Implementing the EU's Critical Raw
Materials Act - EU parliament briefing

2024 IMF Annual Meetings: main
developments and outcomes

Key findings:
- inflation to return to target in 2025 in Europe
- The euro area growth projections were revised slightly down compared to April’s edition, to 0.8% in 2024 and 1.2% in 2025. Reasons for Europe’s underwhelming growth are the slow labour force growth resulting from acceleration of aging population, low investment rate relative to capital stock due to uncertainties about the effects of global fragmentation and trade policies, and low productivity growth.
- China is the main global creditor

I find it hilarious how the IMF plan is to deregulate, reduce barriers to trade and lower public debt on one side, while on the other increase social protections and reduce private debt. How the fuck are governments supposed to increase social protections while reducing public debt (that almost always is done by cutting social protections) while at the same time maintaining monetarist policies (forget MMT!)? Who knows

Let's check our vibrant multiethnic democracy that Zionists paint Israel as and uh! Oh! Shocking! Baffled! Befuddled! Astonished! Bewildered! Other synonyms!

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-06-06/ty-article/60-percent-of-israeli-jews-favor-segregation-from-arabs-survey-finds/00000181-351b-dee8-aba7-3d9fdfdf0000

"If there is one lesson to be taken from the past dismal year, it’s this: the liberal Zionist interpretation of the conflict has no predictive value, no analytical weight, and no moral rigor. It is a failed dream of the previous century, and it is unlikely to survive this one."

https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-failure-of-liberal-zionism-klion

As the Moroccan Jewish Marxist Abraham Serfaty analysed decades ago in his prison writings on Palestinian liberation, there is a ‘fascist logic’ at the heart of the Zionist settler-colonial project of dispossession, domination and displacement. While it may be disavowed by liberals, unless its core mechanisms are dismantled for good, it cannot but re-emerge, virulently, at every crisis. As testified by its broadsides against the hypocrisy of those who claim that they want a two-state solution while never intending to bring it about, the governing Israeli far-Right is in many ways saying the quiet part very loudly. At a time when the occupation and its brutalisation of Palestinians has been normalised and treated to all intents and purposes as interminable, the fascistic settler and religious right has come to affirm and celebrate the structuring violence and dehumanisation that marks Israel as a settler-colonial project – one which liberals have thought to mitigate or minimise, but never truly to challenge.

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/the-war-on-gaza-and-israel-s-fascism-debate

Haaretz: A Massive Database of Evidence, Compiled by a Historian, Documents Israel's War Crimes in Gaza

https://archive.ph/HiKmz