Austerity
Bill Mitchell: Greek austerity – a denial of basic human rights, penalty should be imprisonment
In Greece, the Troika led by Germany violated the very essence of humanity – our ability to eat and survive. Read here
EU-Institutions
Austerity
Larry Elliot: Macron’s politics look to Blair and Clinton. The backlash was inevitable
Every critical political thinker knew this was the course a Macron government would follow. Let us hope that Marie Le Pen´s claim that the Macron administration was the last stage before her own victory was […]
Corruption
Bloomberg: France, Germany Reach Compromise on Watered-Down Technology Tax
And even this will probably not be enacted into law. As usual the nationalist Germans have only one concern: protecting German companies. Read here
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
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 […]