EU politics
Kathimerini English: Workers hired ‘for trial period’ without pay or social security
This was always the goal of the EU and IMF: the destruction of unions, labour laws, and rights or workers. Read here
EU-Institutions
Austerity
Thomas Fazi: The left’s Stockholm syndrome
Why it’s an illusion to believe that the European Union can be democratised Read here
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory – Copyright Directive: how competing big business lobbies drowned out critical voices
This is without a doubt a brilliant piece of research. Unfortunately it is also extremely long. Do have a go at it. After five minutes of reading you will have the gist of it and […]
Corruption
David Jamieson – Viktor Orban is dismantling Hungarian democracy piece by piece – within the EU
The Hungarian autocrat creates new political courts system and attacks workers’ rights – while benefiting from influx of European capital David Jamieson is a CommonSpace journalist based in Glasgow Cross-posted from Common Space Nowhere is this […]
Corruption
The Guardian: Car lobby opposes EU safety bid that ‘would save 1,300 lives a year’
What is another 1,300 lives? Car manufacturers already send hundreds of thousands of Europeans to early deaths with their cheating devices in diesel cars. This will end with Germany intervening and telling the EU they […]
Climate Crisis
Yanis Varoufakis: My plan to revive Europe can succeed where Macron and Piketty failed
Under my Green New Deal, €500bn a year can be created without raising taxes – and it may tempt Britain back to the fold. Read here
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck – Italy, France and Germany – How History Forms the Future – Part 3
The European crisis can only be understood if one understands the crisis in economics that is causing it. Politics was and is slavishly dependent on the wrong economic teachings. Germany is lost without European Monetary […]
Corruption
Kyiv Post – Cost of corruption: Ukraine loses $8.6 billion annually to poor management, graft, study finds
This is the democracy for which the EU and IMF are giving billions of euros? At least we now know where the money is going. The real question is, how much is going back to […]
EU politics
insider: EU Parliament ratifies trade agreement with Japan
This event has gone almost unreported in state and orporate media – and unnoticed. No lessons have been learnt from TTIP – except how to further reduce democracy in the EU. Unlike the Canadian-European trade […]
Corruption
The Guardian: EU relaxation of diesel emission limits was illegal, court rules
Once again the undemocratic European Commission had set the interests of coporations above those of its citizens. Neo-liberalism and regulatory capture march on in Europe. Read here