In a groundbreaking ruling, the Brussels Court of First Instance has not only ordered the Flemish government to block a specific container of military equipment but also banned all further transit of military material to Israel. The judge found that Flanders is systematically failing to meet its obligations under arms legislation and international treaties, and even imposed a penalty for each shipment that still goes through. Four Flemish NGOs — Vredesactie, INTAL, 11.11.11 and the League for Human Rights — who brought the case, were upheld on all counts.
EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck: The International State System after Neoliberalism: Europe between National Democracy and Supranational Centralization
In 1945 Karl Polanyi outlined a vision of a peacetime global state system with a political economy in which small countries could be both sovereign and democratic. The present essay reviews developments between then and […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Two diametrically-opposed approaches to dealing with inflation – stupidity versus the Japanese way
Bill analyses Japan’s inflation policy in coparison to those of Western nations. Read Here Bank of Japan Wikimedia Commons
Economics
J. W. Mason – Interview: America’s Inflation Debate Is Fundamentally Confused
Here is all that inflation is: You take all the prices that you can observe, and you average them in some way — and there’s debatable choices you have to make in averaging them, in […]
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