EU politics
Michael Roberts – Greece: on parole
Today Greece officially came out of the strait jacket of the so-called Troika bailout programme. Outside of Syriza, probably no one in Greece will be celebrating Read here
EU-Institutions
EU politics
ibna: Large increase in asylum applications in Germany by Turkish citizens
This is a typical example how Angela Merkel`s hubris has created an ever increasing spiral of crisis. While she forced the EU to give billions of Euros to Erdogan and supported him in elections to […]
EU politics
Christopher Bickerton and Richard Tuck – Popular Sovereignty and “Taking Back Control”: What it Means and Why it Matters
Following the Brexit referendum it has been very convenient for the British left to portray the Leave voters as reactionary, misogynist, racists. On their side of the barricade the leftists stood with the great and […]
Economics
Walter Paternesi Meloni and Antonella Stirati – Macroeconomics and the Italian Vote
To understand the rise of the League and 5 Star Movement, look at economic indicators Walter Paternesi Meloni is as Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Economics at Roma Tre University Antonella Stirati is Professor of Economics, […]
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 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 […]