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Balance Migratorio ’23: “2,789 people lost their lives or disappeared forever at Spain’s southern border”.

This is the record number of deaths and disappearances at the southern border since 1988 when the first registers were documented. A total of 58,267 people entered the Spanish state irregularly through its southern border, an increase of 40% compared…

February 2024: 10th anniversary of the conflict in Ukraine

In the coming days, we will surely hear about the so-called second anniversary of the war in Ukraine. Western governments, corporate media broadcasting the official pro-US line all day long, and “experts”-propagandists of this line will deliver their pseudo-analyses. All…

A European universal basic income

Proposals of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) have proliferated enormously during the first decades of the 21st century, especially with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic at the beginning of 2020. Jordi Arcarons, Daniel Raventós, Lluís Torrens. One of the…

Citizen groups denounce EU leaders’ secret polluters’ pact

Today, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have been attending a closed-door meeting with 70 or more corporate leaders of Big Polluters to launch a declaration for a ‘European Industrial Deal’ at…

Supporters Rally Outside UK Consulate in NYC as Julian Assange’s High Court Hearing Begins

Today, amidst chilling temperatures, passionate supporters of journalist Julian Assange gathered outside the UK Consulate in New York City. Organized by various groups including NYC Free Assange, Assange Defense, and CODEPINK, the rally aimed to draw attention to Assange’s high-stakes…

The money of the banks, the army and the Catholic Church

 The real military expenditure of the Kingdom of Spain is immense. And it is increasing. It is one political option to devote a considerable part of the general state budget to military expenditure, but it is another to devote this…

An important step towards equality for same-sex couples

Back to 2008. Based on what we learned a few hours later and what is detailed in the later documentary by Panagiotis Evaggelidis, the late Mayor of the tiny island of Tilos, Tasos Aliferis, performs a civil marriage to two…

Disgraceful living conditions in the ‘state-of-the-art’ Closed Controlled Access Centre (CCAC) of Samos

According to refugee testimonies and information from organisations active in the field, disgraceful living conditions prevail in the overcrowded Closed Controlled Access Centre (CCAC) in Samos, whose construction was 100% financed by the European Union. As we highlight in the…

France and the anger of the countryside

The impact of inflation, low wages, unfair competition, bureaucracy, income inequality and European environmental standards that they describe as too severe were at the centre of the complaints from the second half of January to the beginning of February, mobilisations…

Migrations and solutions

I postulate that nobody initially wants to leave their countries, homes, customs, and families. Man is a social and gregarious animal and the bonds that are generated with those close to him, nuclear family and close friends, is a union…

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