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1. How well did the left go in the June 9 European election?

   a side issue when compared to declining living standards, global warming, rising racism and the right’s ... “influencer” Alvise Pérez, who stands for “freedom” in the style of Argentinian president Javier Milei. In ...

2. Live Blog: News and analysis on Catalonia's struggle for self-determination

   And the sum of the "very satisfied" and "satisfied" group rises to only 22.55%. ...

3. Spain: Right blasts education reform as threat to ‘freedom’, ‘pluralism’

   shook, as scores of deputies pounded their desks and chanted “Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!” on November 19. ... espousing “freedom of choice”. More Plural’s petition against the Celaá law has already gathered 1.8 million ... Sandra Moneo, “a genuine outrage that damages the most basic principles of rights and freedoms enshrined ...

4. Basque Country: Left nationalists rising

   factor driving the rise of EH Bildu was last year's decision by the Basque Homeland and Freedom ... Euskadi, the Basque autonomous community within the Spanish state, are expected to confirm the rising ...

5. Live Blog: Catalonia's Independence Struggle Continues...

   Love of freedom has to be a more powerful sentiment than revulsion towards those who have taken this ... freedom away. Nothing has ever been built on the basis of hatred. That is why the PP seems so interested ... democracy, freedom and social justice and overcoming the identity-based message which is the only banner the ...

6. Live Blog: Catalonia's independence struggle

   DENOUNCE the violence, lies, imprisonment, persecution of freedom of assembly and expression, the abolition ... Broken image link. PDECat councilors on Barcelona Council demanding "freedom ("llibertat") ... want?" Broken image link. 'Jailed' Broken image link. 'Freedom for the political ...

7. Blog: The COVID-19 crisis in Europe

   improved outcomes, researchers said. Nor was there evidence it caused greater risks. Estonia: Freedom of ... to guarantee capacity to respond if there are rises in infections and the resulting rise in case ... MFF since 2018. The MFF operating from 2014-2020 was set at 1.03 per cent of EU28 GNI, but that rises ...

8. Spain: Pablo Iglesias folds as hard right wins Madrid region

   bullets) mailed to Iglesias, insinuating it was a UP operation done to win sympathy. Why was there no rise ... “communism or freedom”. Ayuso also added a hip tone into what would otherwise have been a standard PP rant ... against the left. Asked on TV what she meant by “freedom”, she mentioned Madrid’s nightlife (she had ...

9. Live Blog | Catalonia on Trial: The Spanish State vs. The Catalan 12

   Dick Nichols Catalonia's right to self-determination: Europe's key struggle for democracy SIGN THE PETITION SUPPORTING CATALONIA'S RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION N ote on blog THIS BLOG HAS ENDED. FOR OUR CONTINUING COVERAGE OF CATALONIA GO HE ...

10. European elections: Either Macron or Salvini?

    that the wave of disaffection with “Brussels” is on the rise. But how real is the scenario of ... Conservative and Reformists Group (ECR), Europe for Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD), the European Alliance ... Freedom (ENF). Its core is made up of Salvini’s Lega Nord, Marine Le Pen’s French National Front (now ...

11. Spanish election: will the right triumph?

    guarantees the freedom of protest is the same one that judges politicians who break the constitutional rules ... within the right between the PP and the “liberal” Citizens — now intensified by the rise of the ... murdered by the Basque Homeland and Freedom, or a serial killer. The “star candidate” is former MP Cayetana ...

12. Spanish law on trial as Catalan leaders face jail

    move to calm the rising storm. On November 7, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced that his ... with being members of terrorist organisation Basque Homeland and Freedom (ETA). According to the ECHR ...

13. Battlelines set for Catalonia's election showdown

    155. The Spanish PM added: “We want to recover the Catalonia of everyone in democracy and freedom, and ... total rising from 52 to 55. The balance is held by Catalunya en Comu (CeC, Catalonia Together), ... in Catalan society in recent years alongside the rise of the independence movement. This has been ...

14. Dutch election: Wilders stalls, but left still faces a stronger right

    of Islamophobe Geert Wilders’ Party of Freedom (PVV) in the March 15 Dutch general election was ... a rise of only 3% (five seats). Given expectations it could have won the election, this was a setback. ... Party of Freedom and Democracy (VVD). The PVV only started to poll behind the VVD in the last 10 days of ...

15. Luxembourg: The Left party congress builds social resistance agenda

    Socialism Economy Dick Nichols Dudelange Compared with a southern Europe stricken by ever-rising ... rising attack, and of this offensive meeting rising resistance from the union movement and the left. Dei ... business lines) and defence of individual freedom against plans to increase state surveillance powers. ...

16. Protests paralyse Catalonia as pro-independence groups debate elections

    rising to more than 80%, surpassing the previous record of 74.95% in the 2015 elections, which was seen ... shift in Catalan society in recent years with the rise of the independence movement. The main political ... 11, 2017 1161 Protesters in Barcelona demand freedom for the political prisoners on November 8. World ...

17. European elections: Signs of hope in the gloom

    Flemish Alliance (NVA) won with 16.35% of the vote. The racist Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) came in ... third with 19.7%, as did Dutch islamophobe Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV) (13.2%). These are ... parliament. At the same time, however, the broadly defined left increased its presence, rising from 37.6% to ...

18. Barcelona: Half-a-million march for tolerance and solidarity, amid contested responses to terror

    us more united than ever in freedom and democracy and from the diversity of our cultures and beliefs ... establishment media in Madrid. However, in the context of rising Spain-Catalonia tensions, its commentators even ...

19. Basque Country: Renewed Sortu sets target date for independent republic

    disarming of the armed pro-independence group Basque Homeland and Freedom (ETA). Emphasised that change ... time, the rise of the mass independence movement propelled into government a administration committed to ... Workers Party (PSOE) and Citizens. Rather, the rise in the Podemos vote was accompanied by growing support ...

20. Spain: Left councils heading resistance to 'war on terror'

    invincible world army existed that could wipe out Islamic State, a new terrorism would rise from its ashes. ... rights and freedoms. On the contrary, it is essential to work out an effective but not symmetrical, ...

21. Spain: Two-party system in trouble

    Homeland and Freedom (ETA). What did this pompous declaration say about the state of the political struggle ... system, and confronting the rising movement for independence in Catalonia. “Violating constitutional ... other main trend is the continuing rise in distrust with party politics of any type. According to ...

22. Left responses to the euro crisis

    in the face of rising popular resentment at governments forking out billions in taxpayer euros to ... Front (FN) and the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV). Within the European left, the debate over how to ... circle of low growth and rising debt, “continued membership of the eurozone would be put on the table, ...

23. Spain: Congress backs monarchy, exposes crisis of legitimacy

    becoming the third largest group with between 28 and 58 seats. The rise of Podemos would largely be at the ... directed against the rising skepticism and dismay among PSOE members. Many PSOE members, including local ... produce the 1978 Constitution and begin the road to peace, to coexistence, to freedom and progress which ...

24. Portugal: Vast protests point to government crisis

    the freedom hymn of the biggest Portuguese protest movement since that time. There is a popular ... Yet, despite the country being sunk in depression and with unemployment on the rise, union struggles ... phase. The call for the government to resign grows louder and louder as tensions rise within the ...

25. Spain: Right triumphs in poll, but big fight coming

    Rubalcaba as the minister who had forced Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (Basque Homeland and Freedom, ETA) to lay ... 4.6%. Particularly telling was the rise in the PP and CIU vote in working-class neighbourhoods on the ... the support for the left-nationalist Amaiur and the sharp rise in voter participation after the ...

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