Fossil fuel subsidies in the EU under scrutiny from campaigners
More than 30 leading climate crisis and social justice groups under the United for Climate Justice (UCJ) coalition have issued an urgent open letter to EU leaders, calling for an end…
Thank EU For The Music calls on Starmer to ‘reset’ musician rights
The following article is a comment piece from campaign group Thank EU For The Music, about Starmer’s meeting this week Keir Starmer and Ursula von der Leyen are meeting in…
don’t believe the right-wing media’s lies
The following article is a comment piece from Thank EU for the Music As the final chorus of Auld Lang Syne was sung by 5,900 concertgoers attending the Last Night…
the forgotten colonial history of this Mediterranean island
We have just passed the 50th anniversary of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, the third largest island in the Mediterranean. Its history as a colonial enterprise for the Ottomans, the…
PETA stages protest over the EU’s dire animal testing ‘ban’
Campaign group PETA has provocatively highlighted how the EU is still allowing animal testing for human cosmetics. This is despite EU assurances to the contrary, and a so-called ‘ban’ which…
Doctors Without Borders slams hard-right Italian government
The president of medical charity Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF) has accused Italy’s hard-right government of seeking to criminalise humanitarian aid to drowning refugees. This comes as a…
EU elections show swing to far-right across the board
The far right made huge gains in EU elections over the weekend. So much so, that French president Emmanuel Macron has called snap legislative polls in a high-risk move. Though…
European elections face protests over climate crisis
Just as the European elections were fully underway, on Friday 7 June activists blockaded the European Commission over the political bloc’s inaction over the climate crisis and fossil fuels –…
European elections see calls for Scotland’s readmission to EU
A month before a general election in the UK where all main parties have ruled out rejoining the EU and where Nigel Farage, despite his own acknowledgement that Brexit has…
corporate media & Western leaders complicit
Less than two days after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel to “immediately halt” its genocidal siege in Rafah on Friday 24 May, it brutally butchered 45 Palestinians…
TFA ‘forever chemicals’ found in abundance across water samples
According to a coalition of non-governmental organisations, Europe’s rivers, lakes and ground water contain “alarming” levels of a pesticide-like forever chemical. TFA forever chemicals Trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) is a very…
Israel furious over three EU states recognising Palestine
Norwegian prime minister Jonas Gahr Store said that: recognition of Palestine is a means of supporting the moderate forces which have been losing ground in this protracted and brutal conflict.…