Germany calls for EU-wide "Minimum Living Income" to be approved
The German Permanent Secretary of State for Labour and Social Affairs, Rolf Schmachtenberg, yesterday called for the EU-27 to pool their social protection
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The German Permanent Secretary of State for Labour and Social Affairs, Rolf Schmachtenberg, yesterday called for the EU-27 to pool their social protection
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SNP 2021 Manifesto Launch: Nicola Sturgeon’s speech This election is taking place in the most serious of times. How people vote on May 6 will determine who will be Scotland’s First Minister and which party will form the Scottish Government during this critical period for our country. The Holyrood voting system means Scottish Parliament election results are always on a knife-edge. That’s hard-wired into the system. So every vote really does matter. And the outcome has never been more important. At stake is how we keep Scotland safe, how we recover from the pandemic and, as we look to the...
In August volunteers unload a van of food donations to a local food bank in the town of Penicuik, in Midlothian, Scotland. iStock In 2017, British Prime Minister Theresa May, faced with demands to increase nurses’ stagnant wages, famously denied the existence of any “magic money tree.” Ms. May’s Conservative Party predecessor, Margaret Thatcher, had asserted that the U.K. government had no money of its own; only what it raised from the populace by taxation or borrowing. Most people probably thought this orthodoxy prudent. A budget deficit was a sign of bad governance, strenuously t...