Deregulation
ETUC and ConoSur: Unions reject EU-Mercosur trade agreement
The agreement fails to include strong and binding safeguards that ensure protection of, and respect for, labour rights. Read here
Year: 2021
Austerity
Sergio Cesaratto – The Next EU Degeneration
The Next Generation EU programme is full of pitfalls for many EU nations, as here in Italy. Sergio Cesaratto is Professor of Growth and Development Economics and of Monetary and Fiscal Policies in the European […]
Austerity
Philippe Pochet – A Socio-Ecological Contract for a Post-Pandemic Europe
Philippe Pochet, general director of the European Trade Union Institute, about what the pandemic has meant for workers across Europe. The crisis may have opened a window of opportunity, but positive change cannot be taken […]
EU politics
David Jamieson – The Irish Debacle is Proof of EU Contempt for Small Nations
In the current COVID Crisis, beyond a lot of spin (see here but do have a hanky nearby. It is so moving.) the EU has shown its true face: closing national borders, hoarding medical supplies […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell – European Union – no democracy, no rule of law, no solidarity, no human rights, no economic miracle!
Bill Mitchell on Perry Anderson’s article “Ever Closer Union” Read here
Economics
Euro Intelligence – On Mario Draghi’s mission impossible
Draghi, Sputnik V, and what kind of a recovery Europe is going to have Listen here
Climate Crisis
Chris Hedges – American Psychosis
Chris Hedges on the US empire of narcissism and psychopathy
Climate Crisis
Ann Pettifor – US gifts Wall St. the Green New Deal
Last week the Biden team delivered their first press conference on the Democrat’s much-anticipated Climate Plan. Read here
Climate Crisis
Positive Money Europe: Why the ECB should go beyond ‘market neutrality’
To ensure monetary policy does not conflict with the EU’s carbon neutrality targets, the European Central Bank must replace its current ‘market neutrality’ approach and rely instead on the EU taxonomy, a new briefing by […]
Climate Crisis
Renegade Inc. – Degrowth: The only way to grow with Jason Hickel and Asad Rehman
For decades we have been brainwashed into believing that unlimited growth is good. Economic growth is apparently the holy grail, rooted in outdated measurements like GDP and arbitrary stock-market digits… But what if these assumptions […]