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Statement
Heinz Bierbaum calls for a 'European Health Care Fund of 100 Billion Euros – financed by the ECB'
25 May 20
Heinz Bierbaum, President of the Party of the European Left (EL), in the interview with transform! europe, discussing the crisis of our social and economic system and the new position paper of the EL.
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Obituary
Good Bye, Julio.
19 May 20
The Collegiate Commission of Izquierda Unida (IU, United Left) remembers Julio Anguita, the former General Coordinator of IU, who passed away on 16 May.
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Statement
Katja Kipping: "If we want Europe, Europe must show solidarity. So it does matter who rules in Germany."
15 May 20
The second guest in transform!’s series "Meeting the Left" was Katja Kipping, Co-Chairperson of the party Die LINKE. The conversation largely focussed on European politics.
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Statement
Catarina Martins (Left Bloc, Portugal): 'If the EU won’t be able to answer the crisis, the EU will hardly survive'
13 May 20
Catarina Martins, National Coordinator of the Portuguese party Bloco de Esquerda (Left Bloc) proposes the 'creation of a Recovery Fund of 1.5 billion euros, directly funded by the ECB and makes the case for the building alliances between peripheral economies, such as the Portuguese one, for example around the demand for public debt restructuring.'
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Statement
8 and 9 May 2020 mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War
08 May 20
Read the statement of Heinz Bierbaum, President of the party of the European Left.
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Report
The 5 May Ruling of Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court Regarding the Unconstitutionality of the ECB’s Purchase of Government Securities
By Rudolf Hickel | 06 May 20
The Ruling of the Second Senate (7 yes votes, 1 no) The securities purchase programme of the European Central Bank to support the European Monetary System with an emphasis on the purchase of government bonds (Stand 2,1 Bio. Euro), known as the Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP), is...
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Analysis
Does the EU Need ‘Coronabonds’?
By Erhard Crome | 05 May 20
In times of the coronavirus – just as in the 2008 financial crisis – the national state is again a central actor in Europe. Financial policy remains tied to the economic pecking order, with Germany at the very top. ‘Eurobonds’ are the key area of contention.
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Covid-19
What Awaits Slovakia After the Pandemic?
By Artur Bekmatov | 05 May 20
The pandemic crisis hit Slovakia in its most vulnerable period – just after the parliamentary elections in which the opposition defeated the coalition. Despite the fact that Bratislava had to manage a transition to a new government, Slovakia is one of the least affected countries. But for how long?
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Statement
The Car Industry before and After the Coronavirus Crisis: Forget Solutions of the Past, It’s Time to Set a New Course.
05 May 20
Measures for the restructuring of the car industry to achieve a real shift in mobility as part of a socio-ecological transformation of our society. A statement by Labournet Germany.
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Analysis
History as a Farce. Merkel’s, Rutte’s and Kurz’s Ordoliberalism and the Economic Emergency of Covid-19.
By Andrea Del Monaco | 05 May 20
A critical analysis of the failure of the European Council in addressing the Covid-19 crisis, by Andrea Del Monaco, author and expert in EU funds.
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Press Release
transform! europe Meeting the Left
04 May 20
The Corona-virus has hit the EU unprepared, but in different ways and with different effects depending on the countries. Most tragic were the effects on those countries whose healthcare and social systems have been emaciated by decades of austerity policies. Thus, the pandemic has increased...
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Report
"Plague Soft" in Arcadia: Lithuania Comes to Grips with Covid-19
By Algirdas Davidavičius | 04 May 20
The old Grand Duchy of Lithuania was variously described and compared to classic Arcadia, with its bucolic, rustic landscapes and woods, and the supposed tranquillity of its agrarian population. These rhetorical traditions persisted into modern nationalism, including the idea of Arcadian naivety and...
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Comment
Covid-19 in Eastern Europe: Austerity, Authoritarianism and Religious Fundamentalism
By Boyan Stanislavski | 01 May 20
The collective panic of the fear-stricken citizens of the West is accompanied by a particularly irritating hype over how the world will not be the same after Covid-19 is eradicated. For those of us living in Eastern Europe, this is yet another nail in the coffin rather than anything else.
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Mayday 1890 and 2020
By Walter Baier | 01 May 20
Exactly 130 years ago, the first May Day was celebrated with strikes, demonstrations, and meetings called by the Second International as the Labour Day, the day of the working classes. Ever since then it has become a day like no other for progressives and socialists. The day of struggle for the...
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Report
Communists in Court – The Heresy Trial Based on Article 13 of the Polish Constitution
By Jacek C. Kamiński | 29 Apr 20
For four years a court battle has been waged against the editors of the magazine Brzask, the newsletter of the Communist Party of Poland and that party's website. The prosecutor's office accuses the editors of "publicly promoting a totalitarian state system". However, the course of the trial...
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Covid-19
A Green Bailout must Put Europe's Energy Poor First
28 Apr 20
To weather the COVID-19 crisis, Europe's energy-poor urgently need a green bailout – providing decent, zero-carbon homes for all, writes Clémence Hutin.
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GUE/NGL: 6 Ways Neoliberalism Made this Pandemic Worse
23 Apr 20
The Covid-19 crisis has fully exposed why neoliberal economies are unfit to deal with a pandemic such as this.
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