70% increase in Insolvency Service solutions – RTE.ie

There was a 70% increase in the number of permanent solutions agreed through the Insolvency Service of Ireland last year.  The ISI said the recent removal of the banks’ veto over proposed arrangements involving debtors’ homes has already resulted in financial institutions reversing some of their own rejection decisions. Lenders overturned four out of 12 rejection decisions which were appealed last month.…

Advances and contradictions – Socialist Worker Online

Elections in Portugal last October returned a parliament narrowly divided between the incumbent center-right coalition Portugal Ahead, composed of the conservative People’s Party and the centrist Social Democratic Party, and a new center-left and left-wing majority divided between four parties: the Socialist Party with 32 percent of the vote, the Communist Party with 8 percent,…