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Duroyan Fertl – COVID-19: The EU has failed a test of solidarity. The price will be more austerity – and worse

May 13, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The European Union has been tested over its response to the COVID-19 pandemic – and it has been found sorely lacking. The resulting lack of vision, of solidarity in times of crisis, raises fundamental questions […]

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Heiner Flassbeck – Where Europe is Breaking Up

May 13, 2020 David Shirreff 0

Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court can’t be blamed too heavily for flouting higher European law. The mindset of the country’s entire political elite needs further education on the function of sovereign indebtedness. Heiner Flassbeck is an […]

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Economics

Christoph Trautvetter – Germany: Why many Berlin Real Estate Owners Remain Secret despite New Transparency Laws

May 13, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Germany has laws against everything criminal. Unfortunately most of these laws make the illegal legal allowing crimes to be committed in broad daylight. This is what enables Germany’s endemic political corruption. Christoph Trautvetter works for […]

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Laurie Macfarlane – Corona Crisis: By Protecting Rentier Interests, we are making the Most Vulnerable pay for the Crisis

May 13, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Covid-19 has sharpened the divide between landlords and tenants, and debtors and creditors. We all must ask: whose side are we on? Laurie Macfarlane is economics editor at openDemocracy, and a research associate at the […]

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Politico: Mogherini’s College application prompts cries of cronyism

May 13, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

She is exceptionally well qualified to run a training ground for future EU officials teaching them to combat democracy, enforce neo-liberalism, and support corruption. That is what the EU is all about. Read here

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Simon Wren-Lewis: Is the German Debt Brake the worst fiscal rule ever?

May 13, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is not about Anglo-Saxon economists telling Germany what to do. There are plenty of German economists who also see that the German debt brake makes no sense, and anyway economics is universal. The debt […]

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EU politics

Nathaniel K Powell – The Flawed Logic behind French Military Interventions in Africa

May 12, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Mobutu Sese Seko in 1978 Wikimedia Commons Nathaniel K Powell, King’s College London Two French soldiers have died during military operations in Mali taking part in Operation Barkhane in recent weeks. This follows the death […]

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Sustainability

Felipe Rodríguez – LNG Trucks: A Bridge to Nowhere

May 12, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The majority of trucks that run on liquefied natural gas emit about the same amount of greenhouse gases as diesel trucks. Felipe Rodríguez is programme lead at ICCT Cross posted from the ICCT website Trucks […]

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Climate Crisis

Thomas Piketty: The age of green money

May 12, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Could the Covid-19 crisis accelerate the adoption of a new, more equitable and more sustainable development model? The answer is yes, but under certain conditions. Read here

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Positive Money – The Tragedy of Growth

May 11, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is the introduction to a new report by Positive Money entitled !The Tragedy of Growth, To protect wellbeing and avoid ecological disaster we must abandon GDP growth and transform our economic system”, which outlines […]

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Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim

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Book Review by Hossam el-Hamalawy Avi Shlaim’s Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine is a book written in the midst of catastrophe, not after its dust has settled.  It is a work shaped […]

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