Politics. Portugal’s new budget bill will reveal the true colors of its progressive government.
by Goffredo Adinolfi, Lisbon (Portugal), il manifesto global, Nov. 26 2015
Refugees. More than 2,000 refugees and migrants are stranded in the cold at the Greece-Macedonia…
Refugee crisis. Brussels wants to give billions of euros to Frontex, an organization whose mission is…
Austerity. Craft breweries won’t face the tax increases Brussels demanded, but brandy is next in the firing line.
by Teodoro Andreadis Synghellakis, il manifesto global, Nov. 9 2015
Travel. Eight hundred monasteries, five hundred mountain gorges, late Minoan necropolis and Venetian-style…
The Volkswagen scandal, the TPP, harsh American data demands and a groundswell of dissent in Europe may bring the U.S.-E.U. trade deal to a complete standstill.
by Simone Pieranni in Brussels on Oct. 17, 2015
Lafontaine: The euro is de-industrializing European countries to the benefit of Germany. The example of Syriza in Greece demonstrates the impossibility of a government alternative and anti-austerity. The Italian left must join forces and build a new monetary system.
Maghreb. Reportage from Tunisia where people fleeing Libya are trapped in legal limbo. Refugees suffer secret prisons, the absence of asylum laws and arbitrary fees.