EU politics
Gary Younge: Brexit will expose the EU’s democratic deficit
Gary Younge transcends the usual Leave/Remain thrashed to death drivel and provides a thought-provoking piece concerning the EU and Brexit. Read here
EU-Institutions
Austerity
Jörg Bibow and Heiner Flassbeck – The Euro Disaster
Many nations within the euro-zone are in chronic economic crisis, which has resulted in a permanent political crisis in the EU. Jörg Bibow and Heiner Flassbeck see Germany’s economic policy and neo-liberal ideology as the […]
Austerity
Steve Keen – Has Europe really recovered?
I cover “the usual” in my talk itself: the empirical data that screams that credit plays an essential role in macroeconomics, the a priori reasons that mainstream economists ignore it, why this is logically wrong […]
EU politics
Herman Michiel: The European Left and Brexit
Hermann Michiel asks why the so-called leftist parties in the EU parliament are so close to the leading neo-liberals in their vision of Brexit. Read here
Austerity
Bill Mitchell – Think our governments can no longer control capitalism? You’ve been duped
Bill Mitchell explores among other topics the neoliberal dominance of the political process and the resulting shifts in economic policies.
EU politics
Reuters: EU court rules against tribunals settling intra-EU disputes
This is a very important case, as it starts to erode the authority of arbitration tribunals, in this case in the EU. Apparently this could affect law suits with corporations outside of the EU. Interesting is […]
EU politics
Larry Elliot: A perfect economic storm made Italy ripe for a protest vote
Larry Elliot explains what conditions have lead to the whing to the right in Italy. In the end it reduces everything to one word: Eurozone. Read here
Corruption
Reuters: Diesel collapse gives automakers carbon headache
This is how absurd things can become – thanks to the EU: Diesel was supposed to reduce CO2., but the car manufacturers, to increase their profits, cheated, and produced radically more nitrogen oxide than permitted, […]
Economics
Riccardo Mastini – Eurozone: from neoliberalism to democracy?
The reason for the morphing of the 2008 global financial crisis into a sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone is to be searched in the neoliberal structure of the euro area. And even if today […]
EU politics
Investigate Europe: Legislation in the „Black Box“ of the EU Council – where secrecy feeds mistrust
Dutch parliamentarians recently labelled the European Council a “black box”. Through its informal bodies, such as the Eurogroup of finance ministers of the 19 eurozone countries, national parliaments become sidelined and are continually confronted with […]