EU politics
Bloomberg: The Brexit Deal Is Just Too Good for Europe
Not the sort of thing we are reading in state and corporate media – except for maybe the Loony Right. Read here
EU-Institutions
EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck – Taking Back Contol: Brexit and the EU
The opinion of an outsider – but what an outsider – on Brexit and the EU. Listen here
EU politics
Pavlos Roufos – “Years of Stone: the Greek Crisis and the Eurozone”
Pavlos´s talk in our series “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau” organised by OXI, Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik , and BRAVE NEW EUROPE. Pavlos is the author of the book “A Happy Future is a Thing of […]
EU politics
Ashoka Mody – “The ECB has reached the end of its rope, leaving the eurozone with few options”
It seems a puzzle why, at its March 7 meeting, the European Central Bank indulged in sedate tinkering despite the mounting risk of a damaging eurozone recession. The puzzle has a simple answer. The ECB […]
Climate Change
Corporate Europe Observatory – Climate Arson: The strategies and impact of ExxonMobil’s dangerous EU lobbying
For more than half a century, ExxonMobil has denied and downplayed climate change, has refused any responsibility for global warming and continues to fund groups spreading misinformation. Now, the company is facing the first public […]
Austerity
Renegade Inc: Myth Busting the European Dream featuring Mathew D. Rose
Politically you can ignore some of the people some of the time…but you can’t ignore all the people all of the time. For many years European citizens have intuitively opposed unaccountability, a lack of political […]
EU politics
Peter Ramsay – The EU is a default empire of nations in denial
Wolfgang Streeck argued last week that the EU was a ‘liberal empire’ that is about to fall. Peter Ramsay (LSE) suggests that the EU is a very particular type of empire, one that has arisen from […]
EU politics
Yanis Varoufakis – EU Court defends the ECB’s right to cover up its illegal closure of Greece’s banks
The European Union Court delivered its verdict: European citizens cannot be allowed to find out whether the ECB acted legally in closing down Greece’s banks in June 2015. Why? In the wording of the three […]
EU politics
The Business Times: European parliament deals setback to EU-US trade talks
A surprise vote, but then the EU parliament cannot decide. It can just make a recommendation. So much for democracy in the EU. Also, Germany wants this deal to protect its car industry. And what […]
EU politics
Unearthed: Privatising the seas: how the UK turned fishing rights into a commodity
The decline of British fishing drove coastal support for leaving the EU, but many of the industry’s problems have an origin closer to home. Read here