EU politics
Politico – Europe’s socialists and liberals call truce with von der Leyen ahead of no-confidence vote
The centrists always protect the powerful in the end. Read the article HERE.
EU-Institutions
EU politics
Aurelien – A Europe of Nations? Again.
The EU and NATO have outlived their purpose and have made themselves superfluous, if not outright dangerous. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s Substack Photo: Wikipedia After last week’s discussion of small-scale, interest-based political cooperation at the national […]
Economics
Michael Hudson, Glenn Diesen – Europe’s Stockholm Syndrome
20 September 2025
Economics
Eldar Mamedov: Europe finally stands up to Israel – but only halfway
Sanctions are good but continued trade with illegal settlements and unchecked arms exports keep Brussels complicit in the genocide Eldar Mamedov is a Brussels-based foreign policy expert and Non-resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute Cross-posted […]
Austerity
William Thomson, Dirk Ehnts – Should an independent Scotland adopt the EU fiscal rules?
An independent Scotland would likely start life with a substantial public deficit so adopting the EU’s fiscal rules would mean austerity. William Thomson is a political economist and has worked for almost a decade in […]
EU politics
Politico – Brussels approves Germany’s mega spending plan
EU spending limits are only for nurses and hospitals, not bombs, and only for countries like Greece and Portugal, not Germany. Read the article HERE.
Economics
Michael Hudson – Trump’s Tariff Wars Hit Europe, Korea, and Japan
The US war criminal Henry Kissinger purportedly said: “It’s ‘dangerous to be America‘s enemy, but ‘fatal’ to be its friend”. Michael Hudson is an American economist, a professor of economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas […]
Economics
EU politics
Eurasia Daily: I thought: It’s something new that Russia and China defeated Nazism – EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kallas
The head of the European Diplomacy, Kaya Kallas, doubted that Russia and China fought together and defeated Nazism during the The Second World War. She expressed her vision at the conference of the Institute for […]
Economics