EU-Institutions
Florian Misch and Martin Rey: A stability fund for the Euro Area
A euro area fiscal stabilisation capacity has long been called for by academics as well as European and international institutions. Read Here Photo by Pfiz
EU-Institutions
Corruption
Théo Bourgery-Gonse: How France lobbied against Commission’s proposal on platform workers’ rights
France heavily lobbied the European Commission over the rights of platform workers, favouring the position of platforms and raising more concerns of collusion between French decision makers and industry lobbyists, according to documents obtained by […]
EU politics
Wolfgang Münchau: Macron’s east European warmongers
A good summary of the foreign relation policy tensions within the EU Read Here Emmanuel Macron und Olaf Scholz – zwei, die nicht in die gleiche Ricchtung schauen. Foto: Kantai Kishida / Wikimedia Commons / […]
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis: Time to Blow Up Electricity Markets
The European Union’s power sector is a good example of what market fundamentalism has done to electricity networks the world over. With the end of cheap natural gas, retail consumers and businesses are paying the […]
Climate Crisis
Bill Mitchell: It all adds up to the conclusion that system change is required not progressive tinkering
Bill covers a number of current events in this analysis. Read Here
Climate Crisis
Balkan Green Energy News – Is EU to sacrifice Balkans to secure resources for its energy transition
The European Commission wants reliable supply chains for the materials that the EU needs to accelerate the switch to renewable energy sources and a green economy. The extraction of lithium, copper and other necessary commodities, […]
Economics
Philipp Heimberger – How the ECB is trying to prevent a new Euro crisis
Monetary policy-makers are using PEPP reinvestments to buy Italian government bonds while reducing the portfolio of German bonds Philipp Heimberger is an economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW) This article originally […]
Economics
Philipp Heimberger, Lea Steininger – ECB interest rate hikes will damage climate protection policies
On 21 July, the European Central Bank decided to raise interest rates for the first time since 2011 in a bid to curb inflation. With further rate rises potentially on the horizon that climate protection […]
EU politics
Emmanuel Achiri – Helping asylum seekers in Northern Cyprus
Asylum seekers coming to Cypriot shores is a direct result of violent pushbacks against refugees at the EU’s borders Emmanuel Achiri is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Eastern Mediterranean University Cross-posted from IPS Migrants in […]
Climate Crisis
Sergio Cesaratto – Italy: ‘Inflation will be beaten by the end of the war, not by recession’
Italy’s economic outlook is not rosy, with the US economy in recession and clouds over the German economy heavily dependent on Russian gas (with Italy heavily dependent on exports to Germany). Sergio Cesaratto teaches European […]