“It was so bad you just wanted to laugh”
November 20, 2012 11:47 pm Leave your thoughts
LPJ French political affairs correspondent, David Eade, comments on the recent leadership election within France's Conservative opposition party, the UMP
Tag Archive: Europe
Lip Service to Peace: EU as an Enabler of Netanyahu’s Colonial Policies
November 15, 2012 8:01 am Leave your thoughts
Europe is different, as we are often reminded. The general wisdom is unlike the US' unconditional support for Israel. European countries tend to be more balanced in their approach to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, writes Ramzy Baroud.
The Scotland Question answered
November 9, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
David Eade explains how allowing Scotland a referendum on independence may have implications for other secessionist movements across Europe.
Time for our unions to come to Spain’s aid
November 1, 2012 11:53 pm Leave your thoughts
David Eade calls for a renewal of international solidarity to help Spain's embattled workers
Turkish PM Erdogan Must Respond to the Demands of the Kurdish Hunger Strikers
October 27, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Hundreds of Kurdish prisoners are currently taking part in a hunger strike which they have declared will be indefinite, David Morgan reports
Growth Comes with Jobs, Innovation and Access to Credit
October 20, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
David Eade talks to Parti Socialiste MP Axelle Lemaire about French President François Hollande budget for 2013
Turkey’s Policies at a Crossroads: From Zero-Problems to a Heap of Trouble
October 13, 2012 8:51 am Leave your thoughts It seems that media consensus has been conclusively reached: Turkey has been forced into a Middle Eastern mess not of its own making; the 'Zero Problems with Neighbours' notion, once the foreign policy centrepiece of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), is all but a romantic notion of no use in realpolitik, writes Ramzy Baroud.
The Spanish State Faces Disintegration
October 10, 2012 1:36 am Leave your thoughts
The Spain of today is in a deep financial crisis. Rather than the country pulling together it is pulling apart. LPJ Iberian correspondent, David Eade, discusses the possibility of the Spainish state breaking up into autonomous regions
Trials and Tribulations in Turkey
September 30, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Turkey's lamentable human rights record and its attempts to intimidate independent Kurdish organisations was the theme of an important seminar held on the 18 September in Garden Court Chambers, London. David Morgan reports.
A boost for peaceful direct action in Spain
September 3, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Jim Handley reports on recent Anarchist action against austerity