@thomasmiessen.bsky.social
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📣REMIND: "18 EU MS will not be able to meet their targets for investment in #schools, #hospitals & #housing. New 🇪🇺 #economic #governance rules being voted later this month would mean a return to #austerity."👇#TogetherAgainstAusterity
www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...
www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...
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Au Portugal, une grève générale massive contre la révision du code du travail
Le texte prévoit 100 modifications législatives, sur les licenciements, la déréglementation des horaires ou les congés de naissance
Le texte prévoit 100 modifications législatives, sur les licenciements, la déréglementation des horaires ou les congés de naissance
Au Portugal, une grève générale massive contre la révision du code du travail
Les syndicats ont lancé jeudi 11 décembre le premier appel à la grève générale depuis 12 ans, pour s’opposer à la proposition «Travail XXI», qui prévoit plus de 100 modifications législatives concernant le monde du travail.
www.liberation.fr
December 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Au Portugal, une grève générale massive contre la révision du code du travail
Le texte prévoit 100 modifications législatives, sur les licenciements, la déréglementation des horaires ou les congés de naissance
Le texte prévoit 100 modifications législatives, sur les licenciements, la déréglementation des horaires ou les congés de naissance
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Santé mentale : Le burn-out explose chez les jeunes
Santé mentale : Le burn-out explose chez les jeunes - RTBF Actus
www.rtbf.be
December 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Santé mentale : Le burn-out explose chez les jeunes
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Notre regard sur l’année 2025, ses nœuds internationaux comme ses crises françaises : révélations, enquêtes, reportages et émissions spéciales les plus marquantes.
Un grand format à découvrir en accès libre.
Un grand format à découvrir en accès libre.
Rétrospective 2025 : l’actualité vue par Mediapart
Notre regard en grand format sur l’année 2025, ses nœuds internationaux comme ses crises françaises : révélations, enquêtes, reportages et émissions spéciales les plus marquantes.
l.mediapart.fr
December 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Notre regard sur l’année 2025, ses nœuds internationaux comme ses crises françaises : révélations, enquêtes, reportages et émissions spéciales les plus marquantes.
Un grand format à découvrir en accès libre.
Un grand format à découvrir en accès libre.
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The contributions of the experts are now available here:
www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/e...
www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/e...
On Thursday from 10.30 CET, the @fisc.europarl.europa.eu subcommittee will hear experts about the taxation of ultra-high-net-worth individuals.
All relevant information, including Livestream link and background research can be found here: www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/e...
All relevant information, including Livestream link and background research can be found here: www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/e...
December 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The contributions of the experts are now available here:
www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/e...
www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/e...
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Invitée à intervenir sur le revenu vital dans les chaînes d’approvisionnement du #textile lors de la présentation de la feuille de route de la Clean Cloth Campaign
➡️J’ai rappelé les outils existants et à venir pour avancer
✊La mobilisation continue. Merci @cleanclothes.bsky.social & @publiceye.ch
➡️J’ai rappelé les outils existants et à venir pour avancer
✊La mobilisation continue. Merci @cleanclothes.bsky.social & @publiceye.ch
December 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Invitée à intervenir sur le revenu vital dans les chaînes d’approvisionnement du #textile lors de la présentation de la feuille de route de la Clean Cloth Campaign
➡️J’ai rappelé les outils existants et à venir pour avancer
✊La mobilisation continue. Merci @cleanclothes.bsky.social & @publiceye.ch
➡️J’ai rappelé les outils existants et à venir pour avancer
✊La mobilisation continue. Merci @cleanclothes.bsky.social & @publiceye.ch
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Every article about Musk in every media outlet should be accompanied by this photo.
He did this twice at the biggest political event of 2025. It's not a secret. He never apologized. Why is this not the standard file photo?
He did this twice at the biggest political event of 2025. It's not a secret. He never apologized. Why is this not the standard file photo?
December 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Every article about Musk in every media outlet should be accompanied by this photo.
He did this twice at the biggest political event of 2025. It's not a secret. He never apologized. Why is this not the standard file photo?
He did this twice at the biggest political event of 2025. It's not a secret. He never apologized. Why is this not the standard file photo?
