Economics
Ashoka Mody – Euro Tragedy
The Euro was a project that should never have occurred, and was organised by those who had ulterior motives, not the well-being of their citizens. See our review of Mody´s book here.
EU-Institutions
EU politics
Amanda Russell Beattie, Gemma Bird and Patrycja Rozbicka – Europe should remember its own treatment of refugees while protesting against Donald Trump
Many of the protests that took place against Donald Trump during his visit to the UK focused on his policies toward refugees. Amanda Russell Beattie, Gemma Bird and Patrycja Rozbicka argue that while the protesters […]
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis: The Italian crisis was the Left’s final warning
The Left must adopt a new, credible EU policy agenda: It’s time to explain how the bloc, and the euro, could be run differently, democratically and sustainably Read here
Economics
Sergio Cesaratto – Tsipras’s tie. What moral can we draw from the Greek crisis?
Klaus Regling, the head of the eurozone’s bailout fund and a German, concerning the most recent EU “debt relief” for Grecce: “It is the biggest act of solidarity that the world has ever seen” (Reglings […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: The abdication of the Left – redux – Part 1
If you have not yet read Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World by Thomas Fazi and Bill Mitchell – a book one should definitely read – then here is a […]
Austerity
Helena Smith: Has Greece finally escaped the grip of catastrophe?
This article rounds out the picture of the current situation in Greece described in our two articles of today (here and here) Read here
Austerity
Haris Malamidis and Kostis Roussos – Greece: Fighting Austerity, Building Alternatives
It is always ood to leave the economic anaylses of Greece and austerity (see today´s article by Sergio Cesaratto) and to see what the situation on the ground looks like. Haris Malamidis and Kostis Roussos […]
Austerity
Sergi Cutillas – Is it possible to call the political regime of the euro democracy?
The decline in the ECB’s purchases of Italian government bonds has generated unprecedented scrutiny in Europe of the nature of such interventions. Sergi Cutillas is an economist and worked in the financial sector before taking […]
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory – Accounting for influence: how the Big Four are embedded in EU policy-making on tax avoidance
We pay our taxes, so why don’t corporations? This new report shows how the Big Four are embedded in EU policy-making on tax avoidance, and concludes that it is time to kick this industry out […]
Corruption
Politico: EU legislators rake in millions in outside earnings
This is just the tip of the iceberg. What about the jobs following their time at the EU? What about jobs now for their family members? What about the perks: travel, gifts, entertainment? What about […]