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All is not well with the G20, which lacks democratic legitimacy, is hopelessly divided and is also losing its political influence. The main reason for this is the conflict between the US and China, the EU and the rest of the world. So how should we interpret the predictably surprising outcomes of the meeting of G20 leaders in Osaka, Japan, with respect to the role played by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), US trade wars and EU strategy? In the run-up to the G20 summit, most of the mainstream media predicted another battle in the US trade ...
read more "The G20 in Osaka: all quiet on the Eastern front"
read more "The G20 in Osaka: all quiet on the Eastern front"
Facts and figures about people on the moveMigration: a contested human right Migration is not a social outlier. Every modern society and every state in the world is also a result of human mobility. The migration issue nevertheless sparks heated political debates around the globe, while opinion formation among citizens, politicians, political parties, and movements often occurs along the axes of the migration question and policies of dealing with it. The myths and images that have emerged around the social phenomenon of migration are correspondingly powerful. Among the ...
read more "The Atlas of Migration"
read more "The Atlas of Migration"
The newsletter is published every two months and capture the latest, most exciting developments in working-time reduction from across Europe. It is produced by the New Economics Foundation (UK), and is coordinated by ATTAC (Germany – Group ArbeitFAIRTeilen) and Réseau Roosevelt (France). It is supported by Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Brussels Office and funded by the German Federal Foreign Office. You find the shorter working week newsletter 2 here. If you want to receive the newsletter automatically please sign up here.
Since its election in 2015, Denmark’s rightist government had been struggling to keep control of a chaotic coalition. The liberal party Venstre, led by Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, insisted on keeping the minority government afloat by making a long range of devastating concessions to the ultra-liberalists in Liberal Alliance and the nationalists in Dansk Folkeparti. Demands for extreme measures against immigration and tax cuts for the wealthiest Danes shook the foundations of the government and caused voters to diffuse...
read more "Outgoing government: Infighting lead to the fall of the Danish right"
read more "Outgoing government: Infighting lead to the fall of the Danish right"
A Tale of Two LeftsThe April and May general, regional, local and European Parliament elections have inaugurated a new period of Spanish politics, remarkably reconfiguring the party system.There have been important changes in the weight of parties from both the right and left blocks.The Social Democrat PSOE and the radical-left Unidas Podemos (UP) coalition got opposing outcomes, showing a reinvigorated PSOE and a struggling UP. April and May brought a succession of important elections with results whose relevance has modified Spanish politics. ...
read more "The 2019 European Parliament Elections in Spain"
read more "The 2019 European Parliament Elections in Spain"
The French Left comes out divided and weakened from the European campaign. The socialist party has managed to survive and to maintain itself whereas La France Insoumise has not succeeded in remobilising its electorate, staying far behind its ambitioned score. Both parties lag behind the Greens who imposed themselves as the third political force. In the light of the consolidation of La République en Marche and of the Rassemblement National in the political landscape, the Left faces the challenge of political recomposition ...
read more "Explosive-implosive relations: The Twin Rise of Macronism and Nationalism"
read more "Explosive-implosive relations: The Twin Rise of Macronism and Nationalism"
Analyse und AussichtenThey might be hard to see at first glance, but seismic shifts in Hungary's political landscape marked this year's European Parliament elections. Even before the polls opened, there was no doubt that the Fidesz-KDNP Party Alliance headed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán would win these elections hands down. By unscrupulously focusing on the issue of refugees and immigration (which however hardly affects Hungary at all), Orbán again did well with broad swathes of the electorate. Meanwhile, though, the pro-European opposition ...
read more "The 2019 European Parliament Elections in Hungary"
read more "The 2019 European Parliament Elections in Hungary"
Torn between a „Europe that protects“, a „Europe of nations“ and a „People’s Europe“French citizens are being called on to elect the 79 representatives who will represent them in the European Parliament on 26 May 2019. This election will be critical not only with regards to the recalibration of political forces in the European assembly and the subsequent political project to be carried out by the future President of the European Commission. It will also reconfigure the national political forces in the context of a deep social crisis and ...
read more "France in the run-up to the European Parliament Election"
read more "France in the run-up to the European Parliament Election"
Torn between a „Europe that protects“, a „Europe of nations“ and a „People’s Europe“French citizens are being called on to elect the 79 representatives who will represent them in the European Parliament on 26 May 2019. This election will be critical not only with regards to the recalibration of political forces in the European assembly and the subsequent political project to be carried out by the future President of the European Commission. It will also reconfigure the national political forces in the context of a deep social crisis and ...
read more "France in the run-up to the European Parliament Election"
read more "France in the run-up to the European Parliament Election"
The newsletter is published every two months and capture the latest, most exciting developments in working-time reduction from across Europe. It is produced by the New Economics Foundation (UK), and is coordinated by ATTAC (Germany – Group ArbeitFAIRTeilen) and Réseau Roosevelt (France). It is supported by Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Brussels Office and funded by the German Federal Foreign Office. You find the shorter working week newsletter 1 here. If you want to receive the newsletter automatically please sign up here.