Analysis
As energy costs surge and decarbonisation pressures mount, Europe’s steel crisis exposes the limits of profit-driven industry — and the case for public ownership Europe’s steel sector is in crisis. The obvious culprit is the continent’s high energy prices, now further escalating in the wake of the Iran war. But the deeper problem lies elsewhere: the industry risks returning increasingly fewer profits to company bosses and shareholders. Amidst their troubles, there’s an opportunity for the Left to make a strong case for public ...
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On 24 March, Denmark goes to the polls in an early election that could reshape the Nordic country’s political landscape
Earlier this year, Social Democratic Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was riding a modest “Greenland bounce” due to the tense stand-off with Donald Trump over Greenland. While this may have prompted her to call a snap election to save her flagging mandate, it is domestic politics that have defined the campaign, and with more than a dozen parties in the mix, the outcome is far from clear. The results may also mark an end ...
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As rents soar across Europe, the European Parliament reinforces market logic instead of confronting the structural roots of the housing crisis Despite lacking direct legislative competence in housing, European policy has for decades exerted a profound, often detrimental, influence on national housing markets. As the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung study “The Impact of EU Policies on Housing” shows, EU economic governance, state aid rules, and internal market regulations have played a decisive role in shaping housing ...
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As the last vote before the presidential race, France’s municipal elections are following a different pattern to the broader national political scene, with key issues and political alliances varying greatly from one municipality to another. While the Socialist Party (PS) and the Republicans (LR) hope to preserve their deep-rooted local support, the National Rally (RN), La France Insoumise (LFI) and the presidential camp are instead looking to nationalise the vote and to establish themselves as permanent fixtures in the everyday lives of French...
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Verena Glass, RLS Sao Paulo
Under the slogan “We are the answer”, traditional and indigenous communities are calling for a new focus in climate justice After four years, the COP has once again been held in a democratic country. I say “democratic” but I’m not sure that’s the word to describe a system that allows more than 120 people to be massacred at the hands of the police, even if what happened in the outskirts of Rio just a few weeks ago already seems to be old news. Then again, in Spain we’re still flaunting our impunity regarding the 2014 Tarajal incident and ...
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