Austerity
The Local fr: Yellow Vests – half of France’s speed cameras out of action?
In Greece we saw the same sort of resistance as the Underground barriers were opened. Read here
Year: 2019
Economics
Grace Blakely: The British high street crisis is due to debt, not Brexit
With British household debt reaching a new high, it did not really need an ecnonomist to explain this. But in this time of Brexit hysteria the obvious becomes arcane and the ridiculous becomes a story […]
National Politics
El País: PP accepts some of far-right Vox’s demands in order to govern Andalusia
This is the political wasteland that Europe´s social democratic parties have left behind them with their endemic corruption and neo-liberalism. After long negotiations in the wake of elections last December, the conservative group’s deal will […]
Economics
Branko Milanović- What is the just pay? Capitalists, John Roemer, and the Cultural Revolution
This question becomes even more relevant in view of climate change and how to cut back on our use of natural resources: do we have to produce increasingly more? Branko Milanović is an economist specialised […]
EU politics
Matt Carr – El Cid Meets Donald Trump: Fascism Returns to Spain
It is just a few months ago that we were receiving irate tweets from Spaniards claiming that there were no fascists in Spain. How quickly things change. Matt Carr is a writer, campaigner and journalist. […]
Economics
John Rapley: Economics as a moral tale
The development sector set out to summon the magic of capitalism from the ashes of communism. How is it going? Read here
EU politics
Philip Cunliffe – We Already Had Empire 2.0: it’s Called the EU
Claims persist that voters backed leaving the EU out of nostalgia for Britain’s imperial past. In reality it is Remainers who most bemoan Britain’s post-Brexit loss of standing, reflecting the fact that the EU was […]
Economics
Barry Eichengreen – The euro at 20: An enduring success but a fundamental failure
The euro just turned 20. Marc Osborne/Shutterstock.com Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley New Year’s Day 1999 saw the largest monetary changeover in history. On that date, just 20 years ago, 12 members of the […]
EU politics
DatLab Blog: Tenders in EU: how much goes to tax havens?
Tax haven based companies won 5 % of the value of public tenders throughout EU countries in 2006-2017. That yields a rough estimate of 100 bilion EUR being awarded annually to such companies. Read here
EU politics
The Irish Times: Google ramps up the ‘double Irish’ before closing time
‘Google and the other large companies that form part of the global tech vanguard are squeezing every last drop out of the “double Irish, Dutch sandwich” tax-avoidance trick before the loophole is finally closed by […]