by Anna Toniolo The cost of living crisis follows the pandemic as another blow to young people and their livingstandards. In Italy, younger generations have been suffering from the effects of precarious work and falling economic prosperity for at least a decade. The result is widespread disillusionment, withdrawal from politics, and a vacuum that only…
Tag: Social Issues
The Tempi Train Crash: More Than Just an Accident?
by Konstantinos Gkoumakis The arrival of spring is supposed to signal a renewal, a cleansing. Yet, for the Greeks who would wake up on the morning of the 1st of March it would be just another realisation of the rotten political reality in which they live. At 23:21 of February 28th, a head-on collision occurred…
Call for writers: FOOD (Printed Edition)
What is the environmental impact of food? What is the European regulatory framework around food production? What are the social implications of the current food production system? Is food access equal across the world? How can indigenous knowledge be leveraged to improve the current food system? Food is present in everyone’s daily lives, and people,…
Local Hackathons on Social Rights
The following article is an excerpt from our latest printed Ecosprinter titled Reclaim Your Rights! – The Social Issue. We decided to bring you the articles from this edition in a digital form as well. HOLD YOUR HACKATHON ON SOCIAL RIGHTS This guide has been created for those who wish to organise their own local…
Centri Sociali: Incubating Social Rights in Italy
The following article is an excerpt from our latest printed Ecosprinter titled Reclaim Your Rights! – The Social Issue. We decided to bring you the articles from this edition in a digital form as well. by Laura Schubert Is was 2014, and I had been living in Italy for only a month. One evening, some…
The Rights of the Self-Employed: A Principle Challenge for the Trade Union Movement
The following article is an excerpt from our latest printed Ecosprinter titled Reclaim Your Rights! – The Social Issue. We decided to bring you the articles from this edition in a digital form as well. by Dr. Sam Murray We as Greens strive for wide-ranging legislative social and welfare packages to ensure that climate justice…
The True Faces of Migrant Women
Amina looks at the clear crystal sea, from the window in her small room. It is the same sea which years before brought her to this island, she thinks. Then her revolving thoughts transport her back to Africa, the country which she knew and loved. She had to escape from it due to war and…
Democratic deficit – With the recession in full flow, our rights are falling under threat
During the past few months we have witnessed the collapse of some of the most powerful banks in the world, a dramatic downturn in stock markets, the nationalization of US and European banking institutions and the pumping in of billions of euros by central banks. The world is facing one of the most serious financial…
An African diaspora: A look at the Marsa Open Centre for refugees fleeing conflict and famine
Refugees and asylum seekers are a hot issue and one of the main challenges which Malta is currently facing. I became interested in this issue because the continent of Africa, its people and the different cultures always fascinated me. Usually the illegal migrants are victims of war and famine and other cases of disruption of…
The fault lines of economics: Traditional thought needs an overhaul
The present crisis has shown that there is something wrong with the foundations of mainstream economics. For me, the main mistake was that the stock markets forgot that they were based in real life and real things, something already proved by the food crisis at the beginning of last year. Nowadays, economists seem to have…