EU politics
Maurizio Molinari: Italy’s battle with Brussels is about more than money
The unlikely coalition running Italy has one thing that unites it – hostility to the EU Read here
EU-Institutions
EU politics
Reuters: EU digital tax plan flounders as states ready national moves
Oh well. This is going the way of the financial transaction tax and stopping tax evasion. The EU is simply a neo-liberal organisation in service of the transnational corporations. Read here
Austerity
Nick Dearden: The EU is unhealthily biased toward austerity – that’s why it’s now in a budget standoff with Italy
In 2008, Europe’s leaders promised to discipline finance. Instead, it is Europe’s people that were disciplined Read here
Austerity
Attac Austria: “In practice, a fundamental reform of the EU is impossible.”
Attac Austria´s book on the EU is now available as free e-book in english: The European Illusion: Why we need new strategies towards the EU and beyond Read all chapters and download the free ebook […]
Austerity
Carlo Clericetti – Italy: Change is not enough; it has to be for the better
There has been a storm of criticism concerning the Italian government’s plan to increase the deficit, which in fact would be good policy. What is problematic is the type of measures and, above all, the […]
Environment
The Irish Times: EU critical of ‘severe’ weaknesses in Ireland’s fisheries controls
This is the lovely thing about the EU. So many beautiful laws concerning car emissions, taxes, workers’ rights, financial regulation, etc., but so full of loopholes (especially when it is about profits) that no one […]
EU politics
Bill Mitchell: Italy should lead the Member States out of the neoliberal Eurozone dystopia
The German hegemon, hiding behind its policy of EU and Eurozone rules that benefit Germany have to observed, but Germany, as EU hegemon, is free to do what it wants (Germany´s EU policy is the […]
Austerity
The Left Case Against the EU by Costas Lapavitsas
Book review by Mathew D. Rose Do you have a feeling something is going seriously wrong in the EU with the rise of neo-fascism, inequality, and power of corporations, but cannot quite put your finger […]
Austerity
Jeremy Smith and John Weeks – EU’s dysfunctional fiscal rules empower the far right, both in Italy and elsewhere
Prime Economics Co-Director Jeremy Smith and PEF Council member John Weeks analyse the “bar room budget-brawl” between the Italian government and the European Commission, and argue that the Commission’s wrong-footed response threatens to strengthen the […]
Austerity
Red Pepper – Costas Lapavitsas: Socialism starts at home
Michael Calderbank speaks to Marxist economist Costas Lapavitsas ahead of the publication of his provocative new book The Left Case Against the EU Also read our review of Costas Lapavitsas´s newest book “The Left Case Against the […]