Climate Crisis
Claudia Horn: Europe Needs to Radicalise Its Climate Policies in Response to the Energy Crisis
The EU is watering down its tepid ecological reforms as energy prices soar. Read the article HERE.
EU-Institutions
EU politics
Gig Economy Project – Czech Republic tried to include collective agreements as substitute for legal provisions in EU Platform Work Directive
Union leaders and campaigners for gig workers’ rights say attempt to introduce collective agreements as a substitute for legal provisions in the EU Directive demonstrates how bad agreements can be used by platforms to undermine […]
Economics
Interview with Wolfgang Streeck: Politics Today
A broad interview with many interesting thoughts Read Here
Economics
Politico – Europe accuses US of profiting from war
EU officials attack Joe Biden over sky-high gas prices, weapons sales and trade as Vladimir Putin’s war threatens to destroy Western unity Read Here
EU politics
EU Observer: EU leadership rehash old ideas to save migrant lives at sea
EU leadership on Wednesday (23 November) rehashed decade-old statements on the importance of saving lives in the Mediterranean Sea. Read Here Malta refused to cooperate with the Ocean Viking, during a rescue operation involving disabled […]
Corruption
Transparency International: EU Court of Justice delivers blow to beneficial ownership transparency
The anti-democratic, reactionary bulwark of the EU, the European Court of Justice, has set back the fight against cross-border corruption by years Read Here
Climate Crisis
Client Earth: European Parliament resolution ‘final nail in the coffin’ for Energy Charter Treaty
The newest from Europe’s Disneyland parliament. Now that Germany had indicated that it will withdraw from the ECT this is permitted, although one never knows what the EU Commission might get up to. Read Here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Champagne socialists in the banking sector reaping millions from public money
The rate hikes now being implemented by most central banks are not just allowing the commercial banks to widen spreads between deposit and lending rates which will generate significant windfall profits for the banks and […]
EU politics
Núria Bassa, Toni Strubell – Spain’s suspect redefinition of sedition
A surreptitious ploy to jail Puigdemont, perchance? Toni Strubell is a former MP in the Catalan Parliament, journalist, and author of What Catalans Want Núria Bassa Camps is a Catalan writer and photographer Llegeix en […]
EU politics
Núria Bassa, Toni Strubell – Suprimir la sedició, intensificar la repressió
Un pla per engarjolar Puigdemont? Toni Strubell és exdiputat al Parlament de Catalunya, periodista i autor d’El que volen els catalans Núria Bassa Camps és una escriptora i fotògrafa catalana Read in English HERE A […]