Also, "African governments owe 3x more debt to Western banks, asset managers and oil traders than to China, and are charged double the interest, according to research released today by Debt Justice." debtjustice.org.uk/press-release/… And link to the JHU study: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Europe’s public finance is off track: The European Investment Bank props up “competitiveness,” the wealthy military complex & polluters’ “clean energy” projects—missing a green, just economy. But what if we flipped the script? We ask Yanis Varoufakis 👉 bit.ly/41HAOod

Hear the sirens. If the warfare state replaces the welfare state, this will further fuel the extreme right. More countries falling in the hands of extreme right nationalists would weaken Europe in an existential way.

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi said on Wednesday that his country is willing to partner with the U.S. on a minerals-for-security deal. nation.africa/kenya/news/afr…

The core-periphery bifurcation of the world economy is not only real, but national governments are fully conscious of its reality. The North fights to maintain this violent system, which fattens their decrepit ruling classes, while the South fights to abolish it.

With the US trade war escalating, we call on European Commission to introduce a digital services tax, or ‘Amazon Tax’. Amazon benefits from a double unfair economic advantages in the EU: low tax rates and lucrative public contracts. This has to end now. uni-europa.org/news/uni-europ…

Europe’s flagship development plan promises investment and partnership—but delivers debt, displacement, and old colonial patterns dressed up in green. africasacountry.com/2025/05/the-gl…

🇪🇺’s neoliberal crisis is driving it to grab Africa’s resources for energy and industrial competitiveness. Making Africa pay the price for Europe’s prosperity? That’s the old colonial model, repackaged in the #GlobalGateway. Alexandra Gerasimcikova & Paul Okumu for Africa Is a Country

Europe can’t outspend China across the Global South, so it markets ‘values’ and ‘equal partnerships’ instead. But the €300b Global Gateway is rooted in colonialism and centuries of exploitation. A thread:

While Jeff Bezos held a lavish wedding in Venice, Amazon refused to send a high-level representative to testify in the European Parliament. This is an insult to its workers and our democratic institutions. We demand an end to Amazon's contracts with the European institutions.