The Milburn review presents itself as a plan to help young people into work, but Dr DYLAN MURPHY argues it is laying the groundwork for a harsher benefits regime
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Conflicting priorities on migration are tearing holes in the EU, says Junge Welt’s Jorg Kronauer
Campaigners from across the continent will gather in Brussels on June 14 to oppose Europe’s accelerating militarisation and cuts to public services, write MAGGIE SIMPSON and BOB ORAM of No Cold War Britain
National co-ordinator for General Strike 100, HENRY FOWLER, continues his nationwide tour of partner organisations by visiting the Modern Records Centre at Warwick University
GEOFF BOTTOMS recalls meeting Fidel Castro in the ’90s after joining a Pastors for Peace caravan to Cuba, and reflects on how international support is still vital to help the island withstand economic warfare
The Ivors Academy’s hike in entry fees could turn this respected peer-assessed event into an exclusive preserve for those wealthy enough to compete, warns BEN LUNN
Peter Murrell’s weakness for the allure of prestige goods is symptomatic of modern consumer culture, says MATT KERR
IS THE EU collapsing? This question has probably never been so widely and seriously debated as has been the case during the current controversy around refugee policy.
Members of state parliaments are openly struggling with each other, putting up border fortifications, and even demanding sanctions. The dismantling of the Schengen system is no longer being ruled out.
Early this year, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung opined that “the end of the EU has never been more likely than it is today.”
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