Economics
Prem Sikka: Six ways to sort out sky-rocketing executive pay
One of the author’s of Labour’s new policy paper on executive pay sets out how to rein in the fat cats. Read here
Year: 2018
EU politics
VilaWeb English: How Spain uses its Constitutional Court to prevent Europe from protecting the rights of Catalonia’s political prisoners
Sànchez and Turull’s hunger strike aims to expose the hurdles laid on their path to the European Court of Human Rights Read here
Economics
The Local it. – Italy: Unemployment up, economy just contracted for the first time since 2014
This is bad news for the coalition government. Let us see if they now compromise with the EU with their budget. Read here
EU politics
Politics Theory Other: Aeron Davis on ‘Reckless Opportunists: Elites at the End of the Establishment’
Aeron Davis joins Politics Theory Other to discuss his new book, ‘Reckless Opportunists: Elites at the End of the Establishment’. We discussed the changing face of British elites, the self-destructive character of neoliberalism, and the […]
EU politics
Solidarity with the Catalan political prisoners!
When we initiated BRAVE NEW EUROPE we set ourselves guidelines, not rules. We knew as the crisis in the EU grew, we would be confronted with unforeseen situations, which would redefine our editorial policy. What […]
EU politics
Helen Thompson – The unintended euro and the problem of Italy
If you can get past the academic veneer, this is a very interesting article. Alone that the author claims that the EU has become a battlefield between Germany and international finance on the one side, […]
EU politics
The Guardian: Belgian police fire water cannon at fuel price protesters
Is this possibly morphing into an anti-neoliberal, anti-austerity, or anti-EU movement? Whatever, a very interesting development. Also see ” Oliver Davis – Gilets jaunes: why the French working poor are demanding Emmanuel Macron’s resignation” Click here […]
EU politics
Bill Mitchell: Franco-German ‘agreement’ is another European dead-end
The EU is not really going anywhere. Even the Germans have realised this. Their hubris has destroyed the project. For them the EU was simply a question of everyone doing what they told them to […]
EU politics
Oliver Davis – Gilets jaunes: why the French working poor are demanding Emmanuel Macron’s resignation
Julien Warnard/EPA Oliver Davis, University of Warwick Over the last month, France has witnessed the sudden emergence of a militant populist movement which enjoys strong support from the wider population. The “gilets jaunes” are […]
Deregulation
Investigate Europe: Crina Boros – Romanian Trucker, Polish Wage, Dutch Workplace
How salaries migrate across the EU in the road haulage business Read here