Climate Crisis
Unearthed: Trade group including Facebook, Google to ‘oppose’ EU climate efforts
Leaked document details BusinessEurope’s campaign to undermine EU attempts to cut climate emissions Read here
EU-Institutions
Austerity
A Happy Future is a Thing of the Past by Pavlos Roufos
Book review by Mathew D. Rose Together with the European Union refugee policy, the EU’s handling of the Greek crisis is the other great disgrace that has scarred its history – our history – in […]
EU politics
Helen Thompson – The unintended euro and the problem of Italy
If you can get past the academic veneer, this is a very interesting article. Alone that the author claims that the EU has become a battlefield between Germany and international finance on the one side, […]
EU politics
Bill Mitchell: Franco-German ‘agreement’ is another European dead-end
The EU is not really going anywhere. Even the Germans have realised this. Their hubris has destroyed the project. For them the EU was simply a question of everyone doing what they told them to […]
Deregulation
Investigate Europe: Crina Boros – Romanian Trucker, Polish Wage, Dutch Workplace
How salaries migrate across the EU in the road haulage business Read here
Austerity
Steve Keen – Economic Stagnation in Italy under the Euro
This is the recorded talk I gave to Positive Money Italy (http://monetapositiva.blogspot.com/) on November 23rd 2018. I explain that excessive private credit caused the relative boom in Italy before the crisis, and the collapse in […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: The ‘fiscal contraction expansion’ lie lives on – now playing in Italy – Part 2
It will be madness if Italy bows to the pressure from the European Commission and the IMF and its related bullies like Blanchard and Co. and engages in more fiscal austerity. Italy is on the […]
EU politics
Catalan News: European MPs launch network condemning Spain’s ‘repression’ of Catalonia
Parliamentarians from various countries come together to call for dialogue and a binding referendum on self-determination Read here
EU politics
Yanis Varoufakis – TIME magazine’s report on DiEM25’s German party campaign for the European Parliament
This is an interesting foray into desolate German politics by the pan-European movement DiEM 25. By Billy Perrigo Cross-posted fromYanis Varoufakis´s blog On Sunday morning, the former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis picked up a microphone in […]
EU politics
BRAVE NEW EUROPE – Of the people, by the people, for the people, supported by the people
BRAVE NEW EUROPE is a political website of the people, by the people, for the people. That however assumes that we are supported by the people. And that is you. Over 1,350 people follow […]