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Thomas Piketty: Farmers, the most unequal of professions

February 25, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

The French and European agricultural crisis has demonstrated that no sustainable development trajectory is possible without a drastic reduction in the social inequalities and glaring injustices of our economic system. Instead, the public authorities in […]

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Yanis Varoufakis: The EU cartel was designed to crush farmers – Rural workers didn’t stand a chance

February 23, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

Manos, a sixth-generation farmer from Thessaly, put it to me bluntly when I asked him to explain why he was prepared to drive his tractor 400km to Athens to camp outside Parliament: “If I don’t, […]

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Philipp Heimberger: The agreed reform of EU fiscal rules – A short-sighted compromise

February 22, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

EU co-legislators have reached an agreement on reforming EU fiscal rules. The key change will be to make the assessment of fiscal policy more long term and country specific, with debt sustainability analysis used as […]

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Politico – Ursula von der Leyen announces bid for 2nd term

February 19, 2024 Ben Wray 0

‘Frau Genocide,’ as Clare Daly MEP aptly dubbed her, is surely going to be European Commission president for another five years, bringing shame on all of Europe. Read the article HERE.

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Gig Economy Project – Dead end: Platform Work Directive blocked by Germany, France, Estonia and Greece

February 16, 2024 Ben Wray 0

EU member-states fail to pass platform work regulation, in what was billed as the last opportunity to do so before the end of the parliamentary term. The Gig Economy Project is a BRAVE NEW EUROPE […]

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Natasha Foote – Parliament greenlights plans to loosen EU rules on new GMOs – but with key conditions

February 16, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

The European Parliament has given its blessing to the EU’s plan to loosen rules on new genetic technologies, but added key conditions on labelling requirements and a ban on patents – the latter of which […]

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How to Take Back the Internet – Interview with Cory Doctorow

February 14, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Insightful interview with the author of ‘The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation’ about big tech, monopolies, EU regulation and alternatives.  Konrad Bleyer-Simon is a research associate at the Centre for Media Pluralism […]

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The Irish Times: Ireland and Spain seek ‘urgent review’ of Israel trade over EU deal’s human rights obligations

February 14, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

Varadkar and Spanish PM Sanchez ask for ‘appropriate measures’ to be taken if conditions of agreement have been broken Read HERE

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Tomaso Ferrando – Address the root causes of European farmers’ anger

February 12, 2024 Ben Wray 0

The demands of those on the farmers’ protests are complex, but they all agree that a food system that treats food like any other commodity is a root cause of the problem. Tomaso Ferrando is […]

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Ben Wray – In Europe, Platform Workers Are Winning Limited Protections

February 12, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Review of Leïla Chaibi MEP’s new book, ‘Pirate MEP: How I infiltrated the European Machine’, which explains what it’s like to be a left activist in the heart of Brussels and her fight for a […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

August 10, 2025 0

Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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