Europe

Dear friends, we have met here in Madrid on the 11th, 12th and 13th of May 2018 in a time of extreme concern, both for the social situation in which violence increases and life becomes more difficult every day, and…

Elizabeth Benjamin, Coventry University for The Conversation As France marks the 50th anniversary of the revolts of May 1968, Emmanuel Macron might get more than he bargained for. Instead of celebrating the occasion, the French president appears to be inadvertently…

In his Facebook page Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, has published a statement on the local election results. Labour achieved a solid set of results in the local elections. We have consolidated and built on the advances we made at…

Women’s March Milan supports the call for truth in the reported honor killing of young Italian-Pakistani woman Sana Cheema. We join the voices of activists Wajahat Abbas Kazmi, Sveva Basirah Balzini and Elena De Piccoli in demanding the #TruthForSana from Pakistani…

Professor Tiberio Feliz Murias runs the Centre for the Care of Disabled University Students (UNIDIS) at the National University of Distance Education (UNED), in Madrid, Spain, and teaches at the Faculty of Educational Sciences. He is a natural born facilitator…

Daniela Hirsch, 34, is a Chilean lawyer, lifelong humanist and married with a daughter. If anyone does not know what I am talking about, I am referring to the case of the girl in Spain who was raped by five…

By Claire Provost for openDemocracy Foreign and ‘alt-right’ activists are among those that have targeted Irish voters on Facebook ahead of next month’s historic referendum on abortion rights. Under Irish law, foreign citizens and groups are not allowed to make donations…

Press Releqse, 27 April 2018 Source: European Commission Today, Member States’ representatives in a Standing Committee have backed a proposal by the European Commission to further restrict the use of three active substances (imidacloprid, clothianidin and thiamethoxam, known as “neonicotinoids”) for…

Erica Consterdine, University of Sussex for The Conversation Immigration policy under Theresa May’s tenure might be the most draconian in Britain’s history. Never has an administration focused so much time and effort on an anti-migration policy – and one that…

“The major left party concluded that the US-led missile strikes violated international law”. by Ann Garrison Originally posted on Black Agenda Report, April 25, 2018 Germany did not join the US, UK, and France in the latest missile strikes in…