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Un placer realizar este informe junto con Juan Jose Cadillo-Benalcazar para @EntrepbsHarte y @ecologistes sobre el Acuerdo #UEMercosur
#INFORME | Presentamos el #InformeUEMercosur “Una aproximación al acuerdo UE-Mercosur: Análisis de las dinámicas estructurales y del nexo agua-tierra-trabajo de productos agrícolas clave”
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🔗 Descarga aquí el informe https://t.co/npi77ZRJJe
IN PRAISE OF FRANCESCA ALBANESE
There is a question that visits me in the small hours, when sleep will not come and the mind turns over old stones. The question is this: “What would I have done in the 1930s, on the morning after Kristallnacht?"
Not what I say I would have done. Not what I hope I would have done. But what would I actually have done—when the trains began to run, when the neighbours grew quiet, when the cost of decency became the loss of everything?
Most of us, I think, would have done little. Not from malice. From fear. From the soft, creeping conviction that someone else will speak, that the situation is complex, that we must be 'reasonable'. Lest we forget, the ordinary is the extraordinary's alibi. And how we have clung to that alibi! How we still cling to it!
And then, every once in a terrible while, someone appears who does not cling. Someone who steps forward when others step back. Someone who speaks the name of the thing when everyone else is busy naming something else.
Francesca Albanese is that someone.
She stands before the world—alone, unarmed, armed only with law and language and a rare courage—and she says what the centrists will not say, what the foreign ministries will not say, what the editorial boards will not say. She says: "This is a genocide. And we are watching it happen."
Do not tell me that is hyperbole. Do not tell me the term is contested. She has not used it lightly. She has used it as a physician arrives scientifically at a diagnosis—not to wound, but to warn. Not to inflame, but to name.
And for that, they have come for her. Oh, how they have come for her. Smears. Investigations. Vicious editorials. Frozen bank accounts. Dispossession of the only apartment she had ever owned. The machinery of the respectable turned to crush her. Because the respectable cannot abide what she represents: a mirror held up to their complicity.
Let us, once again, travel back to the 1930s. Back to the few who stood up when the trains began to run laden with Jewish people.
There was Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese consul in Bordeaux. He defied his own government. He signed thousands of visas, by hand, for hours, until his fingers bled. He saved more lives than Schindler. And he died penniless, disgraced, erased.
There was a German officer in Warsaw named Wilm Hosenfeld. He hid a Jewish pianist in the rubble. He did not save thousands. He saved one. But that one—Władysław Szpilman—carried the memory. And memory is "the only haven from which we cannot be expelled."
There was Raoul Wallenberg. There were the villagers of Le Chambon. There were the anonymous, the quiet, the furious few who said: “Not on my watch.”
Francesca Albanese is their heir. Not because she carries a gun. Not because she hides refugees in her basement. But because she does something equally dangerous in a world that has perfected the art of not seeing. She sees. And she speaks.
She does not speak as a diplomat. Thank Goodness she doesn't! Diplomats have given us the language of "there are arguments on both sides" and "restraint" and "proportionality." Diplomatic language is the perfumed grave of moral clarity. No, she speaks as a jurist. As a human being. As a woman who has looked into the abyss and refused to call it a "complex geopolitical landscape".
Edna O'Brien once described a character who "had the recklessness of those who have already lost everything worth losing." Francesca Albanese has not lost everything. She has her dignity, her office, her voice, her family. But she has calculated the cost of speaking truth to power. And she has decided that that cost is infinitely less than the cost of silence.
What is that cost? Let us name it. She has been called antisemitic—she, who stands on the ground of international law forged in the ashes of Auschwitz and the fires of Nuremberg. She has been called a conspiracy theorist—she, who cites every source, every footnote, every UN resolution. She has been called naive—she, who understands better than most the machinery of realpolitik.
These accusations are not arguments. They are the spittle of the threatened. Because Francesca Albanese threatens something very precious to the powerful: the right to commit atrocity without being named.
Friends, the 1930s did not arrive with jackboots and pogroms on day one. They arrived in small increments. With "reasonable" restrictions. With "proportional" measures. With the silence of the respectable.
