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30 years of Swedish EU-membership: From socialist outsider to frugal stalwart
As Sweden marks 30 years of European Union (EU) membership this year, a perplexing image emerges: a country which for large parts of the 20th century resisted membership in the Common Market is now one of the most pro-EU on the continent (a record 68 percent of the population supported membership in 2023, rising continuously since 2001).[1] At the same time, the implications of this membership are almost never discussed: the European ...
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Jason Hickel
Jason Hickel on ecology, capitalism, and socialist strategy in the twenty-first century
On 15 May 2025, economic anthropologist, degrowth theorist, and author of popular works such as Less is More Jason Hickel delivered a provocative lectio magistralis as part of the Third Annual GRIP Lecture at the University of Bergen, sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s Brussels Office. In his presentation on “The Struggle for Development in the Twenty-First Century”, Hickel dismantled the idea that the development of the Global South ...
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A global call to divest from harm and invest in care through a 10% cut in military spending
Join us for the official launch event of the 10% for All campaign, a powerful global initiative calling for a minimum 10% reduction in military spending by all countries—and a redirection of those funds towards life-affirming priorities that build true human security.
Date: May 23, 2025, 4:00 - 5:30 PM CEST
Location: Zoom Webinar – Register here.
This public webinar will bring together expert voices from our campaign partners to explore the...
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Louise Schmidt
The Brussels Office of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung operates as a think tank reflecting on European and international issues such as the global power shift and the socio-ecological transformation of today's society.
We intends to conclude a long-term service agreement for interpretation services in order to foster mutual understanding of participants at our events in Brussels and Belgium.
You will find all details related to the preparation of your offer in the following documents:
“Appendix 1 Terms of order and ...
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IMAGO/ZUMA Press Wire
The EU elections in Spain saw a narrow victory for the centrist People's Party, which beat the Socialist Party by two seats. The clear victory goes to the political tradition of the bipartitism, with the two major parties winning a total of 64.37% of the vote. The far-right party VOX received 9.62%, comparable to its Portuguese counterpart CHEGA, which achieved 9.79%, but a far cry from the 15.60% of the Alternative for Germany, the 28.59% of the Fratelli d'Italia and the 31.36% of the Rassemblement National.
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Austerity, Gender Inequality and Feminism after the Crisis in Croatia
When we first started to look at various data, we found that both men and women in Croatia suffered grave consequences of the recent economic crisis. Only when we turned our eye to the devastation that happened during the 1990s and in the early 2000s did it became possible to see the different effects of cuts to social services and privatisation processes on women as a group. In a way, for Croatia the impact of austerity measures, since it declared its independence, can be ...
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Fossil gas is gaining ground and increasing in importance in the global energy scenario. There are numerous publications and studies evaluating the risk of fuels such as crude oil and coal, but in the case of gas it is more difficult to find critical analyses of the risks involved in its promotion.
This booklet intends to show the various dimensions and risks associated with the global and European push for gas. It examines its geopolitical, economic, financial, environmental, climatic and social aspects; it analyses the role of historical development, ...
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read more "Global Gas Lock-in. Bridge to nowhere"
This report on EU and national guidelines for fiscal balances, commissioned by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Brussels Office, is written at a time when the EU and member state national governments appear determined to make the present highly constrictive fiscal rules, which have heavily contributed to an overall poor economic performance, even tighter.
Despite the fact that the global financial crisis was a crisis brought on by excessive private debt, the EU and its most powerful member states insisted that the answer was to bear down ever more strongly ...
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How the EU plans to entrench and institutionalize Investor-State Dispute Settlement
The European Commission proposal for a global investor court for investor state dispute settlement (ISDS) – known as the Multilateral Investment Court – threatens to enshrine, expand, and entrench the current system of corporate privilege in future trade deals.
A world court for corporations would be the capstone in the architecture of corporate impunity, undermining democratic institutions and lawmaking, and worsening the power imbalance that grants rights, protections, ...
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