EU politics
Richard Murphy: Amazon’s tax is not transparent – but politicians let them get away with it
What would multinational corporations like Amazon do without the EU political elite permitting it to rip off tyxpayers? Read here
EU-Institutions
EU politics
Sergio Cesaratto and Stavros Mavroudeas – Revelli, SYRIZA and Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s…
While the EU, the IMF, and Syriza are trying to sale the tale of a Greek recovery, the facts reveal another story. Sergio Cesaratto is Professor of Growth and Development Economics and of Monetary and […]
EU politics
UNHCR sounds alarm as Mediterranean Sea deaths pass 1,500 mark
Obviously the EU is making absolutely no progress in solving the refugee crisis on its border. Read here
EU politics
Lorenzo Marsili: “The most important challenge of our day is to escape the borders of nation states”
Marsili throws his hat in the ring for the EU, not for the curretn neo-liberal EU, but one based on solidarity and justice, with civil society and social movements showing that alternatives to the status […]
EU politics
Mary Davis -The Chimera of Workers’ Rights in the EU
Far from gifting rights to British workers, the EU has systematically undermined the rights workers won for themselves in domestic struggles. Professor Mary Davis is a labour historian. Active in the labour movement her […]
EU politics
Quinn Slobodian and Dieter Plehwe – The Neoliberals Who Opposed Europe
Quinn Slobodian and Dieter Plehwe take an historical perspective of euro sceptical neo-liberals. The question is if these eurosceptic neo-liberals are realising they do not need to leave the EU, but can capture it, or […]
Austerity
Frances Coppola – Greece: The Greatest Depression
The Greek people have just lived through a Depression as deep as the Great Depression and considerably longer. It is now the greatest recorded peacetime Depression. Read here
EU politics
Euro Intelligence: EU softening stance on Brexit
Wolfgang Munchau is one of the few voices that keeps insisting the just like the UK, the EU needs to strike a deal. This completely contradicts the narrative coming from Britain. Read here
Austerity
IMF internal watchdog condemns the institution’s mishandling of Greece “rescue”
Here two articles concerning the report by the internal auditor of the IMF concerning its disastrous handling of Greece´s “financial rescue” Read here (easier to read) and here (better analysis)
EU politics
Karthik Ramanna and Atul Shah – Big Four and the revolving door
When accountants and auditors become the story because of systemic failures and corporate malfeasance you know something has gone badly wrong. As if not to be outdone by banking crises, big accountancy firms are increasingly […]