With regard to EU-Commission President jean Claude Juncker’s speech concerning the future of the EU last week Mitchell writes: “Juncker’s speech displayed the usual mixture of hubris, denial and error-prone behaviour that has defined his Presidency.”
EU politics
Owen Jones: The Tories can’t fix the debt crisis: their doctrine caused it
According to Thatcherite doctrine, to overcome their insecurity Britons had to be liberated from the oppressive state and its social policies. This has resulted in a freedom to be undefended from the ravages and iniquities […]
Economics
Simon Wren Lewis: Fiscal policy remains in the stone age
Monetary policy is not working and much of the world economy is limping along waiting for the next crisis and recession. Recently we posted an excellent article on the necessity of fiscal policy by John […]
Austerity
Anadolu Agency: Spain’s poverty rate ‘appallingly high’: UN expert
26.1% of people in Spain, 29.5% of country’s children are at risk of poverty or social exclusion, says UN official Read here
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