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»Dass viele Menschen den Eindruck gewinnen, die Zukunft halte keine Verbesserungen mehr bereit, verändert die Grammatik sozialer Konflikte.« www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...
Sehnsucht nach Zerstörung
Der heutige Faschismus ist, anders als seine historischen Vorgänger, in der Demokratie verankert und sieht sich als dessen Erneuerer. Als Abrissbirne liberaler Institutionen übt er eine besondere…
www.blaetter.de
December 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
»Dass viele Menschen den Eindruck gewinnen, die Zukunft halte keine Verbesserungen mehr bereit, verändert die Grammatik sozialer Konflikte.« www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...
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On 10 December, #UN #HumanRightsDay, IBAHRI joins @amnesty.org, @ituc.bsky.social & others in calling for the #HongKong authorities to release pro-democracy activists Chow Hang-tung & Lee Cheuk-yan, and repeal all #laws that infringe on #HumanRights in the region.
Read: tinyurl.com/2jfxbsna
Read: tinyurl.com/2jfxbsna
December 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
On 10 December, #UN #HumanRightsDay, IBAHRI joins @amnesty.org, @ituc.bsky.social & others in calling for the #HongKong authorities to release pro-democracy activists Chow Hang-tung & Lee Cheuk-yan, and repeal all #laws that infringe on #HumanRights in the region.
Read: tinyurl.com/2jfxbsna
Read: tinyurl.com/2jfxbsna
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EU strikes a harder line on "illegal migration"
🔎Media and officials often refer to “illegal migration” as if "legal" pathways to seek protection actually exist for those in need.
🔎Media and officials often refer to “illegal migration” as if "legal" pathways to seek protection actually exist for those in need.
Deportations and sanctions: EU strikes harder line on migration
This week, the European Union took significant steps to tackle illegal migration making it easier to deport asylum seekers and irregular migrants. Von der Leyen also announced a new sanctions regime for smugglers.
www.euronews.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
EU strikes a harder line on "illegal migration"
🔎Media and officials often refer to “illegal migration” as if "legal" pathways to seek protection actually exist for those in need.
🔎Media and officials often refer to “illegal migration” as if "legal" pathways to seek protection actually exist for those in need.
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Food Security , anyone? Europe is losing its farmers.
5.3 MILLION farms have disappeared since 2005. Small-scale farmland is being eaten up by Big Agri corporations.
Big industrial farms make starting out nearly impossible.
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
5.3 MILLION farms have disappeared since 2005. Small-scale farmland is being eaten up by Big Agri corporations.
Big industrial farms make starting out nearly impossible.
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
December 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Food Security , anyone? Europe is losing its farmers.
5.3 MILLION farms have disappeared since 2005. Small-scale farmland is being eaten up by Big Agri corporations.
Big industrial farms make starting out nearly impossible.
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
5.3 MILLION farms have disappeared since 2005. Small-scale farmland is being eaten up by Big Agri corporations.
Big industrial farms make starting out nearly impossible.
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
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Prices are up on rent, housing, groceries, and more. Health insurance costs are about to more than double.
No wonder the Trump administration’s economic policies are unpopular. https://bit.ly/48JWnXh
No wonder the Trump administration’s economic policies are unpopular. https://bit.ly/48JWnXh
Trump's handling of the economy is at its lowest point in AP-NORC polling
A new AP-NORC poll finds President Donald Trump’s approval on the economy has fallen substantially since he reentered the White House.
apnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Prices are up on rent, housing, groceries, and more. Health insurance costs are about to more than double.
No wonder the Trump administration’s economic policies are unpopular. https://bit.ly/48JWnXh
No wonder the Trump administration’s economic policies are unpopular. https://bit.ly/48JWnXh
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✉️ ONLINE NOW - the briefing newsletter for next week's December #EPlenary, featuring:
- Sakharov Prize 2025
- December #EUCO
- Phasing out Russian gas imports
- Simplifying sustainability and due diligence rules
- Deforestation
- and much more...
Full details ➡️ link.europa.eu/c6P36P
- Sakharov Prize 2025
- December #EUCO
- Phasing out Russian gas imports
- Simplifying sustainability and due diligence rules
- Deforestation
- and much more...
