The ‘Competitiveness Compass’ document, seen by Euractiv before its release this week, is the European Commission's latest effort to reshape Europe's economy to deliver prosperity and climate action.

But this time, the Commission says that Brussels needs more oversight over what national capitals are doing.

The Compass calls for the European Commission to “coordinate” national policies, says that industrial targets should be for national capitals rather than EU-wide, and wants to tighten how member states spend their EU cash.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/eet/news/commission-to-get-serious-on-clean-industrial-policy/

Il sistema pensionistico italiano presenta gravi lacune e errori, in particolare nei coefficienti di trasformazione che determinano l'entità delle pensioni. Questi coefficienti sono aggiornati ogni due anni, ma un errore occasionale, legato all'effetto della pandemia sulla tavola di sopravvivenza, ha portato a un aumento ingiustificato dei coefficienti per il biennio 2023-2024, con una sottovalutazione dell'aspettativa di vita e una sopravvalutazione dei coefficienti, penalizzando l'equità tra pensioni. L'errore è stato dovuto all'adozione dei tassi di sopravvivenza del 2021, influenzati dalla pandemia, che ha ridotto artificialmente le aspettative di vita. Per evitare che simili distorsioni si ripetano, la proposta è di basare i coefficienti su aspettative di vita mediate su un periodo pluriennale, come fa il sistema svedese.

https://lavoce.info/archives/107031/cosi-la-pandemia-ha-premiato-alcuni-pensionati/

The exact number of casualties from the Iraq War was never established, but it’s in the hundreds of thousands and, by one account, roughly a million. A recent study of post-9/11 wars, including Bush’s invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, estimates total deaths at around 4.5 million.

Some Democratic insiders didn’t love the Cheney play nor the ecumenical strategy. As Rolling Stone reports, a handful of them “begged” the Harris campaign not to do it, lest they alienate their base and fail to recruit converts from the other side. They were correct.

It’s something worse than ironic that the strategy not only contributed to the Harris’s loss but underscored the Democrat’s embrace of figures and policies that exacerbated and entrenched the economic woes of the working class, fueling anti-elite, anti-system backlash. In doing so, they helped cement the conditions for Trump’s ongoing success.

https://jacobin.com/2025/01/biden-trump-democrats-dealignment-bush/

Joe Biden was not picked in 2020 because he was the only person that could beat Trump. He was picked because he was the only person that could beat Bernie Sanders, rightly or wrongly. … That conclusion was made, okay? “Oh my gosh, coming out of Nevada, Bernie Sanders is going to be the nominee!” And people, just like they are now, said, “Ahhh, I don’t think that’s going to work,” so they were looking for an alternative.

Smith had made a similar point to CNN two days earlier. “The president did not run a great primary campaign,” he told the network. “Bernie Sanders looked like the presumptive nominee, and this exact same group of people the president is now deriding as elites . . . decided they didn’t want Bernie Sanders to be the nominee.”

Former congressman Harold Ford, former chair of the Democratic Leadership Council and banking executive, made a similar point on Fox. “I was an elite that supported you in 2020,” Ford said. “And said that we should do everything we possibly could do to advantage you against Bernie Sanders, because I thought Bernie Sanders’ politics were detrimental to the party and to the country.”

https://jacobin.com/2024/07/joe-biden-bernie-sanders-democrats-2020-primary-trump/

Il report “State Trafficking” (“Tratta di Stato”) denuncia che questi “crimini di Stato” si sono sviluppati anche come conseguenza del supporto di Italia e Unione europea ai due Paesi nordafricani.

“Finanziando e collaborando con regimi come quelli libici e tunisini, l’Europa ha scelto di esternalizzare i propri confini, chiudendo un occhio su pratiche orribili come la vendita di esseri umani, che non possono più essere ignorate”, ha dichiarato Ilaria Salis, europarlamentare del gruppo della Sinistra (The Left), durante la conferenza stampa presso il Parlamento europeo a Bruxelles lo scorso 29 gennaio, in occasione della pubblicazione del rapporto.

https://altreconomia.it/un-nuovo-report-documenta-le-espulsioni-e-la-vendita-dei-migranti-dalla-tunisia-alla-libia/

The article compares Italy's labor market across three key years: 2007 (pre-crisis), 2014 (post-crisis), and 2024. While Italy's labor market has shown positive trends, particularly in employment rates, challenges persist. Real wages remain stagnant, and the number of unfilled jobs is increasing. The article also highlights issues such as the slow response in wage growth compared to inflation and the reliance on labor rather than productivity gains.

https://lavoce.info/archives/106820/check-up-del-mercato-del-lavoro-italiano-tre-anni-a-confronto/

In conclusione, l’Ires premiale è solo un bonus una tantum, circoscritto, limitato e poco efficace per la patrimonializzazione delle imprese. L’opposto dell’Aiuto alla crescita economica (Ace) abolita dal 2024. Quest’ultima, infatti: a) riguardava l’universo delle imprese; b) era un elemento strutturale del sistema e garantiva un risparmio di imposta a regime di ben 2,7 miliardi di euro all’anno; c) stava contribuendo positivamente al rafforzamento patrimoniale delle società.

https://lavoce.info/archives/106833/i-capricci-dellires-premiale/