Climate Crisis
Richard Murphy – Why Green QE and MMT can co-exist
How Green QE, which is an idea that Richard co-created with Colin Hines a decade ago, can address some of the key problems within QE.
EU politics
EU politics
Chris Bambery – Torture is part of the EU, as long as it is the right sort of person
Should Assange die in a UK prison, as the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture has warned, he will effectively have been tortured to death. According to the European Court of Human Rights Spain often resorts […]
Climate Crisis
Positive Money – Post COVID: Big corporations dominate government’s Build Back Better council
This is being replicated in the EU By Hannah Dewhirst, Campaigner at Positive Money Cross-posted from Positive Money The government’s new Build Back Better council – meant to help the UK recover from the impact […]
EU politics
Perry Anderson – The European Coup
This completes the brilliant EU trilogy by Perry Anderson on BRAVE NEW EUROPE Read here
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory – First Insights into an EU Vaccination Contract
There is much material missing still, but what is visible is not good. Read here
Economics
They said it couldn’t be done: Government Debt up to 97.3% of GDP in Euro Area
Compared with the third quarter of 2019, the government debt to GDP ratio rose in both the euro area (from 85.8% to 97.3%) and the EU (from 79.2% to 89.8%): the increases are due to […]
EU politics
Robert Tombs – Perry Anderson: A Devastating Indictment of the EU
The prominent Left-wing intellectual Perry Anderson has just published a comprehensive and crushing indictment of the EU from its beginnings to the present. Robert Tombs provides a summary for those who might balk at reading […]
EU politics
Mariana S. Mende – The rise of Chega and the end of Portuguese exceptionalism
Portugal will hold a presidential election on Sunday, which is widely expected to be won by incumbent President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. Yet as Mariana S. Mendes writes, the key story of the election may […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: British Labour may as well just not turn up at the next election
Sound finance and the type of economics that Starmer and his gang are continuing to rehearse is not knowledge. Read here
Economics
Valer Simion Cosma, Cornel Ban, Daniela Gabor – The Human Cost of Fresh Food: Romanian Workers and Germany’s Food Supply Chains
Fresh food supply chains in Europe’s transnational agribusinesses depend on cheap, non-unionised, and privately managed labour from low-wage eastern European countries. Read here