cost-of-living crisis

Youth Organisations And Left-wing Parties Call For March For Our Pensions Demonstrators, including one holding a sign wi
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Macron Makes a Power Move

Ethan Earle
France on the edge
The French president’s deeply unpopular pension reform could make or break his administration Thursday, 19 January 2023 was a historic day in France, with well over 1 million people turning out in the streets as part of a nationwide strike to protest proposed reforms to the country’s vaunted pension system. Sound familiar? It should, because a similar reform proposed by President Emmanuel Macron was blocked by popular protest just a few years ago. The exact crowd numbers are disputed, as always, with the police estimating 1.12 million, while the Confédération...
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Mapping Europe’s Cost of Living Crisis

Nessim Achouche
Social-ecological transformation
A new project tracks the continent’s growing social crisis and political responses to it Price hikes in the energy sector across Europe in autumn of last year marked the outset of what we now know as the cost of living crisis. The energy component of the crisis became more acute with the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, prompting most of Europe to wean itself off of Russian gas, while also stoking fears among the general population whether energy supplies would be sufficient to keep people warm this – or even next – winter. Yet ...
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Capping Prices, Taxing Profits

Yago Álvarez
PublicationsSocial-ecological transformation
An analysis of the Spanish government’s response to the cost-of-living crisis Just as the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic finally seemed to be behind us, the war in Ukraine that began in February 2022 sent the world economy into another tailspin. With Russian gas now tainted by Putin’s invasion, Europe acted quickly to abandon what had until then been its most important source of cheap fuel — with skyrocketing prices as the result. Since then, European consumers have found themselves paying energy bills that are two, three, or even four times higher than ...
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