Economics
Shaun Richards – Is the ECB driving “like crazy at night with our headlights turned off”?
Another look at the interest rate policy of the European Central Bank Read HERE
EU-Institutions
Corruption
Thomas Fazi – Pfizer and Ursula von der Leyen: the missing text messages
The public should know about her private dealings with the company’s CEO Read HERE
Corruption
Shachi Mokashi: Why Is It So Difficult to Regulate Toxic Contamination?
The EU is backsliding on commitments to properly regulate toxic chemicals. Shachi Mokashi is a writer focusing on environmental politics. Cross-posted from the Green European Journal In 2020, the European Commission rolled out a Chemicals Strategy […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker – The ECB’s interest rate hike is a grandiose mistake
The ECB’s decision on 2 February to raise interest rates again by 0.5 percentage points and to announce an equally large increase for March will go down in history as a grand misjudgement. Although it […]
Economics
Shaun Richards – Central bankers are experiencing a complete loss of credibility
Central banks have lost control of both the narrative and the markets. Read Here
EU politics
Gig Economy Project – “We managed to reverse the balance of power”: Interview with Leïla Chaibi MEP
Piero Valmassoi, EU policy expert and activist at the Maison des Livreurs (House of Couriers) in Brussels, speaks to Leïla Chaibi MEP after the vote of the European Parliament on the Platform Work Directive [2 […]
Climate Crisis
Mathew D. Rose – Democracy hasn’t failed, it just doesn’t exist any more
The End of Democracy as we know it Mathew D. Rose is an Investigative Journalist specialised in Organised Political Crime in Germany and an editor of BRAVE NEW EUROPE The annoyance at the revelations concerning […]
EU politics
Toni Strubell, Núria Bassa – Long awaited CJEU sentence allows Catalans leeway
Reading the tea leaves of the Court of Justice of the European Union Toni Strubell is a former MP in the Catalan Parliament, journalist, and author of What Catalans Want Núria Bassa Camps is a […]
Corruption
Kyiv Independent: EU to announce 400 million euro assistance package for Ukraine
This explains Ukraine’s sudden burst of arrests for corruption. Read Here
Economics
Shaun Richards: The ECB is slamming the brakes on the Euro area economy
The situation is simply that the ECB made things worse by ignoring the incoming inflation storm and now seems set to continue tightening when the outlook is better. So they made it worse on the […]