Europe
French Communist Party leads workers in march on Macron’s palace over retirement scheme
April 5, 2023PCF leader Fabien Roussel demands the president “respect the people.”
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Credit Suisse bank collapse: Thousands of jobs evaporate, but bosses get their bonuses
March 21, 2023The financial contagion sparked by the failure of SVB and Signature Bank continues to spread.
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Dispatch from war-torn Europe: A pared-down Vienna Christmas-New Year
January 31, 2023In more subtle ways Europe in general, and Austria’s capital city in particular, is showing signs of deterioration.
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Europe begins 2023 with record-setting heat wave
January 23, 2023Climatologists are calling it “the most extreme heat wave in European history."
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Mussolini’s heirs take over in Italy as neo-fascist revival spreads
September 26, 2022The next referendum on such politics will be the U.S. midterm elections on Nov. 8.
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