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16 Mar 2020

Corona in Camouflage: Massive Military Exercise Maintained Despite Health Risks

Despite current critical health risks, the US military will continue with its plans for a large-scale combat exercise in Europe involving the deployment of tens of thousands of personnel – Defender 2020. Read the statement of the GUE/NGL group.

By Roberto Musacchio | 11 Mar 2020

The Virus Hits an Ill-Prepared Europe

The healthcare system of the EU country most afflicted by the coronavirus, Italy, has severely suffered from neoliberal cuts and privatisations in recent years. And the health emergency has greatly accelerated the imminent arrival of the next economic emergency. With it we are facing a watershed moment.

4 Mar 2020

Europe in the Brave New World. transform! yearbook 2020

This year's transform! yearbook will be released in April 2020.

By Cornelia Ernst, Manuela Kropp | 26 Feb 2020

„European Industrial policy – a Tool for a Green New Deal“

What kind of economic and industrial policy do we need at a European level to achieve climate neutrality until 2050? How does a progressive Green New Deal must look like?

By Luc Triangle | 11 Feb 2020

Industrial Workers Want the European Green Deal to Deliver on Just Transition

Luc Triangle, General Secretary of industriAll (the Trade Union Federation of Trade Unions in the manufacturing, mining and energy sectors) reminds us: "decarbonisation is not happening in a social vacuum. Years of austerities have increased precariousness and inequalities while weakening public services and threatening workers' rights".

By Paola Boffo | 23 Jan 2020

Stop The Reform Of European Stability Mechanism

In Italy, a discussion developed, first in the media and then in the parliamentary halls, about the proposed reform of the European Stability Mechanism treaty, which should be approved by Eurozone leaders at the Euro summit on December 13th. The leader of the Northern League sovereign party, Matteo Salvini, said that Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte

By Melina Kerou | 20 Jan 2020

The Green and Social New Deal for Europe

Melina Kerou on the "The Green and Social New Deal for Europe" policy plan released by the left fraction in the European Parliament GUE/NGL.

By Mauricio Valiente | 4 Dec 2019

Madrid, dominated by the extreme right, continues to cry out No pasarán!

On 30 October the Madrid City Council approved the celebration on 23 August of the Day of European Remembrance of the Victims of Stalinism and Nazism to pay homage to the victims of the communist and National Socialist regimes and other totalitarian and authoritarian regimes’, following an initiative promoted by the ultra-right group Vox.

2 Dec 2019

Climate Emergeny Declaration Needs Overarching Social Transformation

Read the statement of the GUE/NGL group on the climate emergency declaration of the EU parliament.

13 Nov 2019

Manon Aubry (LFI): ‘We are still very far from having the European Parliament exerting democratic control over the executive.’

This is a first in the balance of power between the Commission – the EU executive – and the European Parliament. Even before the scrutiny of the candidates for the future College of Commissioners, headed by Ursula von der Leyen, began on 30 September, two candidates were blocked by a majority of MEPs sitting on

9 Nov 2019

Respect for Historical Memory in Europe

The board of transform! europe launches the following open letter regarding the resolution 'Europe must remember its past to build its future', adopted by the majority of the European Parliament – rejected by the GUE/NGL group.

7 Nov 2019

Respect for Historical Memory in Europe

The board of transform! europe launches the following open letter regarding the resolution 'Europe must remember its past to build its future', adopted by the majority of the European Parliament – rejected by the GUE/NGL group.

6 Nov 2019

Respect for Historical Memory in Europe

The board of transform! europe launches the following open letter regarding the resolution "Europe must remember its past to build its future", adopted by the majority of the European Parliament – rejected by the GUE/NGL group.

4 Nov 2019

European Arms & Turkey’s Attack on Syrian Kurds – An Explainer

On the involvement of various European countries in Turkey's aggression and human rights violations in Syria.

9 Oct 2019

EU Must Work to Stop Erdogan’s Attack Against Syrian Kurds

As Turkish troops prepare to invade the Kurdish autonomous areas in northeast Syria, Left MEP Özlem Demirel (DIE LINKE, Germany) appealed for urgent efforts to put a stop to the threat. “The European Union and the international community must condemn in the strongest terms this aggressive and dangerous assault by Turkey and use all diplomatic

By Luciana Castellina | 26 Sep 2019

The European Parliament Inured to Wiping Out Memory

On left silence and the foreign-policy motivation behind the revision of history contained in the European Parliament's resolution. Read Luciana Castellina's comment.

24 Sep 2019

A Bad Message from the European Parliament

Last Thursday the European Parliament adopted by majority the resolution on the Importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe. Read the statement of the International Federation of Resistance Fighters Association of Anti-fascists on this "ideological relapse into the worst times of the cold war".

17 Sep 2019

8 good reasons why Lagarde’s not fit for the ECB

Before today’s vote on Christine Lagarde’s nomination as head of the European Central Bank, we offer you eight good reasons why she is unsuitable for the post.

11 Sep 2019

More on disarmament, less on arms – left politicians say in Helsinki

Left Parliamentarians call for negotiations, disarmament and civil crisis management instead of increasing military expenditures.

23 Jul 2019

Aubry & Schirdewan to lead Left’s challenge to EU policy

Manon Aubry (La France Insoumise, France) and Martin Schirdewan (DIE LINKE, Germany) are the new co-presidents of the GUE/NGL group in the European Parliament.

15 Jul 2019

GUE/NGL won’t Support Ursula von der Leyen’s Nomination for Commission Top Job

After the meeting with German Minister of Defence and nominee to the role of President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, GUE/NGL decided not to support her candidacy.

10 Jul 2019

Gysi will not run again as President of the Party of the European Left

The President of the European Left, Gregor Gysi, declared at the Executive-Board meeting in Berlin: The election results of the European elections are both a warning and an invitation to us to make the European Left more attractive and to improve the value of our policies through better campaigning and more concrete, forward-looking proposals. It remains

8 Jul 2019

GUE/NGL: 10 Key Demands For New EU Top-Job Holders

GUE/NGL presents the 10 priorities that the new presidents of the European Commission and the European Parliament should commit to during their mandates.

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