Deregulation
EuroNews – European Parliament to take Commission to court over technology patents
Ursula Von Der Leyen’s European Commission has become little more than an institutional lobbyist for American big tech. Read the article HERE.
Articles by Ben Wray
EU politics
Rune Møller Stahl – In Denmark, Social Democracy Is Failing
‘Around Europe, old labour parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with centre-right forces. In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this same strategy with the same dismal results.’ In Jacobin. Read […]
Geopolitics
Eldar Mamedov – The Europeans pushing the NATO poison pill
Major European governments and the EU are clearly attempting to scupper any prospect of peace between Russia and Ukraine. Eldar Mamedov is a Brussels-based foreign policy expert and Non-resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute. Cross-posted […]
Corruption
The scourge of sub-contracting in Europe: Interview with Silvia Borelli
Sub-contracting is an increasingly prevalent ploy by companies to avoid risk and responsibilities when it comes to their workers. Interview by José Álvarez Díaz, who specialises in international news and development and has worked as […]
Uncategorized
Christopher Opie, Quentin Douglas Atkinson – The real reason states first emerged thousands of years ago
New research suggests that the ability to tax crop output was a key driver of the emergence of states. Christopher Opie is Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Bristol. Quentin Douglas Atkinson […]
Climate Crisis
Carbon Brief – COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém
A breakdown of what was actually agreed at Cop 30: Not an impressive list at all. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Ben Wray – The Dutch Confronted China. It Didn’t Go Well.
The story of the Nexperia fiasco tells us a lot about European decline. In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
Climate Crisis
Michael Roberts – COP 30: it’s no joke
COP30 was devastatingly horrendous – we are without question heading for disastrous climate breakdown. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger.Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog The usual joke about […]
Climate Crisis
James Dyke, Johan Rockström – The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality.
The aim now is not to stop climate chaos, it is to limit the damage as much as possible. James Dyke is Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter. Johan […]
Climate Crisis
Anna Toniolo, Corina Petridi, Pierluigi Bizzini – Boosted By Floods: Private Insurance in the Climate Emergency
As floods become more common in Europe, the cost of insurance grows, a financial burden that weighs heaviest on those with least. Anna Toniolo is a freelance journalist and a member of the FADA Collective. […]