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-Institutions
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 […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck: Interest rates up, sanity down
The European Central Bank has apparently decided to force through the restrictive path it embarked on in the summer – even if it becomes clearer every day that it is wrong. Even large institutions built […]
EU-Institutions
CEPR: How to get the European Banking Union unstuck
European Banking Union still has important gaps and deficiencies. A new CEPR Policy Insight analyses what it would take to get it unstuck. Read Here
Climate Crisis
EEB: Commission’s 2023 Work Programme caves under chemical and farm industry pressures
The European Commission Work Programme (CWP) for 2023 scraps bold plans to protect Europeans from hazardous chemicals and transition to a nature-positive economy. Read Here