Full details ➡️ link.europa.eu/c6P36P
December 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
✉️ ONLINE NOW - the briefing newsletter for next week's December #EPlenary, featuring:
- Sakharov Prize 2025
- December #EUCO
- Phasing out Russian gas imports
- Simplifying sustainability and due diligence rules
- Deforestation
- and much more...
Full details ➡️ link.europa.eu/c6P36P
- Sakharov Prize 2025
- December #EUCO
- Phasing out Russian gas imports
- Simplifying sustainability and due diligence rules
- Deforestation
- and much more...
Full details ➡️ link.europa.eu/c6P36P
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UNI Europa expresses its solidarity with Portugal's workers who have launched their first general strike in 12 years today.
This historic mobilisation is a legitimate and necessary response to an unjust labour reform proposed by Portugal's government.
This historic mobilisation is a legitimate and necessary response to an unjust labour reform proposed by Portugal's government.
UNI Europa stands in solidarity with Portugal’s workers on strike
This is the Portuguese labour movement's first general strike in 12 years, directed against an unjust labour reform.
www.uni-europa.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
UNI Europa expresses its solidarity with Portugal's workers who have launched their first general strike in 12 years today.
This historic mobilisation is a legitimate and necessary response to an unjust labour reform proposed by Portugal's government.
This historic mobilisation is a legitimate and necessary response to an unjust labour reform proposed by Portugal's government.
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The global far-right plot against public service media english.elpais.com/internationa...
The BBC is no exception: Far-right forces are targeting European public broadcasters
The far right is threatening to stiffle state-owned media corporations or put them at its service if it comes to power
english.elpais.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The global far-right plot against public service media english.elpais.com/internationa...
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We demand:
✅An ambitious EU roadmap to #TaxTheSuperRich
✅Commitment from EU countries to increase taxes on the super-rich at national level
✅A transparent register of land and real estate ownership and harmonised exit taxes
✅Engagement at the UN to tax the super-rich
👉https://bit.ly/3XLHKhd
✅An ambitious EU roadmap to #TaxTheSuperRich
✅Commitment from EU countries to increase taxes on the super-rich at national level
✅A transparent register of land and real estate ownership and harmonised exit taxes
✅Engagement at the UN to tax the super-rich
👉https://bit.ly/3XLHKhd
December 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
We demand:
✅An ambitious EU roadmap to #TaxTheSuperRich
✅Commitment from EU countries to increase taxes on the super-rich at national level
✅A transparent register of land and real estate ownership and harmonised exit taxes
✅Engagement at the UN to tax the super-rich
👉https://bit.ly/3XLHKhd
✅An ambitious EU roadmap to #TaxTheSuperRich
✅Commitment from EU countries to increase taxes on the super-rich at national level
✅A transparent register of land and real estate ownership and harmonised exit taxes
✅Engagement at the UN to tax the super-rich
👉https://bit.ly/3XLHKhd
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Fantastisch stuk van @elmarsmid.bsky.social @fnv.bsky.social over de afbraak van Europese regelgeving die werkenden, onze samenleving en milieu beschermd tegen exploitatie van bedrijfsleven
Eigenlijk gaat het over het verraad van @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu en @eppgroup.bsky.social aan ons
Eigenlijk gaat het over het verraad van @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu en @eppgroup.bsky.social aan ons
De grootste dereguleringsoperatie sinds Thatcher
Simpelere regels, wie wil dat niet? In Europa is een enorme dereguleringsoperatie bezig. Onder het mom van vereenvoudiging wordt de vermeende regeldruk voor het bedrijfsleven verminderd. Dat lijkt nie...
wbs.nl
December 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Fantastisch stuk van @elmarsmid.bsky.social @fnv.bsky.social over de afbraak van Europese regelgeving die werkenden, onze samenleving en milieu beschermd tegen exploitatie van bedrijfsleven
Eigenlijk gaat het over het verraad van @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu en @eppgroup.bsky.social aan ons
Eigenlijk gaat het over het verraad van @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu en @eppgroup.bsky.social aan ons
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🎙️ Press briefing on next week’s plenary session
Spokespersons for Parliament and for the political groups will hold a briefing on the 15 - 18 December plenary session, on Friday at 11.00 in Parliament’s Anna Politkovskaya press room
Details ⬇️ www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
Spokespersons for Parliament and for the political groups will hold a briefing on the 15 - 18 December plenary session, on Friday at 11.00 in Parliament’s Anna Politkovskaya press room
Details ⬇️ www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
Press briefing on next week’s plenary session | News | European Parliament
Spokespersons for Parliament and for the political groups will hold a briefing on the 15 - 18 December plenary session, on Friday at 11.00 in Parliament’s Anna Politkovskaya press room.
