Economics
Politico – Trump to EU: Play ball or ‘we’re going to tariff the hell out of you’
US president says EU is ‘maybe, in certain ways’ tougher than China. Read here
Month: February 2019
EU politics
The Globe Post: Catalan Separatists on Trial Pay Price for Spain’s Crude Transition to Democracy
Watching the trials of the Catalan independentists now taking place at Spain’s highest court in Madrid, I have been reminded again and again of a scene from director Hal Ashby’s marvelous 1979 movie Being There. Read here
Austerity
John Weeks – Austerity in Europe and the global slowdown
Progressive Economy Forum Council member John Weeks writes on how the global economic slowdown is not the outcome of forces beyond human control, but rather an outcome of policy – in particular, of austerity in […]
Climate Change
Corporate Europe Observatory – TTIP reloaded: big business calls the shots on new EU-US trade talks
Two years after the suspension of the highly controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), EU member states and the European Commission are preparing mandates for new trade negotiations with the US. But not much […]
Corruption
Finance Watch: Still Going Round in Circles: The Revolving Door Between Banks And Their Regulators
This week, the too-big-to-fail bank lobbyist Jose Manuel Campa has been nominated to be the new head of the European Banking Authority – the very authority that is in charge of supervising those powerful banks. […]
EU politics
The Real News Network – Spain Struggles for its Identity as Catalan Independence Leaders Face Trial
If you have not kept up with the show trial of Catalan leaders by Spain´s political class and the current political situation, this will bring you up to speed. Watch here
EU politics
Vassilis Petsinis – ’It is also the economy, stupid!’ The rise of economic euroscepticism in Central and Eastern Europe
Although a very chaotic article, it contains a lot of information concerning euro-scepticism in Eastern Europe – on the left, centre, and right. No surprise as the EU has done little to support these nations […]
EU politics
CNN – Libya: People for sale
Slave trade in Libya. Thank you EU. Thank you Angela Merkel. Thank you Germany. Thank you Hilary Clinton. Thank you capitalism. Making the EU safe for neo-liberalism! Read here
Economics
The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain by Brett Christophers
Book review by John Tomaney In The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain, Brett Christophers claims that Britain’s biggest and most consequential privatisation is its least known and understood. The Margaret […]
Austerity
Stephanie Kelton – Rethinking Fiscal Policy
Where does money come from? Lecture by Stephanie Kelton: Rethinking fiscal policy. Every school kid, worker to retiree should understand this so we can ask the real question: How to use our resources to serve […]