Wednesday, 2 July , 2025

EU

The ghost of 1789 looms over France and Europe

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos  December 14th, 2018 "No Christmas this year" is written on the placard of a protester in Toulouse, the “ville rose” of Southwest France,...

Jeremy Corbyn at European Socialists Congress: EU Support for Austerity Behind...

7 December 2018 "The far right feeds on fears fueled by falling living standards, damaged communities, insecure work and underfunded public services." British opposition Labour Party...

Les gens parlent

8 Décembre 2018 1/ Hélène Je mets mon gilet jaune le week-end, pour rejoindre les autres au rond-point principal de ma petite sous-préfecture. En semaine, je...

Yellow Vests Rise Against Neo-Liberal ‘King’ Macron

For centuries, the “left” hoped popular movements would lead to changes for the better. Today, many leftists seem terrified of popular movements for change,...

44 organisations demandent à Macron de renoncer à son projet de...

3 Décembre 2018 44 associations de défense des libertés, professionnels, hébergeurs et FAI associatifs demandent à Emmanuel Macron de renoncer à son projet de...

Towards a pre-revolutionary situation in France

by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos The French crisis seems now to approach what was described in the past as a classical pre-revolutionary situation. This fact does confirm, once...

Macron: a French (potential) Thatcher

by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos 17.5.2017 Macron “scooped the pool and decamped” in the second round of the French presidential elections, scoring an easy victory over Marine Le...

Yellow Vests: No Coincidence Macron, Merkel and May are in Dire...

30.11.2018 he 'yellow vest' upheaval has exposed longstanding problems in France's economy, Christine Bierre, French journalist and chief editor of Nouvelle Solidarité, has told Sputnik,...

United Kingdom Trump weakens May’s hand, says Brexit deal ‘good for...

By Alice Tidey & Reuters 27/11/2018 US President Donald Trump dealt a major blow to Britain's Theresa May on Monday telling reporters that the draft Brexit...

‘No thanks!’ to EU and Nato, Iceland PM says

By Martin Breum Reykjavik, 29. Oct, 2018 Eurozone failures mean Iceland should stay out of the EU, its prime minister told EUobserver. She would also quit Nato...