Austerity
David Matthews: EU leaders desert research in Brussels budget showdown
Wasn’t this one of those wonderful things that Britain due to Brexit was supposedly losing out on? Read here
Month: March 2020
Climate Crisis
Heather Alberro – Why Billionaire Climate Philanthropists Will Always be Part of the Problem
Heather Alberro, Nottingham Trent University Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO and the richest man alive, recently made headlines after pledging to donate $10 billion to a new “Bezos Earth Fund” to help combat climate change. It’s […]
EU politics
Eugene Michail, Dimitris Dalakoglou – Fortress Europe as Infrastructure
Fortress Europe is happy to keep on footing the bill, as long as Greece keeps the refugees out of sight and out of mind of northern European voters. Eugene Michail is Senior Lecturer at the […]
Economics
Dean Baker: NYT Does Public Relations Work for Emmanuel Macron
One probably calls this international reactionary solidarity. Read here
Economics
Prem Sikka: Why we should resist the rush to a cashless society
Accounting expert Prem Sikka warns of a new social divide Read here
EU politics
Sam Woodford – University Strike in Britain: ‘We will listen to students.’
Today, 2 March, we enter the third week of the UK University Strike. Staff are not standing alone, but have been joined by many students (who the university expected, due to the high fees they […]
Climate Crisis
ICCT – The Great Reveal: A Snapshot of EU New Passenger Car Markets in January
A very informative article concerning car sales in Europe, unfortunately once again confirming that car-makers are only concerned with profit maximisation. By Peter Mock, Uwe Tietge, Sandra Wappelhorst Cross-posted from the ICCT website Starting this […]
EU politics
Toni Strubell, Núria Bassa – Puigdemont Thunders Back
After two years absence from Catalan soil, exiled ex-president Carles Puigdemont addresses a massive rally in Perpignan (French Catalonia). Saturday 29th February has witnessed the biggest ever political rally in the history of what is […]
EU politics
Antonio Lettieri – The Misadventures of Working Time in the 21st Century
Working hours were at the centre of social progress in the second half of the last century. Now deregulation has become the rule, breaking up personal and family life. Antonio Lettieri is Editor of Insight […]