On 29 July 2018, a single party, the CPP, received 100 per cent of the seats in parliament. In Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cambodia, there is no separation between party, state and government. Those who challenge his power – the media, NGOs, activists, critics, and trade unions – find themselves in the [...]Read the full article
Juan Antonio Sanz:The bid for European defence rests on greater independence from NATO and the development of its own programmes for the collective security of its members. The idea is that such military cooperation should also contribute to advancing the complex process of community [...]Read the full article
“Gig economy companies use self-employment to move all the risk on the worker, while paying no taxes to contribute to the welfare state.”Read the full article
“The EU approach of bringing back as many Gambians as possible can only be a recipe for violence without making the effort to understand the role that European countries are playing in these conditions.”Read the full article
Workplace discrimination against visible minorities is as widespread as gender inequality and sexual harassment. But little action is taken against it.Read the full article
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has committed to a 50 per cent reduction in CO² emissions by 2050, but recent studies have raised concerns amongst the residents of port cities like Marseille about the current effects on their [...]Read the full article
Antonello Mangano:As these workers are often employed by the caporalato (gangmasters) who run a system of minimum payment and maximum exploitation, the victims of labour exploitation are often unrecorded by official statistics.Read the full article
“It was never just about that name only. Identity is something of a matter of ‘survival’ when you are a small Slavic nation of only two million people that can easily be ‘assimilated’ by your bigger neighbours.”Read the full article
With one of the highest population densities in the world and an unabating love for cars, paralysing traffic jams are a daily reality in Malta. Only improved public transport and a reduction in the number of cars on the island can break the [...]Read the full article
Vicky Cann:A new report by Corporate Europe Observatory shows that accountancy firms Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), “the Big Four”, are omnipresent in the European Union’s policy processes for tackling corporate tax avoidance and they work through several channels of [...]Read the full article