We tell ourselves that we would have been different. That we would have been Sousa Mendes. That we would have been Wallenberg. But most of us, I fear, would have been the neighbours who later said, "I didn't know."
Francesca Albanese knows. And she refuses to pretend otherwise.
So let us praise her. Not with statues or awards she does not seek. But with something harder: with our own refusal to look away. With our own voices, raised in places that are safe for us but dangerous for her. With our own bodies, if it comes to that.
A brave woman, who was injured while demonstrating outside a US nuclear military base in 1982, the infamous Greenham Common, had told me that "the heart is a hunter for what it cannot have." But I say the heart is a hunter for what it will not lose. And what we will not lose is the memory of those who stood up when standing up cost everything.
Francesca Albanese is standing up now. In our time. In our name. Under our indifferent sky.
Let us stand with her.
Not tomorrow. Not when it is safe. Now.
[Extract from a speech in Athens on Sunday 3rd May 2026]
![yanisvaroufakis's tweet photo. IN PRAISE OF FRANCESCA ALBANESE
There is a question that visits me in the small hours, when sleep will not come and the mind turns over old stones. The question is this: “What would I have done in the 1930s, on the morning after Kristallnacht?"
Not what I say I would have done. Not what I hope I would have done. But what would I actually have done—when the trains began to run, when the neighbours grew quiet, when the cost of decency became the loss of everything?
Most of us, I think, would have done little. Not from malice. From fear. From the soft, creeping conviction that someone else will speak, that the situation is complex, that we must be 'reasonable'. Lest we forget, the ordinary is the extraordinary's alibi. And how we have clung to that alibi! How we still cling to it!
And then, every once in a terrible while, someone appears who does not cling. Someone who steps forward when others step back. Someone who speaks the name of the thing when everyone else is busy naming something else.
Francesca Albanese is that someone.
She stands before the world—alone, unarmed, armed only with law and language and a rare courage—and she says what the centrists will not say, what the foreign ministries will not say, what the editorial boards will not say. She says: "This is a genocide. And we are watching it happen."
Do not tell me that is hyperbole. Do not tell me the term is contested. She has not used it lightly. She has used it as a physician arrives scientifically at a diagnosis—not to wound, but to warn. Not to inflame, but to name.
And for that, they have come for her. Oh, how they have come for her. Smears. Investigations. Vicious editorials. Frozen bank accounts. Dispossession of the only apartment she had ever owned. The machinery of the respectable turned to crush her. Because the respectable cannot abide what she represents: a mirror held up to their complicity.
Let us, once again, travel back to the 1930s. Back to the few who stood up when the trains began to run laden with Jewish people.
There was Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese consul in Bordeaux. He defied his own government. He signed thousands of visas, by hand, for hours, until his fingers bled. He saved more lives than Schindler. And he died penniless, disgraced, erased.
There was a German officer in Warsaw named Wilm Hosenfeld. He hid a Jewish pianist in the rubble. He did not save thousands. He saved one. But that one—Władysław Szpilman—carried the memory. And memory is "the only haven from which we cannot be expelled."
There was Raoul Wallenberg. There were the villagers of Le Chambon. There were the anonymous, the quiet, the furious few who said: “Not on my watch.”
Francesca Albanese is their heir. Not because she carries a gun. Not because she hides refugees in her basement. But because she does something equally dangerous in a world that has perfected the art of not seeing. She sees. And she speaks.
She does not speak as a diplomat. Thank Goodness she doesn't! Diplomats have given us the language of "there are arguments on both sides" and "restraint" and "proportionality." Diplomatic language is the perfumed grave of moral clarity. No, she speaks as a jurist. As a human being. As a woman who has looked into the abyss and refused to call it a "complex geopolitical landscape".
Edna O'Brien once described a character who "had the recklessness of those who have already lost everything worth losing." Francesca Albanese has not lost everything. She has her dignity, her office, her voice, her family. But she has calculated the cost of speaking truth to power. And she has decided that that cost is infinitely less than the cost of silence.
What is that cost? Let us name it. She has been called antisemitic—she, who stands on the ground of international law forged in the ashes of Auschwitz and the fires of Nuremberg. She has been called a conspiracy theorist—she, who cites every source, every footnote, every UN resolution. She has been called naive—she, who understands better than most the machinery of realpolitik.
