As European neo-liberal enforcers go into meltdown (political zombies like Renzi and Rajoy are gone, Merkel and May will follow) the European political class has a new strategy: ever bigger lies. In this blog Bill Mitchell looks at the Germans European unemployment insurance proposals that aren’t.
EU politics
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Austerity
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EU politics
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