ll Manifesto – Happy 41st !
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Il manifesto was founded April 28, 1971. But since February this year Italy’s not-for-profit independent communist daily has been on life support after state subsidies were cut. They haven’t given up. Since February, it launched a massive...
Drumming
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At the Kaaitheatre tonight we saw the sublime fusion of Steve Reich’s music (Drumming) and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker”s choreography. Drumming is mesmerising. The dancers ebb and flow, dwindle and reappear, dance alone or in seemingly un...
Greece returns to the Middle Ages as it prepares to go to the polls
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IN THE RADICAL PRESS / IL MANIFESTO Wages have decreased between 25 and 30% in a year. There are virtually no collective agreements. And over 33,000 Greeks on individual contracts who have had their pay cut between 20 and 28%. And last Saturday, ther...
US-China relations and the escape of Chen Guangcheng
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Just assume Chen Guangcheng is under the US protection. Question: Why would Washington agreed on this and how can this influence the future of China-US relations? Answer: Harold Tanner, Professor of Chinese History, Department of History, Univers...
US-China relations and the escape of Chen Guangcheng
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Just assume Chen Guangcheng is under the US protection. Question: Why would Washington agreed on this and how can this influence the future of China-US relations? Answer: Harold Tanner, Professor of Chinese History, Department of History, Univers...
Will the Fiscal Compact self-destruct?
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The Irish referendum on the European Stability treaty aka Fiscal Compact is scheduled to take place on Thursday 31st May. But given the dynamics that have emerged in the Eurozone and the EU in the last 2-3 weeks, against the "growth via austerity" do...
On Scottish Independence, European Citizens and French Tweets
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Welcome to Europe’s Blog Scene! So, where did the EU and the web meet each other the last couple of weeks? Let us have a look at a discussion about the repercussions of a possible Scottish independence. Furthermore, on April … Continue re...
U.S. growth is tepid, but it’s the envy of Europe
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By Daniel Gros, director of the Center for European Policy Studies in Brussels. The reality is that Europe as such can do very little to foster growth. More here...
U.S. growth is tepid, but it’s the envy of Europe
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By Daniel Gros, director of the Center for European Policy Studies in Brussels. The reality is that Europe as such can do very little to foster growth. More here...
EU demands Gibraltar comply with 2009 directive on defence and procurement contracts
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European Commission has threatened Britain with legal proceedings if it doesn’t fully comply with agreed standards set for tenders of defence contracts and immediately close a loophole being exploited by weapons procurement firms located on the Roc...
"There is no solution to the euro problem"
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Spain is clearly the next big problem in the seemingly never ending euro crisis. Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo has admitted that Spain faces a "crisis of huge proportions", with unemployment already at 24% and another downgrade of gove...
European reform - next steps
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As I've said in the introduction to my blog, the initial aim of my blog was to raise questions and issues about how Europe works now and how it might do so in future.But it's become clear from the traffic that over the past six months the site has ha...
A first cuckoo
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The dog took me running out at Berthem this morning and I heard my first Belgian cuckoo (I heard my first cuckoo of the year in Italy over the Easter break). That’s late and, as this article in last Sunday’s Observer explained, the laten...
Defender of the Indefensible
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Ever hear of Clarence Darrow? You have if you’ve ever heard of the “Monkey Trial” of 1925 in Tennessee, which pitted him against William Jennings Bryan. But I’m not referring to that here. For that matter, ever hear of Robert...
Dogs and Transcripts: NYT Gives Yet Another Example of Double Standards
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Speaking truth to power?Gail Collins has a column in the New York Times that will probably make all its liberal readers guffaw at the pathetic Republican candidates, which is normal, because she uses gross caricatures of the right's candidates alone,...
Etuc calls for action as work claims 170,000 lives in EU
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ETUC remembers International Workers’ Memorial Day and calls for ‘systematic and substantive improvements in health and safety’ in EU where 170,000 lives claimed by work-related accidents and diseases a year. Read...
Can Holande walk the walk?
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At the moment, the Euro Area is stagnating, unemployment is rising and the entire banking system is dangerously fragile—in Nouriel Roubini’s phrase, we are watching a slow motion train wreck. But if the opinion polls are right, François Holl...
Erkan Saka ve Hıdır Geviş ile Yurttaş Gazeteciliği #medyaokulu #pub204 @benimadimhizir #yurttasgazeteci
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TweetShare via email Biraz acemi bir korsan çekim burada Serhatcan Yurdam’ın derlemesi burada. Bizden öncek: Medya Okulu’nda günün 2. dersi “Gazeteciler İçin Sosyal Medya Araçları”. Sosyal medya ajansı Dekatlo...
London’s Portuguese Gala
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Among the many newspapers that serve London’s multicultural community, the Portuguese language As Noticias is something of a leader. There are reputedly around 400,000 Portuguese in Britain — not to mention the large numbers of Brazilians...
Beer, sex and Euro2012
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Friends told me they were confused about an advertisement on Dutch TV, mixing Euro 2012, beer and sex. I don’t watch Dutch television, but I easily found the video on YouTube, with key words “Keep him home”. “Keep him home” is he message of...
Beer, sex and Euro2012
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Friends told me they were confused about an advertisement on Dutch TV, mixing Euro 2012, beer and sex. I don’t watch Dutch television, but I easily found the video on YouTube, with key words “Keep him home”. “Keep him home” is he message of...
Why We Fight: The War on Women and the continuing attacks on our reproductive rights
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I don’t always comment on every major event that’s happening in relation to women’s rights – I simply don’t have the time – but it still surprises me how long I have managed to stay silent about the current “...
The parties of the European left need to move beyond the politics of denouncement and prove to voters that they can deliver the solutions needed to address the crisis.
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Since the beginning of the crisis the European left has denounced the politics of austerity, which has often led to accusations from the right that it is ‘in denial’ of high deficits and public debts. Andrew Watt argues that the … Continue...
Our French resistance is only just beginning, says Melenchon
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In unity we on the left have found the strength to stop Sarkozy and derail the politics of austerity, says Jean Melenchon writing in The Guardian...
Presidential elections in France: Eva Joly 2.3%
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A look at the results The first round of the French presidential elections took place last Sunday. It saw the Socialist Party’s François Hollande (at 28.6%) take the lead in the race with the conservative (UMP) Nicolas Sarkozy (at 27%) Accordi...
Igor Lukes: ‘US attitude towards Europe is above party lines’
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We present to you an interview with Igor Lukes, Czech-born professor of History and International Relations at Boston University. Our correspondent Jakub Janda questioned him about Republican Primaries, role of foreign policy in American political ca...
Spain: St. George's Day, Catalan Culture and Protest
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Saint George's Day (Diada de Sant Jordi in Catalan) is a unique celebration in Catalonia. Tradition holds that the festival revolves around roses and books. April 23rd has always been a day of protest in the name of Catalan language and cultur...
A Hero, George Zimmerman.
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You are no doubt aware that George Zimmerman is the killer in the Trayvon Martin case. It was told by him that Martin came closer to him, resting his hand on the waist. This is enough to condone shooting a human being. Most people would pull a gun, i...