These accusations are not arguments. They are the spittle of the threatened. Because Francesca Albanese threatens something very precious to the powerful: the right to commit atrocity without being named.
Friends, the 1930s did not arrive with jackboots and pogroms on day one. They arrived in small increments. With "reasonable" restrictions. With "proportional" measures. With the silence of the respectable.
We tell ourselves that we would have been different. That we would have been Sousa Mendes. That we would have been Wallenberg. But most of us, I fear, would have been the neighbours who later said, "I didn't know."
Francesca Albanese knows. And she refuses to pretend otherwise.
So let us praise her. Not with statues or awards she does not seek. But with something harder: with our own refusal to look away. With our own voices, raised in places that are safe for us but dangerous for her. With our own bodies, if it comes to that.
A brave woman, who was injured while demonstrating outside a US nuclear military base in 1982, the infamous Greenham Common, had told me that "the heart is a hunter for what it cannot have." But I say the heart is a hunter for what it will not lose. And what we will not lose is the memory of those who stood up when standing up cost everything.
Francesca Albanese is standing up now. In our time. In our name. Under our indifferent sky.
Let us stand with her.
Not tomorrow. Not when it is safe. Now.
[Extract from a speech in Athens on Sunday 3rd May 2026]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HHsnlr9WIAEr4Cw.jpg)
Is China doing "colonialism" in Africa?
Here I argue that equating China’s activities in Africa to Western colonialism/imperialism is not only empirically incorrect, it trivialises the extraordinary violence of the latter. It is a form of denialism.
https://t.co/kgi6QykIi7
Si se acepta como plantea Trump que ser pro libre mercado es ser pro China entonces los fundamentalistas de mercado tendrían que reconocer que la libertad de mercado sólo fue un proyecto que en nombre de la libertad aseguraba el dominio comercial del más poderoso, es decir, Estados Unidos y que cuando ese mismo libre mercado ya no le beneficia da marcha atrás a su propia imposición mundial. Por tanto un proyecto no tiene nada que ver con la libertad sino con la dominación comercial del más fuerte.
Si por el contrario no se acepta la afirmación de Trump y se sigue sosteniendo que el mercado es libertad o que la libertad se expresa a través del comercio, los fundamentalistas de mercado tendrían que explicar cómo las dos potencias económicas que mayor crecimiento y capitales atraen, una niega el libre comercio y la otra lo defiende desde un férreo control estatal de los capitales; se tendría que reconocer entonces el papel de la fuerza del estado sobre los mercados para explicar su éxito. Por tanto, el crecimiento y el triunfo de los mercados no tiene nada que ver con la libertad frente al estado sino cómo el estado más fuerte es usado a favor del mercado, contradiciendo todas las premisas del fundamentalismo de mercado.
Por último, si se afirma que ni EU ni China son pro libre mercado (y por tanto no lo suficientemente capitalistas por la intervención estatal) entonces el fundamentalismo de mercado se hace evidente, es un horizonte utópico, alejado de la realidad, un mercado libre idealizado, inexistente, (tan irreal como un bello unicornio) que no reconoce que no existen mercados verdaderamente libres y que quien ha triunfado en el mercado, es porque ha impuesto sus reglas a través del estado en el mercado mundial: primero Holanda a través de su fuerza militar-colonial-naval, luego Inglaterra con su fuerza imperial-colonial-naval-industrial y luego EU con su fuerza intervencionista-corporativa-industrial-comercial y organizadora de las reglas del comercio que impuso a través de la fuerza. El proyecto del unicornio promercados libres ha quedado desnudo como una ideológica ilusión.
Trump desnuda las contradicciones del proyecto neoliberal de libre comercio, que ha muerto, para intentar ser sustituido por un proyecto comercial-despótico-autoritario mundial develando lo profundamente ideológico que fue, el proyecto del fundamentalismo de mercado.
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Paula Herrrera Idárraga
@Paula_Herrera_I
Profesora Asociada Depto. Economía, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
ICTA-UAB
@ICTA_UAB
Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB)
Institut of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB)
ODG
@twitt_odg
Observatori del Deute en la Globalització. Anàlisi crítica per a la mobilització i transformació social.
