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.
“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 (...)
The pandemic caught us all unprepared, but also showed that many current issues are rooted in long-term systemic problems. This article looks at some of the issues in the social services and care sector in the Czech Republic. It argues that many of them have already been affecting social (...)
Leaders of the 2020 abortion rights protests are trying to launch a centre-left alternative, that can capture the frustrations of ordinary Poles.
“We’re entering a second stage of the revolution, and everyone’s invited,” said Klementyna Suchanow during an online press conference on 22 December, (...)
The preparation for the jubileum for 30 years of Slovenian independence (23rd December 1990 referendum) has started pretty miserably, or we – should say – it corresponds to the spirit of right-wing populism, epitomised by the »great« leader Janez Janša. Janša has now become PM for the third time, (...)
On December 6, Romanians elected their members of parliament. The elections were held despite the fact that there were record numbers of Covid cases during the last month with more than 5,500 cases on the 1st of December and 148 people dead. This is the last chapter in a catastrophic management (...)
The republic is the future. This option enjoys broad majority support among people aged under 40, those who neither lived through the transition nor were able to vote for the Constitution. The data shows a notable generational and territorial polarization – also between left and right, with a (...)
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