The CDU/CSU had its worst result ever with 24.1% of the vote. The (...)
It was evident by about midnight on Monday, September 13, that the Left bloc, spearheaded by the Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet), was comfortably bagging an important victory in Norway’s elections.
The Red Party’s Bjonar Moxnes. Photo and graphics: roedt.no. Inset: Toni Usman. Image supplied
The (...)
“Do you all forget that not having s3x is an option?” The comment on 28-year-old Katie Jagielnicka’s TikTok post — a video criticising a recent near-total abortion ban in Poland — already has 261 responses. It’s a testament to the heated feelings that surround Jagielnicka’s support of abortion and (...)
“Welcome to the 19th century!” This is how Efimerida ton Syntakton (“The Editors’ Journal”, a daily aimed at a democratic and left-wing public) commented on the Parliament’s approval of the monstrous bill of the Minister of Labor, Kostis Chatzidakis, presented as a “reform” of labour relations which (...)
Last year the strongest and most-organized umbrella organization for unions, the Federation of Autonomous Trade Unions of Croatia (Savez samostalnih sindikata Hrvatske, SSSH) organized its very first e-protest in Croatia, titled “A thank you is fine, but workers’ rights come first!” (Radnicima (...)
Trade unions have been organizing protests since the start of 2021 against the newly adopted austerity measures of the Romanian government, which, among other things, froze the minimum wage despite rising living costs continued blocking collective labor negotiations and the social dialogue (...)
On May 26, the Swiss government declared an end to year-long negotiations with the European Union on a so-called Institutional Framework Agreement that was to consolidate and extend the roughly one hundred bilateral treaties now regulating relations between the two sides.
Negotiations began in (...)
To update the discussion on Zagreb je Naš/Možemo!, in the local elections held on 16 May 2021, the left-green coalition won 40.8% of the votes and 23 out of 47 seats in the City Assembly. Together with the five seats won by the Social Democratic Party (SDP), there will be a stable centre-left (...)
If your country is part of an international empire, the domestic politics of the country that rules yours are your domestic politics too. Whoever speaks of the Europe of the EU must therefore also speak of Germany. Currently it is widely believed that after the German federal elections of 24 (...)
The left-wing platform Možemo! emerged as the clear winner of elections in the Croatian capital
Local elections in Croatia are a tricky matter when it comes to declaring an overall winner, as the government is elected in cities, municipalities, and counties of different sizes and with divergent (...)
The Partido Popular (PP) led by Isabel Díaz Ayuso, one of the leaders of the party’s right wing, easily won the elections held on 4 May 2021 in the Community of Madrid.
The party now has 65 deputies as opposed to 30 previously and will be able to rule the region alone with support when needed (...)
Table of Madrid region early elections May 4th 2021
Right 78 seats Left 58 seats Governing majority = 69 Party Seats % 2019 % PP (Popular Party 65 (44,5%) 22.14 Más Madrid (More Madrid) 24 (16,9%) 14.6 PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers Party) 24 (16,7%) 27.2 Vox (Voice) 13 (9,1%) (...)
Campaigners hope more accurate picture of country’s makeup will challenge government narrative of near-universal Catholicism
Activists in Poland are asking people to consider if they are truly Roman Catholic when filling out a national census, hoping a more accurate picture of the country’s (...)
After less than a year since the start of the epidemic, Slovenia barely resembles a country that, for a long time, has been seen as a social-democratic outliner in the region. The outbreak of the epidemic coincided with a major political change bringing a far-right Slovenian Democratic Party (...)
Yesterday [22 March], Amazon workers in Italy held the first nationwide strike in the company’s history. Jeff Bezos’s firm has long used subcontracting, temporary hiring, and a maze of contracts to divide its workforce — but unionizing warehouse staff have made common cause with outsourced (...)
The Dutch election of mid-March were a shift to the right. A second conclusion: this fits into a longer pattern. The result is not very surprising, but it is disturbing. The right has become even more rightwing and a large part of the left vote has been swallowed up by supposedly progressive (...)
“The vibrant energy of the younger generations, combined with a possible reactivation of a sector of political activists with experience of struggles can constitute an element favourable to a new political phase”
In Greece, the year 2021 began with an offensive by the government led by prime (...)
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