to do the right thing This is further shown for Palantir by new report showing its corporate tax behaviour And by the way this is why the EU Inc. proposal of @ec.europa.eu is so naive Can we trust health data space between all EU countries? @somoamsterdam.bsky.social @fife4europe.bsky.social

Palantir pays almost no corporate tax in Europe while benefitting from public contracts: new report

A new report reveals that Palantir is paying little to no corporate taxes in Europe while building massive profits and share value off the back of public contracts.

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FINLAND: Teachers face rising classroom violence, union reports yle.fi/a/74-20239397

Teachers face rising classroom violence, union reports

Female teachers and those under 40 are most commonly targeted, according to a survey of educators.

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Brussels has long enjoyed a reputation as a relatively cheap place to live compared to nearby capital cities, but recent figures suggest this might be changing.

Cost of living: How does Brussels compare with other major European capitals?

Cost of living: How does Brussels compare with other major European capitals?

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Palantir’s EU tax tricks exposed as unions demand tougher rules on public contracts

Palantir’s EU tax tricks exposed as unions demand tougher rules on public contracts

Throught data, defence and AI, Palantir is worth €278bn. They owe the EU €12m in taxes, but member states keep indulge the multi-national's monopoly of public procurement contracts. That seems to be changing.

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🤑 We pay. You pay. Palantir doesn’t. A new report finds that #Palantir is paying little to no corporate tax in Europe while expanding its influence over public services, policing, defence and national security. 💲 Public money in. Almost no tax out. Read the report: www.epsu.org/article/pala...

Palantir pays almost no corporate tax in Europe while benefitting from public contracts: new report

A new report reveals that Palantir is paying little to no corporate taxes in Europe while building massive profits and share value off the back of public contracts.

epsu.org

🔥 Europa brennt Ein Eil-Webinar mit einem der weltweit führenden Experten: Prof. Dr. Johann Georg Goldammer, Direktor des Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) und Leiter der Arbeitsgruppe „Feuerökologie“ am Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie Mittwoch, 5. August, 20:00–21:00 Uhr Anmeldung: t1p.de/y7y3a

Google, Meta und Oracle galten als bombensicher. Nun fehlt nicht mehr viel zur Finanzkrise. @adamtooze.bsky.social fragt, ob wir diesen Sommer rückblickend als den Moment erkennen werden, an dem es klar hätte sein müssen.

Warum Wall Street an Big Tech zweifelt | Mit Prof. Adam Tooze

Google, Meta und Oracle galten als bombensichere Anlagen. Jetzt verschulden sich die Tech-Konzerne mit hunderten Milliarden für den KI-Ausbau, und der Markt ...

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"La @cfdt.fr la CFDT sera présente Forum social mondial à Cotonou en août [...] pour porter la voix d’un syndicalisme ouvert sur le monde, porteur d’alternatives et d’espérance." @bealestic.bsky.social en édito de #SH www.syndicalismehebdo.fr/article/fsm-...

FSM 2026 : construire les solidarités ! - Syndicalisme Hebdo | CFDT

Cotonou, au Bénin, accueillera, du 4 au 8 août, le Forum social mondial. Dans un contexte marqué par les guerres, l’aggravation…

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"Europe’s far right seized on the crisis. Manfred Weber and the #EPP fell into the trap, blaming Madrid’s regularisation policy while a hybrid operation was unfolding in real time. At least 72 people lost their lives on that stretch of coastline."

Een bouwadviseur, die werkt als een schakel tussen bouwheren, architecten en aannemers, klaagde malafide praktijken aan bij de Orde van Architecten, maar vond geen gehoor. Als reactie slepen architecten hem voor de rechter, in een poging hem de mond te snoeren. apache.be/2026/08/04/a...

Architecten slepen klokkenluider die wanpraktijken blootlegt voor de rechter

Terwijl de bouwadviseur misbruiken aanklaagde, werd hij zelf juridisch aangevallen.

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Ça ne s'arrange pas dans la branche de la prévention sécurité : 👉🏽👉 0% de revalorisation salariale, c'est juste inacceptable ! La #CFDT, avec les autres organisations syndicales, donne rendez-vous aux salariés le 9 septembre devant le ministère du Travail. #salaires services.cfdt.fr/sinformer/no...

A message for our European friends: "People & organizers in Europe have real leverage in slowing down #Palantir —maybe even more than we have in the US—because their success depends on their ability to grow across European govts. Slowing down and stopping that is a huge success." #purgepalantir

netzpolitik.org@netzpolitik.org · 2d ago

Software von #Palantir ist bei der US-Regierung im Einsatz, beim US-Militär, bei der Abschiebebehörde ICE. Wir sprechen mit Aktivisten von @purgepalantir.bsky.social über den Widerstand gegen den Konzern netzpolitik.org/2026/protest...

Good analysis of ten thousands going to Ceuta [ES], their return to Morocco and how the farright in Europe and US spread false information, misleading images and creates [invents, lies about] stories ( J.D.Vance said) to play into fears they have stoked for years

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 3d ago

Vance, Farage and Weidel posted fear-mongering messages about a Spanish migrant crisis that weren't true. They haven't retracted them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

There's growing evidence the surge into Ceuta (🇪🇸PM Sanchez has called it an "attack") has, like in 2021, been orchestrated by the Moroccan government in retaliation for Sanchez visiting Algeria Yet it's Spain being criticised by European politicians, not Morocco. So much for solidarity.

