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30 December 2017 Europe’s precariat

Race to the bottom: Europe’s precariat

By Investigate Europe

Labour contracts without health and social insurance. Involuntary part-time. Fixed-term and agency jobs. Across the continent, millions of Europeans must deal with insecure and low-paid employment, though the economy, overall, is doing better than at any point in the last decade. Read more "Race to the bottom: Europe’s precariat"

21 June 2017 Microsoft

Europe’s dire dependency on Microsoft

By Investigate Europe

All across Europe, from Finland to Portugal, Ireland to Greece, the information technology (IT) of government administrations is based on Microsoft programmes. But because digital systems are constantly growing in both size and importance, countries are becoming ever increasingly dependent on this single corporation. Read more "Europe’s dire dependency on Microsoft"

14 December 2016 Europe's border regime

Why the European border regime is dysfunctional

By Investigate Europe

Military-style command centres, databases of millions of people, massive surveillance through remote-controlled drones, billion-Euro research and national procurement programmes. Far from the public eye, the governments of the European Union are pursuing a weighty long-term plan to use … Read more "Why the European border regime is dysfunctional"