The Swedish ruling coalition holds its parliamentary majority by just one seat after the resignation of Sweden Democrats MP Elsa Widding following criticism of her attendance at a conspiracy theorists conference. Widding recently attended a conference with well-known vaccine opponents,…
Germany’s Greens stand accused of engaging in a veritable bout of cronyism, as political opponents have pounced on a chink in the armour of a party all too ready to give off a sense of being “holier than thou”. Ask…
Uganda’s parliament on Tuesday (2 May) passed one of the world’s strictest anti-LGBTQ bills mostly unchanged, including long jail terms and the death penalty, after President Yoweri Museveni requested some parts of the original legislation be toned down. Despite some…
As the government heads toward a possible default on its debt as soon as next month, officials are entertaining a legal theory that previous administrations ruled out. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
A mobilisation of some 2.3 million people who took to the streets to protest against French pension reforms marked a historic Labour Day for French unions, according to a press release from CGT. Labour Day, which also marked the 13th…
Labour Day saw Austria’s centre-left leadership candidates fight for support while far-right FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl announced he would be a people’s chancellor and institutions would be unable to stop him. The social democrat SPÖ, is currently in the midst…
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The opposition and labour unions oppose the new labour decree adopted Monday by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government that introduces new tax cuts, saying it would only spur more precarity. The day before the decree was adopted, the unions complained…
Labour Minister Yolanda Díaz and Spain’s two main trade unions, UGT and CC.OO have again urged the country’s largest employers’ association, CEOE, on Monday to find agreement on a wage increase else they will call for nationwide strikes. On Labour…
Poland wants to focus on strengthening the EU’s ties with the US during its next presidency in the Council of the EU in 2025, announced President Andrzej Duda on Monday. As Poland celebrates its 19th anniversary since joining the bloc,…