www.europarl.europa.eu
December 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
🎙️ Press briefing on next week’s plenary session
Spokespersons for Parliament and for the political groups will hold a briefing on the 15 - 18 December plenary session, on Friday at 11.00 in Parliament’s Anna Politkovskaya press room
Details ⬇️ www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
Spokespersons for Parliament and for the political groups will hold a briefing on the 15 - 18 December plenary session, on Friday at 11.00 in Parliament’s Anna Politkovskaya press room
Details ⬇️ www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
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Laurence Tubiana : « L’accord de Paris sur le climat est arrivé vingt ans trop tard »
La diplomate qui fut l’une des architectes de cet accord revient sur les progrès réalisés depuis et les difficultés à poursuivre l’action climatique.
Entretien avec @mickacorreia.bsky.social 💬
La diplomate qui fut l’une des architectes de cet accord revient sur les progrès réalisés depuis et les difficultés à poursuivre l’action climatique.
Entretien avec @mickacorreia.bsky.social 💬
Laurence Tubiana : « L’accord de Paris sur le climat est arrivé vingt ans trop tard »
Alors que le traité international célèbre ses dix ans, la diplomate qui fut l’une des architectes de cet accord revient sur les progrès réalisés depuis et les difficultés à poursuivre l’action climatique face aux crises géopolitiques et à la désinformation écologique.
l.mediapart.fr
December 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Laurence Tubiana : « L’accord de Paris sur le climat est arrivé vingt ans trop tard »
La diplomate qui fut l’une des architectes de cet accord revient sur les progrès réalisés depuis et les difficultés à poursuivre l’action climatique.
Entretien avec @mickacorreia.bsky.social 💬
La diplomate qui fut l’une des architectes de cet accord revient sur les progrès réalisés depuis et les difficultés à poursuivre l’action climatique.
Entretien avec @mickacorreia.bsky.social 💬
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And lets not forget Space is like the ultimate Commons
Why even entertain the idea that it is ok for private insanely rich individuals to exploit this space at the expense of us, to litter it with their waste, which will ultimately harm public interest use ?
So no
Why even entertain the idea that it is ok for private insanely rich individuals to exploit this space at the expense of us, to litter it with their waste, which will ultimately harm public interest use ?
So no
I’m but a simple country theoretical physicist, and I can say, in my professional capacity, “datacenters in space” is so colossally, monumentally stupid that it is difficult to know where to start with which laws of physics the idea is spitting in the face of the most.
“.. Skeptics believe the technical risks are being underestimated and say space-based data centers won’t be competitive on cost, especially if power and other constraints ease on the ground.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
December 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
And lets not forget Space is like the ultimate Commons
Why even entertain the idea that it is ok for private insanely rich individuals to exploit this space at the expense of us, to litter it with their waste, which will ultimately harm public interest use ?
So no
Why even entertain the idea that it is ok for private insanely rich individuals to exploit this space at the expense of us, to litter it with their waste, which will ultimately harm public interest use ?
So no
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❓Why do investment treaties hang like a multi-billion-dollar Sword of Damocles over Ukraine and its allies?
🧩 Hint: it has to do with sanctioned oligarchs and secretive tribunals.
💡Answer: friendsoftheearth.eu/publication/...
Or below if you speak French 👇
🧩 Hint: it has to do with sanctioned oligarchs and secretive tribunals.
💡Answer: friendsoftheearth.eu/publication/...
Or below if you speak French 👇
Gel des avoirs russes : pour les alliés de Kyiv, une épée de Damoclès à 53 milliards d’euros
Par @justinebrabant.bsky.social
Par @justinebrabant.bsky.social
Gel des avoirs russes : pour les alliés de Kyiv, une épée de Damoclès à 53 milliards d’euros
Les oligarques et sociétés liés à l’effort de guerre russe réclament à plusieurs États occidentaux des sommes colossales en dédommagement des sanctions qu’ils subissent, détaille un rapport publié mardi 9 décembre. Pour ce faire, ils ont désormais recours à l’arbitrage d’investissement.
l.mediapart.fr
December 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
❓Why do investment treaties hang like a multi-billion-dollar Sword of Damocles over Ukraine and its allies?
