The Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels Office is calling for tenders to write and illustrate a booklet that explains in an accessible and critical manner the discourses, structures and actors that form the core of the EU’s militarisation.
The Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels is calling for tenders to write a report on the labour market participation of women in the European Union, the gendered effects of social security, taxation, and benefits systems, persisting obstacles of tackling these inequalities at the European level and policy levers to evoke change.
A generation of Afro-French people who have long experienced erasure by the universalist myth is rising up. The demonstrations of spring 2020 underlined the need to examine the blind spots in French history and question the flaws in the republican ideal, and ultimately to build a shared, truly universalist narrative that reflects multiple perspectives. Far from disguising secessionist inclinations, the struggles of these emerging anti-racist movements reflect a very real demand being made of the French Republic.
On 21 June, the Citizens’ Convention on Climate submitted its 150 recommendations to the French president, aimed at enabling France to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030 compared with 1990 levels, in line with the Paris Agreement target that the country signed up to at COP21 in 2015 in Paris.
Almost two years after the first protests and shortly after the 2020 Bastille Day: What to make out of the Yellow Vests and the state of French democracy? What to take away from the recently Macron-initiated citizens’ assemblies? Have the Yellow Vests and other protest shaken the French political establishment?
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