About 60,000 migrants arrive in Ceuta in 24 hours, Spanish territory's leader says

The estimated number of arrivals is more than 70% of the population of the city, which is about 83,600.

bbc.com

🏦Workers like Kwasi work for some of our largest banks and companies. It can be hard work, tough hours & pay & job security are often poor. But workers are organising to improve their work. Give this essential insight into the working life of Europe's cleaners a listen and a share 👂♻️

UNI Europa@uni-europa.bsky.social · 7d ago

"As a migrant working here… it's not easy, and it has never been easy." In today's episode of our podcast "Unsung: Cleaners", we hear from Kwasi from Ghana who cleaned the London offices of one of the world’s largest investment banks for 20 years. Listen now @macrodosepod.bsky.social.

EU Inc Is a Deregulation Tool in Disguise www.socialeurope.eu/eu-inc-is-a-...

EU Inc Is a Deregulation Tool in Disguise

The Commission’s optional “EU company” lets firms register anywhere and sidestep the national rules that protect workers.

socialeurope.eu

🇵🇱 POLAND Experts warn that the EU Inc. startup proposal could be problematic On March 18, 2026, the European Commission published a draft regulation to establish EU Inc. to simplify business operations and investment across Europe. The entity would operate under a 28th… #EUInc #StartupEU #Poland

📰 Eurofound was delighted to contribute to The Irish Times' latest Special Report on AI, with insights on the technology's impact on employment and working life: https://ow.ly/vQTz50Zwf6p 🔹https://ow.ly/XLYN50Zwf6o 🔹https://ow.ly/YsA050Zwf6m 🔹https://ow.ly/2mIy50Zwf6k 🔹https://ow.ly/yC6L50Zwf6n

EU Home Affairs Ministers admit they failed in handling a hybrid attack: "Crisis communication could further be reinforced through timely coordination and should be more coherent, especially to counter malicious external actors engaged in foreign information manipulation and interference." #Ceuta

Like many Europeans, I felt deep unease, not only at the deaths in Ceuta, but at Europe’s dehumanised response. By embracing this dystopian narrative, they turned desperate people into invaders, abandoned European solidarity and helped create the image Europe’s worst enemies want READ below

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Ceuta did not threaten Europe. Europe’s response did.

A deadly border emergency was contained within 48 hours. European leaders recast it as an invasion, weakened the Union, and handed Europe’s enemies the dystopian story they wanted.

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APPLEBAUM: Witkoff and Kushner had a pretty profound effect on how peace negotiations been conducted, and it’s not positive. They prolonged war in Ukraine because their attitude was, "We’re going to Moscow to do deals with Russian companies." Russians were delighted by this,

Pour les macronistes, les pompiers sont des héros, les soignants sont des héros, les enseignants sont des héros... mais ils sont tous mis au pain sec et à l'eau depuis 9 ans pour payer les cadeaux fiscaux aux plus riches

Pourquoi les pompiers en ont assez d’être qualifiés de héros, notamment par les politiques

Un communiqué de l’intersyndicale des sapeurs-pompiers demande que le qualificatif élogieux ne soit plus employé, estimant qu’il sert à cacher « le délitement de la Sécurité civile ».

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Chiara Armeni examines #GenderEquality as a blind spot in the EU’s #JustTransition framework in the latest edition of 'Social policy in the European Union: state of play' 📗The annual publication from the ETUI and @ose-be.bsky.social that takes stock of the past year's developments in #SocialEurope

Download the individual chapter or the whole volume here 🔗 etui.org/4fM

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10.000 Hitzetode in Deutschland, unkontrollierbare Waldbrände in Europa und aller Voraussicht nach der dritte Monat in Folge, in dem wir die 40-Grad-Marke erreichen. Die Reaktion der Bundesregierung darauf: zzz... AUFWACHEN, liebe Bundesregierung! Wir brauchen JETZT Klima- und Hitzeschutz!

Photo of the Week: Romanian healthcare workers began a nationwide strike on 28 July over cuts to allowances including payments for night, weekend and holiday work. The workers union, the SANITAS, has the support of the EPSU which is pressing the workers’ case at the EU. (Photo: SANITAS)

More analysis on what happened in Ceuta and how many leaders in EU are caught by blowing up migration No good comes from it [not solution orientated] Something that can not be won against farright as for them facts matter little thriving on emotions and racism they have fed for years

The right’s exploitation of the Ceuta migrant ‘crisis’ almost guarantees that it will happen again | Ruben Andersson

The EU’s panic and the lack of solidarity emboldens smugglers and the far right – and makes Spain even more vulnerable, says Ruben Andersson, professor of social anthropology

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Anthony Zacharzewski@anthonyzach.be · 2d ago

Many EU leaders are collapsing under a moment’s pressure on Ceuta but the hypocrisy of Meloni is particularly sickening. All those demands that Europe help Italy out on Lampedusa, and no-one asked for Italy to be excluded from Schengen. But as soon as a Social Democrat faces problems….

Milliardaires et finance de l’ombre : l’accumulation jusqu’à l’extrême Par La rédaction de Mediapart

Milliardaires et finance de l’ombre : l’accumulation jusqu’à l’extrême

Comment taxer les milliardaires, alors que les extrêmes droites se rapprochent partout des leaders du capitalisme financiarisé ? La députée (LFI) Aurélie Trouvé en débat avec Quentin Parrinello, directeur à l’Observatoire international de la fiscalité, et le sociologue Ugo Palheta, lors du Mediapart Festival, le 6 juin 2026.

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Familien wie Quandt, Porsche-Piëch und Flick zählen bis heute zu den reichsten Deutschlands. Historiker David de Jong zeigt: Ihr Reichtum entstand durch Enteignung jüdischer Unternehmer und Zwangsarbeit in KZ-Außenlagern. Ein Gespräch (F+)