🦋 @observatoriodg.bsky.social 🦣@[email protected]
The invisibilized burden: care work and its unequal global exchange https://t.co/wFVoTZwyFN
Minerals crítics i vehicle elèctric: recomanacions per a una compra pública més responsable
L’informe elaborat amb @ENTmediambient estudia casos de bones pràctiques europees i facilita una bateria de recomanacions per a implementar al territori.
https://t.co/LZi85y07pD
Here in English: https://t.co/VeO7PgGvBz
💫 Estem encantats de compartir el nostre nou vídeo corporatiu. Mostra la nostra visió renovada, marc de recerca i valors
🔬 Recerca pionera
⚖️ Compromís amb la societat
🚀 Solucions valentes x un futur sostenible
📢 Exigir responsabilitats als polítics
https://t.co/iVkwcMMIB3
🎓En marxa una nova defensa de tesi doctoral: 𝑆𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑀𝑢𝑆𝐼𝐴𝑆𝐸𝑀 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑠: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑎, a càrrec de Juan Jesús Larrabeiti
#recercaUdA #doctoratUdA
🎓🙌 Felicitem a Juan Jesús Larrabeiti Rodríguez, des d’avui nou doctor per la @UdAndorra. La seva tesi analitza la sostenibilitat d’Andorra mitjançant la metodologia MuSIASEM (Anàlisi Integrada Multiescalar del Metabolisme Social i Ecosistèmic).
ℹ️: https://t.co/xioheD4l4I
Fa 30 anys vam acampar pel 0'7% en #cooperació al desenvolupament.
Només 7 països i alguns municipis hi arriben, però per la majoria de governs no és una prioritat.
I tanmateix les desigualtats al món no han parat de créixer.
No invertir en desenvolupament acaba sortint car. #passemalaccio07
El TN de @som3cat se n'ha fet ressò. Gràcies @AbrahamOrriols.
Bona tarda i bona tornada a casa. Redistribuir l'espai públic, per un altre dia
⚡️TRANSICIÓN ENERGÉTICA Y SOLUCIONES BASADAS EN EL DECRECIMIENTO.
🌿Con Íñigo Capellán, ingeniero industrial, doctor en Economía y parte del Grupo de Energía, Economía y Dinámica de Sistemas,@GeedsUVa.
Miercolés 11 de diciembre
18:00h
👉https://t.co/0GdMA28doO
#LaCienciaEsClara
⚡Seminari virtual "Vehicle elèctric i minerals crítics en l’àmbit de la compra i la contractació pública: quines possibilitats d’actuació a nivell municipal?" amb @medicusmundimed i suport @diba
🗓10 de desembre 10h-12h15
✅Més info a https://t.co/Tn3JHpyubQ #InternacionalDiba
🗣️El investigador @RaulVeFe @ICTA_UAB explica a @europapress_tv que el tratado de libre comercio de la Unión Europea con Mercosur perjudicará a los agricultores de la España vaciada, pero beneficiaría a sectores industriales o de servicios de áreas urbanas
https://t.co/1nRP1HAVNz
"Investigador alerta de que la España vaciada saldrá perjudicada por el acuerdo con el Mercosur". https://t.co/TgPstpon9m
Sabies que la comunitat científica del @ICTA_UAB ha colaborat activamente en el Vagó de la Ciència @UABBarcelona, enguany dedicat a la reducció dels combustibles fòssils?
Doncs la inicitiva compta amb una sèrie de podcasts.
Vols saber de què tracten?
segueix fil
I l'investigador postdoctoral Raúl Velasco @RaulVeFe ens convida a reflexionar i repensar noves formes de consum per avançar cap a la reducció dels combustibles fòssils.
https://t.co/i9Z2HFsHud
Now it's @RaulVeFe's turn!
He explains the main outputs of his #CONSUMPTIONchallenge research, which examines how the processes of production and consumption of goods and services relate to the resource use (raw materials and energy)
Un libro muy recomendable, que tuve el placer de traducir al castellano, para comprender la incapacidad estructural de los planteamientos de la economía ortodoxa como versión dominante en las universidades a la hora de comprender y afrontar la crisis ecosocial. Abro hilo 🧵
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