🧩 Hint: it has to do with sanctioned oligarchs and secretive tribunals.
💡Answer: friendsoftheearth.eu/publication/...
Or below if you speak French 👇
🧩 Hint: it has to do with sanctioned oligarchs and secretive tribunals.
💡Answer: friendsoftheearth.eu/publication/...
Or below if you speak French 👇
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La réforme de l’OCDE sur la taxation des multinationales pourrait ne jamais voir le jour: la demande d’exemption des USA pour le taux d’impôt minimum de 15% sur les profits des multinationales est refusée par la Chine, ainsi que la Pologne, la Tchéquie et l’Estonie. www.ft.com/content/318d...
China leads objections to Trump reprieve on global minimum tax
Beijing and several European countries hold up deal to exempt US multinationals from OECD tax regime
www.ft.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
La réforme de l’OCDE sur la taxation des multinationales pourrait ne jamais voir le jour: la demande d’exemption des USA pour le taux d’impôt minimum de 15% sur les profits des multinationales est refusée par la Chine, ainsi que la Pologne, la Tchéquie et l’Estonie. www.ft.com/content/318d...
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L'étude de Gabriel Zucman qui démontre qu'un impôt sur la fortune, sans exode des plus riches, est possible
www.lalibre.be/economie/mes...
www.lalibre.be/economie/mes...
L'étude de Gabriel Zucman qui démontre qu'un impôt sur la fortune, sans exode des plus riches, est possible
L'économiste français est un des auteurs d'une étude qui tire les leçons des failles des impôts sur la fortune appliqués dans de nombreux pays européens.
www.lalibre.be
December 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
L'étude de Gabriel Zucman qui démontre qu'un impôt sur la fortune, sans exode des plus riches, est possible
www.lalibre.be/economie/mes...
www.lalibre.be/economie/mes...
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Die deutsche #Industrie verzeichnet derzeit monatl. rund 10.000 verlorene #Arbeitsplätze. Auch der Dienstleistungssektor hat zu kämpfen. Verschiedene Gründe verschärfen die Lage, etwa die Folgen mangelnder #Industriepolitik & #Energiepreise.
👉 Mehr dazu: www.boeckler.de/de/m...
👉 Mehr dazu: www.boeckler.de/de/m...
December 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Die deutsche #Industrie verzeichnet derzeit monatl. rund 10.000 verlorene #Arbeitsplätze. Auch der Dienstleistungssektor hat zu kämpfen. Verschiedene Gründe verschärfen die Lage, etwa die Folgen mangelnder #Industriepolitik & #Energiepreise.
👉 Mehr dazu: www.boeckler.de/de/m...
👉 Mehr dazu: www.boeckler.de/de/m...
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GLOBAL: GSK workers build their first worldwide union network www.industriall-union.org/gsk-workers-...
GSK workers build their first worldwide union network
For the first time in the history of GSK, a major British phamarceutical company, trade unions from across the company’s global operations came together in Paris on 9-10 December for a meeting that se...
www.industriall-union.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
GLOBAL: GSK workers build their first worldwide union network www.industriall-union.org/gsk-workers-...
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights defender Oleksandra Matviichuk:
"We’ve 1,6million children under Russian occupation.Their identities are being erased.They’re militarized starting from kindergarten.Their parents are forced to send children to camps where they’re taught how to use weapons
"We’ve 1,6million children under Russian occupation.Their identities are being erased.They’re militarized starting from kindergarten.Their parents are forced to send children to camps where they’re taught how to use weapons
December 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights defender Oleksandra Matviichuk:
"We’ve 1,6million children under Russian occupation.Their identities are being erased.They’re militarized starting from kindergarten.Their parents are forced to send children to camps where they’re taught how to use weapons
"We’ve 1,6million children under Russian occupation.Their identities are being erased.They’re militarized starting from kindergarten.Their parents are forced to send children to camps where they’re taught how to use weapons