Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis: How Syriza’s capitulations allowed the Greek right to escape the dustbin of history
The left-wing party’s embrace of austerity created the conditions for a parasitic and cruel oligarchy to return. Read here
Political Parties
Corruption
Mathew D. Rose – A Tectonic Shift in German Politics
The major political change that is occurring in Germany cannot be comprehended by the German political class or the European corporate media because the consequences are so horrifying for them. We are seeing the harbingers […]
Corruption
João Paulo Batalha – Is No News Good News? Political Trust Vs. Political Stasis in Portugal and the EU
Citizens’ distrust for political institutions is high in Portugal – as elsewhere in Europe. That distrust, a new study shows, stems from the failings of established political parties. So why are incumbents still dominating the […]
Corruption
Mathew D. Rose – The EU Election That Wasn’t
There is an odd feeling about the EU elections. One senses that something just is not right. Mathew D. Rose is an Investigative Journalist specialised in Organised Political Crime and an editor of BRAVE NEW […]
Climate Crisis
DeSmog UK – Denial and Dampening Ambition: Where do Europe’s Right-Wing Populist Parties Stand on Climate Change?
Meet the fraternity of climate science deniers By Chloe Farand Cross-posted from DeSmog UK With the European elections around the corner, populists and right-wing parties are gathering momentum and teaming-up into a pan-European alliance. The alliance […]
EU politics
Mary Fitzgerald – Europe’s far-right bid to take back ‘Christian Europe’
There is a sinister co-ordination between far-right groups across Europe, even globally, which makes them more dangerous than they might appear. Mary Fitzgerald is editor-in-chief of openDemocracy Cross-posted from openDemocracy The Bible, borders and Brexit” […]
Austerity
Ben Wray: May’s demise may just be the end of the beginning for the Conservative Party’s decline
Ben Wray of CommonSpace analyses what Theresa May’s resignation may mean for her own fractious party Read here
Corruption
Wouter Veenendaal – Malta: How Smallness Produces Clientelism, Polarisation, Record Turnout and Corruption
Malta, a EU member, is considered a mafia state. Even the past commissioners it has sent to the EU tend to be notoriously corrupt. It is just another example of the political and moral rot […]
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory – Europe’s Two-Faced Authoritarian Right: ‘Anti-Elite’ Parties Serving Big Business Interests
If the more pessimistic projections are to be believed, authoritarian right-wing politicians will do well in the upcoming European Parliament elections, reflecting a surge in EU scepticism and disillusionment with establishment parties, many of whom […]
Corruption
eu observer: The non-accountable MEPs
Neo-liberalism can only flourish where democracy is reduced to a minimum, to folklore. The EU is neo-liberal. Thus the European Court of Justice will almost always decide against democracy. Read here